Stories of daily programming
In the previous post we saw how to create an SSL certificate (*.thedummyprogrammer.com) and the related CA certificate. To show you how to use those certificates, I’m going to use them in a website running in the local IIS of my PC. A practical example with an IIS website We will see an example on…
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Suppose you developed a web application and you want to install this application in a test environment. To make the test more meaningful, you would like to install an SSL certificate with the application and use a domain name other than the standard ones, such as .com or .org. Consequently, the SSL certificate cannot be…
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I’m a person who lives on memories, so today I decided to talk about a soccer game that in my opinion made the history of this genre: Sensible Soccer. At the time of this game’s release I was a kid and the proud owner of a Commodore Amiga, on which I spent several hours of…
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In this short post, I will show you how to extend the trial period of Windows Server 2019. It’s really very easy to do… First I suggest you check how many days are left before the trial period expires. You can do this executing the following command in Windows PowerShell: After executing this command a…
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HTTP 500: every web developer has faced this error at least once in his life, and today I want to tell my story… A few days ago I was working on an ASP.NET WebForm application, which consistently showed the error HTTP 500 – Internal server error. Since IIS was configured not to show detailed errors,…
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Good morning everyone! Here we are once again! Today I am proud to announce the release of a clone of the Asteroids game developed in TypeScript. Why build an Asteroids clone? I thought it would be fun and so… I did. For the development I was inspired by this tutorial on w3schools.com, where you can…
Good morning guys! A few days ago I was working on an ASP.NET web form application which uses the control library Telerik ASP.NET AJAX. The application worked without problems until it was moved in a new server running Windows Server 2019. Running in the new environment it stopped working and in the browser’s development console…
In recent days I was working on one of my projects, in which it was necessary to install Sql Server 2019. I restored the database I was working on in this new Sql Server instance and I started using it. Calling one of the database’s stored procedure, which worked perfectly in the previous Sql Server…
My dear friends, it has been a while since my last post. I hope to catch up in the next few days and months, with other interesting posts… For the moment I am pleased to announce the release of version 1.0.0.0 of TDP Robot (my “clone” of Opalis Robot).This new version includes a number of…
I am the proud owner of a Samsung Galaxy Tab S2, purchased around 2016. It’s the same table which I talk about in this post. Although it is an old device, it still satisfies my needs well: I use it for simple tasks like surfing the internet, reading e-books on Kindle and a few other…
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