In a recent twitter exchange with Colin Jack I claimed that SELECT {…} FROM […] FOR XML PATH() is pretty much all you need for providing the Reporting side of CQRS. Ok, so maybe I overstated it a tad, but it is a valuable technique. He suggested I blog about it, so I figured even if people …
In the previous post in this series, we talked about how to create a Windows Service that would use an OWIN compatible host, to host an OWIN HTTP application and package that up into an easy to manage executable. This post describes an approach to deploying that executable using simple command line tooling. Push vs Pull Deployments …
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In my first deep dive into a HTTP header on the user-agent header I said that I would try and produce a series of posts going under the covers on certain HTTP headers. This post is about the Vary header. The Vary header both wonderful and sad at the same time. I’ll discuss how to make it work …
How about that for acronym soup? In the spirit of doing smaller posts but more often, here is a handy little XSLT. Assuming you have the following XML, <Customers> <Customer Id=”99″> <Name>Bob</Name> <Age>39</Age> <Address> <Street>10 Idle Lane</Street> <City>Yucksville</City> <PostalCode>xxxyyy</PostalCode> </Address> </Customer> <Customer Id=”101″> <Name>Bill</Name> <Age>39</Age> <Address> <Street>10 Idle Lane</Street> <City>Yucksville</City> <PostalCode>xxxyyy</PostalCode> </Address> </Customer> </Customers> Using …
Over the past few years, I have occasionally dreamed about what would be my perfect job. Of course, it would have to involve HTTP APIs. But beyond that, my background in ERP software leaves me longing for solving business problems for users. My experience at Runscope as a developer advocate reaffirmed my desire to spend …
In a previous post, I talked about how to send raw JSON to a web API and consume it easily. This is a non-obvious process because ASP.NET Web API is optimized for sending and receiving arbitrary CLR objects that then get serialized by the formatters in the request/response pipeline. However, sometimes you just want to have more …
Yesterday, I had a thought. It didn’t fit into a tweet so wrote a few paragraphs. I was very pleased with myself, finally getting round to writing again after a few months off. That was, until two different people who I respect highly, told me I was wrong. That part sucked. Service Discovery : Redux Who …
Here’s a thought that wouldn’t fit into a tweet and will serve the purpose of breaking my blogging dry spell. With all the attention that microservices is currently receiving, I regularly hear people talking about service discovery. When trying to coordinate multiple different services working together, it is critical to be able to dynamically configure …
I had heard conflicting rumors about the significance of the trailing slash, so I decided to go googling. If you explore the first few hits you will find all sorts of discussions about cool URLs, the impact on SEO, the performance benefits of avoiding server redirects, amongst other stuff. However, I found nothing that seemed …
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I recently needed to create a new Web API project for some content I’m working on for a talk. I decided I might as well use the ASP.NET Web API Template to get started. The resulting project looked like this: 75 class files, 23 Razor templates, 34 unique Nuget packages, and 28 Javascript files before I wrote …