DevDay Salerno: let’s talk about Feature Gating!

DevDay Salerno: let’s talk about Feature Gating!

Tomorrow I’ll be speaking at the monthly Meetup hosted by the DevDay Salerno community! The topic of the day will be “Feature Gating“, I’ll talk about the general idea, use cases and best practices. The talk will be language-agnostic as this is more a pattern rather than a framework/library. I will...

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How an AppDomain can help you isolate your method calls

How an AppDomain can help you isolate your method calls

In one of my latest pet-projects (which with a bit of luck is about to become a real project, knock on wood!) I have been in need of executing code in total isolation form the containing application.  Without giving too many details, the system allows plugins to be uploaded ( as...

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How to reset the entities state on a Entity Framework Db Context

How to reset the entities state on a Entity Framework Db Context

I had two bad days. Those days wasted chasing a stupid bug. I had a test class with 4 test cases on my infrastructure layer. If executed one by one, they pass. If the whole suite was executed, only the first one was passing. At the end I found out...

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How I used Travis CI to deploy Barfer on Azure

How I used Travis CI to deploy Barfer on Azure

Ok this time I want to talk a little bit about how I used Travis CI to deploy Barfer on Azure. Last time I mentioned how much helped having a Continuous Delivery system up and running so I thought it would be worth expanding a little bit the concept. Some...

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