WCF : Injecting dependencies into your WCF behaviour implementations

Of late I have been dipping back into WCF extensibility to exploit more of its potential at work.  I started looking into making a useful boilerplate template which I would want to re-use on a project which required WCF .  Part of this setup includes dependency injection, and allowing me...
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My notes from working with MongoDB – Part 1 : Hosting MongoDB in Linux

I thought I would get some relevant notes down from my experience from working with MongoDB and the first in several posts I would like to make is the actual hosting of MongoDB inside Linux.  To be fair this is not really going to be giving much credit to MongoDB...
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Python Musings: Events and Mocking

Whilst working on a small but useful home python project for MongoDB, I came across the need for using events, but also the ability to assert that the correct events are raised and the arguments of the event were correct.  Whilst doing a quick Google on "Python Events" one of the first...
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VIM: Using surround.vim with customizations for Django Templates

So, just sat down to look again at using Django templates with the google app-engine and now using my *new* text-editor of choice vim, I thought I would invest some time in improving the experience.  I got told of a plug-in a couple of months ago which made creating html...
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C# Musings : A quick Latch implementation

In threading the notion of a Latch is a signal which will be set at most once.  Using a latch and in the following example I am demonstrating how you can initialize and start a number of threads, allow the threads to set themselves up, signal that they...
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Postmortem analysis

At the end of last year I had to investigate a problem which was occurring on production boxes.  The issue which was occurring could not be replicated in development or test so I was left to think of other ways which I could get more information about what was happening and ultimately...
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Blogger’s cramp

I am not sure why but I cannot seem to come up with ideas for blogging and its crazy as I am exposed to lots of great things and I usually fall back on to a technical post. Technical posts for me are kind of like comfort blogging.  I read...
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C# Musings : Things I see less often with Events

This post is just some observations which I have made of late of a few things I see less often with regards to Events and some useful things I have seen which are indeed very helpful. Making sure the event object is not null You will have probably seen in a lot...
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Programmatic IIS configuration with IronPython – Helper Module

The last couple of posts I have made have shown some configurations you can make to IIS programmatically.  In this post I want to tie some things together into a module so I have access to this simple helper façade easily and quickly.  The functions which I have included in this module...
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Programmatic IIS configuration with IronPython – Adding Applications

In a previous post I showed how to remove applications using IronPython and the Microsoft.Web.Administration namespace. In this post I want to show how you add applications to a website.  In the previous post also I covered all the necessary import and reference plumbing required to get going so I...
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