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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.

Test async webservice call with a Task

Posted on February 11, 2013 by erictummers

We have a number of services in our project. Our clients include WPF, iOS, Android and Web. To have the best interoperability we communicate over http and expose WSDL for proxy generation. This means we cannot change the contracts or … Continue reading →

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Compat inspector fiddler rule

Posted on February 11, 2013 by erictummers

Origional post here. My version of the fiddler CustomRules.js file below.

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if this than that

Posted on February 1, 2013 by erictummers

Every programmer knows the if statement. Now there is a service that provides a visual way of defining the statement called IFTTT. Gift without the ‘G’ What is so special about that, we all know Visual Programming languages? IFTTT uses … Continue reading →

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Implement Interface as virtual methods

Posted on January 18, 2013 by erictummers

A best pratice in Object Oriented Programming is the use of Interfaces. When applied correctly it simplifies unit testing. But watch out for the pitfall of default implementation by Visual Studio. Below is an example how this can bite you. … Continue reading →

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Disable Hyper-V internal virtual switch to get instant internet after boot-up

Posted on January 9, 2013 by erictummers

Recently I noticed getting a usable internet connection took a long time after boot-up. After the login screen, I would switch to the desktop and start Internet Explorer. The window was empty for quite some time, but when it showed … Continue reading →

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