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Autorest is a great tool for automating the creation of clients from Swagger or Open Api definition files. The resulting code can be dropped into a project and shareable client code can be distributed.

The Linq operator SelectMany has always confused me a bit, and yesterday I came across it in some code so had to actually try to understand it.

Turning on internal logging for log4net is straight forward and provides a detailed information about the many issues that may occur.

In my previous post I talked about setting up vim plugins. I've been using vim on the commandline quite a bit now and have found a couple of useful commands that I like to have setup to make use a bit easier.

I've been using VsVim the vim Visual Studio plugin and I really like how much easier it makes coding when your fingers can live on the home keys more. Recently I started working through Roy Osheroves Vim Hates You course and learning loads more tricks and ways to use vim, so I thought I would put a bit of effort into learning vim int the console so that it might in the future it might become my main weapon of choice.

I really appreciate the value in using Selenium and Specflow to write a suite of browser based tests to validate a software application. These tests unequivocally confirm that the acceptance criteria is met and the application functions as desired. I wrote a post about a nice way to think of these Acceptance Tests as three different layers for the features calling into the steps and the steps using the page objects, but its not really a good walk though for actually setting up the project... so here goes....!

Powershell is a very powerful tool for automating tasks. Creating your own nuget repository that hosts powershell modules is a great way to distrubute powershell scripts, but it can be a bit fiddly to setup.