For a good and secure web – and also for faster performance, new APIs on the web such as Service Workers, better search ranking and more – using HTTPS for your web site is key. I’ll walk you through how to easily get started with that here. 

The web accessibility basics  

Recently I have published this blog, which talks about configuring the ASP.NET 5 application in IIS.

After you set this up, if you run into any issues while accessing the website you can enable the inbuilt logging provided within the HTTPPlatform Handler. 

<system.webServer>
  <rewrite>
    <rules>
      <rule name="Enforce WWW" stopProcessing="true">
           <match url=".*" />
           <conditions>
                  <add input="{CACHE_URL}" pattern="^(.+)://(?!www)(.*)" />
          </conditions>
          <action type="Redirect" url="{C:1}://www.{C:2}" redirectType="Permanent" />
       </rule>      
    </rules>
  </rewrite>
</system.webServer>

<system.webServer>
  <rewrite>
    <rules>
     <rule name="SEO - Lower case" stopProcessing="false">
       <match url="(.*)" ignoreCase="false" />
       <conditions logicalGrouping="MatchAll" trackAllCaptures="false">
  <add input="{HTTP_METHOD}" pattern="GET" />
  <add input="{R:1}" pattern="[A-Z]" ignoreCase="false" />
       </conditions>
       <action type="Rewrite" url="_{ToLower:{R:1}}" />
    </rule>
    </rules>
  </rewrite>
</system.webServer>

<!-- SEO rules (from: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/what-every-seo-should-know-about-iis#chaining) -->
<!-- SEO | Section 1 | Whitelist -->
<rule name="Whitelist - Resources" stopProcessing="true">
  <match url="^(?:css/|scripts/|images/|install/|config/|umbraco/|umbraco_client/|base/|webresource\.axd|scriptresource\.axd|__browserLink|[^/]*/arterySignalR/.*)" />
  <conditions logicalGrouping="MatchAll" trackAllCaptures="false" />
  <action type="None" />
</rule>
<!-- SEO | Section 2 | Rewrites (chaining) -->
<rule name="SEO - Remove default.aspx" stopProcessing="false">
  <match url="(.*?)/?default\.aspx$" />
  <conditions logicalGrouping="MatchAll" trackAllCaptures="false">
<add input="{HTTP_METHOD}" pattern="GET" />
  </conditions>
  <action type="Rewrite" url="_{R:1}" />
</rule>
<rule name="SEO - Remove trailing slash" stopProcessing="false">
  <match url="(.+)/$" />
  <conditions logicalGrouping="MatchAll" trackAllCaptures="false">
<add input="{HTTP_METHOD}" pattern="GET" />
<add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsDirectory" negate="true" />
<add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsFile" negate="true" />
  </conditions>
  <action type="Rewrite" url="_{R:1}" />
</rule>
<rule name="SEO - Lower case" stopProcessing="false">
  <match url="(.*)" ignoreCase="false" />
  <conditions logicalGrouping="MatchAll" trackAllCaptures="false">
<add input="{HTTP_METHOD}" pattern="GET" />
<add input="{R:1}" pattern="[A-Z]" ignoreCase="false" />
  </conditions>
  <action type="Rewrite" url="_{ToLower:{R:1}}" />
</rule>
<!-- SEO | Section 3 | Redirecting -->
<rule name="SEO - HTTP canonical redirect" stopProcessing="true">
  <match url="^(_*)(.*)" />
  <conditions logicalGrouping="MatchAll" trackAllCaptures="true">
<add input="{HTTP_HOST}" pattern="^www\.(.*)" />
<add input="{HTTP_METHOD}" pattern="GET" />
<add input="{SERVER_PORT}" pattern="80" />
  </conditions>
  <action type="Redirect" url="http://{C:1}/{R:2}" />
</rule>
<rule name="SEO - HTTPS canonical redirect" stopProcessing="true">
  <match url="^(_*)(.*)" />
  <conditions logicalGrouping="MatchAll" trackAllCaptures="true">
<add input="{HTTP_HOST}" pattern="^www\.(.*)" />
<add input="{HTTP_METHOD}" pattern="GET" />
<add input="{SERVER_PORT}" pattern="443" />
  </conditions>
  <action type="Redirect" url="http://{C:1}/{R:2}" />
</rule>
<rule name="SEO - Non-canonical redirect" stopProcessing="true">
  <match url="^(_+)(.*)" />
  <conditions logicalGrouping="MatchAll" trackAllCaptures="false">
<add input="{HTTP_METHOD}" pattern="GET" />
  </conditions>
  <action type="Redirect" url="{R:2}" />
</rule>
<!-- // SEO rules -->

The most popular programming languages in 2024 (and what that even means)

We aggregated data from nine different rankings to produce the ZDNET Index of Programming Language Popularity. Here's which languages came out on top and what to make of this information.

The State of Developer Ecosystem 2022
These are the results of the sixth annual survey conducted by JetBrains to capture the landscape of the developer community. 

The book covers these all-important topics:

• What Blazor is
• The problems it solves and how it solves them
• Strategies for moving to Blazor from previous ASP.NET generations and JavaScript
• Ways to get more out of Blazor by enhancing it with Telerik UI for Blazor to shorten development cycles and benefit your entire team  

This web app allows you to create a visual representation of your BenchmarkDotNet console results. You can conveniently copy the generated chart to your clipboard, save it as a PNG image, or share it through a URL. 

Every day millions of users are commuting on the electronic highway. For you as a web developer you want to ensure that your website is adapted to the needs of the modern user and that you're not putting up road blocks, forcing users to take side roads.

Using modern web standards you can remove these road blocks and optimise your website to accommodate all users regardless of the browser they're using.