React & Web Development

Much as I appreciate Object Relational Mappers and the C# type system there’s a lot of work to do if you just want create and persist a few objects. MongoDB alleviates a lot of that work with its Bson serialization code that converts almost any object into a binary serialized object notation and provides easy round tripping with JSON.

In my previous article, "Getting Started with MongoDB," I provided a brief overview about some of the most important things to consider when making the move from relational databases to the NoSQL world of MongoDB. I provided a sample conversion of a relational database schema to a document-oriented schema, suitable for MongoDB. In this second article in the three-part series, I develop an application that uses a C# driver to interact with a MongoDB database.

After creating my toastr post, a friend suggested marrying toastr and signalR and I thought that was a brilliant idea so I wired up a quick example. Clicking the ‘broadcast’ button will send a toast message to anybody who has the web page open!

CoffeeScript is a little language that compiles into JavaScript. Underneath all those awkward braces and semicolons, JavaScript has always had a gorgeous object model at its heart. CoffeeScript is...

Creating a chart to display real-time updates using native HTML5 push notification (Server-Sent event) and ASP.NET Web API.

If you are looking for a great introductory article on Log4Net, I would recommend reading the Log4Net tutorial by Tim Corey.

Tim goes through quite a bit, I just want to cover the very bare minimum for getting log4net to work in a console application.

In this post I'm going to create a simple ASP.NET MVC website for a simple blog that uses MongoDB and the offical 10gen C# driver. MongoDB is no NOSQL