When .NET Core was announced, the most exciting thing for me was always the fact I could host things I wrote in C# on Linux machines. The possibilities were huge! Then Docker came along, and being able to host containerised copies of my code interested me. Today I present how to quickly get a .NET Core WebAPI project up and running in Docker, and in this example - hosted on Heroku. ...
Last night I went to the Melbourne Xamarin Meetup where Kym Phillpotts did a great recap of the announcements for Xamarin from Microsoft Build 2018. I thought I might blog about some of the things that sounded exciting for me as a developer. ...
Automated testing is something I really believe in. But you can’t always spend a lot of time setting up a project to get started on adding in tests. That’s where my newly released repository WebsiteTestingStarterKit comes into play. It’s exactly as it sounds - it’s a starter kit for writing tests. It’s written in C# and uses Selenium and xUnit to run through a bunch of automated tests. ...
I’ve always wanted to contribute to open source. In November, I came across a tweet mentioning an article by Kent C. Dodds about how Open Source project maintainers can set up their projects to be first time contributor friendly. ...