2015 in Retrospect
The first day of the year is always special because aside from being the start of the new year, it's also my…
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Christos Matskas
Upgrade Ghost blog running on Azure Web Apps
I've been caught by this time and time again so it's time I blogged about it. My Ghost blog is…
Database deployment automation with DbUp
How do you manage your database deployments? You'll be surprised but this is one subject that seems to be a problem in…
FullStack 2015 - Retrospect and impressions
I'm currently sitting on my plane flying back from London where I spent an excellent couple of days attending the FullStack conference.…
CodeMotion Tel Aviv 2016 - Retrospect
I'm sitting at the TelAviv airport waiting to board my flight. My ridiculously long flight that will see me going through the…
Improve your unit tests with Moq and Mock.Of<>()
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On programming tools, extensions and IDEs
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The new Azure Powershell Resource Manager - 1.0 Preview
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SignalR cross domain with CORS
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Create Electron applications with Visual Studio Code
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Export your stored passwords from Chrome
Today, another massive security breach made the news. This time, it was about the breach of 000webhost a free hosting provider. Troy Hunt did…
Using a dynamic DataReader with ADO.NET
I've recently had to do some data parsing, pulling data from a CSV file, performing some validation and then dumping a series…