In my hand, I have a couple of train tickets. The reservations indicate that I left the house at 5 am Saturday morning to make the first train from Birmingham to Cambridge, and wouldn't get home again until 9 pm. And that is exactly what I did. I've been making…
I wrote a while back on getting your Windows Services building with .Net Core which is a nice way to use the new SDK pipeline but still host on Windows without much fuss. But what If you like the approach but want to run on Linux? Well after some stumbling…
Way back when I was first introduced to everything agile from Jezz Santos, we complemented the terminology of our "sprint" with that of a "jog". Sprinting Sprinting or sprints are the idea of a (usually) timeboxed length of real-world time (5 days, 3 weeks etc) that…
As a remote worker, I need to keep myself honest. This is as much "Make sure I do my hours" as it is "Don't overwork!". Anyone who has worked from home or remotely for a period of time understands what I mean completely. To monitor this,…
It came up in a recent code review that we had a method that did stuff, then called a method that did stuff, that then called a method. Eventually, the last method in the chain bubbled back up and out. This is a bit of an anti-pattern in my eyes.…
I originally set out to write about Polly. Then I started reading their documentation. I quickly realised that I couldn't write anything as detailed and accurate as they already had available. So instead, I'm going to give more of a super high level, with links to relevant reading. You can…
A little while back I started paying attention to Rust and got all inspired to have a bit of that it C#. The result was this library I called Beefeater. This library contains helpers to add semantics to the optionality of your parameters and results from method calls. I built…
There is a small town in the South Island of New Zealand called Milton. The main road runs right through the town in one side and out the other. Its a nice enough place to stop on a road trip. There is a unique feature to this main road in…