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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.

Rhino ServiceBus Saga

I’m a huge fan of Rhino Mocks and have written about it on this blog. Today I read that Ayende has an implementation for a Service Bus. Like nServicebus but “free”, even Udi Dahan talks about it. Now I take … Continue reading

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Visual Studio Shims and Fakes

Microsoft Visual Studio 2013 includes Fakes (Premium and above) to isolate existing code. This involves intercepting calls to the framework and rerouting them to Shims. These Shims are created by right clicking a reference and selecting “Add Fakes Assembly”. But … Continue reading

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Week roundup

Last week recap and links: Rextester lets you edit, compile and run code online Safely simplify TFS queries with a Current iteration path, TFS iteration quidance / best practice Koffieschaap (dutch) internet nonsense about random facts Image courtesy of kanate … Continue reading

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Windows 8.1 Reliability Monitor

Thanks to Scott Hanselman’s tool list I started using the Reliability Monitor. It is located in Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\Action Center\Reliability Monitor. Below is a screenshot of the report on my computer. Before the only days my computer had … Continue reading

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SQLite WARNING: Type mapping failed

The log of our product started showing SQLite warnings. We ignored them to focus on the release. Now it was time to repro and fix the warnings. After reading the verbose log we found the issue. Unknown datatypes are allowed … Continue reading

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