This is more of a quick, explanatory “heads-up” post than anything else. On March 31st 2018, I started an experiment: I created a new Stack Overflow user called “Daisy Shipton” with no picture and a profile that just read “Love coding in C#” (or similar).[...]

Versioning for open source library Few weeks ago I explained how Gitversion can be used to apply semantic versioning to projects based on commit and tag history. Today I will dive deeper in the purpose of versioning and introduce a flow which can be follo[...]

I’ve been having a conversation with some folks on Twitter about their evidence that mob programming makes Brooks’ Law irrelevant. Someone offered evidence based upon his own experience that mob programming breaks this rule.  I hope I’m not mischaracteriz[...]

React has a smaller scope than Angular. I’ve found that my coworkers have an easier time grokking React than Angular: React contains fewer concepts than Angular. Angular can sometimes make implementation of custom behaviors require a lot of deep kn[...]

What’s the lure of f#? The main lure of f# is that it’s a surprisingly competent ML style language that transcends some of the limitations of CIL. From my point of view, the main distinguishing feature for f# is Statically Resolved Type Parameters. It’s[...]

Implement timeout and retry policies for HttpClient in ASP NET Core with Polly Few weeks ago I explained [how to use the new HttpClientFactory. This freed ourselves from managing the confusing lifecycle of a HttpClient and at the same time allowed us to s[...]

So what has been my experience using Identity Server? I’ve (and others in my team) have worked on a project using Identity Server 4 since early 2017. What lead us there? The main reason why we started to consider it was due to the main business goals: [...]

After writing the previous post about getting some of the infrastructure working for non Windows, I’ve seen better ways of getting it to work. In particular we have seen the use of netfx.props as seen in FSharp.TypeProviders.SDK. Then you add the followin[...]

Continuously deploy infrastructure with Gitlab Pipeline Few weeks ago we saw how we could Setup continious integration and deployment to deploy an application using Gitlab Pipeline. We configured a service with systemd and had an ASP NET Core application [...]