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Using PSCredentials
I’ve been working on a small project that shuts down machines attached by network and of course power feed to an APC Smart-UPS. The code that was shutting down the guests required authentication to be...
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Quick walk through, of my UPS library
Part three of a three part series On setting up a UPS solution, to enable clean shutdown of vital network components. In this post, we’ll be reviewing the library that performs the shutting down of our...
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Keeping your events thread safe
An area I’ve noticed where engineers often forget to think about synchronization is where firing events. Now I’m going to go over a little background on C# delegates quickly just to refresh what we...
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A Handful of Singletons in C#
Recently I was involved in an interview where I was queried on the Singleton Creational design pattern. I thought I’d share what I came up with. In order of preference from most to least used. Most...
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C#.NET Coding Standards and Guidelines
This is the current set of coding standards and guidelines I use when I’m coding in the C#.NET language. I thought it would be good to share so others could get use out of them also, and maybe start a...
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Sanitising User Input from Browser. part 1
I was working on a web based project recently where there was no security thought about when designing, developing it. The following outlines my experience with retrofitting security. It’s my hope that...
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Sanitising User Input from Browser. part 2
Untrusted data (data entered by a user), should always be treated as though it contains attack code. This data should not be sent anywhere without taking the necessary steps to detect and neutralise...
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Software Engineer Interview Process and Questions
A short time ago, I was tasked with finding the right software engineer/s for the organisation I was working for. I settled on a process, a set of background questions, a set of practical programming...
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Software Engineer Interview Quick Question Set
Ice breakers Tell us a little bit about yourself and what drives you? Ask a question from their CV that is positive, ‘what was your greatest success in your current or last role’ What’s your ideal job?...
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Evaluation of .Net Mocking libraries
I’ve recently undertaken another round of evaluating .NET mocking (fake/substitute/dummy/stub/ or what ever you want to call them now) libraries. Interestingly the landscape has changed quite a bit...
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Automating Specification by Example for .NET Web Applications
If you or your organisation: are/is constrained to running your .NET tests (unit, acceptance) on-site rather than in the cloud would like some guidance on how to set-up Continuous Integration read on....
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