Microsoft Microhyde and FrankenSoft This post is about Microsoft, the painful lessons of their legacy and their marching into creating a whole new set of legacy problems for the next generation.
ServiceStack 00011 : Service discovery, load balancing and routing This is part three of an in-depth series on implementing a microservices architecture using ServiceStack:: Service discovery, load-balancing and routing.
ServiceStack 00010 : Logging and Debugging This is part two of an in-depth series on implementing a microservices architecture using ServiceStack:: Debugging and Logging in a distributed system.
ServiceStack 00001 : the what and the why? This is part one of an in-depth series on implementing a microservices architecture using ServiceStack, Consul, EventStore and Redis. Context: the what and the why?
tips How to load debug symbols in Visual Studio during debugging How to load debug symbols in Visual Studio during debugging
ServiceStack Logging ServiceStack requests with Seq Easily capture all servicestack requests to Seq with Serilog.
ServiceStack ServiceStack exception enricher for Serilog Enriching exceptions with serilog and servicestack
xunit Showing the 💕 for xunit.net and dotCover in Teamcity making xunit.net, dotCover and teamcity work well together.
testing ode to the next guy If you can't spin up a project from scratch you owe it to the next guy to fix that.
C# To err is to be human, to handle them all is too much to ask Trying to comprehensively handle errors with IIS and MVC is such an impossible dance that it requires one to metaphorically lick the back of one knees whilst riding a unicycle, juggling handleless chainsaws
edge.js having ones cake and eating it with edge.js and npm packages tl/dr - figuring out how to run an npm package in c# beyond hello world example in edge.js, specifically tslint.having ones cake and eating it...So nuget is my goto
Typescript Typescript is great but...did MS just tell me to go **** myself? TypeScript is great for c# developers but the deployment pipeline is a crummy afterthought.
markdown The problem with wysiwyg and markdown my usual blogging output is hardly prolific. Most of the things I write are sitting in my drafts folder probably never to see the light of day, but as I sat writing a
ravendb Easy upgrades for RavenDB For my own reference more than anything. Keep the data, indexes and logs out of the server build folder for easier upgrades.Use something like the following raven.server.config<xml version=
interview Interviews Over the last few years, I've conducted lots of interviews as I've built up a development team at my employers. I've learned a great deal so here are my top tips for people
Resharper ReSharper live templates XUnit.Assert.DoesNotThrow One of the live templates I always end up creating when writing unit tests is for XUnit.Assert.DoesNotThrow.Only takes a minute to set up, simples!
MSBuild Truncating nCover trends with MSBuild One of the nice features of nCover is creating coverage trends. These trends can be included in your reports to show how your coverage is changing over time (hopefully always increasing!)Over time
C# EnvDTE : Getting all projects (the SolutionFolder PITA) Recently I’ve been working on a Visual Studio 2010 Package to help control some project settings for my team’s development environment. One of the things I needed to be able to
C# Creating custom DataAnnotation tests Part 2 Well since my initial attempt, I have now refactored the AssertDataAnnotation class to be slightly more user friendly. The property type is now inferred by the compiler and I’ve moved the ValidationAttribute
xunit Creating custom DataAnnotation tests Recently I wanted to create some unit tests for the DataAnnotations on my domain model. After a bit of googling I found the following article on testing validation attributes which gave me a
unspsc C# UNSPSC API - Part 2: Codeplex Well it’s been a while but hey, I’ve been busy! :)So I’ve finally managed to get the API in to reasonable shape and have uploaded it to https://bitbucket.org/
Code Comparing data from two sets of keys Recently I needed to compare the data from two different databases in two similar but slightly different tables. I needed to sync them so wanted to know which rows to insert, update or
unspsc C# UNSPSC API – Part 1 : Introduction BackgroundRecently as part of an ecommerce product catalogue project for my job, one of the data requirements was that products have unspsc codes for both internal and customer spend analysis.What are unspsc
.Net Parsing Enum Strings Well I thought I would kick off the blog with this handy generic method to parse enum strings.public static T ParseEnum<T>(string enumText) { return (T) Enum.Parse(typeof (T)
