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NDC Oslo 2016 in a Nutshell

As I blogged earlier, I had the privilege to attend NDC Oslo 2016 as a speaker this year. It was a fabulous experience and I took a different approach at NDC Oslo this year and rather than improving my existing knowledge, I decided to take different perspective on problems. There were really a few areas I wanted to get more information on from the World class experts: Machine Learning Functional Programming Containerization Soft Skills

Of course, this is NDC and you have people like Mark Ren...

Off to Oslo for NDC Developer Conference

Next week, I am off to Oslo for one of my favorite conferences: NDC Oslo. I have been to NDC Oslo before in 2014 but this time is a little bit more special as I am one of the speakers this year. Seeing the list of awesome speakers at conference makes me so excited and nervous at the same time :)

As for my topic, I am going to be talking about zero-downtime deployments. I will tell you about some patterns, practices and techniques that make it this challenging task easier, such as semantic ver...

Your Git Repository is Your Deployment Boundary

Deployment of the software has been a constant challenge possibly from the very start. It could be a web application, HTTP services, a Play Station app, an application running inside a Raspberry PI. All have the challenges of deploying new changes. It even makes you go down the route of a different architecture to make the deployments scale. One of the big challenges of software deployments is that there is not one generic rule or practice that you can apply and it will all be shinny. This do...

Moving to ASP.NET Core RC2: Tooling

.NET Core Runtime RC2 has been released a few days ago along with .NET Core SDK Preview 1. At the same time of .NET Core release, ASP.NET Core RC2 has also been released. Today, I started doing the transition from RC1 to RC2 and I wanted to write about how I am getting each stage done. Hopefully, it will be somewhat useful to you as well. In this post, I want to talk about the tooling aspect of the transition.

Get the dotnet CLI Ready

One of the biggest shift from RC1 and RC2 is the tooling....

Versioning Software Builds Based on Git Tags and Semantic Versioning (SemVer)

Let's start this post by setting the stage first and then move onto the problem. When a build is kicked off for your application/library/etc. on a CI (continuous integration) system like Travis CI or AppVeyor, you are most probably flowing a version number for that build no matter what type of tech stack you use. This is mostly to relate the artifacts, which the build will produce (e.g. Docker images, NuGet packages, .NET assemblies, etc.), with a particular context. This is really useful to...

node-semver: CLI Tool for Semantic Versioning 2.0.0

This is yet another post from me on a tiny but a very useful tool. Last time, I have written about SqlLocalDB.exe Utility Tool which is a command-line tool to manage SQL Server Express LocalDB instances. Today, I want to tell you about node-semver, a SemVer 2.0.0 parser command-line tool and a node.js library (the one that npm uses). I am huge fan of SemVer. You cannot imagine how many places you can you use semantic versioning to make the internal and external communication easy for your sof...

Microsoft Build 2016 in a Nutshell

Two weeks ago, I had an amazing opportunity to be at Microsoft Build Conference in San Francisco as an attendee thanks to my amazing company Redgate. The experience was truly unique and amount of people I have met there was huge. A bit late but I would like to share my experience about the conference with you in this post by highlighting what has happened and giving you my personal takeaways. You can also check out my tweets for the Build conference.

Announcements

There were bunch of big and...

My Summary of DevConf 2016

I had an amazing time in Johannesburg this week and had the privilege to attend DevConf 2016 as a speaker. I got to travel to South Africa for the first time and I really liked the country, especially the food :) Also, I tried to be a social developer and had a chance to meet with a few new amazing folks like Colin Dembovsky, Lisa Basel, Chris Tite, Mark Pearl and many others that I cannot remember right now after a few beers at Dubai airport while writing this blog post :)

During the confere...

Upcoming Conferences and Talks

I am going to be at a few conferences in upcoming weeks and I would like to share them here with you. Main objective here is to tell you about where I am going to be and this should help meeting new people and learning about different experiences. Jeremy Clark, a friend I met at Codemash 2016, has an amazing blog post on becoming a social developer. I encourage you to check that out to see why and how.

DevConf, Johannesburg (8th of March)

I am very, very excited about DevConf. Source of this...

Managing SQL Server Express LocalDB Instances Through SqlLocalDB.exe Utility Tool

I love the feeling when I discover a tiny, hidden tool which I can put into my daily software toolbox. I started to sense this feeling more and more lately with some amazing command line tools and I want to write about those here (famous last words) like I did for http-server and WAStorageEmulator.exe a while back. Today, I want to start this by writing about SqlLocalDB.exe, a management utility tool for Microsoft SQL Server Express LocalDB which allows you to manage the LocalDB instances on...