Rikard Ottosson on software, systems and the people around them
As my father’s son I have always been raised to see the plucky heroes at AT&T and Bell Labs, Brian Kernighan and Ken Ritchie as the Jedi, fighting with the light side of the force, thus foregoing force lightning and read…
There is a philosophical aspect to request validation. When receiving user input you must make sure it is safe to process, and multiple libraries and frameworks exist to help you with this. Also, when creating instances …
I recently had to look at API versioning for ASP.NET Core 2.0 APIs for work. We looked at aspnet-api-versioninghttps://www.troyhunt.com/your-api-versioning-is-wrong-which-is/ and contrasted that with Troy Hunt’s You are …
After not really seeing the value of console replacements in Windows I have completely come around.…
Loads of stuff has happened since my last post. I changed jobs. Doing a lot more .NET Core now. Better commute. Still working with really clever people. Anyway – that isn’t the point.…
I just deleted an old post because I re-read it and I was attempting my own crypto on config files instead of using DPAPI. I reserve the right to delete old posts if they turn out to be complete bollocks.…
In my previous post I discussed what you can and shall automate in terms of your development environment and I speculated in one place about what one ought to do with the web.config file in Visual Studio. I have made a s…
Passwords are a – for the most part – necessary evil in our connected lives. There has to be a way to know that you are you in a transaction, and a piece of information that only you and your counterpart know about seems…
Regarding the previous post about running Linux processes on Windows, I have noticed a few common questions and the corresponding answers at various places on the Internet.…
After my previous posthttps://opinionmachine.wordpress.com/2016/03/26/desktop-os-for-developers/, Microsoft and Canonical reacted almost immediately – ahem – and on the //BUILD/ conference the Windows Subsystem for Linux…
F has two key features that makes the code very compact. Significant whitespace and forced compilation order.…
Trying to orchestrate and automate distributed tests with powershell leads to things such as using remote powershell or psexec to start tests on VMs and to use PSDrives to set up tests and collect logs.…
I am extending some tests we are running in powershell. It is used to validate that the chef configs we are setting up so that all moving parts are running.…
I’ve been trying out VS14 CTP4, doing some code katas and I was thinking if there is a better way I could set up my Visual Studio environment. The NuGet console works well for running tests on the command line or committ…
I have tried to get my head around PowerShell for a while, and I’ve read blogs by Scott Hanselman about PsReadline and PoshGit and decided to finally get on with it and use it properly.…
So, later than everybody else I installed Win10 tech preview.…
I have relocated to the Southeastern outskirts of London with my family since I last posted. After 5 years with Jayway it was strange to leave, but a new adventure in a new country awaited. I started working at Cloudhous…
I have seen a bunch of uninformed blogs on LinkedIn about the state of large corporations with conclusions based only on hardware preferences of the author, loose speculation and nothing else. I thought why don’t I blog …
Hopefully this won’t be an issue forever, but still…
When fiddling with database relations in an Azure database you quickly notice you are on your own in terms of tooling in a way that you’re not used to from Microsoft. Metadata however is available so you can work around …
I am in no way affiliated with the brilliant blog of the name http://fsharpforfunandprofit.com/http://fsharpforfunandprofit.com/. I wish I was, but no, I just remembered the phrase and used it as a headline, sorry.It is …
Early Bird campaign ends in two weeks, Aug 15http://oredev.org/2013 "Early Bird campaign ends in two weeks, Aug 15"…
Trying to save face. I guess transparency would make things better.…
I have been thinking some more about a simple email + calendar service for Linux. I have tried a couple of ready-made groupware solutions but they seem not QUITE right FOR me. I want to rip off the ideas that GMail has s…
As the climate approaches acceptability in Sweden it’s time for the annual Lightening of the Mood, which is what Scandinavians do when the hiatus of gloom occurs that follows the sun coming out of hibernation and the imp…
Many of the companies in the former Way Group have now fusioned under the name Jayway, among them my beloved Dotway.…
Dotway’s own Stefan Severin, who is a senior expert in SOA and who has had practical experience with WCF since before it was just a gleam in daddy’s eyes, has now created a bloghttp://stefanseverin.wordpress.com/ "Stefan…