Benchmarking and performance optimizations in C# using BenchmarkDotNet Hello friends! Long time, no blog, but now it's time to for something fun. I happened upon the awesome BenchmarkDotNet library the other day, which makes it incredibly easy to write good and
Add your own performance counters to Application Insights I have been trying Application Insights for awhile now and while it is a fantastic tool I do feel it is missing several important performance counters out-of-the-box for .NET applications. Among them are
Using Docker Tools on Windows with Hyper-V instead of Virtualbox Docker is a fantastic tool, and the Docker Toolbox is a must to manage it. If you install the Docker Toolbox on a Windows machine, the installer automatically installs Oracle Virtualbox to run
Using Application Insights with Ghost 0.7 Hello friends! I've been taking a look at Microsoft's Application Insights recently and decided as a test to see how hard it would be to integrate with the Ghost blogging platform. Application Insights
Microsoft finally fixes Storage Spaces, adds rebalancing command! Anyone that has used Storage Spaces has probably seen that Storage Spaces does not redistribute files when a new disk is added to the space. Let's say you had a Storage Space with
How to flash a custom Country Variant firmware with the Windows Phone Recovery Tools This is a way to install a different country variant firmware (or any other official firmware for that matter) to your Windows Phone using the Windows Phone Recovery Tools than the phone says
Google authorship and Google+ custom URLs I have been trying to get Google Authorship to work properly with this Ghost blog for a while now as per these fine instructions from Christiaan Hendriksen. I added the necessary links into
System.Net.HttpClient Best Practices What is HttpClient HttpClient is a Portable Class Library from Microsoft for HTTP communications. It is completely asynchronous and has excellent features for extensibility. It is absolutely great, especially when communicating with REST
Add New Relic performance monitoring to the Ghost blogging platform I love New Relic. It's one of the best performance monitoring tools I have ever used, so when I saw they added support for node.js I decided I had to see if
Using extension methods to keep yourself DRY - Part 3 Hi there and welcome to part 3, the final in the series. It's time to put the icing on the cake to simplify our DAL code. In Part 2 we ended up with
Using extension methods to keep things DRY – Part 2 So, in Part 1 we used simple, basic and reusable extension methods to make our code a little bit easier to read. Let's do something more advanced. After Part 1 we ended up
extension methods Using extension methods to keep things DRY - Part 1 I'm a big fan of DRY (Don't Repeat Yourself). If you find yourself writing the same code again and again, you should see if you can extract that code out to a method
webapi ASP.NET WebAPI, load balancers and SSL termination. I recently encountered an issue in our ASP.NET WebAPI application, which sits behind a load balancer that does SSL termination. The load balancer gets a HTTPS request, decrypts it, unwraps the original
entity framework A way to unit test data access logic when using the Entity Framework. I've spent a lot of time wondering about the best way to unit test my data logic when my filtering and paging logic is in code, such as when using the Entity Framework,
async Async/await and the Task Parallel Library don't mix I found out the hard way a few days ago that async/await and the Task Parallel Library don't mix very well. I was working on a project at work and was running
adb Troubleshooting: How to install Android Fastboot/ADB drivers under Windows 8 I was upgrading my girlfriends phone to Cyanogenmod 9 this weekend and ran into problems when I was trying to flash the new bootloader on her Android phone. Turns out that the Android
cloud Automatically store your game saves in the cloud, using SkyDrive, Dropbox or Google Drive. I am a gamer. I own a lot of Steam games, and although some of the are Steam Cloud enabled, most of them are not. This is quite frustrating when I want to
azure Create your own Wordpress blog using Azure Websites! The great Scott Hanselman wrote a blog post early this year which inspired me. That blog post was called Your Blog is The Engine of Community and I suggest that everyone read it.
