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Nick Lydon

Nick Lydon

Speeding up entity framework migrations in integration tests

I’m a full convert to the cult of integration tests. They provide:

Oct 22

Speeding up entity framework migrations in integration tests

Oct 22

Nick Lydon

Override DbContext in integration tests

Recently I wanted to test what would happen in a scheduled background job when we received an update concurrently from the API. The…

Feb 13

Feb 13

Nick Lydon

Add nuget packages to every project

Sometimes you want a package added to every dotnet project. One example might be static analysers that protect you from misusing…

Jan 11

Jan 11

Nick Lydon

Countdown numbers round

In case you’re not familiar with Countdown, it’s a gameshow where two contests compete against each other in 30-second rounds. The rounds…

Apr 15, 2023

Countdown numbers round

Apr 15, 2023

Nick Lydon

BigQuery array concatenation to string

I often need to turn an array of numbers in BigQuery to a comma-separated string, but keep forgetting how to so I’m writing it down once…

Mar 30, 2023

Mar 30, 2023

Nick Lydon

History is written by the victors…

… and is rewritten by developers using git!

Nov 16, 2022

History is written by the victors…

Nov 16, 2022

Nick Lydon

Generating unique values in FsCheck

FsCheck is handy for generating pseudo-random values whilst testing, but one thing that’s not particularly intuitive is how to generate…

Sep 15, 2022

Generating unique values in FsCheck

Sep 15, 2022

Nick Lydon

Taking control of flagger canary pods

As part of continuous deployment you want to be assured that a new release won’t break anything when it’s deployed. To that end you can use…

Aug 27, 2022

Taking control of flagger canary pods

Aug 27, 2022

Nick Lydon

Swagger service url behind reverse proxy

This issue was seen in a dotnet application using swashbuckle and swagger-ui.

Aug 18, 2022

Aug 18, 2022

Nick Lydon

Solving correlated subquery error in BigQuery

Recently I had to create an array whilst selecting from another array in Google BigQuery:

Apr 28, 2022

Apr 28, 2022

Nick Lydon

Nick Lydon

British software developer working as a freelancer in Berlin. Mainly dotnet, but happy to try new things! https://github.com/NickLydon

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