Code rant

A first for me. A guest post by my excellent colleague Michael Newton. Michael normally blogs at http://blog.mavnn.co.uk and works at 15b...

In a Service Oriented Architecture you sometimes need a distributed lock; an application lock across many servers to serialize access to som...

It’s really nice if you can decouple your external API from the details of application segregation and deployment. In a previous post I...

There’s a very nasty bug when you try and use NuGet to add a package reference to an F# project. It manifests itself when either the assembl...

I’ve recently had the need to automate configuration of Nginx on an Ubuntu server. Of course, in UNIX land we like to use SSH (Secure She...

A typical ASP.NET public website hosted on IIS is usually configured in such a way that the server that IIS is installed on is visible to th...

When you write a console application, do you simply put Console.WriteLine( "Hit <enter> to end" ); Console.ReadLine(); ...