If you are a graphic designer or web developer, you already know how useful SVGs can be. They are small, easy to make, and above all they allow you to create images for web pages that look perfect at every possible size. But they can also be styled with css, and offer multiple ways to create and control animation in your page. Here I show you some very simple ideas to get started with editing and animating them.
When I first found out about the SVG format, I was rather confused by the fact that you can show them in…
You will generally be in good shape using IIS 10 to securely host websites, but there are some changes you must make to pass a security audit.
Although many potential security flaws may lurk in the applications you host (and you’ll need to attend to those for sure), the more predictable ones can be dealt with at the server level. You’ll want to be certain your web sites can survive a security audit before your client asks for one, so here are the typical extra configurations you’ll need to add so it passes with flying colors.
This isn’t an exhaustive…
When you first take a look at how to do this, especially if your origin is an s3 bucket as we’ll be using here, it seems like it’s going to be really simple. All you have to do is take a look at the User-Agent header as it comes in, and then choose a different source for your files, right?
But wait.
By default, Cloudfront doesn’t pass the standard headers through to an Origin Request function. You can only get the User-Agent in a Viewer Request function, and a Viewer Request Lambda function cannot select the Origin.
And, given how…
Do you have websites that you would like to add a full or partial VueJS front-end to, but need to communicate with a .NET api? Do you have an Express server you would like to easily integrate with an existing .NET site? Or do you just want to use an excellent and powerful Windows web server to host all of your Node development? I thought so. Here’s how you can have it all.
This also works with many other varieries of server technology. It will also work with React or Angular, and any kind of http server.
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