Kelly - Senior Software Architect

Next-gen Tech Demystified

Kelly — Tue, 25 Feb 2020 21:02:11 +0000

The Future Looks Grand There are several future lines of development I am looking forward to coming to fruition. Technologically, we seem to be near several inflection points that will radically change our lives in the future. The following is a quick list of some next-gen high points I’m excited about. 3D Metal Printing Sintered-metal…

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Using Enter-VsDevShell in PowerShell Consoles

Kelly — Wed, 04 Sep 2019 16:04:08 +0000

A New Way to Add Visual Studio Tools to Your PowerShell Environment With Enter-VsDevShell PowerShell All the Things For many years I’ve enjoyed using a PowerShell console as my go-to CLI for interacting with .NET projects and solutions. So one of the first things I do when provisioning a new developer machine is grab a…

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PowerShell Dynamic Parameters: Moving Among Branches

Kelly — Tue, 07 Feb 2017 20:37:52 +0000

Efficiency Branches, anyone? I am currently working on a large integration project that uses a PowerShell script within each sub-module to manage building, deploying and even launching Visual Studio. Due to a reliance on code namespaces matching with folder structures, these PowerShell scripts are sprinkled all over a large directory structure. Fortunately, they are well-named…

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Self-Hosted Integration Testing Of OData and Web API

Kelly — Fri, 15 Jan 2016 18:42:27 +0000

Full-stack Testing of OData 4.0 and Web API 2.2 ASP.Net MVC Controllers Why Are Unit Tests of OData Web API Controllers Insufficient? A common pattern for testing ASP.Net Web API 2 controller methods is to call them directly after mocking or setting up the Request and Configuration properties. When OData v4 is then added to…

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How I Became A Vim Rockstar In Visual Studio

Kelly — Wed, 23 Sep 2015 21:32:29 +0000

A Brief History Lesson As a software developer, we spend a lot of our time using text editors. Most text editors follow the Emacs standard that harkens all the way back to the 1970s and the venerable PDP-10. Emacs’ WYSIWYG style of editing is best suited to a stream-of-consciousness and linear style of editing. The…

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Deploying Windows Services With Psake and Web Deploy

Kelly — Mon, 29 Jun 2015 19:00:15 +0000

A Simplified Way to Deploy New Releases At IntelliTect, a common pattern of our client solutions are windows services that process work on either a scheduled basis or watch a file location. We often use a combination of the Topshelf framework with the TopShelf.Quartz job scheduling package to solve these problems. These packages expose a…

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