Getting Started Raspberry Pi headless install Because I'm lucky enough to have an awesome brother I got the gift of Raspberry Pi for christmas. These are the steps that I took to go from zero to fully functional pi running headless on my home network.
Windows How to upgrade a WSL 1 Linux distro to WSL 2 How to upgrade a WSL 1 Linux distro to WSL 2. What if I told you that you can just upgrade your distro with a single line of Powershell.
Flutter More CI for Flutter with GitHub Actions - Code Coverage This is a follow up to my previous post on getting started with Flutter and GitHub Actions, if you haven't worked with Actions before you might want to start there.
GitHub Actions Automating the patching of Cascadia Code to include Nerd Fonts Cascadia Code is a new monospaced font designed to work nicely with the new Windows Terminal. Unfortunately it doesn't, yet, include the Powerline symbols necessary to make my terminal look
Flutter Continuous Integration for Flutter with GitHub Actions The nice folks over at GitHub (or the evil Microsoft empire, depending on your point of view) recently added me to the GitHub Actions beta. If you're unfamiliar with GitHub
node.js Creating a Pocket desktop application with two lines of CLI Pocket from Mozilla is my favourite way to save interesting articles and videos for watching/reading later. The standard account is free but I like both the service and Mozilla
SSH How to get Netflix running on a Vero 4K with OSMC (or Vero 4K+💘Netflix) If you just want to get Netflix working on a Vero 4K+ First download this repository zip.Open Kodi, go to menu Add-ons, select "Install from zip file", and select
SSH Using the new OpenSSH on Windows 10 to connect to a Digital Ocean Droplet I'm a really big fan of Digital Ocean (DO from here on) and their Droplets which, to quote directly from the DO website: flexible Linux-based virtual machines (VMs) that run
Xamarin Keeping secrets out of your source code with Mobile.BuildTools and AppCenter I'm currently in the process of open sourcing Fructika, an app I built at the beginning of this year as a side project to look up the fructose level in
Agile So are you doing Scrum or Kanban? > Q: I know you're doing agile but are you doing Scrum or Kanban? > A: Oh we do Scrum, I think, or maybe Kanban actually I'm not sure. We definitely have a board and cards so that's Kanban isn't it but we have stand-ups so it must be Scrum ... hmmm ...
JavaScript Ember Resources - Fast Forward to becoming an Ember Ninja At LivingLens our frontend team have been using Ember.js exclusively to build the client side of our application for almost three years now so I thought I'd share a
JavaScript How to port a WebdriverIO project to TypeScript WebDriverIO is an amazing tool for driving Selenium tests from Node.js that we’ve been using at LivingLens to replace our tedious manual testing plans with automated happiness. When
Monitoring MongoDB with Application Insights At LivingLens we have the somewhat dubious blessing of using MongoDB as our database. Historically we used to use LogEntries for our logging and it worked pretty nicely but these
Firing up WordPress as a service with a built in database on Azure This here blog’s been living happily on a VM in the cloud for years with a nother VM hosting MySQL for it. They both required very little maintenance but
Testing A quick look at Smart Unit Tests Looking at the latest Visual Studio 2015 CTP release I noticed the new Smart Unit Tests feature. This is an evolution of Microsoft Research’s Pex project and to quote Microsoft: Smart Unit Tests explores your .NET code to generate test data and a
ASP.NET MVC Accessing an IIS Express website from another device IIS Express is great, no need to install IIS and mess around setting up sites it’s there ready for you with your Visual Studio installation. Unfortunately out of the box your IIS Express sites are only accesible from the local machine, fortunately with
Database Defeating deadlocks with READ_COMMITTED_SNAPSHOT isolation I was recently asked by a client to look into an issue they were having with a WCF web service. The application was generating a large number of errors, filling a 5MB log file every 5 minutes, and the performance of the underlying database
Links Awesome links of the week - Part 2 ASP.NET SignalR WebSockets let you have bi-directional communicationbetween the browser and the server. SignalR lets you use WebSockets with ASP.NET and falls backgracefully if they’re not available as well as providing some other nifty RPC functionality. http://typesetinthefuture.com/
Links Awesome links of the week - Part 1 Ionic Like bootstrap for building HTML 5 apps http://ionicframework.com/ check out the getting started video then dive into the great quality docs. TypeLITE Do you want to automatically generate TypeScript Interfaces from your C# classes. So did I and I was going
JavaScript JavaScript Documentation I use JavaScript on a pretty much daily basis so as I haven’t blogged about anything recently I thought I’d help promote the great (as in comprehensive) JavaScript docs that the Mozilla foundation provide. Right now this is being pushed via the
Visual Studio Seven essential Visual Studio 2010 keyboard shortcuts Microsoft recently released some reference posters for the default keybindings in Visual Studio 2010 in pdf format. I’m constantly amazed by how few of these most developers seem to know so I thought I’d list my favourites. I use C# but the
Database Enable Service Broker taking forever Today I had to enable Service Broker in SQL 2008 because when using a SqlCacheDependency I was getting the error: The SQL Server Service Broker for the current database is not enabled, and as a result query notifications are not supported. Please enable the
ASP.NET MVC Some neat features of asp.net mvc 2 I’ve been upgrading an application to MVC 2 recently and I’m really liking a lot of the new features, so here’s some of my favourites: Model validation Steve Sanderson’s xVal was great for adding client/server side validation to MVC
Database SubSonic 3.0.0.4 is out I’ve been a big fan of SubSonic for a while now, as you can probably tell from my last post and I’ve been helping out with the project a lot more over the last few months. Yesterday all the hard work paid
Database Seven reasons you should try SubSonic SubSonic is a query tool for .Net data access. If you haven’t tried it out then you really should and here’s why: It’s simpler than, for example, nHibernate Don’t get me wrong I like nHibernate a lot it’s amazingly
