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TDD I Learned…

A few weeks ago, Roy Osherove released his full TDD master class in .NET available a video series of over nine hours, recorded live in class. I’m a TDD wannabe.  I’ve done small tasks using TDD, and I’ve written plenty of … Continue reading 

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Ducksboard API for .Net

Last time, I wrote about how neat I thought the Ducksboard app was.   I found a nice little project over on github that wrapped up the update components of the api pretty well.  So I could easily create a dashboard, … Continue reading 

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A Log4Net Ducksboard Appender

Ducksboard, is absolutely the most fun I’ve had on a web api in a long time.. “Monitor your metrics with Ducksboard, a real time visualization of your key performance indicators..”  Basically, you make dashboards with it.  It’s got built in pugins … Continue reading 

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Fun with the Nancy Self Host!

If you’re not familiar with the Nancy framework for hosting HTTP services in .net, you owe it to yourself to check it out. From the docs: Nancy is a lightweight, low-ceremony, framework for building HTTP based services on .Net and … Continue reading 

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Setting up Munin with Nginx and Ubuntu 12.10 (Quantal Quetzal)

A few years ago, I posted about our over-architected setup here at Codebetter. I had fun working with Rackspace cloud slices, and getting this all to run on ridiculously cheap, 256 M linux hosts.   One of the tools I’ve come … Continue reading 

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