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…
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 th…
Day two of my Jim Stoppani 'Full-Body Shortcut to Size' routine and performed 2 new exercises that I haven't done before. The first new exercise was a Standing Pulldown, which is a hybrid exercise between the wide grip lat pulldown and the seated row. You can see Jim Stoppani perform this exercise i…
That's my first day completed on this new program and first thing I have noticed is it takes a bit of time to get through all of the exercises, even at a low weight. I had approx 45 minutes today however will try to budget a full hour going forward to allow for recovery time between sets.Todays work…
First day back at the office after a nice Christmas break, with too much junk food and beers. Along with the first day back to work, its also my first gym session of 2019! The past 2 years training having been very intermittant after our first child arrived (who still doesn't like to sleep much) but…
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 unf…
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 project…
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.…
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