Code rant

“When all you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail.” When all you know is SQL Server, it’s tempting to try and solve every pr...

Have you ever had a case where you want to insert a constant item in-between each element of a list of items? For example, if I’ve got a lis...

I’ve been writing a high-level ‘architectural vision’ document for my current clients. I thought it might be nice to republish bits of it he...

I’ve been writing a high-level ‘architectural vision’ document for my current clients. I thought it might be nice to republish bits of it he...

Back in June I wrote some thoughts on Windows 8 after the initial announcement. Now that we’ve got more details from the Build conference,...

Anyone who reads this blog knows that my current focus is writing a .NET API for RabbitMQ which I’ve named EasyNetQ . This is being paid fo...

Here’s a screenshot of one of my tests of EasyNetQ (my easy-to-use .NET API for RabbitMQ ). I’m running two publishing applications (top) a...

Sometimes you want to construct a URI that has an escaped forward slash. For example, the RabbitMQ Management API requires that you encode t...

Do you ever find yourself in a loop calling a method that expects an Action or a Func as an argument? Here’s an example from an EasyNetQ te...

I just had a need for a delay task. A simple method that I can call to create a task that will turn a Func<T> into a Task<T> tha...