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Create a custom TeamCity PowerShell MetaRunner to Notify NewRelic that new deployment has occurred
You can easily notify NewRelic that a deployment has occured. In this post I demonstrate how to turn a script into a reusable TeamCity Metarunner.
Guest Blog Post: First Day of Work Experience (2014)
Jack, 15, is spending two weeks at endjin doing work experience. In this post he describes his experience of his first day.
End of Month Research Roundup – June 2014
We have a culture of sharing information at endjin; here are our highlights of interesting content shared in June 2014.
Designing for television: food safe props for The Great British Menu 2014
Throughout endjin's history we have been invited to work on a host of projects. In late 2013 we were asked if we could produce a series of graphics props for the Great British Menu 2014. In this post we talk about the research and production methods behind developing graphics for television.
Using Git for .NET Development: Part 4 - Resolving Merge Conflicts
How do you resolve GIT merge conflicts? Can Visual Studio help you at all? What are the best tactics?
Button Visual States in Xamarin.iOS
One way to manage a button visual state in iOS is by setting a different background image for each one of the UIControlState values available...
End of Month Research Roundup – May 2014
We have a culture of sharing information at endjin; here are our highlights of interesting content shared in May 2014.
Event stream manipulation using Rx – Part 2
Having described the problem space using Marble Diagrams, it's now time to create a real solution using Rx and the Observer pattern to process data from Windows Event Log.
End of Month Research Roundup – April 2014
We have a culture of sharing information at endjin; here are our highlights of interesting content shared in April 2014.
Event stream manipulation using Rx – Part 1
This blog post delves into using Rx to process the messages received from Windows Event Logs, so that they can be shaped in a way that is useful to us to consume.
Understanding dependency injection
What is Dependency Injection? How does it help you develop software? Why should you use it? Is it a silver bullet for creating loosely coupled components?
Getting started with semantic logging
Implement semantic logging on Windows & .NET for richer diagnostics & analysis. Learn how Reactive Extensions enable powerful scenarios in this series.
End of Month Research Roundup – March 2014
We have a culture of sharing information at endjin; here are our highlights of interesting content shared in March 2014.
A Step by Step Guide to Connecting to an Azure Virtual Machine with PowerShell Remoting
Learn how to use PowerShell Remoting to connect to an Azure Virtual Machine; a useful technique for managing servers like cattle, not pets.
Azure Tip: Cannot connect to Virtual Machine after changing Virtual Machine Size
A quick tip on fixing a 'remote desktop could not connect' error on Azure Virtual Machines.
Building an Epic Dev Rig for less than £1600 (2014 Edition)
In this post, we show how we created bespoke gaming desktops to provide an excellent developer workstation for endjineers.
Using Git for .NET Development: Part 3 – branching and pushing your changes
How do you created branches in GIT? How do you push your changes to a remote server? How does Visual Studio help?
Using Git for .NET Development: Part 2 – basic operations and tools
How do you get started with GIT? How do you install it? What are the basic commands? How does Visual Studio help you?
Configuring TeamCity and YouTrack to use Office 365 for Email Notifications
This post shows how to use your Office 365 SMTP relay to enable email notification from TeamCity and YouTrack hosted in Azure.
End of Month Research Roundup – February 2014
We have a culture of sharing information at endjin; here are our highlights of interesting content shared in February 2014.
Using Git for .NET Development: Part 1 – What is Git?
What is GIT? Why should you use it as a .NET Developer? How do you incorporate it into your workflow? How does Visual Studio help?
Apprenticeship Week 2 – Getting Started with Behaviour Driven Development
Delving a little deeper into Behaviour Driven Development and Specification by Example.
Apprenticeship Day 5
Day 5 includes more behaviour driven development with SpecFlow, talking to a real customer over a working lunch, and thinking about evidence-based decision making.
Apprenticeship Day 4
Day 4 includes a code review, performance optimisations, an introduction to behaviour driven development and mocking.
Apprenticeship Day 3
On her 3rd day, Alice starts writing some code, and uses the Argotic framework to process some RSS and ATOM feeds.