Mung bean paste pastry, aka tau sar piah, is a common snacks consumed among the locals. I was fortunate enough to grab a box of 10 with mix of salty and sweet flavours from this famous shop. Located at the shophouses along Balestier Road, the shop is famous and popular with a long queue of customers waiting to place order all day long. It is recommended to place your order days ahead online and collect your food to avoid the hours of standing in queue.

My personal website is hosted on AWS Elastic Beanstalk but the DNS is managed with Cloudflare instead of AWS Route 53 and Cloudfront setup to enjoy the its lower price and the free SSL encryption. It is not straightforward when part of the solution is not within the AWS family…

More often than not some deployment strategies involve file overwriting, such as in the case of Sitefinity projects. This manual deployment process typically takes the following steps: 1. Identify files that are modified or created 2. Obtain the files and put them in a new folder 3. Organise the files to follow the…

Chain of responsibility is a behavioural design pattern that allows a response to be passed along a chain of handlers. Each handler receives the request in sequence and optionally acts on it before passing it on to the next handler. This design pattern is useful to cases where processing of…

The goal of unit testing is to segregate each part of the program and test if that individual part is working correctly. This is the practise that improves the quality of code, enables bugs to be found at early stages, and facilitates any future changes and refactorings. …

xUnit is a unit testing framework which supports .NET Core . I use it to unit test my Document Controller WPF application (.NET Framework 4.6.1) and in this project, the AutoMapper is heavily used to map domain models to view models. I wrote unit tests for each class and when…

This is the first minimal viable product that has been published and used by the company. The first version of the Document Controller is a WPF application which can be installed and launched in any Microsoft Windows Operating Systems with .NET Framework 4.6.1 installed. This application works hand in hand…

The launch of the Document Controller project and the improvements it promises. — Document control system has always been important to any company and organisation to ensure the existence of controlled process and practices for the creation, review, modification, issuance, distribution, and accessibility of documents. Unfortunately, as someone who is tasked to take on this role, I have noticed that the document control…

Web API often needs to be protected from malicious users. This article aims to show how simple authentication and authorisation can be implemented in a sample ASP.NET Core Web API app (“sample app”). I have used the following tools to build the sample app: Visual Studio Code (my favourite code…