Leveraging generic attributes to get test-specific test data
Tailoring AutoFixture’s customizations to the need of each test can cause a lot of code to be repeated. Let’s avoid that by using generic attributes.
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2023
Developing secure .NET applications using IAM roles
Learn how to use IAM roles to secure AWS applications in development with ASP.NET Core. Enhance security with limited permissions and IAM roles.
Create Lambda functions using the Annotation Framework
Let’s take a look at the Annotation Framework being developed by AWS to streamline the development of Lambda functions in C#.
2022
How to publish a NuGet package with CircleCI
A guide on how to set up a CI pipeline on CircleCI to build, test, pack and publish a package on NuGet and GitHub Packages.
Setup a Terraform backend on S3 with AWS CloudFormation and CDK
Terraform can use AWS S3 to store the state of each stack. We can use AWS CloudFormation and its CDK to setup the needed resources without giving up on IaC.
Additions to pattern matching in C# 10 and C# 11
A quick overview on the new patterns added in C# 10 and C# 11: extended property patterns, list patterns and expanded targets for the constant string pattern.
Handling events with maintainable Lambda functions
Lambda functions can be used to quickly respond to events happening in your ecosystem. Being quick isn’t an execuse to give up on best practices.
How to create maintainable Lambda functions using custom templates
Lambda functions are an incredible tool but it can be tiresome to align its programming model to that of other .NET tools. That can be fixed!
Using LocalStack with Microsoft Tye
Integrating a powerful local emulator of AWS services like LocalStack with Microsoft Tye gives .NET developers a powerful development tool that increases the...
How to use Terraform with multiple AWS profiles
When collaborating across different organizations or simply across different teams, environment configuration values can differ. This post shows how the Terr...
2021
Testing ASP.NET Core GRPC applications with WebApplicationFactory
The WebApplicationFactory can be used to create an instance of an ASP.NET Core application hosted within the test process and execute all the tests against i...
Testing ASP.NET Core web applications with WebApplicationFactory
The WebApplicationFactory can be used to create an instance of an ASP.NET Core application hosted within the test process and execute all the tests against it.
Installing the GitHub CLI on Windows 10 ARM
Currently the GitHub CLI has no supported release for Windows ARM. This guide shows the necessary steps to build and install the GitHub CLI on a computer run...
Better Moq expressions with NUnit constraints
NUnit constraints can be used when verifying invocations in Moq to create powerful and clear expressions.
2020
Quickly cloning all your repositories from GitHub
GitHub exposes most of its functionalities via its CLI, including a raw access to the API. This can be used to query all owned repositories and use the resul...
Developing distributed applications with Tye
Tye is an experimental tool Microsoft is working on to facilitate the development of solutions with many services.
Pattern matching in C# 9.0
An overview about the different patterns available in C# up to version 9.0 of the compiler, improvements to the to the switch statement and the new switch ex...
Customizing Jekyll with the Minimal Mistakes theme
How I created this blog: how I installed the Minimal Mistakes theme and customized a bit
Setting up a website based on Jekyll
How I created this blog: how I created my site using Jekyll CLI and initial configuration
Working with AWS in devcontainers
How to access AWS services from within a devcontainer via AWS SDK, AWS CLI or AWS Toolkit
Setting up a devcontainer to work with Jekyll on Windows
How I created this blog: how I set up Visual Studio Code to work with my Jekyll site
Preparing a GitHub repository to host a Jekyll website
How I created this blog: how I set up and configured the repository backing this blog
Setting up GitHub Pages to host a Jekyll website
How I created this blog: how I set up and configured the hosting of this blog on GitHub Pages
Tools and products I used to set up this website
How I created this blog: which tools and products I decided to use.
So it begins!
Every blog has a first post! So this is it!