I’ve got a series of blog posts on what you can do wrong with automated tests, and what to do about it on the Zühlke blog.
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REST API Design Rulebook – a waste of e-ink
REST API Design Rulebook by Mark Masse My rating: 1 of 5 stars The book tries to establish a set of rules for REST interfaces – I’m OK with that, it’s what its title says. When you define rules, you…
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JavaScript for Metro-style apps: now I get it.
I’ve spent the last few days at the Microsoft //build/ conference where the first preview version of Windows 8 was shown (and everyone got a tablet PC, which I like, and – and this is going to be important for…
Pipes, valves, and social networks
This is a chat room. The tube is a message bus. When a sender pushes a message into it, it just comes out on the other side, and everyone receives it. This is e-mail. We’ve added a valve on the…
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Beware of the dreaded passive arbiter!
Seen this: { “$err” : “not master or secondary, can’t read”, “code” : 13436 }?
When you give MongoDB arbiter nodes a priority, they act up as a passive secondary. And everyone believes them.
C# Enum Quirks
What Christian never wanted to know about Enums, but was forced to find out.
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MongoDB: when documents aren’t perfect, cope with it
MongoDB is a NoSQL database that organizes data as JSON documents in collections instead as rows in tables. One major difference between a document in a collection and a row in a table is that while all rows in a…
Fixing non-localizable validation messages with JavaScript
Christian works around ASP.NET MVC validation messages that cannot be localized in less than 20 lines of code.
On merging project files
Merging Visual Studio Project files: there’s not much nice to say about that. It’s just a pain, and I’ve ssen it become the number one or two reason of errors when merging between code branches.
