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Creating an archive page with a custom Ghost helper to group a list of objects

Oct 11, 2018

TL;DR I have created a custom Handlebars helper for Ghost to group a list elements based on an arbitrary function. If you are only interested in using the helper, check out the Github repo and its wiki. The blog post below goes into a bit more detail on my

Blogging

Updating the blog - again

Akos Nagy

Oct 8, 2018

A while back I wrote a post about how I had upgraded the blog during the summer vacation with new features. Most of these were actual features, like the search function on the sidebar or the new tags page. I also told you to stay tuned, because more were coming

Blogging

Create custom helpers to add functionality to your Ghost blog

Akos Nagy

Oct 5, 2018

Some page * Resource1 * Resource2 * Resource3

Blogging

Dependency Injection Toolset upgrade

Akos Nagy

Oct 1, 2018

I have a little tool in the VS Marketplace called Dependency Injection Toolset. The idea behind the tool was to help developers who apply dependency injection regularly by making it easier to code constructor injection. The original version of the tool basically did two things: * Could generate a constructor for

New extension in the marketplace: Linq standard query operators practice project template

Akos Nagy

Sep 27, 2018

As a teacher, I'm constantly faced with a frustrating challenge: eliminating boilerplate code from demos. If students have to type a lot of boilerplate code before starting a demo together or an exercise, valuable time is lost and they don't get the same knowledge — and since

Upgrading the blog

Akos Nagy

Sep 24, 2018

It's been a while since I last posted on the blog. The summer was long and I spent more time in natural light :) But now I'm back with a renewed resolve. And I wasn't just lying around all summer — I did some upgrades to

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Deserialize into interface

Akos Nagy

Jun 12, 2018

Not long ago I was teaching a Programming in C# exam prep course. One of the modules involved serialization and a student asked me a question that was quite intriguing: Given the serialized form of an object, is it possible to deserialize it into an object if we only have

Visual Studio item template for WCF Data Services

Akos Nagy

Jun 6, 2018

If you are only interested in downloading the packages, go to the marketplace. But if you want to know how it was made, read on ;) Back in the day we used WCF when it came to distributed software. Of course, the times have a-changed since and now in the pink

Dependency injection toolset upgrade

Akos Nagy

May 21, 2018

Dependency injection is probably the best thing in software development since slide bread. I often blog about related things and I also have a Visual Studio extension to help those who apply the principles in practice. Guard clauses in constructors An important piece of best-practice is that whenever you use

What's new in C# 7.3?

Akos Nagy

May 14, 2018

C# 7.3 came out not long ago. I just had the time to do the update, so I thought I would do a post on it. There are a lot of other posts around about the same topic, but whatever. At least I can present this from my point

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