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...

With Visual Studio 2015 comes C# 6.0. The team at Microsoft put a whole lot of effort into the Roslyn compiler this time around and the language features are primarily syntactic sugar, but they are still extremely welcome. The Null-Conditional Operator Here is a small piece of code that I inherited recently.  It has a very simple task, get the client's...

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...

Lately we have created several data marts in Azure SQL that will be fed from a data warehouse hosted on premises. The data mart is first created and tested locally so that we can get the structure and required stored procs correct. Whilst we are doing this it is easy to quickly transfer representative data to test the efficiency. Every...