I get up very early to catch my flight with Alaska Airlines which leaves Austin airport at 7 am. I hate to be stressed and thus I’d rather be early than late. I arrive at the airport nearly 2 hours in ...

27 October, 2016. It was a Thursday. Early on in the CQRS/ES days, I saw a lot of questions on modeling problems with event sourcing. Specifically, trying to fit every square modeling problem into the ...

24 October, 2016. It was a Monday. One of the nicest side effects of using MediatR is that my controllers become quite thin. Here’s a typical controller: Unit testing this controller is a tad ...

13 October, 2016. It was a Thursday. A while ago, I blogged about using MediatR to build a processing pipeline for requests in the form of commands and queries in your application. MediatR is a ...

note the last line declaring the ENTRYPOINT. The syntax I have chosen in the above sample is one possible way of declaring the entry point. An alternative syntax is using an array of words, i.e.

20 July, 2016. It was a Wednesday. Part of the release of ASP.NET Core is a new DI framework that’s completely integrated with the ASP.NET pipeline. Previous ASP.NET frameworks either had no DI or ...

1 June, 2016. It was a Wednesday. In many of my applications, the UI and API gravitate towards task-oriented UIs. Instead of “editing an invoice”, I “approve an invoice”, with specialized models, ...

In this post I am going to show step by step how to install a local version of Windows Server 2016 TP5 in Hyper-V and how to configure it to be a container host. It is still not straight forward to ...

This post is part of the series about Implementing a CI/CD pipeline. Please refer to this post for a full table of content. Our company is a heavy user of TeamCity [TC]. We use TC for almost all our ...

21 January, 2016. It was a Thursday. As I work towards the 4.2 release of AutoMapper, I got a little inspiration. Over the past year or so I’ve given some talks/podcasts about a long-lived open source ...

1 November, 2015. It was a Sunday. Earlier this year I joined a development team which chose Entity Framework for the persistence needs of a new greenfield project. While I’ve worked on a few projects ...

1 July, 2015. It was a Wednesday. In the last post, I walked through what is to me the most interesting part of REST – the client. It’s easy to build a server API, but no API is complete without ...