I always prefer using existing libraries implemented by someone else – it means that I don’t have to study the subject matter, and not less important, that someone else maintains the code for me (tests the code, implements new features, follow-ups on newer versions of the APIs if any, etc.). That being said, every now and … Read more
I’ve been using KnockoutJS for a long time now, but only recently found the magic that is the Knockout-Mapping plugin. A few days ago, I spent some time refining some old code, and encountered something along the following lines: (The friendlyPastMoment() method is just a small wrapper method around MomentJS, for handling edge cases) We … Read more
If you are not familiar with LibraryThing, go ahead and visit their website – it’s probably the most comprehensive bookscollection in the web. LibraryThing provide several APIs, one of them a RESTful API, which can be invoked from C# relatively easily. In this post I’ll describe how to use that API. First, you need to … Read more
One of my RavenDB databases grew to an unrealistic size – 36GB when it contains around 500,000 documents which are mostly small. After some back-and-forth with the RavenDB support team, I was suggested to compact the database. Sounds easy, if you know what you’re doing, since documentation on that is … let’s say lacking… Here’s what you … Read more
TLDR: I created a new NuGet package/GitHub repository for a library to allow you access to OneDrive via .Net. Over the last few days, I’ve implemented a .Net Class library to provide .Net access to OneDrive. Although Microsoft provides its own SDK (which is found at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-US/live/ff621310), that library is not very developer friendly – … Read more
In my previous posts, I’ve discussed how to retrieve the list of top repositories from GitHub,get the list of packages each one uses, and store all that informationin a RavenDb database. Now, it’s time to query all the data. RavenDb provides Map/Reduce indexes for querying the data. Let’s see some of the basic ones that … Read more
I’m planning to do some research and statistics on NuGet packages usage in GitHub repositories.Here’s some sample questions I would like to answer: I’ve shown in my previous post how to retrieve the list of packages used byspecific GitHub repository. And in a different post, I’ve shown how to retrieve the information of a NuGet … Read more
In my previous post I’ve shown how to get the list of NuGet packages used by a GitHub repository. Let’s see how we can retrieve some additional information for each package. The NuGet Gallery provides an OData feed, which can be used to easily query and search its database. It’s base URL is https://packages.nuget.org/v1/FeedService.svc. I’ll not go over … Read more
In my previous post, I’ve shown how we can search for C# repositories in GitHub, how to search for files within a repository, and how to get the content of a file. We can now use these to ask a very specific question: Which NuGet packages are used within a specific repository? Let’s start by … Read more
For a small project I’m working on, I needed access to GitHub, to investigate some repositories via code. Luckily, GitHub have an extremely extensive API. Furthermore, they even provide a .Net library (via a NuGet package) named Octokit.Net, to easily access that API: Let’s see some samples. We’ll start by creating a new GitHubClient object: … Read more
In my previous post, I’ve introduced a TimeSpanSemaphore, that functions as a throttling lock. Let’s see how we can use that semaphore to throttle HttpClient requests. The naïve solution would be to create an instance of the semaphore right next to the HttpClient, and wrap each request with a wait/release call on the semaphore: As … Read more
As part of my work on Cloudsfer, I’m working a lot with REST APIs of various cloud service providers, such as OneDrive, Dropbox and Instagram. Most of these services limit you to a certain number of requests per second/hour/day. This is understood – these services need to protect themselves from DDOS attacks, and other abuses. … Read more