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Customisable web app styling
by Greg Keogh Aug. 5, 2025

Aug. 5, 2025

Folks, I'm trying to find the "best" way of allowing different customers to style their own hosted version of our web app (actually a Blazor net8.0 app). For years we hosted a single global copy of the app in our Azure subscription where multiple customers would use it. It has a single line for the app's styles: <link rel="stylesheet" href="app.css" /> When customers deploy the app in their own subscriptions it would be great to leave the default app.css file untouched but allow them to easily override any style elements they like. What's the best way of doing that? Do I simply append a line like: <link rel="stylesheet" href="{some customer uri}/custom.css" /> Do styles in that link override any identical ones in the previous one? I'm not sure of the cascade order or conventions. There might be better techniques I'm not aware of. Thanks, *Greg K*

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AI
by Tom Gao July 30, 2024

July 30, 2024

Hi guys, I haven't posted in a few years and haven't been on the tools for a long time now as well. I'm on a panel on a digital conference coming up in march. We had a pre meeting today and the topic of AI came up. Two of the panelist said cited CBA and Westpac using AI and were able to save 30% on development effort. Personally I just finished an AI course my view is quite the opposite. My personal opinion of the generative AI space and AI in general having spent time with the academics is that the benefits are significantly over inflated. I want to get some other opinions if you are seeing any significant benefit and that I may be just out of touch or not aware. Thanks, Tom

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[OT] Windows Server install problems
by Greg Keogh July 18, 2024

July 18, 2024

Folks, it's been a non-TGIF day. My old server under the desk running Server 2019 (or 2016 I forget) died this morning and I'm trying to create a replacement I have a brand new *one of these* <https://www.ple.com.au/Products/665032/ple-midnight-gtx-1650-prebuilt-ready…>, so I installed Server 2019 and it all went smoothly until it booted and all chipset devices are dead, including the network adapter and the screen is stuck at SGA. The only drivers I can find are for Windows 7 to 11 and nothing else. I tried installing 2016 as an experiment but it produces the same results. Am I wasting my time? Is that box incapable of running recent Windows Server editions? *Thanks, Greg*

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