A software engineer and leader living in Auckland building products and teams. Originally from Derry, Ireland.
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In the early days of a close-knit team of similarly experienced people you have this amazing ability to make decision...
Traditional VPNs have been the goto solution for many companies when considering how best to secure access to their i...
Over the last decade or more I’ve been involved in a lot of incident response activity and subsequent post-mortems or...
One of the things I find most interesting about my role these days is that I get to talk with such a wide variety of ...
How inclusive is the culture of architecture and design within your teams? Is the way you communicate these designs a...
We use Octopus Deploy for a lot of our deployments. It has great primitives that help us create simple, reliable, rep...
Over the last 4 years I’ve often found myself in conversations with fellow engineers about our build and deployment p...
Lately we’ve been running Concourse CI for a bunch of our builds. We really love Concourse for the pipeline features,...
Getting a Packer build to work with the AWS EBS builder is pretty easy. Getting it to work for Windows can be a serie...
Speaking at codemania.io was one of the scariest and most awesome experiences of my career to date.The concept of the...
On February 19th I gave a talk at the Auckland.Net meetup titled “Devops for the .Net Developer”. The idea of this ta...
For a while now I’ve been using the GitHub + TeamCity + Slack combination and I though it would be useful to write do...
We have become immense fans of Slack in our office, as have lot of people I know in the software development industry...
Recently I faced an issue trying to get my head around a large codebase consisting of multiple solutions and many man...
Like most of the bloggers on the internet these days I’ve moved my blog off wordpress and onto GitHub pages using Jek...
I’ve been playing recently with github’s Hubot chat bot, written in Coffee script on Node. I wanted to connect it to ...
I’ve used a semi-transparent AppBar on windows phone a number of times to get the visual effect I wanted and to stop ...
Lately I’ve been more active than usual about extolling the virtues of Jetbrains Resharper. Despite the recent additi...
So, I’ve been a bit quiet recently. There’s been no blogging and even my twitter activity has dwindled of late so wha...
TLDR; The Nokia has a much better, brighter screen which means easier typing, much better camera, twice the storage b...
Recently I’ve seen a few problems occur in our codebase that made me think, there must be an obvious solution to this...
I’ve had a few occasions recently to use Reactive Extensions in production for message processing. Once you finally b...
I thought I should document the experience I have had in getting an app submitted to the Windows Store. I guess this ...
NHibernate Query Service OverviewThe Fall Update to ASP.Net Web API re-implements the OData support from the bet...
I’ve modified the code from my previous post on creating an AutoComplete search box using Reactive Extensions to work...
I had an issue today where Windows 8 App updates were stuck on “Pending” status. This was for the Microsoft apps like...
Bart de Smet of Rx fame talks about Pushqa in his latest channel 9 instalment on RX2. If you’re not familiar with Bar...
You can get the slides and code for my recent talk on an “Introduction to Reactive Extensions” at github on the link ...
Back in March I wrote a quick howto on supporting $expand for entities in ASP.Net Web API. That method used an extens...
WCF Data Services 5 has been RTM’d and adds support for a whole bunch of scenarios:Any/All Actions Collections Named ...
Recently I was using a new AppDomain from within a Visual Studio package to reflect over a dll and get some metadata....
Pushqa is a smarter pub/sub model, allowing the subscriber to use LINQ to declare the messages they want to receive.B...
Hold Up!!! Please see the updated (and much nicer) implementation using an ActionFilter.Following on from my previous...
TL;DR: How to create a client Linq api for querying IQueryable ASP.Net Web API rest services in very few lines of cod...
I hit a problem recently where a singleton I was calling from an assembly resolver was throwing an exception. It turn...
I have been meaning to get into Rx for a while now and haven’t quite found the excuse or opportunity to do so. While ...
This may be basics to some people but I thought it was worth mentioning. I was writing some simple code recently to c...
I’ve been playing with SignalR recently and it drives me nuts that I can’t have more than a few simultaneous long pol...
Looks like Macros are getting dropped in the next version of Visual Studio. Makes sense but I guess I’ll have to move...
If you are working with Workflow Services (.xamlx) and you want an easy way to see live tracking from your workflow y...
Ron Jacobs and the workflow team are looking for feedback and ideas for WF vNext. Help make it better by adding your ...
Here are the slides and the code for the talk on VSX, DSLs and T4 that I did in the North Shore and Auckland .Net Use...
This is the fourth post in a series on building an Enterprise Workflow system using WF4. Previously we looked at the ...
This post is the third in a series on building an Enterprise Workflow System using WF4. Previously we discussed how t...
This is the second post in a series about Building an Enterprise Workflow system with WF4.In the previous post we dis...
I’m giving a talk on Thursday 15th September at the North Shore .Net users group in Auckland on Visual Studio Extensi...
This is the first post in a series about Building an Enterprise Workflow system with WF4. Hosting our WorkflowsWh...
Recently Stef and I presented the session “Hardcore Workflow” at Tech-Ed New Zealand in which I gave a demo of how to...
Below are the slides and the code for the talk Stef and I did at Teched NZ 2011. I hope to do a post in the future ex...
Stef and I are presenting the 5:45 slot tomorrow in the Marlborough room at Tech Ed NZ. The subject of the talk is Ha...
After moving my blog to wordpress, I decided to update the recent posts section on my main site to point to the wordp...
If you are using the IRegisterMetadata type combined with the *.Design.dll deployment method for your custom WF4 acti...
I've decided. to move my blog implementation to wordpress. Subtext just doesn't seem as mature anymor...
I’ve attached the slides and code for the Practical Workflow Services talk I gave last night to the North Shore .Net ...
I’ll be speaking at the North Shore .Net users group on 18th November details below.Workflow ServicesThis talk will f...
You can now watch the Tech-Ed NZ talks Stef and I did on Workflow and AppFabric on the msteched websiteGetting Starte...
Here are the slides and demos for the Tech Ed NZ talk Stef and I did on Intro to Workflow 4. It includes the Approval...
One of the questions that a lot of people ask about workflow 4 is how to integrate manual tasks into the workflow pro...
I’m a big believer in using TestContext in MSTest or Console.WriteLine, Debug.WriteLine etc in your favourite Unit Te...
Unit testing workflows became a lot easier in WF4. The basic approach is the same as for normal code classes except f...
At first glance unit testing workflow activities with dependency injection seems like a no-brainer. For example consi...
Continuing on from Part 1 now we are going to add the Calculation operations to our stateful workflow service. First ...
I thought I’d do a series of posts on workflow services. There are plenty of resources out there already on how to bu...
So, I’ve been pretty bad at updating my blog recently, and answering comments / deleting spam.I’ve been spending most...
So I thought this would be possible and finally decided to give it a shot in 2010 Beta 2. It turns a bunch of JSON in...
I’ve been meaning to post this entry for a while now so while I wait for a 2010 beta install to complete…. For a long...
I tried to explain the humour in this joke to my girlfriend. I was laughing too hard at the time, partly at the jok...
According to Mike Harsh in his Mix talk on Silverlight 3.0 – Out of Browser, before silverlight was WPF/E, internally...
Previously I posted about the problem with WCF and collection which have a payload in them. I came across this proble...
In using the DataContractJsonSerializer beware of DateTime instances which have been instantiated as non-UTC. If you ...
We have a policy of using MS-Test, although that is overdue for a serious review.So it turns out you can use the depl...
Really useful for those xml files that people send you.Download the MSDN Magazine Preview Handlers and then setup the...
There are many heated discussions on the overuse of var and I'm not going to repeat the arguments here. Personally, I...
Stuart Kent has blogged about the new features they are planning for DSL Tools in the Visual Studio 2010 timeframe. O...
Just after I'd gone and mentioned that the T4 editor from Clarius Consulting doesn't give you intellisense, Victor Ga...
I ran across an issue recently trying to get a custom exception across a WCF boundary. The trouble is, WCF does not l...
Cut to the chaseOK. So you just want to know how to do it? Modify your template directives to the following.<#@ te...
Its 27 degrees Celsius today in our office and it feels like an oven. One of the guys has hooked up a digital multi-m...
NHibernate is an extremely powerful ORM but sometimes its quite difficult to find information on how to do certain th...
I knew this must be possible through generic delegates and eventually found this really useful post by Phil Haack whi...
Finally the latest version of windows live writer seems to work with my blogging engine. Seems they have made some up...
....and commence downloading.http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2007/11/19/visual-studio-2008-and-net-3-5-release...
I've been using this plugin now for the past few months. You would not believe the difference it makes.This plugin pu...
Melted my own brain for a few hours with this one today. Essentially a self-constrained generic base class looks like...
I came across a pretty annoying problem to solve in WCF today. Suppose you have a custom collection of items you wish...
During a recent project we found a recurring problem where the test view of the unit (& integration) test project...
Check out this useful macro for visual studio 2005 dependent (nested) items. Useful for breaking up large classes int...
I AM70%OPTIMUS PRIMETake the Transformers QuizOptimus Prime is the heroic leader of the Autobots. He is the personifi...
First impressions are really good. The install went fine on a dual core laptop in parallel with VS 2005 already insta...
Working in WPF, it's not very long before you come across Routed Commands. The idea of allowing events to bubble and ...
I was going over some old code recently to try to resolve a production issue. The log of the stack trace was not prov...
Lately I decided to see how easy was to create AJAX custom controls specifically using the included javascript librar...
Microsoft have just announced Silverlight, the new branding for what was previously known as WPF/E. They've also prov...
A colleague came across a problem recently where performance counters were showing a high exception to request ratio....
The Microsoft Patterns and Practices team have just released Enterprise Library 3.0 - April 2007. This is the full RT...
Due to the acquisition of DevBiz by Microsoft, their really cool TeamPlain web user interface for everything Team Fou...
Microsoft have finally listened to all the developers (who are also designers) rightfully throwing our toys out of ou...
I'm starting this blog to keep track of technical work. My name is Peter Goodman, currently living in Edinburgh and w...