As part of my ongoing punk software thought process, I found myself thinking about frameworks. The conclusion of these thoughts was, I suppose, inevitable if you work backwords. What I realised was that most frameworks solve easy problems. When you think about frameworks in this way, it becomes clear that though it may take some […]
Although the term was coined for economics, and insurance in particular, moral hazard is a useful lens to view your work, your organisation, and your interactions with other people. If you are making decisions that result in some other team or individual “feeling the pain”, you are in dangerous territory. So, what is moral hazard? […]
Config-as-code is a new feature that has just been released in the early-access program at Octopus Deploy. This feature allows you to store your deployment process in version control, using Git to manage your deployment code in the same way you manage your application code. I have enabled the preview on a non-production project to […]
If we were honest with ourselves about the number of hours we might have left to live and the amount of stuff we would like to get done, we’d have to admit that it isn’t all going to get done. Even based on our more optimistic estimates of longevity, it’s not going to get done; […]
This is just a quick note about some new features in Microsoft Teams. The wrapper feature is part of Microsoft Viva and is called “Insights”. Once you add it, you’ll have a new tab in Teams that has a few tools to boost your life. There are tools to track your emotional awareness, which keeps […]
There are two basic types of natural laws, or laws of nature. Universal and probabilistic. Universal laws of nature state the when you find one thing, you will always find some other specific thing or things. Probabilistic laws of nature say that things are commonly found together. Some examples may help. If you drop a […]
Unlike my recent article on Global Using Statement and Code Clues, the new namespace declarations have no trade offs and you should just auto-fix them in your whole project and move on with your life. Here’s how we do namespace before namespace declarations: namespace Fenton.Sample.UI { public class Example { } } …and here is […]
If you wanted to include information about your source code in a trace message, there would be quite a lot of prep work to do before you could actually write a message out. Let’s use the below WriteTrace example to show what this does to your application. public void WriteTrace(string message, string memberName = “”, […]
This is a surprisingly common problem in C#, where you need to take a DateTime and strip off the “time” bit to leave you with a representation of a day. Currently, you can do it by creating a new DateTime and passing only the parts you want to keep, like year, month, and day. DateTime […]
This was the first time I needed to create an end-to-end process with GitHub Actions and Octopus Deploy. Here’s how I did it. The set up is a .NET (Core 3.1 currently) website that has an existing Publishing Profile that I have been using to create the artefacts as I’ve been testing different hosting scenarios. […]