Absolute cache expiry corrupts absolutely?
Should you specify absolute expiry of a cache item from the current time or from the current time in the UTC time zone? The answer may not be what you expect.…
LazyCache 2.0 released
LazyCache [https://github.com/alastairtree/LazyCache] is a library that makes it easy for developers to add in-memory caching to dotnet apps. Version 2 is a major rewrite to change from the .Net Framework 4.…
Logging with output in Unit Tests in .Net Core 2.0
If you use logging in your application code (and you should) then it would be nice if all that logging info appeared in your unit tests. If you use dotnet core and the default Microsoft.…
Keeping Visual Studio 2017 build tools up to date
If you have to maintain a farm of build servers it can be a pain to keep them updated will the latest versions of all the tools needed, and if you have a few servers…
Stubbing your way to automated end to end testing in an API first world
Building high quality end to end acceptance tests suites is hard, and creating API stubs (aka mock servers) can be surprisingly time consuming. WireMock.net [https://github.com/WireMock-Net/WireMock.Net] can help speed this…