I am sitting in the middle of Cambridge, attending the Ternary [https://hackcambridge.com] Hackathon. Microsoft is sponsoring a challenge, and giving away some Xbox One Xs for the best use of Cognitive Services. Because of that, it was only fair that we also showcased a quick and dirty sample.…
Between the 10th and 15th of July, our team participated in the NWG Innovation Festival [https://innovationfestival.org/]. It was a genuinelyfun experience - hackathon type event. And how could it not be, Northumbrian Water Group has made every effort to make it that way, including setting up theFunder Dome,…
As a developer, I never cared much about Data Lake. While I’ve always sort of been responsible for the full stack, including the database stuff, I tended to shy away from stuff that had too much to do with data. I’ve been working with some interesting customers recently,…
ASP.NET 5, along with MVC 6, comes with a bunch [https://www.vodovnik.com/2015/09/20/localization-in-asp-net-5-mvc-6/] of new stuff. One of the more interesting ones is without a doubt the View Location Expanders. They basically make it easy to completely customize the location in which the View…
"Your application is broken", they say. You ask what doesn't work, and they say: "We get an error". Fantastic. What sort of error? "Well, it's on a blue screen". Aha... In recent posts, I've covered some approaches on doing complex validation [https://www.vodovnik.com/2015/09/08/complex-validation-in-mvc-and-web-apps-using-fluentvalidation/] and…
Anyone who has ever deployed their web application to production has already ran into the problem of how to monitor the health of that application. Is it online? Is it running? How fast is it performing? Are there any errors I need to be aware of? Which version is deployed?…
When we build (web) applications, we generally think a lot about the availability and reliability of those applications. That is one of the primary reasons why the "cloud" has been so great. Recently, I was tasked to find the best way to make a Cloud Service (if you're wondering why…
So, you run your app, and you get an exception. Something with EF, or your SQL statements, but mostly, you can see something is wrong with the database (again). You shout across the room: "Did anybody touch the database?" and you hear the dreaded answer: "Yeah, I did. Am just…