• TeamCity Linux Setup

  Another one in my .NET / Linux series :-)

• Headless Front End Testing on Linux using F# and Canopy

  I’ve been following F# for a while but it’s only recently started appearing in my workflow for serious work. I’m not a good F# programmer at all but I’m confident enough to use it in small scripts and I think it does a pretty good job here. However, I recently discovered the front end testing framework Canopy and this provides an excellent opening for anyone looking for a low level entry to the F# world.

• Calling F# from C# in Xamarin Studio

  I’ve been using Xamarin Studio for some time and now use it daily for my work with Mono. I’ve also been dabbling a bit in F# and have been keen to start using it at work. Untypically for a Xamarin Studio user I don’t use it for building mobile apps but have been writing various parts of a production system which I’m slowly moving off Windows. Anyhow, what better place to start than converting some of the C# libraries to F#?

• Real World ASP.NET Core Linux Example

  Anyone who’s been reading my stuff knows one of my motivations is to provide documentation that is otherwise lacking for getting .NET to run on Linux. Part of the problem historically has been Microsoft only officially supporting Windows which has meant tutorials, Stack Overflow answers, user forums et al have been dominated by Windows and its tools (particularly Visual Studio). But in this brave new world of MS and Linux that is all about to change right? Well I hope so but we still have a way to go.

• A Better SQL Server Experience on OSX

  Anyone following my other blog posts will know I’m a .NET guy who works with Linux (we do exist) and so like a lot of *nix guys I work with a Mac. I love my Macbook but I still need to enter the Windows world from time to time and this is where I’ve experienced a bit of pain. I use Parallels which I have to say is excellent and does about as good a job as can be expected to make switching between OSX and Windows as smooth as possible. However, trying to call SQL Server from my Mac and trying to use SSMS was where I had my biggest pain point. I’ve documented what I did to make the experience much easier and hopefully this will help out others too.