(Ben Nadel) Yesterday, while looking at generating color histograms using GraphicsMagick and Lucee CFML, I had to sort of an Array of colors based on their frequency distribution within an image.

(Mary Lou) Animating SVG text on a path on scroll has been explained really well in this great video tutorial by the keyframers.

(Marinko Spasojevic) The user lockout feature is the way to improve application security by locking out a user that enters a password incorrectly several times.

(Ben Nadel) Within InVision, one of the interesting features of “Boards” is that, when you upload an image, the app shows you the “top colors” present in the image (which you can then re-add to the Board as a Swatch).

(David Ramel) The burgeoning low-code application development space should and can do DevOps too, says Microsoft, which has detailed new tooling for its Power Apps and Power Platform.

(James) If you read my last post you’ll know I’ve been doing some work in the SAFE stack recently with F# – inevitably this eventually required me to tackle authentication and authorization.

(Andrew Lock) In this post I describe application parts and how ASP.NET Core uses them to find the controllers in your app. I then show how you can retrieve the list at runtime for debugging purposes.

(Manoj Debnath) RTTI stands for Runtime type identification. It is a mechanism to find the type of an object dynamically from an available pointer or reference to the base type.

(damienbod) Azure Service Bus provides many ways to setup different access levels for all types of things like the bus itself, queues, topics or subscriptions. In this post some of the ways to configure the different access levels for a queue sender will be shown.

(Ben Nadel) At InVision, one of the things that we do when generating thumbnails is replacing transparent image backgrounds with a solid color (typically white). We do this because the design of the page that renders thumbnails is almost never designed to expect any image transparency.