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Re: Meet the Ascender 5 Pocket Pants

Brian Vallelunga — Fri, 06 Mar 2020 10:37:30 -0000

I'd like to see the Stone color from the original Chino become available on the Ascender Chinos. Also maybe a medium brown.

Re: How to Add Auth0 Authentication to Angular App in an NgRx Project

Brian Vallelunga — Thu, 05 Dec 2019 21:47:30 -0000

I would love to see an update of this using the new auth0-spa-js library.

Re: Windows 10 April 2018 Update is causing microphone, sound and mouse problems – here are the solutions

Brian Vallelunga — Wed, 02 May 2018 10:54:26 -0000

I had mouse problems as well until I updated my Radeon graphics drivers to the latest version 18.4.1. That fixed the problem.

Re: Deploying Azure Functions with Octopus Deploy

Brian Vallelunga — Wed, 14 Mar 2018 11:23:58 -0000

Great post. I think you brought to light a missing feature in Octopus's Azure support. We should be able to set and update Azure App Settings and Connection String variables as a feature of the Azure Web App deployment step. A simple mapping UI would be all that is needed with the left side being the setting name and the right side being a variable we'd like to assign. This way we wouldn't have to deal with scripts for such a common practice and these variables could be removed from our config files.

Re: Deploying an ASP.NET Core app - Will it Deploy? Episode 1

Brian Vallelunga — Tue, 30 Jan 2018 08:47:40 -0000

I'd love to see one of these videos on how to deploy using Azure Functions with .NET Core.

Re: Respawn vs SQL Server Snapshots

Brian Vallelunga — Tue, 10 Oct 2017 08:59:04 -0000

Thanks for testing this so thoroughly. I'll give Respawn a try now that I know how much faster it is. Snapshots still seem like a good tool if a DB needs to be configured "just so" before tests though.

Re: Using map, apply, bind and sequence in practice

Brian Vallelunga — Mon, 09 Oct 2017 09:56:55 -0000

Any chance you could update this for current F#? We now have a built-in Result type and the following is deprecated: type AsyncResult<'a> = Async<result<'a>>

Re: Respawn 1.0.0 released

Brian Vallelunga — Wed, 04 Oct 2017 15:03:13 -0000

I'll also add that RestoreTestDatabaseFromSnapshot should be called from the Dispose method of your test class. Or you could probably automate it in the fixture.

Re: Respawn 1.0.0 released

Brian Vallelunga — Wed, 04 Oct 2017 14:27:44 -0000

I'm not sure how multiple-databases would work. While you can create multiple snapshots, there's still just one database at a time (I think). But perhaps you would be able to create and work against multiple ones at once. Let me know what you find out.

Re: Respawn 1.0.0 released

Brian Vallelunga — Wed, 04 Oct 2017 13:10:03 -0000

Here's a rough outlined version I threw together for you: https://gist.github.com/Bri...

The way we use this is once per suite of tests, so maybe it is not quite the same as what you're using, but it could certainly be adapted to work per-test or per class of tests.

Re: Respawn 1.0.0 released

Brian Vallelunga — Wed, 04 Oct 2017 12:14:06 -0000

Did you consider just using SQL Server snapshots? I've been very happy with their performance. This was easy enough to integrate into xUnit with a Fixture. I'd be interested in benchmarking snapshots versus your table-purging solution.

Re: Fujifilm Deals Coming Next Week in Europe

Brian Vallelunga — Thu, 18 May 2017 09:50:11 -0000

Any word on US deals? I'm interested in a lens or two.

Re: Allen Premium 2

Brian Vallelunga — Sat, 04 Feb 2017 23:37:54 -0000

My son has had this bike for 2.5 years and it has been wonderful for him. At 5 he was able to ride 24 miles during one day trip, which I attribute to the bike's light weight and smooth operation. The belt drive has required zero maintenance as well.

We did swap out the pedals on this bike for slightly larger ones. We found the included pedals a bit too small and they didn't provide enough traction.

I'm now in the market for a 20" bike for my son (who's about to turn 6) and my daughter will be inheriting the 16" Belter. Is there a chance you can review the 20" model? I'm debating between that, the Woom 4, and the Islabikes Beinns.

Re: Try it and I'll kill you - You've Been Haacked

Brian Vallelunga — Sun, 03 Jan 2016 09:07:28 -0000

On the advice of the internet, we started saying "Asked and Answered" to my four year-old when he repeatedly asks questions we've answered already. He understands that when we say that the conversation is over. It's worked surprisingly well.

Re: Azure DocumentDB bids fond farewell to Self-Links

Brian Vallelunga — Fri, 14 Aug 2015 08:36:27 -0000

Will we be able to load a document via this same method?

Re: CQRS with MediatR and AutoMapper

Brian Vallelunga — Fri, 08 May 2015 19:52:00 -0000

I built something internally almost identical to MediatR and have been trying to figure out how best to use it. I ended up with a lot of objects and handlers, with handlers that in turn call the mediator and use other handlers. The separation of code was nice, but I think it comes with a loss of cohesion as well.

It seems like the more you head towards this model the more you might as well go to a fully functional approach.

What I'd like to see is an example involving nested MediatR calls and external services that need to percolate errors back to the UI.

Re: Troy Hunt: Automating web hosting creation in Azure with PowerShell

Brian Vallelunga — Mon, 26 Jan 2015 19:07:37 -0000

I spent a good deal of time writing a very similar script last week. One thing you can do is use the New-AzureResource to create the website with the desired hosting plan immediately. Otherwise it ends up creating a default hosting plan that you don't need and just have to clean up later.

Re: GitHub Flow Like a Pro with these 13 Git Aliases

Brian Vallelunga — Tue, 29 Jul 2014 20:07:34 -0000

OK, thanks for the clarification. The save/undo works well on a single machine, but I'm constantly moving between my laptop and desktop. I'm not sure of a great solution to that problem.

Re: GitHub Flow Like a Pro with these 13 Git Aliases

Brian Vallelunga — Tue, 29 Jul 2014 08:36:07 -0000

When you merge a pull request from a topic branch, do you squash your branch's commits down, or just leave the entire history there? If so, wouldn't you end up with a lot of SAVEPOINT commits on master?

Similarly, after you merge into master, delete your branch and push, is it up to all other developers that collaborated with you on that topic branch to clean up their own copies? Their topic branches don't get automatically closed on the next pull, right?

Re: FREE X-T1 with Ting.com (via Fujirumors). Here is how you can win it:

Brian Vallelunga — Fri, 07 Mar 2014 10:49:33 -0000

You would save $1612.80 in 2 years by switching to Ting for mobile!

Re: Unit Testing Improvements in ASP.NET Web API

Brian Vallelunga — Thu, 03 Oct 2013 10:12:18 -0000

So CreatedAtRouteNegotiatedContentResult should be the new standard return type? Or should we simply be defining the methods as returning IHttpActionResult? CreatedAtRouteNegotiatedContentResult is a really terrible name for something that seems like it would be used in every method that needed testing.

Re: Chaining Azure Web.Config Transforms When Deploying From Source Control

Brian Vallelunga — Sun, 14 Jul 2013 12:50:26 -0000

As far as I know, this only works with Azure Web Sites, not Azure Web Services. With an Azure Web Site, there are no cscfg files.

Re: Chaining Azure Web.Config Transforms When Deploying From Source Control

Brian Vallelunga — Mon, 08 Jul 2013 15:26:47 -0000

Following up, just having this in my .deployment file doesn't work:

[config]
SCM_BUILD_ARGS = /p:Environment=%ENVIRONMENT%

%ENVIRONMENT% isn't treated as a token to be replaced by the app settings, it's treated as a literal value. This ends in an error saying the transform Web.%ENVIRONMENT%.config could not be found.

Since I have multiple Azure Web Site "environments" the .deployment file really isn't going to work as it is common to all builds.

The app settings version works fantastically though. I'll update the post to reflect the change.

Re: Chaining Azure Web.Config Transforms When Deploying From Source Control

Brian Vallelunga — Mon, 08 Jul 2013 14:48:57 -0000

Thanks for the tip. I'll try it out and update the post. This certainly removes the biggest hurdle to getting this working.

Re: Alt.Tekpub: Consuming The API

Brian Vallelunga — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 23:00:49 -0000

Have you considered the negative impact of writing TekPub as a single page application from a content discoverability standpoint? You'd lose so much in SEO that it doesn't seem worth it to me. Google won't call your API!

Now, that said, I could see the usefulness in having a SPA once you're logged in to TekPub and want to watch videos or manage your account. That would be slick. But for what's on the home page and preview pages -- what's the point?