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Leverage the power of Twilio from Azure Mobile Services

Ever wanted to send a simple text message from your web app? Well, now you can by using Twilio - an awesome cloud-powered API for voice calls & text messaging. Okay, I know that statement sounds like something out of an infomercial, but I recently had a simple need to

How RESTful is your service?

Web services are everywhere these days, from social media platforms to enterprise line-of-business solutions. It is extremely important to be able to expose APIs for your solution, in order to reach more external consumers on multiple platforms. As a modern trend, we see that more and more APIs are surfacing

Using the Twitter REST API v1.1 from Azure Mobile Services

Since the retirement of the Twitter REST API v1, I have been having trouble doing a simple query using the new search API introduced in version 1.1 from Azure Mobile Services because it now requires a signed authentication header in the request using the OAuth 1.0 protocol. I

Creating a proxy for ASP.NET Web API using T4

One of the coolest new features of ASP.NET is Web API, which allows you to build powerful RESTful services exposed over HTTP. HTTP is not just for serving up web pages, but it provides a platform for building APIs that expose services and data. It is simple, flexible, and

Some API "best suggestions"

In today’s modern world of computing it’s a no-brainer to expose some kind of service for the outside world to access your enterprise platform in a controlled fashion. Because of good old legacy systems, we all know that “the perfect world” never exists in any of our clients’

Laying it out: Onion Architecture

It's a fact, there is no Single Silver Bullet for every solution, but we can come damn close. Having the right architecture sets a solid foundation for any solution. When I say "architecture", I mean structuring the solution in a specific strategic way; with the aim

KnockedUp: Making KnockoutJs more declarative

I wrote this little library to make the default KnockoutJs syntax more declarative and easier to read. I blogged previously about a nifty little library called KnockoutJs.To bring you up to speed, here is a typical example on the original usage of KnockoutJs: Note that you have to specify

Build real-time, multi-user interactive web apps with SignalR

A while back I was involved in developing an online-bidding app. This may not sound too exciting nor complicated, but because this kind of application was web-based, it introduced a whole new set of challenges. One of the core requirements of this app was to be critically up-to-date with real-time

MVVM for the Web using Knockout.js

Ever since the explosion of web-oriented apps, the need for doing complex things simpler becomes more obvious. Creating richer & more sophisticated UI's usually involves using JavaScript API's like JQuery, but a new MVVM library has emerged especially for the web... What? Knockout.js is an

Mobify your web with JQuery Mobile

Let's face it, we all use our (smart) phones most of the time to browse the web. Then you get sites that aren't formatted for mobiles and you end up zooming and panning away, confusing yourself with the "all over the show" navigation, not

Implementing a different kind of Service Pattern

For the past few months I've investigated many different types of patterns I can implement in my projects; like Repository Patterns, Unit of Work Patterns, Service Patterns etc. After plenty of research, late nights and a gazillion units of black coffee; I finally came across a some sort

Jump Start your next project with Nuget

In between the company end-year functions, demanding clients and of course my fabulous life :) , I've deceided to do some blogging again. In fact, it's been a while since any Ninja laid a finger on a keyboard here, (or an iThing)... A while ago I came across

A really handy "cheat-sheet" for Razor

I came across this cool syntax table that can come in quite handy when one is working with Razor in ASP.NET Syntax/SampleRazorWeb Forms Equivalent (or remarks)Code Block@{ int x = 123; string y = "because.";}<% int x = 123; string y = "because.";%>Expression (Html