We first heard of the Australian government gettings fallout from the US because of voiced concerns about using offshore cloud providers. Some technologists I have talked with thought it obvious that the US government would use available means to get accurate information given the obsolesce of  certain infrastructure. This might spell an increased demand for local alternatives for business software.  Another way is to start deploying software in a more security conscious manner. For instance encrypting the[...]

There is a tool for that:https://github.com/adoxa/ansicon

I’ve written a small appender for log4net. This appender saves the data to elasticsearch. Why is this sweet? Because elasticsearch has expiration date field. Since the format is log4net there are very few code changes in application. Why the name elmah? I’ve used elmah as a starting point for simple logging before. Since there is a properties dictionary on the log4net objects I can add all the data that elmah usually provides for a web developer. Give it a try or fork it.

The apache project Wienre looks kind of cool.

While developing a web app, it’s easy to inspect the traffic in the browser (chrome, IE and firefox have all the ability to show traffic related to the page you are debugging). I recently refactored a lib to remove a library and use a raw webrequest. This was a move to remove dependencies. In my tests I added machine name instead of localhost and got the traffic in Fiddler. An easy way to remove the abstraction and start accessing the real json api.