Stecosoft

24/05/2022

Are you working on an ASP.NET Core application and are unsure how you can read in your custom settings from your appsettings.json file?

Check out my latest blog article for a simple guide on how you can manage it.

https://www.stecosoft.com.au/blog/how-to-create-and-access-custom-application-settings-in-your-microsoft-aspnet-core-application

As part of your development process, you will undoubtably need to add some custom application settings that will be used by your application. It's quite normal to add/set items like connection strings, application logging settings and more.

15/05/2022

Looking to add spam protection to your forms on your Umbraco hosted site?

Check out my latest blog that explains how I've recently added Google reCAPTCHA on my site to prevent spam.

In the past, I've used a honey pot technique in an attempt to thwart the spammers. This involved adding a hidden field in the form. A real user would not see the hidden field and so when the form was submitted, the hidden field would have a blank value. Spam bots never used to check the hidden field...

15/03/2022

Welcome to Stecosoft.

Stecosoft is where Steve Adams shares his thoughts on his daily challenges working as a Technical Lead for a digital consultancy developing software solutions.

Steve is software developer with over 30 years of experience specializing in developing applications using Microsoft technologies.

He enjoys sharing his experience and skills with other developers looking to improve.

He is an experienced and certified Sitecore developer.

He is an experienced and certified Umbraco developer.

His thoughts are his own and should not be considered a reflection of his current or past employers.