Minimalist Change Agent, Dev Community Advocate
I’m Alan Hemmings, Fractional CTO and dev mentor, Freelance Consultant and .NET C# Contractor from Cambridge. Here are some of my thoughts on agile engineering, team mentoring, product thinking, testing, homelabs and contracting.
When green tests mean nothing (Chicago vs London unit testing)
Doing C# with onprem hosting and Cloudlfare Tunnels - day 1
All your dollars are belong to us!
Installing .NET 9 on a build agent is FAAAAST!
I Just Discovered the RIG Model for Data Consistency in Microservices, And I Love It
Reference Architecture Browser
Taking Bolt.new for a spin
New Commercial licence and high speed engine for Goblinfactory Konsole
Random bits, fish and chimpanzees!
Taking nuejs for a spin; Early thoughts
I'm so pleased with how the bot management solution I built is working
Anyone have any suggestions for a budget (yet powerful) home server?
No such thing as a "Frilly Anvil"
ChatGPT, That's how we roll!
Is Kubernetes the wrong choice for startups?
Random sample of 6 seconds of logs and all the hack attempts in just this tiny slice
Stop using the phrase 'technical debt' it doesnt help the client
I was wondering how much extra hacking the war in Ukrain has triggered?
How quickly will a new vulnerability be discovered and exploited?
Diff. between Golang and C# number 24 (clear error messages)
Diff. between Golang and C# number 25 (insanely fast integration tests)
Diff. between Golang and C# number 23 (documentation)
Diff. between Golang and C# number 22 (compiler warnings)
Hacked by a branch name, ouch!
Are unit tests worth all that dough?
My reaction to being asked to complete a TestDome test (.NET C# contractor)