In my last post – An introduction to HttpClientFactory – I explained some of the reasons behind the creation of the feature. We looked at what problems it helps solve and then followed a very basic example showing how it can be used in a WebAPI application. In this post I want to dive into […]
HttpClientFactory in ASP.NET Core 2.1 (Part 1) An Introduction to HttpClientFactory
TL;DR; A new HttpClientFactory feature is coming in ASP.NET Core 2.1 which helps to solve some common problems that developers may run into when using HttpClient instances to make external web requests from their applications. Introduction This blog post has been in the works since mid-October 2017, which was when I first noticed the new […]
Humanitarian Toolbox Codeathon .NET South East - Coding for the Greater Good
On Saturday (20th January) we held a special .NET South East event, spending the day ‘coding for the greater good’ on the Humanitarian Toolbox allReady project. We were very excited to be joined by Richard Campbell, one of the co-founders of Humanitarian Toolbox and co-host of the popular .NET Rocks Podcast. A team of 19 […]
Working on Your First GitHub Issue Contributing to open source projects (Part 2)
In this post we’ll look the steps that you can take as a new contributor to open source, in order to find and work on your first contribution to an issue on GitHub. As with the first post (Forking and Cloning from GitHub), we’ll use the Humanitarian Toolbox allReady project as our example. Choosing An Issue The first […]
Forking and Cloning from GitHub Contributing to open source projects (Part 1)
In this post I’m going to share the initial steps that you will need to take in order to be begin contributing to an open source project. I’ve covered this more generally in the past and wanted to provide a more focused post that covered these steps for a new open source contributor. For this […]