What is actual state of .NET Core development for those who write NUnit tests?

Can we write cross-platform applications testing them with NUnit?

Is there are project templates like xUnit has?

Is there a tooling support for NUnit on par with xUnit and MSTest?

Couple days ago I asked myself these three questions. Here I'll show the results of exploration on the first day of summer 2017.

What if you have HTTP API based on protocol buffers and you want to add XML support to the API? You'd like to have one source of truth and you already have much of protocol buffer message definitions? You have unwanted option to write XSD Schema manually which is error-prone. Here I'll show how you can automate XSD schema generation from existing protocol buffers message definitions.

I have Google Analytics and Yandex Metrica counters embedded on this site and I have monitored site activity for a while. One metric I have worried about was site performance. Yes, this blog is jekyll-based static site. Can there be performance issues with static site content? I thought no, but Yandex Metrica shows me that performance issues are here. It may be slow 3G internet is in the game or I have Moscow's shared hosting issues, I can't be too sure. Here I'll show how to start using Content Delivery Network using Cloudflare as an example.

In my post from 2015 on build process of my jekull-based blog, I'd implemented my blog deploy script with Gulp. It featured with html/css/js checking and minification. It was very usable for final deploying of blog to hosting, but not much convenient when I wrote the posts.

Here is an explanation how I'd integrated browser-sync into my process.

I'll show simple way how to move all elements values to attributes for simple types (like string) in your XML.

I have discovered five advanced techniques I didn't knew before.

There is a few difficulties in how to start signing content in NodeJS with GOST algorithms. Let's fight with them.

Google Protobuf v3 library which have cmake support out of the box is in beta for now. What you can do if you'd like to use latest stable release of Google Protobuf on Windows? What if your project is cmake based? In this article I'll show the solution.

Suddenly, I have participated in publishing Diadoc SDK for Java to open source last week. I have no experience in Java development before and my task was to automate building and deploying of existing Java project. In this article I'll share my feeling about Java development and some maven tips I have faced with.

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS is available now. Unfortunately, standard way for upgrading is not worked for me. Here I'll show dirty way to upgrade Ubuntu installation that works for me.

There are many guides how to upgrade your project to ASP.NET MVC 5. Some really useful official guides provide only the changing assembly versions solution. Is it so easy task as it seems? Let's review my experience.

Sometimes one picture can say more than much of words. In many situations when we need to explain or understand something, we starts to draw some entities on paper and links them by arrows instinctly. Article covers the way how to draw uml diagrams in plain text using plantuml tool.

Last time we started watching nodejs hanging on several TeamCity build agents when they builds website static content with webpack. Hanging was detected when nodejs was loading npm-package from our locally installed GitLab Community repository (here and after gitlab.com):

• nodejs cloned git-repository by ssh
• git executes ssh

• ssh thought git-host untrusted and issue user prompt for adding this host to known_hosts file like:

  The authenticity of host 'gitlab.com (<ip-address>)' can't be established.
  RSA key fingerprint is SHA256:<public-key>.
  Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no)?
  

• executing git-cloning hanging until user enters yes in console

For now I have Ubuntu 15.10 system with mono installed. To run and use GitExtensions on linux I have installed mono runtime (that's more important, at least libmono-system-windows-forms library needed).

To install GitExtensions actually a few steps needed:

There is slippery place when you create new .NET 4.5 executable in Visual Studio 2012-2013 I learned today. .NET 4.5 executable project has new checkbox called "Prefer 32-bit", that .NET 4 and earlier doesn't have.

Today I finally implemented my blog's tags page. The goal was to give two presentations of tags: one sorted by name and second sorted by posts count. That was very hard to implement in liquid only and finally I wrote custom liquid filter for this task. In this post I will go through steps I made to final solution.

In this article I'll show how you can automate building jekyll site with gulp ready for production hosting.

From my expirience of working with PJSUA2, the correct way to exit is to ensure that destructors of all calls are called before pj::Account destructor and desturctor for pj::Account is called before pj::Endpoint destructor.

How to defeat mystical compiler error C2039 's_addr' is not a member of 'in_addr'

Explain how to automate generation resource file with version info with CMake