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Jack, 15, is spending two weeks gaining work experience at endjin. This post covers his reflections on his second day.

Transient failures can happen at any time. There are many useful frameworks for .NET, but what about PowerShell?

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.

Jack, 15, is spending two weeks at endjin doing work experience. In this post he describes his experience of his first day.

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.

How do you resolve GIT merge conflicts? Can Visual Studio help you at all? What are the best tactics?

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...

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.

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.

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?

Implement semantic logging on Windows & .NET for richer diagnostics & analysis. Learn how Reactive Extensions enable powerful scenarios in this series.

We have a culture of sharing information at endjin; here are our highlights of interesting content shared in March 2014.

Azure VMs use a self-signed SSL certificate for PowerShell Remoting, which blocks connections by default. Exporting and trusting that certificate unlocks scriptable, Remote Desktop-free server management.

A quick tip on fixing a 'remote desktop could not connect' error on Azure Virtual Machines.

A Haswell i7-4770K, dual SSDs, GTX 760, water cooling, and a triple-monitor setup in a Mini-ITX case: all for under £1,600. Builds feel instant and ReSharper flies.

How do you created branches in GIT? How do you push your changes to a remote server? How does Visual Studio help?

How do you get started with GIT? How do you install it? What are the basic commands? How does Visual Studio help you?

Azure IaaS has no built-in SMTP relay, but Office 365 exposes a public one. Configuring TeamCity and YouTrack to use it takes just a dedicated email account and the right SMTP settings.

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?

Delving a little deeper into Behaviour Driven Development and Specification by Example.

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.

Day 4 includes a code review, performance optimisations, an introduction to behaviour driven development and mocking.

On her 3rd day, Alice starts writing some code, and uses the Argotic framework to process some RSS and ATOM feeds.

On her second day, Alice is given a deep dive into the commercial side of the business.

Alice covers her day 1 experience of starting her apprenticeship at endjin; setting up her development environment and getting familiar with endjin's tools and systems.