Introduction Even though AngularJS is approaching end-of-life, it's still deployed in loads of production systems. This post describes some techniques I used to have the validation logic entirely defined (and performed) server-side (ASP.NET WebAPI) - whist giving a client-side validation experience. By that I mean, type into a field and see validation errors as you type (rather than only when you submit the form). Why the heck would you want to even do that? Well - for one, there are…

As part of a recent project I was installing NServiceBus as a replacement for Nimbus in an existing legacy system. The system makes use of Autofac for DI and adds various IStartable services to the container (background services etc). The goal - to continue using Autofac as the DI container for both the application and the NServiceBus message handlers, as well as allow the IEndpointInstance (bus) to be injected into / consumed by IStartable services in the container. Removing the…

I had a few hours spare and so thought I'd have a play with the "G-NAF" data set provided free of charge by the Australian government What is G-NAF? G-NAF (Geocoded National Address File) is a trusted index of Australian address information. It contains the state, suburb, street, number and coordinate reference (or “geocode”) for street addresses in Australia. It's worth noting that it doesn't contain personal or business related data - just data on physical addresses in Australia. It…

Ape E Eye http://ape-e-eye.herokuapp.com/ This is a toy project I built to learn Angular JS. It's a configurable dashboard of "searches" (REST API queries) which are periodically updated. It's hosted on GitHub at http://github.com/flakey-bit/ape-e-eye This is what it looks like: The idea is the user sets up one or more searches (REST API calls) and the dashboard will periodically poll that search and display the results. The user must supply the API URL as well as a JavaScript function definition…