Data Lake Analytics and Nullable DateTime fields

My first solo foray into Data Lake Analytics on Azure had me stumped for a while so I thought I’d share in case anyone came across the same problem. I had created a CSV file from some live data extracted from SQL Server which contained several nullable DateTime fields. The upload to Azure Data Lake […]

Test Driven Development – Getting Started

Test Driven Development (TDD) has been around for years, but I have only recently started using it myself. Previously when working on a project I would write the code for the project, then create unit tests after. With TDD you reverse your thinking. Think less about the code you intend to write and instead about […]

Creating Octopus Templates*

*Also known as “how to miss the obvious” I have been doing a lot of work with Octopus lately, as our company has started to use it for automated deployment of projects to our staging and UAT environments. Unfortunately, a lot of live deployments to customers require sending packages for them to deploy, rather than […]

My First NuGet Package

I’ve been working on a project over the last year that was my first serious use of MVC, Git and Nuget. While I was working on part of the system that allowed users to upload documents I wrote a custom validator that would check the file extension was valid, the file didn’t exceed a maximum […]

Open cmder from Visual Studio

This blog has been inspired by Rick Strahl’s article Tip: Create a Visual Studio Menu option to Open a Command Window. Rick details how to set up Visual Studio to allow you to open Console2 from a keyboard shortcut within Visual Studio. This is great, but I prefer cmder myself. The setup is very similar to […]