This summer I could finally catch up with many podcasts I wanted to listen to. To hear different perspectives is a great opportunity to rethink what you are doing and discover new possibilities. One of the new discoveries I made is the CodeNewbie podcast by Saron Yitbarek. Every week Saron produces a new episode on …
The NDC 2015 in Oslo was once more a blast. Two days of pre-conference workshops followed by 3 days of a content-packed conference with up to 10 parallel tracks resulted in an incredible learning opportunity. This year more than 1’900 attendees from over 50 countries attended a well-organized conference and turned it in a great …
Visual Studio Online is a great service for developers. Not only do you get a whole Team Foundation Server for free, you also get a place to host your private Git repositories. As long as you use Visual Studio everything works as expected. However, that changes in the moment you try to use any other …
Working in the flow feels great. You are fully immersed and can spend hours focused on one single goal. However, it’s not that easy to get into this state of mind. Some use a form of meditation techniques, other listen to music. The later one sometimes worked for me, but most of the time it’s …
I use the service of Travis-CI now for a year. In that time the continuous integration has often pointed out problems I never had on my machine and let me quickly fix them, while I still know what the last change was about. If you don’t already use a service like Travis-CI you definitely should …
In exploratory testing one tries to figure out how well the system under test reacts to edge cases and special input data. It’s less structured than acceptance or unit tests and therefore may help you find different kinds of problems. Good input data is not all it takes, but it can help you a lot. …
For all the examples I showed you so far I wrote the configuration for Serilog directly in the code. That worked very well and only took a few lines of calls to the fluent API. This approach is great for a demo or a simple little application that doesn’t need to change. In a more …
One thing that you notice instantly when you ever try to figure out what goes on in a SharePoint instance is the unbelievable amount of log messages that are written. Even when no user is on your site, SharePoint itself has so many things going on that a constant stream of messages is created. If …
Logstash doesn’t have to be that complicated. Last week’s example with log files from IIS looked so scary because the fields can vary from one IIS to the other. But when you want to use logstash to parse a well-known file format then all can be much simpler. Today I will show you the configuration …
The IIS log files collect all the actions that occur on the web server. As explained last week you can use Log Parser to filter the events. However, when you use Kibana for all your applications then you would prefer to have the IIS log events there as well. Today I will explain how you …