SonarCloud is the hosted version of the popular SonarQube code quality tool from SonarSource that provides tooling to analyse code for quality, vulnerabilities and bugs. The main features of SonarCloud are: SonarCloud is free for Open Source projects however offer a range of paid plans to suit your individual needs. If you Read more…
In part 3 of this blog post series we configured our first Azure DevOps CI/CD pipeline. In this post we will enhance our pipeline to create a NuGet package for our Twitter Sentiment Analysis library then publish this to a private Azure Artifacts feed ready for consumption in our Web Application. Read more…
In part 2 of this blog post series we started to build out our Twitter Sentiment Analysis functionality and tests, this blog post will cover pushing our library to GitHub and creating our first CI/CD pipeline using Azure DevOps services. I’m assuming you are familiar with Git and GitHub. If you Read more…
In part 1 of this blog post series we introduced the application we will be building. This post will cover building out our Twitter Sentiment Analysis functionality using C#, Asp.Net Core and xUnit.net for our tests. To get started we will create a folder for our library and tests, open your command Read more…
In this 9 part blog post series (link to all posts at bottom of this page), I revisit the Sentiment Analysis application I developed for Wholeschool as part of our Pluralsight course on IBM BlueMix now rebranded IBM Cloud (If you have a Pluralsight account be sure to check out the course!) During the Read more…
What is CoreBDD? CoreBDD is a lightweight open-source Behaviour-Driven Development framework built on-top of the popular xUnit.net testing tool that enables tests using the Gherkin language. All code is available on GitHub and packages ready to use in your project can be found on NuGet For those unfamilar with ‘Gherkin’, it is a Business Readable, Domain Specific Language created Read more…
If you are using the OpenAPI standard for your Rest API’s on .NET Core you will probably be familiar with the Swagger tools that enable you to quickly generate definitions for your Web API endpoints. With a few lines of code you can enable Swagger and Swagger-UI using the awesome Swashbuckle Read more…
I have been exploring functional programming lately and looking at adding some functional approaches to a sub-set of a codebase I’m in the process of refactoring, particularly around making some of the core domain model immutable to ensure less side affects and make testing easier as an added bonus. I Read more…