13 October, 2016. It was a Thursday. A while ago, I blogged about using MediatR to build a processing pipeline for requests in the form of commands and queries in your application. MediatR is a ...

Introduction This time in our series about containers we are going to look a bit more closely into what happens when a container starts and how we can influence that. Specifically we’re going to learn ...

Introduction I find my self rather often than not in a situation where I have to trouble shoot a containerized application or a coworker needs some help doing so. In this post I want to show some ...

19 July, 2016. It was a Tuesday. To help those building applications using the new Microsoft DI libraries (used in Orleans, ASP.NET Core, etc.), I pushed out a helper package to register all of your ...

One of the libraries that I use on most projects (but probably don’t talk about it much) is now updated for the latest ASP.NET Core MVC. In order to do so, I broke out the classic ASP.NET and ASP.NET ...

Introduction This post is part of the series about Implementing a CI/CD pipeline. Please refer to this post for a full table of content. Our company is a heavy user of TeamCity [TC]. We use TC for ...

The Fixie test framework has been in production use for over a year now, and I’ve had a chance to work with it on a number of real world projects as well as a large project developed for training ...

21 January, 2016. It was a Thursday. As I work towards the 4.2 release of AutoMapper, I got a little inspiration. Over the past year or so I’ve given some talks/podcasts about a long-lived open source ...

C# 6 Feature Review: Auto-Property Enhancements 9 December, 2015. It was a Wednesday.

In my last few posts I started by revisiting the architectural pattern Event Sourcing and looked into how we can apply this pattern. I first discussed implementation of the aggregates and then of the ...

In the last post, I walked through what is to me the most interesting part of REST – the client. It’s easy to build a server API, but no API is complete without someone actually using that API. This ...

19 May, 2015. It was a Tuesday. REST, a term that few people understand and fewer know how to implement, has become a blanket term for any sort of Web API. That’s unfortunate, because the underlying ...