Elton Stoneman

The Azure Management APIs give you a lot of useful stats and you can easily use them to build a customised dashboard for an instant healthcheck of your…

I had an interesting problem with API versioning. The API behaviour for a given resource was going to change between version 1.x and 1.y, but the…

In the early days of Azure blob storage, the response headers for HTTP GET requests were not quite right. The ETag header wasn't escaped with…

The original release of was a bit limited – you could get whatever error response you needed, but only if you changed your client to point to the…

I've had a need in a few projects for a REST API that doesn't behave well - takes a long time to respond, or never responds, returns unexpected status…

Since my last post on using CMS for semi-static API content, How about a new platform for your next API… a CMS?, I’ve been using the idea for centralized…

I’m seeing a type of API emerge which serves static or long-lived resources, which are mostly read-only and have a controlled process to update the data…

I had this question from a viewer of my Pluralsight course, Implementing the Reactive Manifesto with Azure and AWS, and thought I’d publish the response.…

My latest Pluralsight course, Implementing the Reactive Manifesto with Azure and AWS has just been published! I’d planned to do a course on dual-running a…

The good guys at Pluralsight have okayed me to publish my caching framework (as seen in Caching in the.NET Stack: Inside-Out) as an open-source library,…

has had a few pre-release iterations on NuGet and is stable, if a bit lacking in step-by-step guides. There’s at least one big reason to try it out: the…

Hot on the heels of my .NET caching course, I’ve had my first “fundamentals” course released on Pluralsight: Nginx and PHP Fundamentals.

This is the third in the IPASBR series, see also: - Integration Patterns with Azure Service Bus Relay, Part 1: Exposing the on-premise service -…

This is the second in the IPASBR series, see also: - Integration Patterns with Azure Service Bus Relay, Part 1: Exposing the on-premise service

We're in the process of delivering an enabling project to expose on-premise WCF services securely to Internet consumers. The Azure Service Bus Relay is…

Very simple, but a handy way of viewing nicely-formatted JSON in LINQPad: ![clip\image002](/images/eltonstoneman/extension-method-for-outputting-formatted-…

Node.js is a server-side JavaScript platform "for easily building fast, scalable network applications". It's built on Google's V8 JavaScript engine and…

\Source: [https://geekswithblogs.net/EltonStoneman\] This is one in a series of posts covering my generic mapping library on github: Sixeyed.Mapping.

\Source: [https://geekswithblogs.net/EltonStoneman\] This is the first of a series of posts covering my generic anything-to-object mapping library on…

For an integration solution with lots of dependencies, it's difficult to definitively state that everything is wired up correctly and that all components…

Yes, all unhandled exceptions will kill the IIS worker process, but in WCF you can tag an IErrorHandler onto your service behavior and all unhandled…

\Source: [https://geekswithblogs.net/EltonStoneman\] Following on from the sample for processing Excel uploads with nServiceBus, I have a comparable…

\Source: [https://geekswithblogs.net/EltonStoneman\] Supposing you’re using a lambda expression as a neat way to access a named property:

\Source: [https://geekswithblogs.net/EltonStoneman\] We had a fiddly issue with date validation in an ASP.NET MVC page failing for a valid date in Chrome,…

If you spend some time using Fluent NHibernate, you’ll want to use its neat style of mapping for all data access, even when you’re working against…

\Source: [https://geekswithblogs.net/EltonStoneman\] The venerable log4net library enables cheap instrumentation with configured logging levels, so logs…

\Source: [https://geekswithblogs.net/EltonStoneman\] I was debugging a particularly nasty problem and found myself wanting to edit the manifest of a…

\Source: [https://geekswithblogs.net/EltonStoneman\] If you're debugging Web service calls, you may want to capture incoming requests so you can see…

\Source: [https://geekswithblogs.net/EltonStoneman\] If you're hosting WCF services in IIS and try accessing the WSDL using…

\Source: [https://geekswithblogs.net/EltonStoneman\] I was looking for an MSBuild task which could execute a T4 template, replacing tags in the template…

\Source: [https://geekswithblogs.net/EltonStoneman\] \ UPDATE: this post - Generating Deterministic GUIDS Part 2 - contains a Silverlight widget which…

The last post showed an itinerary for sending a one-way message, to be transformed and stored using a FILE adapter. For two-way messaging, the process is…

On my latest project we're using Perforce for source control and my first tasks have been to set up CruiseControl.Net for continuous integration, and…