On a recent project I had to implement the decorator pattern to add some functionality to the existing code flow.
Not a big problem of course. However, on this project we were using Autofac for our dependency injection framework so I had to check how to implement this pattern using the framework built-in capabilities. One of the reasons I always resort to Autofac is the awesome and comprehensive documentation. It’s very complete and most of the time easy to understand.
Read more →As of late, there are a couple of Store apps which just won’t install on any of my Windows 10 machines (One Commander and Open Live Writer in case you are interested).
The message shown is:
The error code is 0x80073CF9, in case you need it.
If you do a search on the error number you’ll find numerous posts and articles explaining on how this error might be solved. As it happens, the error also occurs on Windows Phone/Mobile systems.
Read more →I’ve just started setting up some continuous deployment for my personal websites. All of the sites are hosted within Azure App Services and the sources are located on either GitHub or BitBucket. By having the source code located on a public accessible repository (be it private or public), it’s rather easy to connect Azure to these locations.
On my day-job I come across a lot of web- and desktop applications which also need continuous integration and deployment steps in order for them to go live.
Read more →When doing modern web development you will probably have to start using NPM sooner, rather than later. Not a big deal of course, since it’s a great addition to the frontend development environment.
However, most NPM packages have quite a bit of dependencies to other packages. All of these dependencies get pulled towards your system also. Still not a big problem as you want a working solution.
The problem arises when you are on a Windows environment, there are a lot of dependencies and you want to delete a project folder on your system.
Read more →As of late I’ve started using the VMWare products for virtualizing my development environments again as a replacement for Hyper-V.
Today I wanted to access some files of my virtual machine on the host in order to write a blog post on some code I had saved in there. The VMWare disk files are stored as a VMDK file and it’s not possible to mount these type of files in Windows like a VHD file.
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