Blog — Richard Coffey

Feb 25

Feb 25 Why I Choose Squarespace Instead Of WordPress For Blogging

When starting any blog, you will undoubtedly need to ask yourself what blogging platform you should use to get your ideas out there to the wider world. Think of it as finding the right canvas to express yourself. You have to make sure the canvas fits with your present and future goals for your blog.

Aug 26

Aug 26 [1/14] Become a Full-stack .NET Developer: Implementing Secondary Use Cases

Richard

Technology

In this final module we completed the first iteration of our GigHub app and in the process learned a few new concepts such as partial views, hiding certain things for anonymous users and refactoring our app using the DRY (Don't Repeat Yourself) principle.

May 25

May 25 [1/13] Become a Full-stack .NET Developer: Implementing a Use Case from Top to Bottom

Richard

Technology

This module involved the implementation of one of our primary use cases to allow a user to attend a certain gig by adding that gig to their calendar. We needed to do a bit of class modelling before starting on coding this.

Mar 15

Mar 15 [1/7] Become a Full Stack .NET Developer: Implementing Validation

Richard

Technology

In this part of the module we focused on server and client side validation techniques we could employ on our newly created Add A Gig form for GigHub.

Mar 14

Mar 14 [1/9] Become a Full Stack .NET Developer: Moving Towards a Beautiful Design

Richard

Technology

In this module we learnt about the more artistic and creative side of web development. On many real world projects, a team won't have a dedicated web designer so in those cases the web developer will have to know at least the basics about what constitutes a pleasing and welcoming design, which is why it is important to cover this now.

Mar 11

Mar 11 [1/12] Become a Full Stack .NET Developer: Creating Beautiful and Precise Designs with CSS

Richard

Technology

With this module we delved deeper into understanding the finer points of CSS, in particular the positioning of elements and manipulating attributes as we refine the look of our Gighub app.

Mar 9

Mar 9 [1/11] Become a Full Stack .NET Developer: Extending ASP.NET Identity Users

Richard

Technology

Every ASP.NET application comes with built in user authentication and authorization, thanks to ASP.NET Identity. The default signup and login forms are pretty basic, and are not suitable for real world applications that need to capture several user attributes during the signup process. This module will be focused on extending the default Signup form provided by ASP.NET Identity to allow for input of the name of the Artist for our GigHub app.

Mar 5

Mar 5 [1/10] Become a Full Stack .NET Developer: Usability Best Practices

Richard

Technology

In this module, we learnt the basic theory behind web application usability practices and how we can apply these relatively easy to implement practices into reality in our GigHub app, to offer our end users a more welcoming and stress free experience. While usability could be its own separate course entirely, the basic tips we learnt here, would serve any web developer well to follow.

Mar 4

Mar 4 [1/8] Become a Full Stack .NET Developer: Preventing Common Web Application Vulnerabilities

Richard

Technology

In this module, the focus became more theory heavy as we discussed the three most common web application security vulnerabilities that every web developer should be aware of. We then proceeded to examine if these vulnerabilities were present in how we had implemented our GigHub application so far, so if necessary we could correct them.

I'm a technology blogger and codemonkey from the North East of Ireland. I am using this blog to primarily document my learning of the Azure cloud and other Microsoft related technologies. Click here to review my CV (which is built using various Azure serverless technologies).