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Tweets from the Vault
I built a thing!I keep linking people to old blog posts of mine. Sometimes it's to solve a problem that was solved a long time ago; other times it's to make a point that the argument they're having...
View ArticleBuilding Tweets from the Vault: Minimum Viable Product
Tweets from the Vault is a service that will take a random[1] historical item from your RSS feeds and tweet a link to it.When I started building the service, my goals were simple:Solve my own...
View ArticleBuilding Tweets from the Vault: Azure, TeamCity and Octopus
In the previous post in this series, Building Tweets from the Vault: Minimum Viable Product, I wrote about the absolute minimum feature set to get Tweets from the Vault off the ground.In this post I'm...
View ArticleBuilding Tweets from the Vault: yet another Bootstrap site?
There's even a Tumblr for this.The reality, however, is that Bootstrap is incredibly popular for good reason. It's responsive out-of-the-box, is delivered via other people's CDNs (for which I thank you...
View ArticleBuilding Tweets from the Vault: NancyFX tips and tricks
In Building Tweets from the Vault: Azure, TeamCity and Octopus, I wrote about the hosting and infrastructure choices I made for Tweets from the Vault. This article will cover a bit more about the...
View ArticleBuilding Tweets from the Vault: Twitter OAuth
In Building Tweets from the Vault: NancyFX tips and tricks we took a look at some of the refactoring-friendly approaches we can take when building a NancyFX application.In this post we'll see a very...
View ArticleWhat's new in ConfigInjector 2.0
ConfigInjector 2.0 has hit the NuGet feed.What's new? A handful of things:Support for overriding settings via environment variables (useful for regression suites on build servers).Support for loading...
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Talk video: Back to basics: simple, elegant, beautiful code
This is the video of the talk I gave at DDD Brisbane 2015.As a consultant I see so many companies using the latest and greatest buzzwords, forking out staggering amounts of cash for hardware and...
View ArticleSensitive setting support in ConfigInjector
ConfigInjector 2.1 has been released with support for sensitive settings.This is a pretty simple feature: if you have a sensitive setting and want to be cautious about logging it or otherwise writing...
View ArticleIntroducing NotDeadYet
NotDeadYet is a simple, lightweight library to allow you to quickly add a health-checking endpoint to your .NET application.It has integrations for ASP.NET MVC, WebApi and Nancy.Why do I want this?To...
View ArticleConfigInjector 2.2 is out
ConfigInjector 2.2 is out and available via the nuget.org feed.This release is a small tweak to allow exclusion of settings keys via expressions as well as via simple strings. Thanks to Damian...
View ArticleCommand-line Add-BindingRedirect
One of the things I try to do as part of a build pipeline is to have automatic package updates. My usual pattern is something along the lines of a CI build that runs on every commit and every night,...
View ArticleIntroducing Stack Mechanics
After living under a rock for far too long, I'm excited to introduce Stack Mechanics.I've teamed up with two great friends of mine, Damian Maclennan andNick Blumhardt to launch a series of deep-dive...
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