Death of a Team

Q: What’s the fastest way to run a project into the ground? A: Ask the team how long it’ll take, then give them a shorter amount of time to complete it. Recursive Failure Once upon a time, I worked on a project that had the stink of death about it. It was old code, had […]

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Get Your Web API Playing Nicely With SignalR on OWIN with Autofac

Niche, right? Yes. But this has caused me a day of headaches so posting here to save anyone else from the pain. WebAPI Say we already have Autofac set-up with your WebAPI. So we have something like this: var builder = new ContainerBuilder(); builder.RegisterApiControllers(Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly()); builder.RegisterAssemblyModules(Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly()); // Register the Autofac middleware FIRST, then the Autofac Web […]

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Switch Out Your Raygun API Key Depending on Web API Cloud Configuration

Raygun is an excellent tool that lets you know about more errors in your app than you would ever dare to fear were present. Configuration is easy: install the NuGet package, add a couple of lines to your web.config and you’re ready to go. When done, your config file will include: <section name=”RaygunSettings” type=”Mindscape.Raygun4Net.RaygunSettings, Mindscape.Raygun4Net”/> […]

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