Edit: 01/02/2017 We've managed to get past the roadblock described below and are now able to drop columns with EF Migrations in a CD world. More information can be found here [https://jonleigh.me/zero-downtime-deploys-with-entity-framework-migrations/]. -- We've hit a roadblock with Entity Framework Migrations…
At Moneybox, we've implemented a continuous delivery pipeline using TeamCity, Octopus Deploy and Azure WebApps. Taking this a bit further, by making use of the deployment slot functionality of Azure WebApps, we were able to implement one click, zero downtime deployments with minimal effort. In summary, this works…
A very easy way to speed up the front end development of your website is to a) use a decent UI framework (Bootstrap being the obvious answer here but there are others) and b) buy a theme that's based on said framework. Descent themes normally come with a…
Each time I need to extract or modify a piece of html, I'm amazed by the speed and simplicity which which CsQuery [https://github.com/jamietre/CsQuery] allows me to do it. It's a breath of fresh air over the other two options I've…
I recently had a bug where a user managed to register twice on CompareVino [http://www.comparevino.com/] in a matter of seconds, causing the confirmation page to break (as it was expecting one user for the given email address instead of two). On closer inspection, the user in question…