api The API Journey for AccountRight Live My talk at ALT.NET on designing the MYOB API. "Building an API for your product isn’t just about choosing your technology and planning your scaling capabilities when you unleash it
cloud Customsing New Relic installation during Azure deployments For about a year we've been running New Relic to monitor our WebRoles running on the Azure platform. Installing has been quite simple by following the instructions initially found on the New Relic
api Book Review - Building Mobile Applications Using Kendo UI Mobile and ASP.NET Web API I've written a book review on 'Building Mobile Applications Using Kendo UI Mobile and ASP.NET Web API' and posted it up on CodeProject. Summary I liked this book and I took a
codeproject Getting code coverage from your .NET testing using OpenCover. Introduction OpenCover is a free, open-sourced, code coverage tool for .NET 2.0 and above running on the .NET platform. It supports sequence coverage, branch coverage and has a cover by test facility.
open source Application Tracing So OpenCover is as feature complete as I care to take it at the moment, I may do this one feature involving Windows Store applications should I have a need for it, and
mongo db Creating a simple NodeJS app with Mongo Okay, I woke up this morning (6am) with a need to create a simple reporting dashboard to display the coverage results from OpenCover when it dog-foods its own tests. Now that OpenCover has
mongo db MongoDB, Mongoid, MapReduce and Embedded Documents. I am using Mongoid to store some data as documents in a MongoDB database and then run some MapReduce queries against the data. Now I have no trouble with mapping data from normal
agile The "Pigs" and "Chickens" fable I think anyone who is anyone who has heard of Agile and Scrum have heard of the Pigs and Chickens story and how it describes those who are committed to the delivery of
open cover Mutation Testing; a use for re-JIT? Where to start... Mutation testing is described as modifying a program in small amounts and then executing the original 'passing' tests that exercise that code and then watching them fail. It is a
open cover Unusual coverage in VB.NET Recently a user posted on StackOverflow on why he was seeing unusual coverage results in VB.NET with MSTEST and Visual Studio. The the question already had answers that helped the questioner but
open cover Adding OpenCover to TeamCity Adding OpenCover to the latest version of TeamCity (6.5) couldn't be easier however if you need help follow these simple steps. Download and install OpenCover Download and install ReportGenerator (actually unzip) Register
open cover The problem with sequence coverage. (part 2) Previously I mentioned why just relying on sequence coverage is not a good idea as it is possible to have 100% sequence coverage but not 100% code coverage. However I only described a
open cover The problem with sequence coverage. Sequence coverage is probably the simplest coverage metric, the information is packaged in PDB files and can be read using tools like Mono.Cecil, but just because a method has 100% sequence coverage
open cover OpenCover Performance Impact (part 2) I think I now have a handle on why I was getting the results I earlier reported i.e. OpenCover and PartCover were not some magical performance boosters that added Go Faster stripes
open cover OpenCover Performance Impact So how does OpenCover's profiling impact your testing. The best way is to get some figures so that you can judge for yourself. I decided to use OpenCover's own tests and use the
open source Questions about open source and liability in the workplace Last weekend I attended DDDSydney and one of the most interesting sessions was a panel session about Microsoft and Opensource (Open Source & Microsoft Ecosystem); though as these things go, it went quickly
open cover How do we get Users out of [open source] Welfare? How do we get Users out of [open source] Welfare? Okay an odd title but something I've been thinking about for some time and I suppose is the source of much frustration I
open cover OpenCover First Beta Release OpenCover First Beta Release Okay, the first post on a blog I created many, many months ago and still not got round to starting. Why the delay? Well, just been busy and not