Thomas Ardal

This is the second post in the series about building email templates with MJML and deploying them on AWS. In the previous post, we learned about MJML and Handlebars.js for creating cross-browser email templates with dynamic content. In this post, I will show you how you can script the ...

In this series, I'll share how we have developed elmah.io's email templates currently sent out using Amazon Web Services (AWS). This first post will introduce template development using MJML and Handlebars.js. In the following posts, I'll explain the process of building them ...

I'm constantly tweaking the uniqueness detection on elmah.io. It's the feature that will identify if an error has been logged previously which will trigger a range of other features like notifications. A while back, I wanted to add support for identifying GUIDs as part of ...

Part of implementing an error monitoring platform like elmah.io is dealing with the IP addresses of the clients generating errors. In this post, I'll show you parts of how we have implemented this in ASP.NET Core, to make sure that different hosting scenarios still produce the ...

Someone asked me about the possibility of turning on a light on new errors logged to elmah.io the other day. While we offer dashboards to put on a big screen in the office, I hadn't thought much about turning physical things on and off on errors. This ...

We have a couple of internal websites hosted on Azure. Websites that require authentication and should only be accessed from our IP. This can easily be configured using Access Restrictions in Azure. But when doing so, you exclude the dynamic IP range for Microsoft-hosted Azure DevOps build agents. In this ...

While most of my time goes into elmah.io, I love working on side projects too. Like the NuGet package updater tool NuPU and the Dark Screen of Death Chrome extension. A few weeks ago, I felt the need to solve a small problem I've had understanding Cron ...

For a recent feature, I had to download a batch of files from an internal website written in ASP.NET Core. Zipping the files before downloading them, turned out as a great way of easily implementing multi-file download. .NET offers all of the needed features and in this post, I& ...

While developing elmah.io support for WPF, I had the chance to look into WPF for the first time in many years. I couldn't stop myself from digging down into all sorts of details about how logging has evolved in WPF since I last wrote a WPF app. ...