Getting Started with the Tessel
Somewhere last year (I honestly no longer remember when), I saw a few tweets that piqued my interest: a crowdfunding project for the Tessel, “an internet-con...
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What happened to Code Spaces could happen to you. On Amazon, Azure and any host out there.
Earlier this week, a sad thing happened to the version control hosting service Code Spaces. A malicious person gained access to their Amazon control panel an...
Microsoft Azure cloud plugin for TeamCity (dabbling in Java code)
NOTE: While the content is this blog post will still work, JetBrains now has a plugin that is the recommended way of working with TeamCity and build agents o...
Optimizing calls to Azure storage using Fiddler
Last week, Xavier and I were really happy for achieving a milestone. After having spent quite some evenings on bringing Visual Studio Online integration to M...
Speeding up ASP.NET vNext package restore
TL;DR: If you have multiple NuGet feeds configured on your machine, it may be worth to do some tweaking in the NuGet.config file shipping with your project. ...
Building .NET projects is a world of pain and here’s how we should solve it
During the past few weeks, I’ve been working on and off on setting up a build agent that can build as many open-source .NET projects as possible in an effort...
NuGet Configuration File inheritance is awesome
One way to remove friction from using NuGet in multiple projects is by making use of NuGet Configuration File inheritance, probably the awesomest unknown fea...
Windows Azure Storage magic with Shared Access Signatures
When building cloud applications on Windows Azure, it’s always a good thing to delegate as much work to specialized services as possible. File downloads woul...
Source Control considered harmful
TL;DR: Using source control is a really bad idea. Or is it? Skip to Conclusion for the meat of this post.One of the first things I do with a new project in V...
Pro NuGet second edition is out
Pfew! Around February 2013, Xavier and I started planning work on an update of our book. Eight months later, we’re proud to present you with Pro NuGet ...