Assembly and abstractions
Up until the 1980s, when you bought a computer, you occasionally needed to program it using machine code, i.e. directly feeding the processor instructions in its native instruction set. Programming language abstractions …
CI
.NET C# CI/CD in Docker
When building software in the modern workplace, you want to automatically test and statically analyse your code before pushing code to production. This means that rather than tens of test environments and an army of manu…
Sprint 0 for old school .NET devs
When you start work on a code base, either from scratch or as you approach it as a new dev, there are a few things you should ensure are in place before you get going. Like most other things, these are easier and more na…
Salvation through a bad resource
Me and a colleague have been struggling for some time deploying an IIS website correctly using chef. As you may be aware, chef is used to describe the desired state of the configuration of a system through the use of res…
Tech stuff for non-technical people
This is not a deeply technical post. Even less technical than my other ones. I write this inspired by a conversation on Twitter where I got asked about a few fairly advanced pieces of technical software by a clever but n…
Azure Websites with automatic deployment
Automatic deployment when you commit and push changes to your Github/Bitbucket repo is truly awesome and like running water or electricity that it is so convenient that you incorporate it into the fabric of your life and…