Including collections in Jekyll archives
Recently, I decided to upload all my recipes onto my blog, as a convenient way to share them, any modifications I made, and the original source. It also allo...
Software Engineering
Bringing Rust to C#: Oxide and Oxide.Http
Rust is a language I’ve admired for a long time now, from a slight distance. I’ve read about the borrow checker, perused the standard crates, and read up on ...
Writing Hubot scripts using ES6+
Since I discovered it shortly after moving into the world of Hipchat (and later Slack) from the world of IRC, Hubot has been one of my favorite tools to make...
Improving security with unit tests and reflection
Back in November of 2014, Phil Haack published his Avoid async void methods blog post—it contained two useful things: a warning about an antipattern (I have ...
Building and Testing ASP.NET 5 Projects in TeamCity
We’ve been using TeamCity for a long time due to its widespread use in the .NET community—generally, if it can be done, someone’s already done it and blogged...
Combining EF6 with ASP.NET 5
For some upcoming work my team is doing, we wanted to use Entity Framework as our base DAL (with a micro-mapper like Dapper overlaid on top) and ASP.NET 5 as...
Code Coverage for SQL Server 2012 LocalDB-driven Tests With TeamCity and dotCover
I started working on improving a codebase recently and one of the best ways to do that is to start writing tests. The site is heavily database driven, so a n...