Introducing Trickery: Make Claude Code Generate Nice Diagrams
A Coding Agent friendly tool to magically generate text and image artifacts like diagrams.
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Thoughts on software engineering, technology, and building things.
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Making Your Repository AI-Ready
My experience of transitioning from human-first to AI-ready repositories packed to six practices that enable effective AI coding agents: feedback loops, entry points, specifications, progressive disclosure, skills, and testing documentation.
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AWS App Runner as of December 2021
A review of AWS App Runner service capabilities and limitations at the end of 2021.
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Your Very Own Private Docker Registry for Kubernetes on Azure ACR
Setting up Azure Container Registry as a private Docker registry for your Kubernetes cluster.
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Your Very Own Kubernetes Cluster on Azure ACS
Guide to setting up and running a Kubernetes cluster on Azure Container Service.
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Simple Serverless Data Pipeline Using AWS Kinesis and AWS Lambda
Building a serverless data pipeline with AWS Kinesis streams and Lambda functions.
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The Most Easy Way to Try TensorFlow Anywhere Including Windows
Quick setup guide for running TensorFlow on any platform, including Windows.
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Where do we keep our application configuration settings?
Discussion about application configuration management strategies.
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Web-related development tools I used in 2011
A review of web development tools and technologies used throughout 2011.
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PsGet News #1: features, new modules, challenges
Updates on PsGet including new features, modules, and development challenges.
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Script to commit with message taken from JIRA ticket
Automating git commits with messages extracted from JIRA tickets.
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Health monitoring for our production
Setting up health monitoring for production systems.
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How do we automatically deploy with Mercurial and TeamCity
Implementing automatic deployment pipelines using Mercurial and TeamCity.
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Execute business logic in separate application domain
Isolating business logic execution in separate .NET application domains.
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IEnumerable could be considered harmful…
Exploring potential pitfalls and issues with IEnumerable in .NET.
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PsGet got its very own central directory
Announcing the central module directory for PsGet.
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Download files with PowerShell
How to download files using PowerShell scripts.
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Transfer files with PowerShell Remoting
Using PsRemoteFiles to transfer files via PowerShell Remoting.
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Introducing PsUrl and PsGet
Introduction to PsUrl for downloading web content and PsGet for PowerShell module management.
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Kiev ALT.NET: First event dedicated to DDD and CQRS
Yep! We are moving on. Welcome our first event.
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Node.NET: Modern non-blocking IO API in .NET
Introducing innovative stuff in .NET.
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Mock friendly System.Reflection API, positive changes in .NET 4.0
Overview of the mocking in System.Reflection API. Some good changes in .NET 4.0
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UNETA talk how F# could be used by virtually normal people
I think, now is good time to make small talk what F# is all about. Announce of the upcoming UNETA talk on subject.
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Ideal Storage for Event Sourcing
Some subjective thoughts about potential storage dedicated for Event Sourcing.
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Reactive Extensions API: Domain Events Example
Example Domain Events implementation with Reactive Extensions. Probably first example of the server side business logic with Rx.
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Does Event Sourcing work with DDD?
Kind of yet another technique to organize business logic.
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.NET 4.0: New and useful LINQ extensions to IEnumerable
Cool stuff that comes with Reactive Framework API. Hope it really will be part of .NET 4.0
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FsSpec: Introducing yet another Unit Testing/BDD framework for F#
Yet another Unit Testing/BDD framework for F#. Inspired by RSpec syntax.
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Can you guess error in this Java code snippet?
I love "guess error" kind of posts. This is first of mine. Snippet is all about GWT Java code.
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Early review: Master Data Services November CTP
First attempt to view on the Microsoft Master Data Services November 2009 CTP.
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What to watch at PDC09?
Small reviews of the PDC09 videos/sessions.
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Microsoft Office Outlook 2010: How to connect e-mail account hosted on Windows Live Custom Domains?
Funny, but Microsoft Office Outlook 2010 does not support e-mail accounts hosted on Windows Live Custom Domains. I found not less funny solution.
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Google Wave - GWT is probably a wrong technology choice
Inspired by Google Wave invitation, thoughts about suitability of the GWT for RIA.
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Not so generic Generic Repository
Nice (at least I hope) solution that will end war between people who use generic repository and who do not.
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Simple WCF Client by contract and without svcutil
You can share contracts of the WCF service? Here you can find a much more robust way to instantiate a client.
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Semantic meaning of the read methods
What is the difference between GetOrder(id) and FindOrder(id)?
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Thoughts on non-blocking sequential number generation
Failed take to design non-blocking sequential number generation.
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Code-generation DSL with T4 (Text Templates)
Bored with repetitive code? Need a real example of T4 (Text Templates)? Need tools to write .NET Configuration Sections? This post is all about this stuff.
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ASP.NET MVC Web Services (Part #1)
What do you think about ASP.NET MVC as a platform for web service based applications? What about JSON Web Services? Possibly you would like that.
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Application Services, to be or not to be
We dropped out Application Layer. And nothing changed. This post is all about overuse of the Application Layer.
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The right way to do INNER JOIN in LINQ to Entity
Despite my last belief, that code will not fly into production. Why? Because I found the right way to do INNER JOIN in Entity Framework!
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Data Access approaches in our application
We are building regular enterprise application. Domain is boring. The only interesting thing is technologies. Today is a good time to share how we do Data Access.
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Always call IDisposable.Dispose! Sure? No!
Personally, guidance to dispose everything looks a bit overwhelmed. I show BinaryWriter as one example of "broken" IDisposable implementations.
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History of the one LINQ to Entities query
The story about progressive enhancements to a single LINQ to Entities query. Some stuff to know when doing LINQ.
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Make your DbPro generated test data look better
Following post is about generating readable data for your staging database with DbPro. You will find list of expressions for the Regular Expression Generator.
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Stuff to know when starting with ADO.NET Data Services
My journey with ADO.NET Data Services. This should be interesting for anyone who starts with ADO.NET Data Services.
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My old-old code/projects. The landing page
From time to time it happens, some code becomes outdated. And I have some of such code. This post is all about such code/projects.
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Read all lines of the file with Java, Ruby and C#
Compare how to read all lines of the text file with Ruby, Java and C#.
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T4 (Text Templates) - The Beginning
Introduction to the T4 (Text Templates), nothing interesting if you already have used T4.
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Virtual by default, is that good or not?
Discussion about Java "virtual by default" behavior compared to C#.
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Dependency Injection versus Dependency Inversion
What is Dependency Injection (DI), Dependency Inversion (also DI), Inversion of Control (IoC) and so on.
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Templates for Templates: T4 Template for Visual Studio 2008
Funny thing, there are no templates for T4 (Text Templates) in Visual Studio 2008! Well, this is a fix.
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Today's information magic, stolen in 5 minutes
I stole a book in 5 minutes. Today's realities.
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DDD: Not in love with the Domain Services! Hope I am not along!
I do not love Domain Services. And this post describes why!
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Welcome!
To be honest, main intent of this entry is not to welcome you… This would be plain boring… Isn't it? Rather it for the testing purposes. Plus I am not sure that my blog can handle empty pages.