Pleased to say my session on SonarQube has been accepted for DDDNorth. And it seems that registration has opened and closed today, there is a wait list up now

Good to see the DDD events still popular after 10 long years

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The title says it all, I have been using a Microsoft Band for a few months now and have found it a great tool for running and cycling as long as you are going out for less than about 5 hours. I tried to use for the first time Triathlon race at at the Leeds Triathlon over the weekend.

As it it not water proof it was not …

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Typemock Isolator provides a way to ‘mock the un-mockable’, such as sealed private classes in .NET, so can be a invaluable tool in unit testing. To allow this mocking Isolator interception has to be started before any unit tests are run and stopped …

Voting for DDD North Sessions is now open - http://bit.ly/DDDNorth15Sessions

Vote on what you would like to see at this community conference

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I have been trying to parameterise the SQL DB connection string used by nLog when it is defined in a web.config file of a web site being deployed via Release Management and  WebDeploy i.e. I wanted to select and edit the bit highlighted of my web.config file

1<configuration>  
2    <nlog …

I like web deploy as a means to package up websites for deployment. I like the way I only need to add

1/p:DeployOnBuild=True;PublishProfile=Release

as an MSBuild argument to get the package produced as part of an automated build. This opening up loads of deployment options

I recently hit an issue packaging up a …