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…
Some stuff I have read in the last couple of weeks that I think are worth checking out, mostly new but some old stuff too. All worth subscribing to. ASP.NET Core is approaching its…
In addition to my previous post about how to do better code reviews below is a list of specific things to watch out for during code reviews, in no particular order: All the CI builds…