In this blog post I wanted to show how one can use C# or Python to view the serial numbers of a X509 certificate. The serial number can be used to identify the certificate that one plans to use in their C# application, lets say for mutual authentication to another service. Why use X509 Certificates […]
Category: .NET
I wanted to store some data into registry but how do I store it such that it is secure for my application to read later on. Well there is a way using Powershell to store data into Registry using DPAPI which uses the machine key to store the information. As you know the only way […]
I wanted to try out Azure Functions to see if I can serve html data from Azure Functions that I get from another third party site. As in, if I use RestSharp and call another site from my Azure Function, extract its content and just display it as output to html. This can come in […]
Was playing around with Azure functions and thought I would write a quick blog post on how to use Azure functions to read a text file and send an email out to me daily. Basically I went with a joke a day idea. So lets get started with writing some of the awesome code 🙂 […]
For the past year I have been evaluating and working and even presented ElasticSearch, and I thought it would be good to showcase a series of article on ElasticSearch for .NET Developers. What it brings to the table when developing a software solution. I also did a talk on ElasticSearch at Montreal DevTeach, if you […]
I had the opportunity to speak at satazureday Azure Saturday here in Ottawa last week, and went through the topic of Azure Key Vault. I also had a co-presenter to share the talk with; an upcoming public speaker Petrica Mihai. He created most of the slides and the demo code in C# 🙂 You can […]
This week I gave a talk on Cloud Design Patterns at the Ottawa .NET Community. I wanted to share the sides here and will most likely write on articles on the topic using real world examples. Samples in C# and node.js, in AWS and Azure. For the talk I went through, what Cloud Design Patterns […]
Redis Lua Scripting Redis provides a way to extend its functionality on the server side by providing support for Lua Scripting. If you are coming from a relational database world, you already know that you can use Stored Procedures to extend functionality of your relational database. Now, you may also know that some people do […]
In May 2017 I did a talk in Ottawa .NET User Group on Introduction to Microsoft Bot Framework, it was a interesting turnout and lots of conversation on what a bot can do for a business and how to use them. Below you will find the slides for my talk on Microsoft Bot Framework. The […]
Last week I did a presentation on Xamarin Dev Days here in Ottawa, the presentation was on Introduction to Xamarin, unfortunately my demo did not work, the demo gods were not with me that day 🙁 The demo code uses Microsoft Cognitive Service Bing Search to search for images to display on a mobile phone. […]
