agile What is this "waterfall" thing of which you speak? I'm going to describe my personal views about managing large software developments. I have had various assignments during the past nine years, mostly concerned with the development of software packages for spacecraft mission
microservices Debugging NuGet Packages Have you ever noticed that now we have embraced the micro-services architecture of doing things, instead of one big monolithic repository of code we have it all broken into smaller repositories of single/
ghost Adding a tags page to a Ghost blog An odd thing about Ghost is though it allows you to tag your posts it doesn't provide an out-of-the-box way to access all the tags as a single view. It is relatively easy
open cover Not dead yet... So it has been a while but I am glad to finally say I have released another version of OpenCover - 4.7.922. The release candidate has been out for a few
open source A spike on `robust` JSON handling in .NET When working with JSON formatted data in .NET I have always found it frustrating that I am losing something valuable if I want to use some form of contract to help reason about
rhok A weekend at Random Hacks of Kindness Random Hacks of Kindness (or RHoK for short) is a hacking event that I've been involved with on and off over the past four or five years. Since we have just had a
volunteer Can you give something back? Why does it seem, to me at least, that the vast body of developers will actively use software that has been contributed through open source efforts but will do nothing to add to
Aw shucks, thank you! I just received this today and it really made my day and I thought I should share. Hiya Shaun, Just wanted to drop a quick email of emphatic thanks for your many years
The importance of canary builds. So now that Visual Studio 2017 is officially out I thought I would use the long Easter weekend to upgrade the OpenCover project to this new version and tackle any issues that I
Keep your development workspace tidy A big issue I find when working in today's modern development environment is the ever increasing number of git repositories we now have to maintain. With each repository comes a number of branches
ghost Adding search to your [ghost] blog - part 2 Okay this is the next step in adding search functionality to my blog. The biggest let down of the original integration was that I need to remember to run the search updater every
ghost Adding search to your [ghost] blog Recently I wanted to find something in my own blog that I had written about and though I only have a small number of posts compared to some, it still took more time
It's astounding, time is fleeting, madness takes its toll, ... Okay, starting a blog post using a title from the first lines of the lyrics to "The Time Warp" does seem a bit unusual but with what I intend to cover
Configuring Cloudflare Page Rules I moved to Cloudflare sometime ago so that I could take advantage of their tools such as free DNS, SSL, analytics, caching etc. to support my ghost based blog. I wanted to host
codeproject Only time will tell Recently, I decided to review all my old articles that have been scattered across the internet over the past decade or two with the idea of either tidying them up or answering questions
open cover Death by a thousand cuts Every year I decide to spend some time refreshing OpenCover i.e. upgrading to the latest tools such as Visual Studio, upgrading all the packages that OpenCover depends on etc. etc. and it
Improving your source code quality One reason I work on Open Source projects such as OpenCover is so that I can try things out, experiment if you wish, sometimes it's TDD techniques or a new mocking framework, and
review A line in the sand Just recently I read Rework again on my kindle as this book really resonated with me at the time and I thought it was about time I read it again; the book is
open source Free stuff for Open Source .NET development For the past few years that I've been been working on OpenCover I've had the opportunity to use a number of tools during its development, a few of those are commercial tools that
ghost Moving blogging platform to Ghost Welcome to my new blog. Like it? I hope you do as I know I prefer it to the the Blogger version I was originally using. Moving platforms had its ups and downs
gmock Using GMock with Visual Studio CppUnitTestFramework One of the things I have been a bit disappointed with myself during the development of OpenCover is the lack of unit testing around the C++ code that makes up the profiler. I
open cover Happy Birthday OpenCover Happy Birthday Today OpenCover is 4 (four) years old, where has the time gone? In that time it has had over 60,000 nuget downloads, been adopted by the SharpDevelop community as the
microservices Microservices... Where to Start? Micro-services are becoming a "thing" now and are probably de-facto when someone begins a new project and are thinking about hosting in the cloud but where do you start when you
open cover Excluding code from coverage... This may (no guarantees) turn into a series of posts on how to refactor your code for testing using simple examples. This particular example came from a request to add an "Exclude
open cover A simple TDD example I recently posted a response to StackOverflow wrt TDD and Coverage and I thought it would be worth re-posting the response here. The example is simple but hopefully shows how writing the right