Aug 23, 2022Passing parameters to NUnit tests using Azure PipelinesThere are various use cases for passing parameters to our tests, e.g. providing environmental configuration. In this guide, I will demonstrate how this can be achieved in Azure Pipelines using NUnit as a test framework. In your solution Create a local .runsettings file In the root of your solution, create an XML file named .runsettings which will define…Azure Pipelines3 min readAzure Pipelines3 min read
Jun 26, 20222D game development in Godot 3.4This article chronicles some things I discovered when I built my first 2D game prototype using the Godot Engine. For those interested, the game itself is available to play on itch.io. Note that, although this is written in the form of a tutorial, it’s not a complete guide to creating…Godot12 min readGodot12 min read
May 18, 2022Debugging into NuGet packagesThis is a straightforward article that describes how you can step into a NuGet package while debugging your project. I’m assuming that you have access to the source code for the package. Debugging options First, you need to allow Visual Studio to debug other people’s code. Choose Options from the Tools menu…Visual Studio2 min readVisual Studio2 min read
Mar 14, 2022Ensemble programmingCollaborative coding as a remote team — Originally published on the Saratoga website. For over a year now, my team and I have been dabbling in so-called “mob programming”. Initially, we had been pair programming for a long time and found that this style of programming worked well for us. Then the team started growing. It was…Programming6 min readProgramming6 min read
Mar 3, 2022Azure Application Insights for web and desktopApplication Insights is a feature of Azure that provides performance monitoring, trace logging and even Google Analytics-style usage tracking for your applications. It is part of the Azure Monitor service, Microsoft’s solution for observability of your cloud ecosystem. In this article, I will describe the steps for introducing Application Insights…Azure5 min readAzure5 min read
Published in CodeX·Aug 5, 2021SQL unit testing with Redgate and tSQLtWhen my team and I deal with a hairy piece of logic, we often find it useful to write unit tests for the relevant code. This helps us define and document our expectations, lifts the burden of manual testing, and gives us peace of mind that new code changes won’t…Unit Testing9 min readUnit Testing9 min read
Jun 10, 2021Free Pascal in Visual Studio CodeThis article is about setting up things so that you can code, compile and debug Free Pascal from Visual Studio Code. This can be useful if you’re doing non-GUI work and you don’t want to rely on the full-blown Lazarus IDE. It also allows Windows users to write and test…Visual Studio Code6 min readVisual Studio Code6 min read
May 2, 2021Build and deploy with Travis CI and AWS S3Travis CI is a website that allows you to implement many such features for free and links to repositories on GitHub. As an experiment, I used it to build and deploy my JavaScript application to an S3 bucket on AWS. …Continuous Integration6 min readContinuous Integration6 min read
Jan 9, 2021Hosting an Azure DevOps build agent on Linux using Oracle CloudIn an earlier article, I explored running my Azure Pipelines builds on a custom build agent using a Windows VM in the AWS cloud. Today, I will attempt a similar thing, but this time using a Linux VM in the Oracle Cloud. …Azure5 min readAzure5 min read
Dec 27, 2020Getting started with mORMot and Lazarus/Free PascalThis article describes steps for setting up Lazarus with mORMot so that you can start using this wonderful, diverse framework in your Free Pascal projects. You can find the Delphi version here. Getting Lazarus Find and download the binaries for your preferred installation of Lazarus here on the Free Pascal wiki. …Lazarus4 min readLazarus4 min read
