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Antony Allen

Fullstack object oriented programmer specialising in C#, PHP, MySQL and web.

Antony Allen

Antony is a software developer with more than 15 years' experience as a professional programmer.

He is passionate about object orientation, databases and web technologies.

In 2020, he became a Microsoft Certified Solutions Developer (MCSD).

Some of Antony's web projects include the advanced nutrition platform nutriculate.com and the content management system unicms.co.uk

Software Engineer

.NET, Azure, CSS3, HTML5, JavaScript ES6, MVC, MySQL, PHP, UWP

How to do JSON model validation in .NET

In this article we discuss how to keep your structs and classes up-to-date with JSON models from a REST API in .NET.

Saturday 17th August 2024, 09:02:13 10 minutes

How to use AES encryption in .NET

This article describes how to encrypt data into secure packets by using 256-bit AES encryption in C#.

Sunday 2nd April 2023, 11:10:06 10 minutes

How to do TOTP for 2FA in .NET

This article describes how you can create two-factor authentication codes using TOTP in .NET.

Wednesday 25th January 2023, 21:13:36 8 minutes

How to represent CIDR ranges in code

This article describes what CIDR ranges are and how you can represent them in C# code.

Sunday 22nd May 2022, 11:21:54 7 minutes

How to create a Linux Cron Job with .NET Core

This article describes how to build a .NET Core Console Application and deploy it to Linux Ubuntu to be run as a cron job.

Tuesday 16th November 2021, 14:09:04 5 minutes

An Introduction to Azure DevOps Pipelines

This article discusses how developers can use pipelines to achieve Continuous Integration / Continuous Development and provides examples to get you started.

Wednesday 17th February 2021, 16:30:55 9 minutes

How to programmatically consume the Kubernetes API in Azure

This post outlines how to authenticate with Azure, get credentials for the Kubernetes cluster and execute API requests.

Tuesday 2nd February 2021, 12:16:50 6 minutes

How to create Virtual Machine Scale Set Instances and login with SSH

This article explains how to utilise Virtual Machine Scale Sets and access instances remotely by using SSH through a Linux jumpbox.

Thursday 21st January 2021, 10:59:37 6 minutes

Walkthrough: Azure Functions with an Azure Storage Queue Trigger

This articles details how to create an Azure Function which will be triggered by a queue item, how to test locally and how to deploy to Azure.

Thursday 14th January 2021, 11:36am 10 minutes

How to create a Binary Search Tree in PHP

This article describes what a binary search tree is, how it can be used to keep objects in sorted order, and provides the source code for one and its nodes in PHP.

Tuesday 27th October 2020, 21:11:37 11 minutes

An Introduction to Data Protection in ASP.NET Core

This articles introduces the concept of Data Protection: how to protect and unprotect data in order to keep personal user information private with user-specific encryption keys.

Wednesday 9th September 2020, 09:36:15 10 minutes

How to use Models in ASP.NET MVC

This article describes the "Model" part of MVC, how to use them, create forms to edit models using Razor markup, and utilise model attributes to perform model validation.

Friday 4th September 2020, 09:36:05 7 minutes

How to do Remote Debugging in Azure

This article describes how to perform a remote debugging session of an ASP.NET MVC Core Web App in Azure using Visual Studio 2019.

Tuesday 1st September 2020, 06:13:40 4 minutes

Walkthrough: Creating Localized Resources in ASP.NET

This article describes how you can create locale-specific content for international users of your ASP.NET website.

Sunday 30th August 2020, 17:45:27 6 minutes

How to use Resources (*.resx files) in .NET

This post will describe how to create and utilise strongly typed Resources in an ASP.NET MVC project.

Friday 28th August 2020, 14:01:41 4 minutes

Creating System.Uri in PHP

This article provides the source code for a PHP-equivalent of .NET's System.Uri class.

Friday 31st July 2020, 12:22:09 16 minutes

Defining the IReadOnlyDictionary interface in PHP

This article provides the source code for an IReadOnlyStringDictionary and talks about the origins of the related dictionary interfaces in .NET

Saturday 15th August 2020, 07:38:17 3 minutes

How to convert a country code to an emoji flag

This article explains how to convert a two-letter country code to the appropriate unicode emoji flag, and provides the source code for doing this in PHP.

Saturday 8th August 2020, 10:16:51 3 minutes

How to represent a Query String in PHP

This article describes what the Query String is, and provides the source code for representing this in PHP.

Wednesday 19th August 2020, 13:18:03 6 minutes

How to represent a URI host in PHP

This article provides the source code for a Host class in PHP.

Thursday 6th August 2020, 11:55:37 4 minutes

Semantic web and Schema.org

In this post, I describe what semantic web is, Schema.org and how to utilise this in your web pages.

Wednesday 22nd July 2020, 10:55:49 4 minutes

First Blog Post

My first post, an introduction to what i want to achieve through this blog.

Wednesday 1st July 2020, 14:43:45 1 minute