Setting up npm in a corporate environment Node and Node's package manager npm is getting more and more traction. There are a lot of projects that depend on npm for packages management. For example Apache Cordova. If you work in
Setting up git in a corporate environment Working in a corporate environment exposes some issues when trying to access git repositories on the internet such as Bitbucket or github. The main pain points are proxy servers. A typical corporate environment
MSpec with VB.net Hadi Hariri (@hhariri) inspired me to give BDD a try. Unfortunately I’m currently working in a VB.net shop. So I tried to rewrite the BDD examples in VB.net. Poor MSpec.
Nancy's Raven For a new project I was keen on taking one of the so called Micro-Web-Frameworks for a test drive. My favourite Framework so far is NancyFx It's a HTTP in essence. But is
Having trouble with Lambdas in VB.net I’m using NSubstitute in a new TDD project for a component. Normally I prefer to program in C# but the company I’m currently working for is a VB-Shop, so I have
Using LinqPad for ad-hoc text analysis I think almost every dev had the pleasure to extract information out of text files. The content may be Logs, Debug outputs or from any other source. Lately I was asked task to
Rhino-Queues on Devices I spend some time trying out Rhino-Queues (RQ) and Rhino-ServiceBus. I'm convinced of the potential of these projects, that I'll add both to my stack of tools for my next projects. It’s
Solved the Visual Studio code generation issue Yesterday I wrote about an issue with a Visual Stud io 2005 Smart Device projects, which were moved to Visual Studio 2008. Since creating a new project of that type in VS 2008
Different code generation using upgraded Smart Device Project in Visual Studio 2008 We moved our smart device project from Visual Studio 2005 (VS2005) to Visual Studio 2008 (VS2008). Everything worked after the upgrade except one odd thing: We have a ComboBox, which datasource is bound
Team Foundation Server Search in Code (VB.net) The company I’m currently working for has about 100 developers, who are committing their code to SourceSafe. Since Visual SourceSafe (VSS) has some serious issues and is far away from bein state-of-the-art
Setting up my blog environment This will be my first blog entry on my new stuff-for-geeks.com site. I decided to talk more about my daily life as a consultant and developer in the .net scene. So here