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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 35 roundup

Posted on August 29, 2014 by erictummers

Last week recap and links: Fun with json and trello in powershell where Jamie shows how to have fun with invoke-restmethod and some trello API stuff Xunit Test Patterns is where to look for unittest best practices. Nuget must haves … Continue reading →

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Get Spreadsheetlight working

Posted on August 28, 2014 by erictummers

Spreadsheetlight is a dotnet library for creating Excel documents with all it’s wonderful features. The Spreadsheetlight nuget has no dependencies on nuget packages, but does have a dependency on Open XML SDK 2.0. This can be installed with the DocumentFormat.OpenXml … Continue reading →

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Week 34 roundup

Posted on August 22, 2014 by erictummers

Last week recap and links: Load Testing with Visual Studio Online is a good starting point for Cloud Load Testing Nice video about polymorph in the battle against if statements: “The Clean Code Talks” on youtube Finished the Getting Started … Continue reading →

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Azurewebsites backup with webjobs

Posted on August 18, 2014 by erictummers

We have some low traffic websites hosted in azure. Backups are important to us, but only available on the Standard web hosting plan. So we created a webjob to do it. Following Eduardo Laureano‘s post the plumbing was soon done. … Continue reading →

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Week roundup 33

Posted on August 15, 2014 by erictummers

Last week recap and links: Azure Friday Deployment Slots for Staging Sites. Nice feature I’ll be using this from now. Using smtp4dev since last week for demo purposes. Does what it says. How to batch separate & crop multiple scanned … Continue reading →

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