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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.

Uninstalling Visual Studio can be a real challenge, and my old PC at home is full with versions 2012/13/15. After a brief bit of googling I found a very useful tool which seemed to do the job and freed up 20gb of space on my machine.

I got a bit fed up with upgrading PowerShell on a number of different servers so decided to write a script to automate the task. I appreciate that it doesn’t take long to click download and install but after using chocolatey you start to realise how easy it can actually be with a little bit of effort.

Most companies have some pretty complicated legacy code bases with a multitude of applications and shared libraries. It can be quite difficult to see how the solutions and projects fit together. With the push towards devops and microservices it’s nice if we can carry some of the legacy applications along too. I’ve found PowerShell a useful way to try to reason about a code base...

Recently I was tasked with adding some CMS style functionality to a customers site. Rather than reinvent the wheel by doing my own pattern matching etc, I decided to use some markdown to do the hard work. I naively thought that it would be easier to implement because the markdown library would take care of key security concerns. Little did I realise...