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For f**ks sake, pick a god damn signature already!!!

I was fortunate to speak to a lot of people about OWIN, both in the run up to and during the recent NDC London conference. And I tell you what, I’m at a complete loss as to what the hell has happened....

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TDD, continuous deployment and the golden number

You’re a strong supported of the benefits of continuous integration… whenever anyone commits to your source repo, all your tests are run. You have close to 100% coverage (or as close as you desire to...

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Tracking changes to complex viewmodels with Knockout.JS

As part of a project I’ve been working on for a client, we’ve decided to implement HTTP PATCH in our API for making changes. The main client consuming the API is a web application driven by...

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Increasing loop performance by iterating two intersecting lists simultaneously

Disclaimer This brief post covers a micro-optimisation that we employed recently in an Asp.Net Web Api app. If you’re looking to solve major performance problems or get a quick win on small tasks, this...

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Tracking changes to complex viewmodels with Knockout.JS Part 2 – Primitive...

In the first part of this series, I talked about the challenges of tracking changes to complex viewmodels in knockout, using isDirty() (see here and here) and getChanges() methods. In this second part,...

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Are we gOWINg in the right direction?

This week on twitter we find ourselves back on the subject of OWIN, and once again the battle lines are drawn and there is source of much consternation. The current debate goes thusly… should we...

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Consider your target audience when giving advice

I’m seeing a common pattern lately – respected mentors with weight in the community giving people ‘advice’ in the form: X is usually bad, therefore never do X Giving this kind of advice IS bad,...

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Developing against Service Bus for Windows 1.1

Wouldn’t it be great if we could work on applications that leverage Microsoft Service Bus locally without having to connect to and potentially pay for Microsoft Azure? Not everyone knows this, but...

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Functional web synergy with F# and OWIN

Before we get started I’d just like to mention that this post is part of the truly excellent F# Advent Calendar 2014 which is a fantastic initiative organised by Sergey Tihon, so big thanks to Sergey...

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Introducing… Beyond Code

    It is with some sadness that I announce the retirement of the roysvork blog. It’s been a great run, but it’s time to move to a new domain and bigger & better things. I won’t be deleting this...

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