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SpecFlow 2.0, NUnit3, Visual Studio and TeamCity
We recently upgraded our TeamCity based CI/CD environment, but we had to make some adjustments to fix failing tests.
Developing U-SQL: Local Data Folder
ILMerge Meta-Runner for TeamCity
Meta-Runners allow you to easily create reusable build components for TeamCity, in this post I demonstrate how to create a Meta-Runner to wrap ILMerge functionality.
Azure Resource Manager authentication from a PowerShell script
Learn how to authenticate against Azure Resource Manager using PowerShell, for fully automated deployments.
Endjin.Licensing now supports SHA256
Microsoft have added SHA256 support to Signed XML, and Endjin.Licensing has been updating to take advantage of this breaking change.
We are in the era of the modern browser - market share analysis January 2016
We get 1000s of page view per day, which means we get an interesting insights into current Web Browser usage statistics. Here are the numbers for January 2016.
Azure Weekly turns 1 & we're celebrating by giving away 5 Windows IoT Raspberry Pi 2 starter kits
We've reached our first milestone - a whole year of publishing Azure Weekly. To celebrate we're giving away stuff!
CucumberJS Visual Studio Test Runner
We've built and open-sourced a Visual Studio Extension that provides basic support for discovering and running CucumberJS tests with Node.JS, in the Visual Studio Test Environment.
Using Lazy and ConcurrentDictionary to ensure a thread-safe, run-once, lazy-loaded collection
In this post, Mike Larah discusses how to ensure your C# collections are thread-safe, only run-once, and are lazy-loaded.
My first month at endjin
Azure Batch - Time is Money in Big Compute
Consumption based pricing is a one of the USPs of Cloud PaaS services, but the default settings aren't necessarily optimised for cost. Significant savings can be made from understanding your workload.
Chaos with a rhythm - controlling innovation
Running a start-up or bootstrapping a new product within an established business can feel pretty chaotic. We talk about strategies for managing the time of a team, and ensuring that you become predictable.
Stop coding, start developing your product
Technologists often get hung up on technology and forget about the customer (and the business!) We talk about a real-world example and some practical advice for getting your idea business-focused.
A Step-by-step guide to setting up CucumberJS in Visual Studio 2015
This is a quick guide to setting up cucumber JS in Visual Studio with grunt.
Azure Machine Learning–experimenting with training data proportions using the SMOTE module
Step-by-step guide to bootstrapping your new product development – Part 10, Organizational Structures
In the early days of a start up, the organizational structure is defined rather loosely, and typically by function. The technical founder has her domain, the sales & marketing founder his, and they work closely together to achieve their initial goals. As an organization grows, it is not possible to maintain that level of detailed personal control. How does a growing business structure itself for innovation? Or a larger organization pivot and allow an innovation culture to develop?
Using Azure Resource Manager and PowerShell DSC to create and provision a VM
Explore Azure Resource Manager and PowerShell Desired State Configuration for provisioning and configuring Azure virtual machines.
Spinning up 16,000 A1 Virtual Machines on Azure Batch
We recently completed a technical proof of concept to see if the new Azure Batch service could scale to meet the demands of a Big Compute workload.
Azure data services part 3: Azure Machine Learning
Azure data services part 2: Stream Insight
Azure data services part 1: HDInsight
Reduce Merge Conflicts in .NET Solutions with PowerShell based Git Hooks
Git has powerful extensibility points, which you can harness to automate your dev inner loop. In this post we examine how to use Git Hooks to reduce the occurrence of merge conflicts.
SpecFlow Extensions for Azure Storage Emulator
We use SpecFlow to write integration tests against Azure. In this post we share an Open Source SpecFlow extension for the Azure Storage Emulator.
Speed kills: decrease page load time and increase conversions with Azure CDN
A CDN, short for Content Delivery Network, is essentially a network of servers set-up, in various geographic locations, with the aim of speeding up the delivery of content to end-users across the Internet.
Azure Automation scheduler and daylight saving time
Everything in Azure runs in Coordinated Universal Time; learn how to deal with Daylight saving time in Azure Automation, so your jobs still run on time.