Webtasks Creating a GitHub Issues Autoresponder using Webask.io A Cry in the Twitterverse That sounds like a job for @auth0’s serverless platform!Does GitHub have a webhook for when a new issue is opened?— Ted Neward (@tedneward) July 18,
Docker Simplest Possible ASP.NET Core Web Application in Docker for Windows Create Project First, let's create a directory for our solution and create a couple folders. mkdir docker-web mkdir .\docker-web\src mkdir .\docker-web\scripts cd docker-web This simply creates a directory docker-web for the
Azure Zero to Azure CLI in Seconds Using Docker I wanted to look into deploying a microservices based app to a Docker instance in Azure this morning. I found a guide that I wanted to walk though. In the getting started section
bash Setting Up Powerline Shell on Windows Subsystem for Linux Installing Fonts Powerline Shell uses custom patched fonts for the glyph icons it uses. Contrary to the documentation, you actually need to install these fonts in Windows and set the console host font
Unit Testing Costs Too Much And Slows A Project Down The company I contract through has a tradition of having monthly lunch where all of us contractors get together, eat, share war stories and on occasion present new techniques or ideas. Today's presentation
PowerShell NuGet, Dependency Management & A Single Point of Package Truth For the last few years, I have been doing a lot of contracting on enterprise .NET systems. Microsoft's focus on open source has led to a lot of adoption in my local area.
.NET Core Learn C# on Windows, OSX or Linux with the .NET Core Koans Background During the height of the ALT.NET movement, I became determined to learn another language/stack outside of the current Microsoft .NET environment. At the time there was a lot of buzz
.NET Core Refactor This: The Gilded Rose Kata for .NET Core Background Back in 2011, Terry Huges and I attended the Software Craftsmanship North America conference in Chicago. We came back excited about what we had learned and out of that excitement was born
Windows Subsystem for Linux Error "Unable to resolve host ..." While working with the new Windows Subsystem for Linux beta on Windows 10, I noticed that any time I ran a command with sudo I would get a long pause and the following
Node.js Running Ghost on Ubuntu on Windows Enabling Ubuntu on Windows To enable the new Ubuntu in Windows 10 Anniversary Edition; you need to enable developer mode, turn the feature on and finally install Ubuntu on Windows via the Windows
.NET Core Installing .NET Core 1.0 on a Dirty OSX Microsoft released .NET Core 1.0 today at Red Hat DevNation. At the time of release, I had Release Candidate 2 installed. These are the steps I took to install the full release
Community .NET Fringe 2016 July 10th-12th PDX After having not attending any .NET related conferences since ALT.NET faded away, last year I headed down to Portland to attend the inaugural .NET Fringe. Among others it was organized by my
Azure Azure Resource Manager IaaS via PowerShell Recently, I have been working through the Managing Azure IaaS with PowerShell class by Elton Stoneman. This is hands down the best class I have taken on Azure. It gets right to the
.NET Core Building a Static File Server in ASP.NET Core RC2 with the CLI The Pitch The fine folks over at Microsoft released ASP.NET Core RC2 this week which dramatically changed a lot of things under the hood and introduced the new dotnet CLI, a command
Dependency Could Not Be Resolved Error in Visual Studio 2015 RTM Microsoft dropped the RTM (release to manufacturing) version of Visual Studio 2015 on Monday with great fanfare. I, like many other .NET developers, hopped on MSDN, downloaded their favorite flavor and installed it
A Non-Trivial Example of MediatR Usage I have been using Jimmy Bogard's MediatR library on my current project for the last few months. I first read about the project on his blog which has a series of posts including
Help Support Pizza Klatch UPDATE 2015-06-04: The voting period for this contest has ended. Grants to 40 great causes will be announced on 2015-6-16. Pizza Klatch was holding strong to the #14 slot when voting ended. Thanks
Wiring Up Posh Git Using GitHub for Windows Installation I have been using this method of wiring up posh git for a couple years now. And every time I have to setup a new box I have to go digging around to
The World's Simplest Dynamic Image Service At Mombo Labs, my team has been striving for simplicity. Our mantra is "Do the simplest thing that could possibly work." This approach has us attempting to avoid complexity by refusing
Debugging in the Land of Server Side JavaScript When first getting into Node.js, I got reintroduced to console.log style of development, something I have not had to do since my classic ASP days. You know the drill, you have
Visible Whitespace in Sublime Text 2 I have been using jshint in my node projects lately. Jshint is a linting tool based on JSLint by Douglas Crockford, the ghost whisperer of javascript and author of JavaScript: The Good Parts.
Why Testing Reality is Always My First Test A couple days ago I tweeted a screenshot of a unit test that is usually the first test I write when starting a new project. Regardless of platform the test usually looks something
Growing a API modularly with Node This week I started a new gig at Mombo Labs. Lucky for me I finally get to work with some of the technologies I have been interested in for the last year or
Passive Agressive Code Comment of the Year Sometimes you just have to pick your battles and move on. But you don't have to be happy about it. using Common.Mvc; namespace Mine.Controllers { //the princess you are looking for is
Node is becoming my general purpose scripting tool For the last week or so we have had an issue with our continuous build hanging while executing a specific test suit. It has been causing a lot of heartache on the team
