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REGEX Reference List

This article provides details of some of the more complicated Regular Expressions I’ve needed to compose for various projects, etc. It is a living document that I’ll update with any complicated regular expressions I have to develop.
Modifying Bootstrap Styles – The Right Way

ASP.NET MVC web projects include the Bootstrap framework by default. If the styles aren’t to your liking ‘out-of-the-box’ then you can customise the look and feel quite easily by hacking the Bootstrap CSS file directly, but this isn’t necessarily the best way to go.
Using Bootstrap

This article aims to introduce using Bootstrap in scenarios where an IDE (like Visual Studio) hasn’t set up a complete starting point for you, or where you want to control exactly what your page layout will be. This is as much my own aid memoir as it is an article in its own right to…
Customising WordPress

WordPress works acceptably out-of-the-box but you may want to customise it to meet your needs. For example, you may want to use your company branding or alter the layout so your blog is more in-keeping with your commercial website.
Simplifying the WCF Configuration Hell

Anyone who’s done much in the way of programming in Windows Communications Foundation (WCF) will be well aware of the problems that can occur due to even minor configuration inconsistencies between client and service endpoint settings. The fact those settings are normally defined within application configuration files means that a typo, or one or more…
Password Hashing

Password hashing is a valuable security feature that helps to ensure users’ passwords are encrypted at rest when saved in user data stores, such as databases. Hashing works on the principle of reliable/repeatable one-way encrypting of data.
Developing Custom Activity Libraries for SharePoint

This article introduces development of custom code activities that can be deployed to a SharePoint server farm. This greatly increases the scope of use of workflows in SharePoint by making it possible to publish activities that extend the built-in capabilities of the solution.
Working with User Profiles in SharePoint

The SharePoint User Profile service application provides a means to offload the traffic on a domain controller when querying information in an Active Directory schema.
Installing and Using ADAM / AD LDS

ADAM (Active Directory Application Mode) and AD LDS (Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services) are synonyms for the same product-set. ADAM refers to the technology when hosted on Windows XP / Server 2003 and AD LDS refers to the technology as hosted on Windows 7 / 8 / Server 2008 / Server 2012. For simplicity, we…
Reverse Lookup of Machine Name from IP-Address

There may be times when you have the IP-address of a machine on the local network, but not the user friendly machine name. In this scenario, debugging which machine logged an error message can be difficult. Fortunately, on Windows machines at least, a reverse lookup should be relatively simple on the command line.