Sunday, July 31, 2016

Can I port my application to .NET Core?

I am very excited about .NET Core, and I am looking forward to porting my projects to it. Generally porting your own code is a straight forward task, but updating all of your dependencies can be quite daunting. Good news: the guys over at Octopus have built an awesome little site that helps you determine the state of your dependencies!

I Can Has .NET Core

Enjoy,
Tom

Sunday, July 24, 2016

Make your NuGet Server use NLog

The latest version of NuGet.Server is fast, stable, and super simple to setup. As for most .NET tools, Scott Hanselman already create a great write up about how to use it.

However, I was very disappointed at how unintuitive it was to get wire up a custom logger!

You need to take several steps to make the official NuGet server write to something like NLog:

  1. Create a log wrapper.
  2. Implement NuGet.Server.Logging.ILogger.
  3. Implement NuGet.ILogger...
  4. ...which also makes you implement NuGet.IFileConflictResolver!
  5. Implement your own NuGet.Server.IServiceResolver
  6. When instantiating ServerPackageRepository...
  7. ...pass in the ILogger...
  8. ...AND set the Logger property!

Still confused? Pull the code here, or take a look below!

Sunday, July 17, 2016

Should you open source your software?

Every Tuesday I help host the QQ Cast, where we fabricate answers to geek culture's most superfluous questions. For our 50th Quest, my good friend Matt Stevenson joined us to talk about open source software.

QQ Cast - Quest 50 - Should you open source your software?

  • 00:00 - Mic Check and Introductions
  • 05:30 - Is "Expand Enhance Extinguish" still alive and well?
  • 19:40 - Can we build a sustainable infrastructure without open source software?
  • 33:00 - How much structure do we like to see in our frameworks?
  • 40:50 - What are some great open source projects?
  • 47:15 - Was heartbleed a good thing or a bad thing?
  • 54:30 - Does contributing to open source projects help your resume?
  • 60:00 - Should you open source your software?
  • 70:00 - Wrap up!

Please always remember that all views and opinions expressed on the podcast are representative solely of the person expressing them; not of their friends and family, not of their coworkers, and certainly not of their employers, past, present, or future.

Enjoy,
Tom

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