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About erictummers

Working in a DevOps team is the best thing that happened to me. I like challenges and sharing the solutions with others. On my blog I’ll mostly post about my work, but expect an occasional home project, productivity tip and tooling review.

Week roundup

Posted on September 11, 2015 by erictummers

Last week recap and links: Autorest on Azure Friday. Using swagger to generate proxy code to REST API, like you would use WSDL for a webservice ARM and PowerShell DSC working together to create and provision a VM I’m running … Continue reading →

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Using log4net

Posted on September 9, 2015 by erictummers

We are using log4net in our project. It works great. Here are some links and tips to get you started. In this tutorial on codeproject you can read all the details and even see a video about it. Very good … Continue reading →

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XML data type for storing messages

Posted on September 7, 2015 by erictummers

We want to store xml message in a database for batch processing, logging and retention. For some time now Sql Server offers the xml data type for columns. This way we could index the xml, validate it with an xsd … Continue reading →

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Week roundup

Posted on September 4, 2015 by erictummers

Last week recap and links: Octopus deploy 3.1 pre-release, offers reporting now MSDN benefits for Azure just got bigger, now I get €130 with my Premium subscription aTV Flash (black) is updated just before Apple announces the new Apple TV … Continue reading →

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XPath for robust message handling

Posted on September 2, 2015 by erictummers

Consider the xml message below Mapping this to a class would make it tightly coupled. Any change to the message would mean an update to the class. We expect some minor changes to the XSD / XML message but only … Continue reading →

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