Author Archives: simon

I’ve recently worked on some ETL tasks where there is a requirement to to show what has changed between different versions of datasets. LINQ and a custom IEqualityComparer eats this problem for breakfast:

WCF defaults to buffering the entire message before transmitting. It is possible to stream your data so data can start to be processed on the server or client before it entirely transmitted. Comprehensive documentation can be found on Set server … Continue reading →

Create a host application, such as a Console Application for easy testing Add a reference to System.ServiceModel Add a service interface such as : Add a service implementation : Host the service as you wish: And a minimal app.config file … Continue reading →

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More for my own recall than anything, but this feature of Moq that I hadn’t seen before solved an issue. If you need to return different results on each invocation of a method: Moq SetupSequence

I’m a complete CouchDB novice. Here is what I learnt in the first few hours. What is it? tldr – It’s a document database, that heavily uses http for querying and administration Installation Setting up a dev environment on a … Continue reading →

An extension of my short term memory: revert changes to file git checkout <filespec> create a new local branch and switch to it git checkout -b <branch_name> create a new local branch git branch <branch_name> switch branch git checkout <branch_name> … Continue reading →

I’ve been taking a look at emacs – this is my brain dump so far – mainly taken from the in-built tutorial Navigation Move forward a page Ctrl+v Move backward a page Meta+v Move to next line Ctrl+n Move to … Continue reading →

Many moons ago (at least 18 months ago), I had a stored procedure that let me search for text in DML in the databases. Yeah, so I could search for “Order” and it would find all mentions in SPs, functiosn … Continue reading →