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Defensive programming is a set of techniques/guidance on best practices to ensure your applications are secure, as bug free as possible, and respond gracefully to unexpected events (i.e. software exceptions).

A simple code snippet that allows tool-tips to be displayed on HTML controls when the mouse hovers over them or when the control is clicked (e.g. touched on a mobile device). Useful in scenarios where you want a simple, modern, tool-tip without the weight of a 3rd party library.

Converting a file from DOCX to another format (such as PDF) had long been a pain in SharePoint and usually led to resorting to using Word Automation Services (WAS). Fortunately, modern SharePoint (Online) and the Microsoft Graph API mean you can do it with a few Web API calls.

This article walks through creating an NPM project that can be uploaded to a public or private NPM feed as reusable package.

IISExpress, bundled with Visual Studio, provides a lighter-weight web server than the full IIS (Internet Information Services) Windows service, and is useful for running up and debugging web code projects.

Redux is a toolkit for ReactJS that offers application-level state management features and can help overcome event bubbling performance issues in complex component architecture based Single Page (Web) Applications (SPA).

Starting from version 16.8 ReactJS introduced a new, modern, way of developing React web apps using a feature they called Hooks. This article introduces Hooks and demonstrates how to create React components in this more modern style.

When working on multi-developer projects, if each developer machine isn’t configured the same way developers can waste a lot of time editing connection strings, local machine name, and other settings when pulling code projects from source code control. On ASP.NET code projects, you can configure per-machine configuration overrides to overcome this.

I’ve regularly witnessed strange behaviour on one of our SharePoint environments where the ABOUT screen for an installed SharePoint Add-in shows an error message (like the screen-shot below) of ‘Sorry, apps are turned off’ when you first navigate to it after not doing so for a while (10 mins or more). Doing a web browser refresh on the page normally fixes it, but it was annoying so I invested a bit further.

When working with SharePoint list data in Microsoft Excel, it is often necessary to report based on user data (e.g. name, department, job role, etc.) and most of the time this information isn’t immediately available as User fields only store the user’s unique ID and extended metadata is not pulled in from SharePoint automatically.