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The Need I encountered a scenario today where a team need to increase the structure of their logging data. Currently, logging is unstructured text – log.Error("something broke") – whereas the operations team would like clearer information about error codes, descriptions and accompanying guidance. The first proposed solution was a fairly typical one: we would define […]

Moving applications to the cloud would seem like a no-brainer decision for companies – It provides low or zero upfront cost and low ongoing costs that is charged by the hour. In addition, it provides you with seemingly infinite resources at your disposal, and elasticity on demand – i.e. the ability to scale dynamically based […]

When I first started working with .NET in 2000 the “process tooling” for the platform didn’t exist, heck the platform wasn’t even released. It didn’t take long however and immigrants from other platforms were getting involved building out the tool-chain required for agile software development, including build scripting languages, unit test frameworks and CI build […]

The coloured console ‘appender’ is one of my favourites in log4net, so high on the list for inclusion in Serilog. Smart property highlighting makes the result quite interesting: You can use it on the full .NET Framework using the out-of-the-box Serilog 0.2.8 package. Log.Logger = new LoggerConfiguration()     .WriteTo.ColoredConsole()     .CreateLogger(); Simple at…

I recently tweeted that I was having this problem:

So, my wife has been encouraging me to get this starting over the past 4 years or so. I was more busy with offline groups at first, followed by traveling to work in different countries, and then later all sorts of new stuff I wanted to learn around .NET, software craft in general, and web [...]

I’m happy to announce that I’ve just released AzureWebFarm 0.9.2 to Nuget. This release involves months of work by myself and Matt Davies to really tighten up the farm, perform a lot of stress testing on it (including some reasonably heavy production loads) and take the (larger than we expected – I’ll do a separate blog [...]

This was originally going to be some guideline instructions for a CodePlex project, Essential.Diagnostics that I work on, but it ended up being more an opinion piece so I thought it would fit better on a blog. There are several trace listeners (loggers) in the .NET Framework that can produce XML output. Outputting to XML [...]

A few months ago I was asked if I wanted to join a new program that the Internet Explorer team was starting up called IE userAgents. No isn't related to the the Internet Explorer userAgent string , or the fact that in the leaked IE11 builds it has had a makeover, instead it's about evangelism of the web platform and shifting peoples perceptions of IE as a modern browser. It's also worth noting that Internet Explorer isn't the only browser that has a program like this, Mozilla does too and I'd expect the other browsers do to.

If you tried to use tSQLt FakeTable to fake a table that is referenced by an object -in most cases: indexed view- is declared using a WITH SCHEMABINDING clause, your test case will fail with this SQL exception: System.Data.SqlClient.SqlException: Object … Continue reading →

In Visual Studio 2012 Update 1 (VS 2012.1) Microsoft delivered a feature for the Ultimate edition called Code Map with the goal of visualising relationships in code.

Recently I have been working with testers on our team, and trying to bring testing closer to our sprints. We use Microsoft Test Manager for our test tool, TFS for work items, GitHub for source control and TeamCity for our build server.

I've just pushed the latest to the Making Legacy Apps Awesome workshop's Git repo.

The Scrum Australia 2013 conference has just finished and I had the pleasure of delivering a session for Product Owners aimed at helping them improve what they do and identify some of the mistakes they may be making. A big thank you to those who attended and for making the session as interactive as it was.As promised, I’m posting the slides from the session here. Just remember that the slides are an aid to the presentation and that the back half of the deck was designed for interactivity in the room, not for offline consumption. Regardless, here it is.

I'm going to be speaking at the upcoming Web Directions Code in Melbourne (2nd & 3rd May) on the topic of IndexedDB. I'm pretty stoked to be invited to speak as there's a lot of heavy weights of the web development community that are going to be around and I'll finally have a chance to crack out my IndexedDB talk to a larger audience.

Thanks for all the feedback on Serilog, keep it coming! Version 0.2 is now on NuGet and introduces a couple of noticeable changes. Phone and tablet support The core of Serilog is now portable across .NET 4.5, Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8. The latter two platforms only include one ‘sink’ out of the box,…

If you are a Melbourne-based developer and are interested in getting your hands dirty with the Windows Azure platform then come along to the Global Windows Azure Bootcamp on the 27th of April. This is a free full day event being put on locally by Readify and Paradyne with the assistance of Microsoft. Globally the [...]

In case you don’t know already, Visual Studio 2012 Update 2 was released April 4th (Official Announcement – Download Page – Release Notes). Like the previous Visual Studio update, you get a very small EXE file, which you run to download the update from the Internet, install it, and then delete it. This means that [...] Related posts:

I sometimes have the need to shell a process and redirect the output. But I often have issues with deadlocks between processes and other random issues.

I’ve just added this feature request to Entity Framework Uservoice site and was wondering whether you’d like to up-vote / share / tweet it if you think it’s good to have. Migrations: Allow Multiple Migration SQL Generator per Provider http://data.uservoice.com/forums/72025-entity-framework-feature-suggestions/suggestions/3812292-migrations-allow-multiple-migration-sql-generator Inline, here’s what the feature request is about: One way to allow community to contribute [...] Related posts: