In our project we use ElasticSearch as our search backend. We started seeing some unable to connect exceptions and then decided to add retry logic to our queries. To do so in an ordered manner we use the Transient Fault Handling Application Block (“topaz”) and a custom transient error strategy. As we were implementing “topaz” we also…
Azure Workers
In my new project (UXRisk) we had a requirement to do a lot of background processing, based on messages passed over Azure Service Bus. We did a lot of research online and found good examples of how to properly to this and the outcome was a project we call AzureWorkers. AzureWorkers makes it super easy to…
My blog just died and was brought back from the dead!
The other day I noticed that I got an error message when trying to read my blog. Basically it said that the database connection was not behaving and WordPress was unable to load my blog. Auch I thought and started to wonder what could be wrong. The thing is, I run this blog on Microsoft…
My first adventures in Git
So up until today I have only heard, read and watched Git happen. I have not yet actually tried it. So when I realized today that I actually had some spare time I thought I would dig into it and see if I could understand the hype and perhaps find it useful! My very first…
Microsoft Surface RT
For the first time I have preordered something from the US and had it brought over the Atlantic using Jetcarrier; Microsoft Surface RT. It’s a wonderful little Device! Missing some apps etc. but that should improve over time. More later.
ASP.Net Web API and Ninject
For the third time I’m using the new Web API in one of my projects and again I hit the wall when it was time to hook up to mu DI framework of choice: Ninject. So this time I’m documenting it here, hopefully that will make me remember it going forward. To make DI work…
ORMs and Performance
In one of my projects, actually Proactimas project, I’m using Entity Framework (EF) on top of SQL Azure and it works pretty well; data access is relatively fast, dead easy most of the time and the cost (in $) is OK. However I have discovered how sensitive EF is to how you write your queries….
On Corporate Values and Developers
I work for a company called Proactima AS, we deliver HSE&Q/RISK consultants to our customers. But I have been hired to do some development for them. Proactima is a company that runs close to a 100% on knowledge and so our main resource is the consultants working here. As so many other companies Proactima has…
New home for my blog
Inspired by Scott Hanselman’s latest blog entry I have decided to get my own domain (noocyte.net) and move the blog here. It’s currently hosted in Microsoft Azure as a web site. Hopefully I will get back to blogging real soon now (again!).
google reader updated–for the worse
So today I was notified that Google Reader has been updated with a new interface! Brilliant I thought; I love new stuff and the reader was beginning to look a little long in the tooth. But as soon as it loaded I though: dang, that’s not an improvement! It looks alright, but too much screen…
