Living in the US, Canada, or even much of Europe you’d be excused for thinking the story about electric vehicles (EVs) is largely about passenger cars. Our media seems to promote this belief, publishing mostly stories about automakers and passenger cars. This enthusiasm is well placed, of course, as in 2022 Bloomberg NEF estimated the …
Since 2020, aircraft flying in North America and Europe must broadcast out Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADSB) data*. I’ve been working on a project, SkyZero.io since September that makes use of this data. Since the aircraft broadcasts are by design readable by anyone with the right radio hardware and software, several networks have cropped up that … Continue reading
If you are operating a portfolio of distributed energy systems, chances are that you’re interacting with a number of different inverter manufacturers, and relying on the data from the cloud-based monitoring systems that they provide. One critical question to ask if you are relying on these different data sources is, “Do all of the monitoring … Continue reading
Tanuj Mathur and I presented at the .NET Unboxed conference about alternative web frameworks for .NET. We compared and contrasted Nancy, ServiceStack and ASP.NET WebAPI. The conference recorded it and published it on YouTube. Check it out! Continue reading
If you are a .NET developer who is looking for a simpler way to build services, this is the book for you. It will show you how to write fast, maintainable APIs that are a pleasure to use and maintain starting from the database to the client and everything in-between. Comprehensive coverage of the Redis library, … Continue reading
While I’m still surprised at the move, it’s not unprecedented – I think they’ve been letting the open source folks dabble for years now, and they’ve proven that it works. 2007/2008 – MS starts building ASP.NET MVC While this wasn’t a move to open source anything, it did finally start to seem as though Microsoft … Continue reading
ServiceStack 4 HTTP Utilities: Functional Contract Testing ServiceStack 4 comes with some really great new tools for accessing an HTTP resource using a fluent syntax. They make a great addition – sometimes the JsonServiceClient (often just called the C# client) is a little too smart! For instance, let’s say you’ve published a specification saying how … Continue reading
Duck Angular A team I’m working with saw a gap when they were testing AngularJS apps: Functional regression, while necessary, didn’t provide fast enough feedback. Using unit testing techniques they could obviously test the JavaScript functions behind their Angular controllers, but that didn’t help them assert that bindings were correct or that directives actually manipulated … Continue reading
A project I’m aware of recently started discussing in their retrospectives that they wanted to start assigning points to tech tasks. I’m a big believer in allowing a team to exercise control over its own process — so in my mind the right answer is to let the team make the call. I do have some thoughts … Continue reading
The Current Wave JavaScript was the “Next Wave” maybe two years ago. JavaScript is in your database. JavaScript is on the server. JavaScript is on the client. JavaScript is in your network transport. JavaScript is in your lisp. JavaScript is testable. The Next Wave I think the next wave is something functional, probably Clojure, for … Continue reading
In my last post, talking about Organizational Risk, I advocated for a meeting once per iteration with members of different departments to reduce the kinds of project throughput risks that can stem from an dev team practicing agile working within a larger waterfall oriented organization. What might a meeting like this look like? Infrastructure & … Continue reading
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