Dennis Roche

New posts coming soon

I've been busy with live and family. N.B. Many of the old posts need updating.

AWS CLI on Windows

The AWS CLI is extremely powerful however trying to remember the breadth of commands available is a challenge, so I set out to get autocomplete working on Windows.

Using NodaTime with EF Core

From an earlier post, you already know that I'm a fan of using NodaTime (see post Handling Date/Time with precision using NodaTime). However, there was a workaround required if you wanted to use LocalDate (or any other NodaTime type) in your Domain models as EF Core wasn't able to

testing

Logging BDDfy scenarios in .NET Core and xUnit2

How to capture your log output during tests when using Serilog and/or BDDfy

git

Pushing new branches easily

With the default git configuration you would have been frustrated with "current branch has no upstream branch. To push the current branch and set the remote as upstream"

tech-lead

Handling Date/Time with precision using NodaTime

Date and Time is one of those frustrating things in building an application that can be difficult to get right. In this post, I'll share my experiences.

dotnetcore

EF Core logging with Serilog

How to configure EF Core and Serilog so EF Core can warn when you execute a query that evaluates in-memory.

tip

SQL Server - Delete Multiple Databases

A quick #tip on deleting multiple databases using SQL Server Management Studio.

git

Creating an awesome git experience on Windows

Use git like a master on windows