HTTPS has become a basic requirement for a website, I want to show I added a free SSL certificate from Let's Encrypt to my website running on Azure App Service. Read More

Preview3 brings an architecture that allows you to extend Fanray by creating Plugins, Widgets and Themes in a clean and maintainable way. This new extensibility will keep the system core from being bloated and let others build their own features and applications easily. Read More

I’m releasing preview 2 today. For details please refer to preview2 milestone. Here I list some notable changes. Read More

This preview incorporates what I worked on for the past few months, fixes, improvements but mostly a brand new widget system. Widgets provide a way for theme designers to optionally define regions (widget areas) on their theme for end users to drag and drop pieces of UI (widgets) onto these areas to customize their site. Read More

If you develop with ASP.NET Core 2.0 or later and you are using TempData, you may run into a 400 error saying your request headers is too long. I've recently encountered this while writing a blog post, it happens when I try to preview the post. Read More

ASP.NET Core 2.2 recently came out and the one thing that caught my attention was the new IIS InProcess Hosting Model. I saw the demo during this week's Community Standup and couldn't help but agree that this could be a big help to development efficiency. As web developers we all do build solution and refresh browsers a lot and any improvement to shorten the time between making a change and seeing that change is welcoming. Read More

I released Fanray v2.0-a4, building on v2.0-a3 released from two weeks ago. Now you can drag and drop images directly in Composer and they will be uploaded and inserted in the editor. Read More

I released Fanray v2.0-a3, building on v2.0-a2 released from two weeks ago. Thanks to CKEditor5's latest release, now we can embed in our posts YouTube and Vimeo videos. Read More

Thus far I have a single service in Fan.Blog that handles everything, it's called BlogService. As my code grows this becomes less maintainable, with each new feature I want to add to the blog I have to pile on top of this class, not to mention it's less than ideal if there are others working on the same project and everyone modifies one file. So I wanted to break this giant service class into smaller more focused services. Read More

Today I release Fanray v2.0-a2, building on v2.0-a1 released from last week. This release provides the ability to preview a post (issue #208) and other fixes. Read More