Code rant

From version 0.27.3 of EasyNetQ , you can set your client product name and platform in the connection string: var bus = RabbitHutch.Cre...

I had a great discussion today on the EasyNetQ mailing list about a pull request. It forced me to articulate how I view the EasyNetQ API as...

In AMQP, buried in the basic.properties object that gets sent along with each published message, there is a delivery_mode setting. You ca...

I’ve been using TestDriven.NET by Jamie Cansdale for quite a few years now. Ostensibly it’s a unit test runner, but that is not the real re...

Here are the answers to this year’s Geek Christmas Quiz . What does this acronym stand for? (one point per correct answer)     1. AWS ...

This is the second year of my Geek Christmas Quiz. Six sections of the ultimate geek questions. The office competition was won by Toby Carte...

A couple of months ago I attended BarCamp Brighton, an open conference at Brighton University. Everyone is encouraged to present a session, ...

When people are doing a physical task, it’s easy to assess how hard they are working. You can see the physical movement, the sweat. You also...

EasyNetQ , is made up of a collection of independent components. Internally it uses a tiny internal DI (IoC) container called DefaultServ...

I’ve been a long time fan of IoC (or DI) containers ever since I first discovered Castle Windsor back in 2007 . I’ve used Windsor in every m...