May
10
2016
I just returned from SQLBits 2016 and had a fantastic time. They really put on a great
conference, with brilliant speakers on a variety of SQL topics (and increasingly NoSQL/Big Data). Throw in good catering and an amazing , all for a very reasonable price and you have a conference I really can't recommend enough!
The talk that excited me most this year was...
Nov
10
2015
This is Part 4 is my series on using Gulp with Visual Studio. So far we've covered setting up Visual Studio for use with Gulp, processing SASS, and getting the files ready for deployment.
Part 1: Setting up Gulp with Visual Studio
Part 2: Getting SASSy
Part 3: Deployment: minification and concatenation
Part 4: Code quality: tests and linting
Part 5: Thoughts on Gulp
In...
Sep
24
2015
In my previous blog I wrote about how we can use Gulp to compile SASS. This time it's all about how we can use Gulp in Visual Studio to prepare files for a release by minifying and concatenating them. I've put up a project using the standard MVC 5 template for this series of posts here
Part 1: Setting up...
Sep
04
2015
Getting SASSy with Gulp in Visual Studio
In my previous blog I showed you how to set up Visual Studio for use with Gulp. Now I want to show you how you can use it in everyday development, including processing SASS, running tests, linting your code and getting ready for deployment.
In this series of posts I'll talk about how you...
Aug
07
2015
In the last few years a rich set of front end development tools has emerged for building complex web applications. Gulp in particular has taken off in a huge way. However, .NET development is lagging when it comes to adoption of these tools. This is all set to change, especially with the release of ASP.NET 5 where Gulp will become part of the standard...
Jul
20
2015
In my last post I showed how we can use Git, TeamCity and Octopus Deploy to include the commit id in an Octopus Deploy release, and therefore find out exactly what code is running in your system. In this post I want to show you can use the commit ids to do a diff between what you've already got...
Jul
17
2015
Having a fully automated build and release process is, in my opinion, one of the best things you can do as a development team. We've spent the last 2 years moving to a fully automated build and release process and it has had an enormous impact on the way we develop and, more importantly, release software. Releasing has gone...
May
27
2015
A while ago (at NDC London) I attented a two day course on Angular by the great K. Scott Allen, who spoke about using the ngMessages directive to provide re-usable validation on forms.
While ngMessages is good, there is no way of providing detail on validation failures. For example, if a text input has to be at least 5...
May
27
2015
I’ve just spent a fun hour wondering why two seemingly identical queries were returning different data. It turned out to be an issue with DATETIME in SQL Server.
SQL interprets a DATETIME of the format “yyyymmdd” differently to “yyyy/mm/dd” or “yyyy-mm-dd”. The former is "unseperated" while the latter is "seperated", and the "seperated" format depends on the current language and...
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