Have you ever wanted to automate code check-ins to TSF e.g. at the end of the day or at the custom interval you define? That’s easy to do using TFS remote API provided by Microsoft. In our exercise we are going to use following packages to make the solution working: As a authorization mechanism, we will […]
Tableau it’s a great tool for data visualization, however if you are using it a lot, you may want to automate some stuff. One of them is publishing/updating reports to Tableau Server. This is when Tableau Utility Command comes in handy, you can install it on your development server and use in the power-shell script. […]
Software development outsourcing has always been an very attractive option for many IT companies operating in developed countries and perceived as a way to boost the competitiveness on the local market. A lot of businesses operating on the global market, already proved the effectiveness of software outsourcing by reducing internal costs while maintaining high quality of […]
Service Bus topics allow to perform one way communication using publish/subscribe model. In that model the Service Bus topic can be treated as a intermediary queue that multiple users/components can subscribe to. When publishing a message we can choose to route it to all subscribers or to apply filters for each subscription resulting in each […]
Sentiment Analysis in Social media has become very important for many companies over the last few years as more and more people use this communication channel not only to exchange the messages, but also to express their opinions about the products and services they use or used in the past. In order to start proper […]
The very common requirement is to route WCF messages from the publicly exposed front-end service (perimeter network) to other services sitting within the local network. This is the good security model that lets us implement routing or load balancer if needed. The front-end service will also act as a firewall in this scenario. The routing […]
Automated tests are crucial these days to achieve high quality software products as they are being prone to errors especially during agile process where changes can occur at any stage causing our solution to stop functioning properly. Apart from standard testing using TDD, Mocking etc. there is always a need to perform interface tests simulating […]
Creating installer packages has become more complicated recently as the Microsoft decided to not to support installation projects (.vdproj) in VS 2012 upwards. On the top of that there is additional difficulty if we want to auto-create installers on the server that hasn’t got commercial Visual Studio installed – we just cannot do it 🙁 […]
When designing applications that will run in the n-tier environment there are some additional factors to be considered. First of all it is very likely that your business entities will be located on separate machine. In this scenario there is a need to create objects in your UI layer that will have functionality of the […]
TOGAF is currently the most popular open architecture framework that is widely implemented in medium and big organizations. It’s ADM lets us operate within generic, proven framework when defining the Enterprise Architecture. If you are an Architect or PM, it is very useful to know how TOGAF relates to other frameworks like COBIT, ITIL and […]
