Luke Smith

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Category Archives: Development

Sharing configuration across visual studio projects

1 Comment Posted by on May 19, 2011

Whenever creating a new visual studio project I always go through the pain of ensuring certain properties are setup and StyleCop is enabled. It’s manual and boring, and not to mention the repetition of the settings not exactly being DRY. I can’t believe I didn’t think of this sooner but one way to get around [...]

Development

Updating a pointhq dns record from amazon ec2 instances

2 Comments Posted by on May 16, 2011

If you’re using Amazon EC2 for any reason, but not running the instance 24/7 (I have an instance with TeamCity that I only want to run on the evenings/weekends when I’m doing any work) you may not want to spend the extra on an Elastic IP to get a static IP address. Unless you use [...]

Development , , , ,

IIS Application Pool “randomly” stopping

Leave a Comment Posted by on April 21, 2011

This issue has just sent me crazy for the past day. On my development machine the application pool hosting one of our webservices would randomly stop with nothing more than the following error in the System Windows Log Application pool ‘xx’ is being automatically disabled due to a series of failures in the process(es) serving [...]

Development, nservicebus

Videos on CQRS

Leave a Comment Posted by on July 2, 2010

This is more a future reference to me, but here’s a couple of excellent videos on Command Query Responsibility Segregation. Command Query Responsibility Segregation– Udi Dahan CQRS and Event Sourcing – the Business Perspective– Greg Young CQRS: Why, What and How– Ian Cooper CQRS Pattern, Event Sourcing and Their Real World Applications– Neil Robbins

CQRS, Development

When is an email address not an email address?

Leave a Comment Posted by on June 15, 2010

When it’s a string. How many systems have you worked on where you pass strings/integers etc about for email addresses and passwords among other things. Edit: I knew there was a real term for this, which Rob has reminded me - Business Primitives What’s wrong with this? You’re adding a lot more work to any methods [...]

Development

The When, What and Why of auditing

Leave a Comment Posted by on February 4, 2010

One of the things I’ve come across in most systems is the requirement for auditing. As i see it there are 3 approaches to auditing When – Keeping track of when something changed. e.g Product A was changed by Bob on 1st April 2009. What – Keeping track of what changed – e.g Product A’s [...]

Development

Creating website installer using WiX

1 Comment Posted by on January 17, 2010

I’m currently working on a new project and one of the things I want is an easy deployment process. Rather than wait till I actually want to deploy the site to production to put something in place I’ve decided to build it early and use the same process as part of my CI process. Testing [...]

Development, Installers, WiX

Reading Geek Night Presentation slides

Leave a Comment Posted by on December 9, 2009

I recently gave a 15minute presentation covering the SOLID Principles at the Reading Geek Night, not enough time to go into each principle but hopefully enough that people went away with some understanding of the principles and were encouraged to learn more about them. I highly recommend watching this video of “UncleBob” at the Norwegian [...]

Development, reading geek night, SOLID Principles

Now using github

Leave a Comment Posted by on November 1, 2009

I’ve decided to move my open source projects over to github, rather than hosting them on a private subversion server where they aren’t very accessible. From what I’ve seen, and heard, github is a great source control repository, I only hope there is a visual studio addin as good as visualsvn in the pipeline. Currently [...]

Development, git, linq2js, vegeojson

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