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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.

nServiceBus message versions

Our integration project was going well until we actually integrated with other parties. Our tests passed, their tests passed, but integration failed. After inspecting both implementations I noticed a difference in version of the messages assembly. (0.4.0.0 vs 1.0.0.27) In … Continue reading

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Why you should TDD

In a recent code review I noticed a bug that was undetected by the unit tests. Read: all tests passed, but the code was wrong. When asked the developer confessed the unit tests were created after the code was created. … Continue reading

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Week 24 roundup

Last week recap and links: Octopus deploy is working on a delte compression implementation. They need help to beta test it. Entity Framework migrations in a development team video Image courtesy of kanate / FreeDigitalPhotos.net What are your best reads … Continue reading

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Browserstack screenshot followup

I asked browserstack for a reaction on the timeout in my Browserstack first look post. They upgraded my account to include the Defer Time option for free, but no candy. We use Selenium to automatically capture the screenshots. It seems … Continue reading

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Octopus deploy export – import

Imagine you don’t have acces to a customer’s serverpark but still want to use a central octopus deploy server. Now you can export that release from your octopus deploy server and import it into the (local) installation on the customer’s … Continue reading

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