Most of you probably know my startup elmah.io [https://elmah.io]. If not, check it out and head back here when you’ve signed up 🙂 At elmah.io we index errors generated at our customers websites. Among a lot of other things, we index the user agent causing the…
This is the second and final post in the series Evaluating Azure DocumentDB. Where Part 1 [https://thomasardal.com/evaluating-azure-documentdb-part-1/] focused around the concepts in DocumentDB, I’ll explore some actual code in this post. Inserting documents Before we dig into the code, there’s a couple of terms in…
I’m currently working for at customer having separated their code into multiple projects and solutions all in the same Git repository. This posts is not about how to structure your code or if I like this way to separate responsibility or not. But I guess most of you have…
I’m currently working on way more projects and products than I probably should. One of them is a new mobile app which will conquer the universe! Well maybe just the world. For the backend I wanted to use something different than SQL Server, since data from the app doesn’…
For the fifth year in a row, I’m summing up the year by writing this retrospect. You will find my previous posts here: 2011 [https://thomasardal.com/2011-retrospect/], 2012 [https://thomasardal.com/2012-retrospect/], 2013 [https://thomasardal.com/2013-retrospect/] and 2014 [https://thomasardal.com/2014-retrospect/]. These kind of posts are…
I recently had the chance to cleanup an Elasticsearch mapping that I’ve been dying to refactor for some time now. The problem were a number of not_analyzed fields which really should have been analyzed, making them available for full-text search. When doing so, I encountered a problem with…
I talk to a range of customers during my work as an external consultant. It never ceases to amaze me how few who have actually considered setting up retention on their data. I know that storage is cheap these days, but most data stores handle large amounts of data poorly,…
I’ve been to a lot of conferences and watched a lot of recorded talks online. Once in a while you come by something that either touches your deepest feelings or motivate you to go build something great. This list is a compilation of the 5 first talks that I…
Like every other project I’ve participated in, I recently experienced problems when trying to implement continuous delivery of Windows Services and websites. The problem arise when trying to update some files in a remote directory using PowerShell. The remoting part isn’t an issue this time, because the customer…
This week concluded a list of presentations that I’ve managed to slip into my calendar during the summer. I want to write a blog post summing up the stuff that I’ve talked about, but this post is more like a retrospective. I hope that by telling my story,…