AppDynamics grouping Database Custom Metric Queries

When you create Custom Database Metrics in AppDynamics, you first thought is to create a new row for each metric, but if you have a lot to report on this can become messy. Not only that but in the metric view you will have a very long list of reports to go through. Therefore when we had the consultant down at work, we was shown how to group collections of metrics in one query, which then shows in the metric view in a sub folder. This tactic, we could not find anywhere on the internet, so I thought I would share this very handle insight for AppDynamics.

How to get a PDF from Server Side to Client Side?

So you generate a PDF in the C# code or any back end code, but need to send it back to the JavaScript doing the AJAX request. The trouble is how you return a file back to the client side and is the same problem I faced. There are loads of methods of how to do this that I have seen on the line, but these are the ways I found worked with C#.NET and JavaScript.

Keeping an images ratio on resize in JavaScript

A little tricky task was given to the team I am working in, to keep an image at its aspect ratio. However the catch is that it needs to be able to go as large as it can to fill the screen at all times, while the user can resize the screen and keeping theContinueContinue reading “Keeping an images ratio on resize in JavaScript”

Should you unit test CSS?

When I told a college I was going to write some unit tests for CSS they went crazy, and I do see why, however I think it can be valuable in the right way. I would like to describe to you why I think doing unit tests on CSS can be worth your time as a developer and also beneficial to the project.

How to use Chutzpah with Visual Studio and Build?

If you want to do some JavaScript Unit testing your most probably going to use things like Jasmine, Qunit or Mocha, which are all great things, but how do you run them? This was a challenge I came upon with Visual Studio and how to get it running like a normal NUnit test.

How to get the users IP Address in C#.NET?

When you search this on your favourite search engine, (Google) you will get flooded by load of different way to get the end result. This is great in a sense as you know there are thousands of people with different answers, but then that is where the problem is at. There are so many single responses to how you can get the users IP Address in C#.NET, but not one that shows you everything. Therefore I will present to you below different methods to get the users IP and how I have implemented it in a project.

All for one and one for all browser

he basic thing of website developing is to make sure you cross browser check your website across all browsers, even if you don’t like them. The biggest pain in every developers ass is the Microsoft Internet Explorer. What if though, you can have one browser or at least one browser standard?