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This week I tried to set up a Specflow acceptance test project in one of the applications I'm working on. I already knew that Specflow support for netcore is work in progress. So thinking myself very clever, I created a project targeting net462 with the assumption that it would JustWorkTM…

When you use the official Splunk Docker container the default configuration is that the UI shows time in the UTC time zone. This can be quite confusing if you are not actually in that particular time zone (or deal with daylight saving time....) Fortunately Splunk allows you to select the…

Today I've had the interesting challenge to help Ester trying to figure out why a Specflow test wasn't behaving as it should. Of course the test ran fine in the CI pipeline but locally, no joy. Some background The application that this test is for generates a file from data…

All right, a bit of sleep and a lot of coffee, NDC day 2 is about to kick off so I've got a little bit of time to continue with the recap of day 1. When feature flags go bad This talk by Edith Harbaugh (@Edith_H) followed nicely on…

I don't think I've ever seen a conference open this way. Everybody gathered on the exhibition floor around a stage in the center with a massive screen hanging above it with a countdown timer. When the timer ran out we could hear the intro of the Dire Straits song "…