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How to port a .NET framework project to .NET Core including tests - A Guide

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So you want to port your project to .Net Core and don't know how? Are you reluctant to let go of your traditional .Net Framework targeting but want to have a taste of the new .Net buzz?  Is the information on the subject incomplete or too confusing (yes it usually is). Well you have come to the right place.  TL;DR This is guide. It will hopefully save you time. Rejoice. A tale of two frameworks (well actually 3)  I will make this one short and sweet and let this article tell the tale. I recommend to read this article  before you continue:  .NET Standard - Demystifying .NET Core and .NET Standard . To port or not to port It depends If this is your production code and there is no prospect to run it in a platform other than windows then maybe not.  If it is a huge complicated project then maybe not If it is your open source baby maybe yes If it is a new project and you see the benefit of it being cross platform maybe yes The considerations are many and it is up to you

It's been a hard year's... coding - Happy Holidays 2017!

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I have found myself lately learning all sorts of new things. I am mostly using this very known video courses web site. Every course is between 5-10 hours broken down to sections and clips. And this is when my mind goes blank  TL;DR sometimes you need to take a break. Take your brain to.. golf Regardless on whether you are coding, reading a technical book or taking an online course at some point or another you may find yourself being stuck on he same lines of code, or paragraph in a book, or rewinding the video of that course. This is it; your brain has had enough. You need to "F5" your brain cells. And this you do by either getting up and taking and stroll around the cubicles or get out in the open air and have your eyes look towards the horizon.. or.. whatever makes your brain disconnect for a while from the task at hand. So towards the new year and in the midst of the holiday season and the time resolutions are being made through the best intentions of being kep

On job hunts and recruiters

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Job hunting for a software developer is a full time job. One polishes and hones one's skills and CV, scours the placement advertising sites and goes out to the world to seek one's next challenge. Ever since the late '90s of the previous century some things have changed and some have not when it comes to looking for a new job. TL;DR tech recruiters have changed . Online presence and you Towards the end of the last century all we had was CVs and not so polished web sites to send our CVs to. Placement companies did their best to make their sites shiny and down the road they even had job posts online with an appropriate submit button to post your CV for a position. In time they also made agents for you to set your job preferences and have the agent send you a notification when a relevant search came up with results. And then somewhere in the second decade of the new century something changed. Your online presence became much more important, not only when looking for a j

Distributed monolith - a microservices nightmare

"... and then the interviewer coined an expression. I stared wide eyed as it hit me... microservices or not the monolith looms behind every feature... and it is a distributed monolith" TL ;DR not what y ou think read on. From monolith to microservices to monolith What is it that fascinates developers all over the world with microservices? Some say it is the separation of concerns into tiny services focused on one task. Some say it is the scaling capabilities the architecture provides. Others like the fact that there is no single point of failure. Or is there? I came across this video and article  by Ben Christensen about the perils of a miscoservice architecture to become a distributed monolith. And then it hit me. It is not only what is described in the article as signs and perils of a distributed monolith. Consider a set of microservices "perfectly" orchestrated. They each pass around different DTOs, even if duplicate ones, that can evolve in separate p