Like many other developers I’m sure, I spend quite a bit of time in command line applications (Windows CMD, PowerShell, etc.). Unfortunately, these applications don’t offer a lot in terms of customization. So I use ConEmu – a highly customizable, tabbed console emulator that lets you run any shell you want. This post describes how to setup ConEmu, and how […]

There’s a lot of documentation available around NuGet and how to create/publish packages, etc. But when I looked for a simple step-by-step guide on how to test a package locally, I couldn’t find any […]

After going through the Xamarin installation instructions for Mac and Windows , I ended up in a situation where the AVD Manager ( Android Virtual Device Manager ) on my Windows VM would not let me create a new AVD […]

Background Twilio is a cloud based voice and SMS service and this post will show you how easy it is to create your own inbound voice application using MVC 4 Web API. The basic premise of how it works is Twilio parses a form of XML called ‘TwiML’, which contains various verbs telling Twilio what […]

I recently had do a project where I wanted to run integration tests on some Web API controllers, so this post is to describe the method for doing so. The way to do it is to mock an HttpServer and HttpClient class, but first you have to change some of the config to get them […]

At endjin, we host our development infrastructure on Sleek Network’s Virtual Private Servers, this provides us with a great mix of  reliability, power and flexibility. Because we believe in working smarter, not harder, our Issue and Bug Tracker of choice is JetBrain’s YouTrack. This is our second Step by Step Guide, which follows on from […]