Category Archives: Software Engineering

What is in a projects builds and releases

While working with other companies I have seen multiple builds and releases, plus also reading books like ‘Continuous Delivery: Reliable Software Releases through Build, Test, and Deployment Automation’. Through this I have learnt more and more about what should really be in the builds and releases of code applications. I would like to describe how I think they should both be used to create a scalable, reliable and repeatable process to bring confidence to your projects.

How to build Azure Service Bus Relay Sender and Listener?

This is one of them, I tried to do and found it hard so here is how I did it, post. I was assigned to look into how to build a Sender and Listener using the Azure Service Bus Relay, so we could send data from Azure to On Premise securely. Now there might be debates on is this is secure and compared to other methods, but that is not for what I was asked and what this post is about.

Should you unit test CSS?

When I told a college I was going to write some unit tests for CSS they went crazy, and I do see why, however I think it can be valuable in the right way. I would like to describe to you why I think doing unit tests on CSS can be worth your time as a developer and also beneficial to the project.

Azure Container with PowerShell

When I was trying to use PowerShell to action some Azure functionality, I found it very scattered and hard to get one answer, so here I give you the golden goose for Adding, Removing, Emptying and Copying files to an Azure Container using PowerShell.

How to use Chutzpah with Visual Studio and Build?

If you want to do some JavaScript Unit testing your most probably going to use things like Jasmine, Qunit or Mocha, which are all great things, but how do you run them? This was a challenge I came upon with Visual Studio and how to get it running like a normal NUnit test.

How to get the users IP Address in C#.NET?

When you search this on your favourite search engine, (Google) you will get flooded by load of different way to get the end result. This is great in a sense as you know there are thousands of people with different answers, but then that is where the problem is at. There are so many single responses to how you can get the users IP Address in C#.NET, but not one that shows you everything. Therefore I will present to you below different methods to get the users IP and how I have implemented it in a project.