A personal Blazor blog.
Spurred on by my son's amazingly ugly CSS-only background, I decided to go one better and animate it.
Along the way, I rediscovered some of what made the early days of the web the wild, whacky and downright ugly place it was!
Get your sunglasses out before reading this blog post!
I was browsing the latest C# questions on StackOverflow, and came across one that caught my eye. Sadly, it was quickly closed by people who, in my opinion, didn't read it properly. The question was...
I am trying to write a program to find the factor of a number with minimum difference. For Ex: for 20 it should be 4x5 or vice versa. How can this be achieved for a really BIG number. lets say 989287498274928743928174192847219347123984723498. Please guide
Ignoring the usual SO rules about showing some effort or research, the question is not simply "How do I find the factors of n?", which is what all the linked answers were about. This question was how to find the two closest factors. Sure you can do that by finding them all, then sorting them by their difference, but for a big number, that's hugely inefficient. There are ways of solving this specific question much more efficiently, which is what I decided to do.
As I have mentioned a couple of times, I've been creating some reusable Blazor components, to save time on future development. This (rather long) blog post details my journey from innocent newbie to GitHub ninja. Well, maybe not quite that far, but I learnt how to use GitHub actions to build and deploy Nuget packages, and deploy an ASP.NET web site via FTP.
Debunking the Internet myth that this year December (or whatever month is chosen) will have 5 Saturdays, 5 Sundays and 5 Mondays, and how this only happens once every 823 years.
It's junk, and I proved it using Linq. Afterwards, I realised that I could prove it without Linq, had I only thought about the question first. Still, it was an interesting exercise, both in Linq and in thinking.
How to create a Blazor component to allow you to have the user confirm an action - all without any JavaScript. Hurray!
I've been working on a new Blazor project for a few weeks, and have been bothered by the number of seemingly odd errors reported in the Visual Studio error panel. The main reason they bothered me (other than the unhelpful fact that they all claim to be on line 1 character 1 of the relevant file, which isn't very helpful) is that the code runs fine. Whilst this has been annoying me, as things were working, I didn't spend too much time on it.
However, I just ran into another problem, and the solution turned out to solve this one as well.
My frustration at not being able to find some Blazor project templates in Visual Studio, and how I discovered the dumb stupid reason why.
The latest in my vague series of posts about using LinqPad to query the schema of a database, and extract information about the database as a whole. In this case, it was finding the number of rows in each table, and whether any were empty.
How to create a simple (but effective) busy indicator component in Blazor to show your users that their data is being loaded