I started with Azure CLI as a way to avoid the clutter that is ARM templates. I ran into a limitation... which ... I don't remember anymore. Some configuration wasn't clear... Someone recommended switching to Azure Powershell... Something... ? OH - Right! I was trying to use bash - there was a…
I'm sitting in my hotel room after the [deliver:Agile2019] conference (https://www.agilealliance.org/deliveragile-2019/) which was fantastic. I highly recommend attending it next year. I have a little side project I'm trying to use to learn Azure and Azure Dev Ops. At work we use ARM templates to…
This post is absolutely a "I don't have a post" filler post. MicroObjects I'm working on a couple of refactoring "kata" type projects. One is for MicroObejct technical practices. I'm trying to do them all as "FizzBuzz" but... I'm kinda struggling for some of…
Quality-wise of this post; not gonna lie - Probably will be low. It's 7am and I'm low on posts. This isn't a bubbling pressing issue on my mind. I don't need to stream my thoughts to work through something... What I do need... is a post for this week. Soooo.…
Simpler code. Don't we all wish the code we deal with could be simple? Simple is hard. Simple is challenging. Simple is complex. A short letter is much harder to write than a long one. Why do you think my blog posts are so damn wordy? I don't put in…
There's a lot of tools that exist to make what developers to easier to do. If it's something we do a lot, we tend to find ways to have something do it for us. I've done it. I'll probably do it again. I built a little tool to automate the…
There's a lot of tools that exist to make what developers to easier to do. If it's something we do a lot, we tend to find ways to have something do it for us. I've done it. I'll probably do it again. I built a little tool to automate the…
I've had a lot of discussions around applying the MicroObject technical practices to legacy code. "These practices are clearly great for new code, but how can we work them into our existing code?" Even if it's not your definition of legacy code; it can probably be refactored -…
James Shore has a post, Testing Without Mocks, that I've recently been introduced to. Skimming through the introduction of the post, it looks like the goals of this align well with what MicroObjects give us in terms of testability. I'm going to go through the article and post my thoughts…
I have a GitHub project FluentTypes which I've written about before. The goal is to avoid the problems of Primitive Obsession. We want to represent what we're thinking. After working in MicroObjects style and using the style represented by the Fluent Types; I found a new way. To my credit,…