NCrunch – Do your Testing in Real-Time
There are several tricks you can use to be super-productive as a developer, but one of the most beneficial is the ability to have real-time feedback on the code you are writing. Today, I’m going to...
View ArticleTech Debt – You can’t put maintenance last if you want to drive a race car
SPYDERMAN360, CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0, via Wikimedia Commons The Nurture Bit When I was growing up, I spent part of my summers with my grandparents in Oklahoma. I was...
View ArticleHow should we secure our internal application, but still make it easily...
Happy Cyber-security awareness month! Security is the theme this month, so we felt it would be appropriate to take a look at some best practices to help ensure your internal applications have been...
View ArticleSecuring Octopus Deploy Variables in AWS
Octopus Deploy is a great tool for managing deployments. One of its most powerful features is how it organizes variables. The ability to scope variable values to environments, specific targets, and...
View ArticleSecuring Octopus Deploy Variables in Azure
Octopus Deploy is a great tool for managing deployments. One of its most powerful features is how variables are organized. Granting the ability to scope variables to various environments, targets,...
View Article.Net 6 Blazor WASM in Azure Container App
dotnet 6 was recently released as was Azure’s new container app in preview. I recently went through the process of creating and deploying a dotnet 6 Blazor web assembly (WASM) project to this new Azure...
View ArticleBlazor WebAssembly (Hosted) with Okta Authentication in 10 minutes
What are we building? The goal of this post is to create a simple ASP.NET Core Hosted Blazor WebAssembly website with an authentication mechanism using Okta as the identity provider. Since WebAssembly...
View ArticleHow to Simplify Octopus Deploy Focusing on Environments
Octopus Deploy is an amazing tool for managing deployments. It is easily customizable to fit any need and has an intuitive interface for getting started. Successfully deploying packages with Octopus...
View ArticleGit Aliases: Be more productive with the Git Command Line
Here at Clear Measure we like to think we know what’s what and how’s how. When it comes to being powerful with Git, there’s still (often) no beating the command line by leveraging Git aliases. Here are...
View ArticleWhat is MassTransit & How to Use it with Messaging Systems
Chris Patterson is active in the open-source community and has created many projects, including MassTransit, a distributed application framework for .NET. He is a Principal Architect at McKesson, the...
View Article.NET CORE to .NET 6 Error-Free Upgrade Made Easy
The upgrade from previous versions of .NET to .NET 6 can cause both build errors and runtime errors. The build errors can be easy to fix because you are notified and prevented from building the...
View ArticleHosting a .NET 6 Minimal API in AWS Lambda
The .NET 6 runtime for AWS Lambda is here! With it comes many new features such as an improved ILambdaLogger, support for C# 10, top-level statements and many more. But one new cool feature, originally...
View ArticleHow to Share What You Know in Software Technology
Daniel Markham is a semioticist logician (otherwise known as a programmer) and practices the principle: Share What You Know. He likes to help people learn to make better tech. He believes that once you...
View ArticleHow to Secure Octopus Deploy Variables in AWS
Octopus Deploy is a great tool for managing deployments. One of its most powerful features is how it organizes variables. The ability to scope variable values to environments, specific targets, and...
View ArticleNCrunch – How to do Your Testing in Real-Time
There are several tricks you can use to be super-productive as a developer, but one of the most beneficial is the ability to have real-time feedback on the code you are writing. Today, I’m going to...
View ArticleHow to Create Versionable Architect Diagrams
In this architect tip, we’re going to be talking about Versionable Architect Diagrams! As always, here at Clear Measure, we are a software architecture company, and our goal for you is to be able to...
View ArticleSecuring Octopus Deploy Variables in Azure the Right Way
Octopus Deploy is a great tool for managing deployments. One of its most powerful features is how variables are organized. Granting the ability to scope variables to various environments, targets,...
View ArticleHow to Create Blazor Composite UI via Razor Components
The concept of Composite UI has been around for a while. The general notion is to break up bits of content and features into components that can be assembled together on a web page. Microsoft Blazor...
View ArticleHow to Secure Internal Applications while Maintaining Accessibility
Let’s look at some best practices to help secure internal applications using a commonsense approach. Since the pandemic, people are often no longer in offices. This poses a unique challenge to...
View ArticleTech Debt – What it is and How to Mitigate it
You can’t put maintenance last if you want to drive a race car The Nurture Bit So what does car maintenance have to do with Tech Debt? Well, when I was growing up, I spent part of my summers with my...
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