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Music & Programming
I like to listen to music when I’m working, and mainly it is to block out office distractions or to help build a bit of flow when I need to focus and not get distracted by my environment. However, even with working from home with no distractions, it is useful to use headphones rather than using speakers to disassociate myself from my surroundings.
Setting up MassTransit with .Net Core 3, AutoFac & RabbitMq
In this post, I want to set up MassTransit with RabbitMq and .Net Core 3. My application already uses AutoFac as a DI container, that I will take advantage of in this post. All the information to get MassTransit setup…
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Using Serilog with MongoDb running in Docker-Compose
I’m working on a side project at the moment, it’s based on a microservice architecture. To understand what is going on inside my application logging will be extremely important. For no particular reason other than I hadn’t used it before…
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Midlevel Interviews – Back to Basics
I’m in my last few months working in HP. I’m due to finish at the end of January. Recently I have been interviewing with various companies, and now I have something lined up for February. Most advice you find online is based…
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Starting a new adventure
I have recently moved my last project RentAssured.ie into maintenance, so it’s time to start a new project. Unlike RentAssured this will be a personal project, that I’m looking to turn into a business. For that reason I not going to…
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Why I haven’t been blogging
I haven’t written any posts here in a long time. This was because I have been busy with my first paying freelance project. To be honest I could have made time to keep writing for this blog but it felt…
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Creating a new Project in 7 steps with .Net MVC & Visual Studio Part 1
Over the next 2 posts I will be creating a starting point for a .Net MVC Application. The first post will concentrate on creating an empty project with a structure that can be used to build an application using your…
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Think before seeding data
Today, myself and a colleague both needed to re-build our local databases for different reasons. This was in a .Net MVC application so I fired up SQL Management Studio and deleted the database. Then I ran my migrations and they…
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Automating your development process
Automating the development process as much as possible is quite common in larger teams where they have time and resources to implement it without slowing the development of the application. When you are working as a single developer or in…
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Architecture, a developers view
Hmm, where to start. This is a topic that occasionally makes me feel lost. As a project develops I sometime find myself second guessing my previous decisions. Why did I chose this, what was I thinking when I wrote that…
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