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GitFlow gives you a branching model designed around release cycles, with dedicated branches for features, releases, and hotfixes. Here's the mental model.

7 years ago, feels like a lifetime - for you eldest it is - but this was when endjin took the first steps in refreshing our website promoting our cloud expertise and mobile first responsive design. In this post we talk about our strategic, creative, prototyping and production processes to deliver our website and enforce our brand.

Thinking strategically is difficult, especially if all your bandwidth is consumed by operational needs. Here are our top 5 tips for thinking strategically.

Adopting Git means creating an entirely new mental model about how to version control your source code. Once you make the jump, there's no going back.

We take a look at the state of HTML and JavaScript in 2013; the good, the bad and the ugly.

Some thoughts on RavenDB after using it to build a content-managed website.

A step-by-step guide to building an inbound Twilio voice app with ASP.NET Web API — covering TwiML verbs, controllers, and local debugging via port forwarding.

In-memory integration testing for ASP.NET Web API using HttpClient against an in-process HttpServer. No IIS, no port binding, just fast end-to-end test runs.

Endjin are proudly sponsoring the Agile Milton Keynes user group.

Sql Server Spatial Types Assembly is a hidden gem. In this post we show how to use SqlGeography.STGeomFromText and STDistance distance (in meters) between the two points.

Highlights from the DDD10 conference at Microsoft Reading: Domain-Driven Design with CQRS and Event Sourcing, real-time apps with SignalR, designing for mobile.

Wiring up the endjin composition framework as the DI container in an ASP.NET MVC app, with controller resolution, installers, and common gotchas to avoid.

Notes from Microsoft's Windows 8 dev camp in London: building Windows Store (Metro) apps, UX considerations, new WinRT APIs, and the share contract in action.

In his second week as an Apprentice, Mike covers writing functional tests, automation scripts, working on a pet project, creating mindmaps and UX mockups and attending Microsoft TechDays.

Mike reflects over his first week as and apprentice and gets to grip with using tools to diagnose problems with his code.

On his third day Mike gets to meet a customer and understand more about the commerical nature of the company.

On his second day, Mike gets introduced to debugging errors in the PowerShell scripts he wrote on day 1, and is introduced to Visual Studio and C#

Mike starts his first day as an Apprentice with an introduction to PowerShell and being onboarded to endjin's various tools and platforms, while attempting to automate the entire process.

Mike is a mechanical engineering graduate, who has become endjin's first apprentice.

To celebrate joining JetBrains Development Academy Board, we release a PowerShell modules to make working with TeamCity easier.

PowerShell is fantastic language for DevOps, automation and general scripting. Every developer should be familiar with it; here's a guide to some useful resources to help you learn it.

We attended the two day Dev4Good hackathon in Hammersmith; and worked on digitalizing the paper based application process for the The Goldsmith Craft and Design Council awards.

Long time listener, first time guest. I was invited to speak on the .NET Rocks! Podcast, to talk about Sharp Architecture and various other Open Source projects I've been involved with.

Volunteering as a chef for the Kai We Care pop-up restaurant for the Red Cross earthquake fund for Christchurch, New Zealand.

We've decided to combine the StyleCop and StyleCop for ReSharper code bases to make long term maintenance easier.