e2e test No Excuses Not To Have E2E Tests I haven't always been a big tester, I started finding the great advantages of unit testing the back end just a couple of years ago. With E2E tests I barely got close, everything
JSON Mocking your API with JSON Server I've just learned recently about this NPM package to mock a REST API using a JSON file. That's a life changer and I see myself using it for any front-end development I do
Azure Deploying Vue.js to Azure Static Website We've been putting together the content for the workshop Jason and I will run at NDC London in January and part of the story is the deployment and why not using something brand
... Next steps It's time to move on. I left a small consultancy a bit over 4 years ago in Melbourne to move to Brisbane and join this awesome company that is SSW, but an unrefusable
angular Rich Text Editor for Angular Okay, so I've published my very first npm package. Let's start from the beginning. We've got an internal MVC application that uses the Kendo UI from Progress, the rich text editor to be
angular Push Notifications + Angular + .NET Core I'm sure 100% of you have already heard about what a push notification is, that's what apps and several web sites do to get your attention even if you don't have their app/
NDC NDC Sydney 2018 In the last 2 years, I went to NDC Sydney and it's always been a great event, possibly the best conference I've been, but this time it would be different, this time I
Azure Getting Started: EF Core + Cosmos Db I was really looking forward to having the Cosmos Db provider for Entity Framework Core. So much that I actually submitted a talk for NDC Sydney about how to get started with it
Azure Azure Functions for the Enterprise + Setting up CI/CD Pipelines In the last post, we talked about how to keep your API layer as slim as possible and then expose them through Azure Functions and I finished the post deploying to Azure using
Azure Azure Functions for the Enterprise - Exposing Endpoints through Functions In a previous post, I shared a concept I've been working on to replace different areas of an enterprise application with Azure Functions, but still keep all the best practices. In this post
Dad of 3 - Maia's birth This is not one more tech post, this is not about work. This is the experience I had with the birth of my third child. Well, at the end all experiences you have,
Azure Azure Functions for the Enterprise - Concept I've been playing with Azure Functions for a long time and even though I think it's a great piece of technology, I couldn't find a way to justify losing all the best practices
entity framework core Overcoming EF Core Migration Conflicts Interesting times!!! We've been having issues with EF Core migrations for while now and we're trying overcome them as we go, trying to put a process in place so we have less conflicts
Azure YouTube: Azure In 5 Minutes It's been a while now that I started working with Azure and learning about all the different services that it provides, but there's still so much to learn and so much to share.
angular YouTube: Angular In 5 Minutes Last weekend we had the Angular Hack Day here in Brisbane which is a great event ran by SSW to help others to get started with Angular. We had some very cool talks
signalr Getting Started With SignalR, .NET Core 2.1 And Angular About 3 months ago I wrote a post with the steps to set up SignalR for a new .NET Core 2.0 app with Angular. I thought it was really amazing how easy
azure functions Azure Functions: Dependency Injection Can Azure Functions do that? Well, I'm always getting surprised by its power and flexibility. I just came across a pretty cool implementation of dependency injection for Azure Functions and would love to
How To Turn A Nasty Email Into A Win Let me tell you a story about a project that I worked on. It was quite challenging for several reasons. Challenging is good though, especially if it's technically challenging as I'm a technical
devops Octopus Deploy: Update Variables Without Creating New Release That might be a new feature or not, maybe I'm just getting surprised by Octopus Deploy over and over again. In all projects I worked on so far, I always created a new
azure functions Serving Angular App From Azure Functions There must be some very specific scenarios where you would want to serve your Angular app via Azure Functions. To be very honest, I'm not even sure if there's such a scenario yet,
mono-repo Why Mono-repo Might Save Our Bacon When I first heard about Mono-repo from Duncan Hunter, I thought it was an insane idea. And even then I didn't care that much, I guess I had my plate full and didn't
dotnetcore Swagger All The Way Down - Part 2 In 90% of the cases where you have a microservice architecture, you will need to implement some sort of messaging system for them to communicate between each other and/or let them talk
angular Swagger All The Way Down - Part 1 This post is part of a series that will cover from the ground up how to configure Swagger in a .NET Core application, how to then generate a TypeScript client and hook up
angular AspNetCore + Angular + SignalR + Typescript = Drinking Game Getting realtime data from the server to the client has become easier than ever. I wrote a post about a year ago with steps on how to setup SignalR with AspNetCore and then
VSTS Building and Publishing Nuget Packages from TeamCity to VSTS In the current project I'm working on, we have a library that we want to share across other services and these services will be deployed independently. So the best way, in my opnion,