About Me

I'm a remote software engineer currently writing Go at Form3, prior to that I worked in the .NET stack at Just Eat.

I enjoy speaking at user groups, conferences, an active member within the Go community, OSS contributor, organiser of the .NET South West meet up and co-organiser of the DDD South West conference.

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Recent Blog Posts

• Automate testing of poor network conditions with Shopify's Toxiproxy in Go

  Posted on Sunday, 5th December 2021

• Integration testing your Polly policies with HttpClient Interception

  Posted on Thursday, 30th July 2020

• Effectively stubbing remote HTTP service dependencies with HttpClient Interception in C#

  Posted on Thursday, 21st May 2020

• Consider Chesterton's Fence Principle Before Changing That Code

  Posted on Thursday, 2nd April 2020

• A couple of nice Tuple use cases

  Posted on Monday, 16th March 2020

• Chaos Engineering your .NET applications using Simmy

  Posted on Friday, 3rd January 2020

• Managing your .NET Core SDK versions with the .NET Install SDK Global Tool

  Posted on Tuesday, 3rd September 2019

• Approval Testing your Open API/Swagger Documents

  Posted on Wednesday, 28th August 2019

• You can stop mocking ILogger

  Posted on Saturday, 1st June 2019

• Subcutaneous Testing in ASP.NET Core

  Posted on Thursday, 14th March 2019

• The myth of the right tool for the job

  Posted on Friday, 18th January 2019

• Skipping XUnit tests based on runtime conditions

  Posted on Wednesday, 2nd January 2019

• Aaaand, we're back...

  Posted on Thursday, 8th March 2018

• GlobalExceptionHandler.NET version 2 released

  Posted on Friday, 8th December 2017

• Going serverless with .NET Core, AWS Lambda and the Serverless framework

  Posted on Wednesday, 8th November 2017

• REST Client for VS Code, an elegant alternative to Postman

  Posted on Wednesday, 18th October 2017

• Global Exception Handling in ASP.NET Core Web API

  Posted on Wednesday, 20th September 2017

• Turbo charging your command line with ripgrep

  Posted on Tuesday, 12th September 2017

• GraphiQL in ASP.NET Core

  Posted on Thursday, 10th August 2017

• Injecting content into your head or body tags via dependency injection using ITagHelperComponent

  Posted on Monday, 17th July 2017

• .NET Core solution management via the command line interface

  Posted on Monday, 3rd July 2017

• Tips on starting and running a .NET user group

  Posted on Thursday, 22nd June 2017

• Retrospective of DDD 12 in Reading

  Posted on Monday, 12th June 2017

• Another day, another fantastic DDD (DDD South West 7)

  Posted on Friday, 12th May 2017

• C# 7 ValueTuple types and their limitations

  Posted on Thursday, 20th April 2017

• Setting up a local Selenium Grid using Docker and .NET Core

  Posted on Monday, 20th March 2017

• An in-depth look at the various ways of specifying the IP or host ASP.NET Core listens on

  Posted on Friday, 10th February 2017

• C# IL Viewer for Visual Studio Code using Roslyn side project

  Posted on Monday, 30th January 2017

• Year in review and looking at 2017

  Posted on Tuesday, 10th January 2017

• In-memory C# compilation (and .dll generation) using Roslyn

  Posted on Wednesday, 28th December 2016

• In-memory testing using ASP.NET Core

  Posted on Tuesday, 6th December 2016

• New Blog, now .NET Core, Docker and Linux powered - and soon to be open-sourced

  Posted on Saturday, 26th November 2016

• Getting started with Elastic Search in Docker

  Posted on Tuesday, 15th November 2016

• Going cross-platform with ASP.NET Core talk at Bristech 2016

  Posted on Thursday, 3rd November 2016

• Building rich client side apps using Angular 2 talk at DDD 11 in Reading

  Posted on Saturday, 3rd September 2016

• Executing JavaScript inside of .NET Core using JavaScriptServices

  Posted on Thursday, 1st September 2016

• Angular 2 CLI interview with .NET Rocks

  Posted on Tuesday, 23rd August 2016

• Integration testing your ASP.NET Core middleware using TestServer

  Posted on Sunday, 31st July 2016

• Proxying HTTP requests in ASP.NET Core using Kestrel

  Posted on Saturday, 2nd July 2016

• Fira Mono - An exceptional programming font, and now with (optional) ligatures

  Posted on Friday, 17th June 2016

• Select by camel case - the greatest ReSharper setting you never knew

  Posted on Monday, 6th June 2016

• Social authentication via Google in ASP.NET Core MVC

  Posted on Sunday, 29th May 2016

• ASP.NET Core tag helpers - with great power comes great responsibility

  Posted on Monday, 9th May 2016

• Capturing IIS / ASP.NET traffic in Fiddler

  Posted on Monday, 25th April 2016

• Publishing your first NuGet package in 5 easy steps

  Posted on Friday, 15th April 2016

• Tips for learning on the job

  Posted on Tuesday, 29th March 2016

• Easy slug generation with Slugity

  Posted on Friday, 18th March 2016

• OzCode Review - The magical extension that takes the pain out of debugging

  Posted on Thursday, 10th March 2016

• The Ajax response object pattern

  Posted on Sunday, 21st February 2016

• Adding search to your website with Azure Search

  Posted on Wednesday, 10th February 2016

• Personal targets and goals for 2016

  Posted on Monday, 1st February 2016

• Angular 2 based Piano Note Training game side project

  Posted on Sunday, 24th January 2016

• An often overlooked reason why you should be on Stack Overflow

  Posted on Saturday, 16th January 2016

• How to setup Google Analytics and event tracking in your Angular application

  Posted on Saturday, 9th January 2016

• Reflecting on 2015

  Posted on Saturday, 2nd January 2016

• A deeper look at C# 6's nameof expression

  Posted on Tuesday, 29th December 2015

• Visual Studio 2015 Shortcuts interview with .NET Rocks

  Posted on Monday, 30th November 2015

• Using the Surface Pro 4 Type Cover on the Surface Pro 3

  Posted on Wednesday, 11th November 2015

• Podcasts for .NET Developers

  Posted on Tuesday, 3rd November 2015

• Using Roslyn to look for code smells

  Posted on Friday, 9th October 2015

• Detecting CSS breakpoints in Javascript

  Posted on Monday, 21st September 2015

• Personal targets and goals for 2015

  Posted on Wednesday, 21st January 2015

• I used to use a mug for every beverage, now I use this!

  Posted on Sunday, 11th January 2015

• Harnessing your IoC Container to perform application event tasks in ASP.NET MVC

  Posted on Monday, 29th December 2014

• Worth a watch: John Sonmez on creating a test automation framework using Selenium

  Posted on Monday, 24th November 2014

• Improving upon ASP.NET MVC's default display annotation convention

  Posted on Tuesday, 4th November 2014

• ReSharper not running your unit tests? This could be why...

  Posted on Monday, 20th October 2014

• 9 ways I improved my productivity in Visual Studio 2013

  Posted on Tuesday, 7th October 2014

• My experiences programming on a Surface Pro 3

  Posted on Friday, 19th September 2014

• ASP.NET Naming Conventions - how to avoid calling everything a service

  Posted on Tuesday, 12th August 2014

• Sessions in ASP.NET MVC using Dependency Injection

  Posted on Friday, 13th June 2014

• Golden Nuget Package #1: RouteDebugger by Phil Haack

  Posted on Monday, 9th June 2014

• Creating reusable HTML components in ASP.NET MVC using Razor

  Posted on Friday, 9th May 2014

• Generics and Lambda Expressions in Javascript? With TypeScript you can!

  Posted on Wednesday, 30th April 2014

• Upgrading to StructureMap 3

  Posted on Saturday, 19th April 2014

• Space shooter I wrote in Javascript using Typescript

  Posted on Wednesday, 16th April 2014

• Fixing the "your project file uses a different version of TypeScript compiler" error in Visual Studio 2013

  Posted on Friday, 4th April 2014

• The architecture of StackOverflow.com

  Posted on Monday, 24th February 2014

• Microsoft's latest advert reminds the world why technology (and developers) rocks

  Posted on Sunday, 2nd February 2014

• Mocking AutoMapper with the IMapperEngine

  Posted on Tuesday, 28th January 2014

• JCrop integration with CKFinder

  Posted on Thursday, 23rd January 2014

• How to create a virtual directory in IIS Express

  Posted on Monday, 20th January 2014