Code rant

 This is my last post here at Code Rant. From now I will be posting at  mikehadlow.com . I've written a post on my new blog here explai...

Invoking the C# compiler directly allows one to pass in symbols for the preprocessor via a command option (-define or -d). But it's not...

If you are using Azure DevOps pipelines to automate building your .NET Core application Docker images, it's natural to also want to use ...

An experience report of converting a large microservice platform from .NET Framework to dotnet core. Background For the last year or so...

I originally wrote this piece as of part of a paper evaluating container technology for a client. This document describes container techno...

This article discusses the relationship in software development between code organisation and social organisation. I discuss why software an...

Note. This post had a great response on Reddit with over 300 comments . I’ve added an update section to the end of this post to address so...

Guitar Dashboard is a side project I’ve been working on occasionally over the past two years. It’s an open source web application (you can...

If you’ve ever had any experience with music technology, or more specifically sequencers, keyboards or synthesisers, you will have come acro...

AsmSpy is a tool I wrote a few years ago to view assembly version conflicts. Despite the fact that it started as a single page of code comm...