TL/DR If you want your pull requests to be taken seriously you probably need to learn some more advanced git features like interactive rebase and squash. Fist I wanted to share an article I…
C# Windows services can be a pain to develop because they are awkward to test, debug and run locally. However a few tweaks to the default VS template make them far more manageable. Why use…
I recently had a requirement to be able to spot pluralised words which may not be real words, but follow English language conventions, and so appear as a plural to any normal reader. So ComplexBusinesObjects…
The npm install step in my Teamcity CI build for an angular app I have been working has been failing intermittently and I finally uncovered the reason. TL/DR The combination of McAfee Anti-virus and…
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. Albert Einstein I recently finished another agile development project and we ran some really great retrospectives over the 9 months, along with…
WebApi controller actions can return a variety of response types: HttpResponseMessage, IHttpActionResult, CLR objects and then the Task based variety of each for async actions. But which one is best? And how do we unit…
tl;dr If you need to speed up your c# application you probably need to add caching, and the easiest way to do that is use the source library I wrote called LazyCache. Do I…
After deploying a website don't assume it succeeded - add automated tests to check everything works. Back in the old days you would open a browser and check your new version of the site works…
Stumbled on a little gotcha today when using nuget packages as deployment artifacts to be send to Octopus Deploy and thought it worth documenting so i don't forget next time. The quick answer is that…
In VS 2013+ msbuild moved out of the core .net framework and is available as a separate install for build agents know as "Build tools". You need to be aware that MsBuild has moved path…