Thomas Ardal

Thomas Ardal

Meet Thomas, the founder and developer behind elmah.io. Thomas blogs about everything technical from C# and ASP.NET Core to machine learning.

Denmark
319 posts
Best Visual Studio Code Extensions

TOC Extending your IDE is the new black and we also use a lot of extensions every day in our daily work. Previously, we used a lot of different development tools (alongside Visual Studio), but that changed when Microsoft launched Visual Studio Code. We haven't replaced Visual Studio, ...

New Video Tutorials Published

Recording and publishing video is something that we have done from time to time. We never really had a good series of videos, explaining the different features available on elmah.io. Until today! We've published 8 short tutorials on the elmah.io YouTube channel. Each explains one of ...

Make your elmah.io dashboard ubiquitous

Since writing this post, Dashman has been shut down. This is a guest post by J. Pablo Fernández, the founder of Dashman. Dashman is an online service that helps you control what to put on your wall-mounted big screen tv's. There are two ways of knowing the health ...

New Hire at elmah.io: Eduard-Dan Stanescu

Time for another new face here at elmah.io. Since losing one of the co-founders, we have been in serious need of a frontender. We finally managed to find the perfect fit for the job: Eduard-Dan Stanescu. Eduard is a versatile developer from Romania, with a very impressive history. In ...

Tuning performance on Azure websites using remote profiling

When running a service like elmah.io, performance is everything. We receive a lot of requests daily and a few ms actually make a difference both in the time clients need to wait for a reply, as well as our Cloud spending. We are running a range of different performance ...

Supporting NLog 4.5 and structured logging

NLog 4.5 were published a little over a week ago and we want to show our support with a compatible version too. As of today, our integration (Elmah.Io.NLog) runs on NLog 4.5 and also supports the new structured logging feature available in 4.5. All samples ...

GDPR changes

We are actively working with GDPR compliance, which will result in a series of minor adjustments to the UI and new features. We won't inform you about every little change, but here's an overview of recent changes. When signing up, you will now be prompted to ...

Domain name expires check

Ever wondered what will happen if you forget to renew your domain name? This actually happened to me (with another domain than elmah.io). I'd moved address and when the registrar failed creating a transaction on my credit card, they tried contacting me on the last known address. ...

Filters help you stay within your message limit

Since launching this feature, all of the integrations with elmah.io now have local filtering options. We recommend you filter unwanted log messages on your side to avoid you hitting API request limits, reducing outbound network traffic, etc. For instructions on how to create client-side filtering, look up the documentation ...