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Endjin.Licensing is our .NET based licensing framework; in this post we show how to create and validate a license using C#

We've open sourced a lightweight .NET based licensing framework; in this post we flesh out the behaviours we want the framework to support using Gherkin flavoured BDD specifications.

We've open sourced a lightweight .NET based licensing framework we've been using internally over the last couple of years. In this post I explain why we created it in the first place, rather than using existing offerings.

Explore how to use Azure Automation for running VMs during office hours. Learn to create runbooks for automated tasks at pre-defined times.

In this article we look at how technology startups are valued, how investors calculate their return, how you can position your business in that landscape, and whether you should!

Learn how to use diagnostics in Azure Virtual Machines and Cloud Service Web or Worker Roles using the Azure SDK.

Not every platform has an Azure Service Bus client library. Event Hubs exposes a REST API, so you can POST JSON with a SharedAccessSignature token from any device using C#'s HttpClient.

ReSharper's Search by Pattern outperforms raw regex for structural HTML refactoring; it understands tags and attributes natively, supports capture-group replacements, and lets you save patterns for reuse.

Simplify your Git workflow using the SmartGit client to follow the GitFlow branching model — a walk-through of release, master, develop, and feature branches.

Our site analytics for January 2015 show browser market share across thousands of daily page views. Chrome dominates at 64%, and for the first time ever we recorded zero sessions from IE6.

TPL Dataflow, a potent yet lesser-known .NET framework, is ideal for high-performance data processing.

Discover cloud computing's pay-as-you-use model and how turning off VMs outside office hours can save costs.

We've delivered a number of Elasticsearch solutions on Azure. In this second post in the series, we share some useful tips.

How to use an $injector service to avoid a circular dependency error dynamically resolving templates in a templateRepository.

In this post we show how you can render a container based on content-type

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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 Jasmine BDD Framework test runner.

In this post, Mike demonstrates how you can test AngularJS with Visual Studio, ReSharper and TeamCity for the full local and CI/CD DevOps experience.

We created an an automated, telephony-based candidate interviewing system using .NET and Azure. We used New Relic and Twilio to simplify first line support. In this post we delve into some of the technical details.

By utilising the IP and Domain Restrictions feature in IIS, it is possible to lock down your Azure Website to only allow access to IP addresses and domains that you have specified in a accept list. Learn how in this post.

How can you use the SemanticMerge tool to help you deal with GIT merge conflicts? Here's an overview of the process.

We've built a number of Elasticsearch clusters on Microsoft Azure. This blog post contains some of our top tips and gotchas.

In this post, we explore the use of SideWaffle to create a frictionless experience for developers wanting to create repeatable plugins.

Jack, 15, is spending two weeks gaining work experience at endjin. In his final post, he reflects on the past two weeks.