So what is NuGet, anyway? Intro When working with shared functionality across multiple .Net projects and team members, historically your options are limited to something like; Copy a dll containing the common functionality into your solution Register the dll into the GAC on whichever machine it needs to run Reference the project itself within your […]
Having been the VP of Engineering at a startup, I understand a lot of the challenges. The technical ones relating to the solution you think you need to build, more technical ones relating to the solutions the investors want you to build, the development process to best fit a rapidly changing product, team, requirements, and […]
What? The #NoEstimates idea is to break all pieces of work into similar sized chunks based on a consistent “slicing heuristic”; not give sizes or estimates up front, and hope to be able to predict future development based on how long each one of those similarly complex small tasks ends up taking to deliver. But […]
At Mailcloud I am constantly destroying and rebuilding environments (intentionally!), especially the performance test ones. I also need to gather oodles of metrics from these tests, and I have a simple script to create the VM and another to install all of the tools I need. This article will cover using a simple Powershell script […]
There’s a good mixture of Performance and Mobile sessions in my list, and a couple of Operations and Culture ones too. However, there are so many conflicting sessions that are awesome, so please let me know your thoughts to help me decide! Day One I saw Tammy Everts‘ vconf session last year, Understanding the neurological […]
Want your own NuGet repo? Don’t want to pay for MyGet or similar? Here’s how I’ve done it recently at Mailcloud (over an espresso that didn’t even have time to get cold – it’s that easy) Setting up a NuGet Server Creating your own nuget server could barely be any easier than it is now. […]
Creating functionality in Azure to subscribe to messages on a queue is so 2013. You have to set up a service bus, learn about queues, topics, maybe subscribers and filters, blah, BLAH, BLAH. Let’s not forget configuring builds and deployments and all that. Fun though this may be, what if you want to have just […]