A lot of projects nowadays involve working with Azure SQL Server. When you need to test new features or fix bugs is really useful to have a copy of the production database. If you are not using Azure this usually means making a copy
This post is written in Norwegian only. Julekalenderen finnes på https://julekalender.novanet.no [https://julekalender.novanet.no/] Tradisjon tro arrangerte Novanet julekalender også i 2019. Den besto av 15 luker i økende vanskelighetsgrad, der hver luke var et bilde fra et sted i
In the first month of every year all Novanet employees gather at a cabin in the mountains. It's time for the annual Hackaton! Everyone gathers for a weekend to work together on a technically challenging assignment. In addition to a lot of social activities and great food and beverages :)
At a customer I work for we have a number of web sites running on Azure App Services. We also have a number of backend services running in a kubernetes cluster. The backend services are all exposed out on the internet, and thus available
NDC (Norwegian Developer Conference) has just ended its 12th consecutive event in Oslo. As always, the speaker list contained some big international names combined with some local talent. The agenda contained 185 talks divided in 10 simultaneous tracks, ranging through 45 different technologies. It&
I recently wrote a post where I did some exploring into managed identity for Azure app services [https://blog.novanet.no/exploring-azure-app-service-managed-identity/] . I showed how to get an access token, but only briefly mentioned the Microsoft.Azure.Services.AppAuthentication [https://www.nuget.org/packages/
Quite often we want to give an app service access to resources such as a database, a keyvault or a service bus. We used to do this by configuring the app service with secrets that enabled the application to access these protected resources. However,
In this blog post I will be researching a common question raised on forums like StackOverflow: "Is the GetOrCreate method thread safe?". This blog post also contains an interview with the creator of LazyCache, Alastair Crabtree
What this blog need is a bi-quarterly-ish language themed blog post series, said none of our (two) readers ever. So without further ado we proudly present our bi-quarterly-ish language themed blog post series!!!1!!1! In this premier installment we will look at one
The news that broke a couple of days ago about the Array.reverse-bug that occurs in the newly released iOS 12 was a bit scary. I first learnt about it from this Stack Overflow-post [https://stackoverflow.com/questions/52390368/array-state-will-be-cached-in-ios-12-safari-is-it-a-bug-or-feature/] by way of Hacker
At some point, we all come to the same conclusion: we have to upgrade our website. For us, it meant modernizing the visual profile (including new logo and colors) and starting from scratch technically. An important requirement was that the new website had to
The REST Client for Visual Studio Code [https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=humao.rest-client] is an excellent tool for testing HTTP based endpoints. In my opinion it's one of the smoothest ways to test any endpoint behind an HTTP interface. But
A headless CMS is free of the presentation layer, and focuses entirely on the content. It does not ship with any frontend template structure or middleware for hijacking the pipeline. By choosing a headless CMS you can more freely choose which technology you wish
Due to the PSD2 directive [https://www.starlingbank.com/blog/explaining-psd2-without-tlas-tough/] and Open Banking initiatives, Norwegian banks have started to make their data available to external parties and customers through APIs. Several banks have now launched their first versions of APIs and developer portals.
I recently discovered that our Angular app was making multiple HTTP requests unintentionally to the same REST API endpoint. The app was using the HttpClient introduced in Angular 4.3, which enables direct access to the JSON response when subscribing to the Observable from
These are my fieldnotes from experimenting with the ForwardedHeaders middleware on ASP.NET Core 1.1 and 2.0 - sparked by having a production log full of Parameter count mismatch between X-Forwarded-For and X-Forwarded-Proto warnings. > I've set up a github
This is a basic example of how to write your first automated UI-test using C#, Visual Studio 2017 and the NUnit Framework (xUnit can also be used). The purpose of this blog post is to give you a clean and easy example to get
You want to be productive when building web applications. That means iterating fast and delivering continuously. As your application grows in complexity, how can you assure its quality - on each build? Say goodbye to manual regression testing and full mocked unit tests -
