Eli Weinstock-Herman

Management Posts

2022

Feb 27 - "The Engineering Team isn't getting enough done"
Jan 11 - Replacing Annual Reviews for Development Teams

2021

Nov 20 - Planning a Product Roadmap in a Small SaaS
Jul 26 - Writing Better Job Ads
Jul 22 - Documentation in an Agile Org

2019

Sep 15 - Creating Developer Career Ladders
Mar 18 - Setting Developer Titles
Feb 14 - Creating an Employee Onboarding Plan

Technical Posts

2022

Apr 30 - ASP.Net 6 with multiple react entry points
Jan 31 - Designing Custom Inputs
Jan 01 - Mocking OIDC Auth while integration testing ASP.Net

2021

Aug 18 - Integrating Terraform into a CircleCI/Azure Pipeline
Aug 15 - Terraform for an Azure Web App/SQL Stack
Jan 30 - Deploying an ASP.Net website to Azure via CircleCI
Jan 16 - Easy SQL migrations for .Net projects without Entity Framework

2019

May 26 - Migrating 2,300 Wordpress Posts to Azure
May 14 - Swapping tslint for eslint w/ react-scripts 3.0.0
Feb 27 - Converting the ASP.Net Core 2.2 React SPA to Typescript
Feb 22 - Speeding up npm install in CI
Feb 04 - Resolving High npm CPU Usage w/ NCrunch
Jan 02 - Adding Indexes for a Key/Value Store

LessThanDot Archive: Technical, Project, Process

2018

Oct 13 - Monitoring a website with Azure App Insights
Sep 02 - Blue/Green Deployment to Azure App Services
Aug 21 - Filtered Swagger docs for ASP.Net Core 2.0
Aug 21 - TEST TEST
Apr 24 - Adding User-Managed API Keys to ASP.Net Core 2 w/ Cosmos DB
Apr 17 - Adding Twitter Authentication to an ASP.Net Core 2 site w/ Cosmos DB
Apr 13 - Custom Authentication in ASP.Net Core 2 w/ Cosmos DB
Apr 09 - ASP.Net Core 2 w/ Cosmos DB: Getting Started
Mar 08 - LaunchReady: Don’t Get Distracted, Getting Stuff Done
Mar 01 - LaunchReady: Focus on the Customer
Feb 27 - Meet LaunchReady: A SaaS Product That Almost Was
Feb 06 - SQL is Hard (still): Reviving a stale application
Jan 23 - Streaming Alerts using AWS Lambda, Kinesis, and DynamoDB
Jan 16 - Serverless HTTP + Kinesis Lambdas with Offline Development

2017

Sep 08 - Custom Authentication in ASP.Net Core 1 (without Identity)
Aug 07 - Deploying to ServiceFabric from TeamCity
Jul 26 - Creating a local Service Fabric Cluster
Jul 19 - Multiple NuGet Methods for VS2017 + MSBuild 15 in TeamCity
Jul 07 - Mapping Complex types to/from JSON with JSON.Net
Jun 30 - SPA Routing in ASP.Net Core
Jun 20 - Mapping Complex Types to/from the DB with PetaPoco
Apr 26 - Creating a Static-Generated Marketing Site
Mar 23 - Learning Elixir and Phoenix – Getting a handle on the language
Mar 15 - Learning Elixir and Phoenix – Environments and Editors
Jan 27 - Using Azure Functions to add a Contact Form to a Static Site

2016

Dec 21 - A Custom Jasmine Runner to find my slowest Specs
Nov 25 - CSV file to API using Azure Functions (CSVaaS)
Nov 21 - Automated Keyword Extraction – TF-IDF, RAKE, and TextRank
Nov 20 - Python 3.5+: Unicode output for Windows Console
Nov 07 - To Build Automatic Bookmarking – Unsupervised Text Classification
Nov 03 - A Communications Hack for Helpful Ideas
Oct 24 - Easier Boundary Testing: Keep Parse/Validation/Format rules out of your HTML View
Oct 13 - Continuous Javascript Test Execution with WallabyJS
Oct 06 - Stop Manually Updating Your Jasmine SpecRunner
Jul 01 - Self-Hosted Web – Updating assets without restarting the debugger
Jun 24 - ASP.Net – Single-sign on against Office365 with OAuth2
Jun 01 - Improved TeamCity .Net Build Warnings
Apr 08 - ASP.Net – Ensure your Actions aren’t missing Authorization with Unit Tests
Mar 18 - MVVM – The User as an Asynchronous API (w/ Knockout)
Mar 02 - MVVM Validation with KnockoutJS – Don’t put it in the View/HTML
Jan 08 - Duplicating LessThanDot on a Vagrant VM

2015

Dec 19 - How I Hire Developers
Nov 18 - Distributed Storage: How SQL Azure Replicas Work
Nov 16 - Real World Azure: Lease Container bug in Azure Storage API
Sep 07 - Compiled list of C# + .Net Features
Aug 26 - Advanced Smoke Testing with PhantomJS
May 27 - Using CodeDOM to Automate Technical Screening Evaluation
Feb 19 - Bundling with the RequireJS Optimizer

2014

Dec 01 - Using Selenium for View testing with knockout and RequireJS
Oct 29 - Access Git Commits during a TeamCity Build using Powershell
Sep 07 - Automated Database Deployments – Presentation Demos
Aug 01 - Client-side vs Server-side Validation in Web Applications
Jul 02 - Threadsafe Incrementing in C#
Jun 20 - What does “good at C#” mean?
May 27 - Automated Deployment to Azure Hosted Services
May 05 - Six (and a bit) years of LessThanDot, Visualized
Apr 18 - Expanding an Existing Azure VM System Drive
Apr 03 - Continuous Javascript Testing with Karma
Mar 14 - Combine Azure Storage Analytics Logs with Powershell
Mar 10 - Azure Web Sites Deployment and Unit Testing
Mar 04 - Unit Testing with Jasmine 2.0 and Require.JS
Feb 17 - Azure Storage SDK 3.0.2 and Preview Azure Storage Emulator 2.2.1
Jan 22 - The WordPress Migration You Probably Didn’t Know About
Jan 07 - Testing Asynchronous Javascript w/ Jasmine 2.0.0

2013

Nov 22 - Software, You’re Doing it Wrong
Oct 21 - AngularJS vs Knockout - Final Thoughts (9 of 9)
Oct 16 - AngularJS vs Knockout - SPA Routing/History (8 of 9)
Oct 15 - AngularJS vs Knockout - Automated Testing (7 of 8)
Oct 14 - AngularJS vs Knockout - Modules and DI (6 of 8)
Oct 11 - AngularJS vs Knockout - Templating (5 of 8)
Oct 10 - AngularJS vs Knockout - Serialization (4 of 8)
Oct 09 - AngularJS vs Knockout - Validation (3 of 8)
Oct 08 - AngularJS vs Knockout - Data Binding (2 of 8)
Oct 07 - AngularJS vs Knockout - Introduction (1 of 8)
Sep 09 - Real World Azure - Queue PopReceiptMismatch Bug
Sep 04 - LessThanDot Outage - Aug 22, 2013 to Sept 4, 2013
Jul 16 - Upgrading from MVC3 to MVC4 and MVC4 Async
Jun 12 - SQL Is Hard
May 17 - Deploying Database Changes with PowerShell
May 06 - Intellisense for custom XML in Visual Studio
Mar 26 - IT vs The Business
Feb 11 - Azure Worker Role - Exiting Safely
Feb 04 - Quality, Quality Assurance, and How Not To Do It
Jan 15 - Displaying .Net Build Warnings in TeamCity

2012

Dec 10 - Testing the Not-So-Testable HttpWebResponse
Dec 05 - Scalability is Easy! (To Get Wrong)
Nov 07 - Converting a .Net Console Project to an Azure Worker Role Project
Oct 29 - Hiding Outages is a Short Term Game
Sep 21 - Custom Charts in TeamCity
Sep 20 - Continuous Delivery - To The Cloud!
Sep 14 - Continuous Delivery with TeamCity
Sep 07 - My Mobile-Friendly Site Redesign
Aug 15 - Metrics as a Service - Librato Metrics
Aug 06 - Followup on ORMs for Batch Performance
Jul 23 - Reducing Code-Build-Test Friction with NCrunch
Jul 10 - Evaluating ORMs for Batch Data Performance
Jul 05 - Monitoring and Logging as a Service - Reviews
Jul 03 - Monitoring and Logging as a Service - The Common Bits
Jun 29 - Monitoring and Logging as a Service - Introduction
Jun 26 - Pick the Right Storage: All SQL is Not Equal
Jun 12 - T-SQL Tuesday #31 - Logging Simple Things
May 23 - The Cloud as a Make-It-Finish-Sooner Dial
May 07 - PetaPoco: Mapping related objects
May 02 - More PetaPoco: Id's and Multi-POCO queries
Apr 29 - Playing with PetaPoco
Apr 27 - Continuous Delivery - Adding Static Analysis
Apr 24 - Be Mindful With Your Code
Apr 11 - Creating a Recording with WebCam Overlay
Mar 30 - Automating the LessThanDot Deployment
Mar 14 - Defining What "Done" Means
Feb 17 - Continuous Delivery - Adding the Load Testing Stage
Feb 16 - Implementing WCAT to Load Test a Website
Feb 03 - Automatically Version Control Your Jenkins Configuration
Jan 30 - Using SpecFlow to drive Selenium WebDriver Tests
Jan 10 - Meme Monday: My First Blog Post

2011

Dec 28 - Performance Impacts of Unicode, Equals vs LIKE, and Partially Filled Fixed Width
Dec 22 - Continuous Delivery - Dashboard, QA and Production Deployment
Dec 21 - Continuous Delivery - Adding an Automated Interface Test Stage
Dec 20 - Continuous Delivery Project - Deploy and Smoke Test
Dec 19 - Continuous Delivery Project - Incorporating the Unit Tests
Dec 16 - Continuous Delivery Project - Making MVCMusicStore Testable
Dec 15 - Continuous Delivery Project - Setting up Continuous Integration
Dec 14 - Starting a Continuous Delivery Project
Dec 02 - Using T4 templates for Centralized Javascript
Dec 02 - CSS, Javascript, T4 Templates, and Less, Oh My
Nov 02 - Automated Web Testing with Selenium WebDriver
Oct 26 - Automated Web Testing with Selenium IDE
Sep 26 - Getting Started with JavaScript Unit Testing
Sep 20 - Using Code Katas to Improve Programming Skills
Sep 13 - Using T-SQL OUTPUT and MERGE To Link Old and New Keys
Aug 09 - 'LocalSqlServer' Error Deploying WebSecurity in WebMatrix/Web Pages
Aug 02 - The History of HTML Table Layouts
Jul 28 - What Gordon Ramsay Can Teach the IT Industry
Jul 18 - Building a Lightweight Project Management Process
Jul 11 - From Eli's Shelves: Books for IT Architecture
Jul 07 - WebMatrix - Routing and Magic Pages
Jun 28 - What Does a Web Developer Need To Know
Jun 23 - The Many Functions of WebMatrix
Jun 16 - Productivity Is Not The Only Measurement
Jun 02 - My 'High Standards' for Software Development
May 27 - From Eli's Shelves: Books for IT Management
May 23 - The Stand-up Desk - Year Two, Version Two
May 17 - Process Kills Developer Passion...and Kittens, Lots of Kittens
May 16 - From Eli's Shelves: Books for Software Architecture
May 12 - SQLAzure - My First Cloud
May 06 - From Eli's Shelves: Books for Developers
May 03 - Have you Tried Out Microsoft TFS 2010?
Apr 27 - Adding User Emulation to an Application
Apr 06 - The Programmer vs The Developer
Mar 28 - Next Steps (and new Opportunities)
Mar 05 - Product Selection, Reviewing the Process
Feb 23 - Product Selection, Evaluation
Feb 11 - Product Selection, Requirements and Scoring
Feb 03 - Product Selection, Identifying Needs
Jan 19 - Better Late Than Never, My 2011 Goals

2010

Dec 17 - Clean Code and Project Failure (or Risk is not Boolean)
Nov 22 - Unit Testing Costs Too Much - Too Many Things To Learn
Nov 15 - Unit Testing Costs Too Much - Twice The Code = Value?
Nov 08 - Raleigh Code Camp Followup
Nov 03 - Unit Testing Costs Too Much
Oct 22 - Virtual Lab Tip: Notifications from Windows Event Log
Oct 15 - Why (and How) I Model
Sep 22 - SQL Saturday #46, Raleigh NC
Sep 02 - SQL Server Types - Numeric vs Int
Aug 16 - SQL Saturday 28, Baton Rouge
Aug 10 - Creating a Conceptual Data Model
Jul 22 - Resources for Professional Development
Jul 15 - Model-View-Presenter: Looking at Passive View
Jul 06 - Virtual Lab: Setting up Database Mail on SQL Server 2008 R2
Jun 23 - IF and IIF in VB.Net
Jun 17 - Virtual Lab: 2008 R2 Domain Controller - Basic Tasks
May 28 - Virtual Lab: Creating a 2008 R2 Domain Controller
May 20 - Virtual Lab: Creating the Basic SQL 2008 R2 Virtual Machine
May 11 - Building the Virtual Lab: VMWare and MS Windows 2008 R2
Apr 21 - There Is Never Time For ... (Part 3)
Apr 09 - There Is Never Time For ... (Part 2)
Apr 01 - There Is Never Time For ... (Part 1)
Mar 18 - IT: Beyond the 'Right Now' Problem
Mar 07 - SQL Saturday 33 - Charlotte, NC
Mar 01 - A Quick Beginners Look at SEO
Feb 14 - Trying the Stand-Up Desk
Jan 20 - 2010 Goals for Eli (Tarwn)
Jan 15 - Attributes of an IT Department

2009

Dec 30 - Applying Kanban to IT Processes (Part 5)
Dec 22 - Applying Kanban to IT Processes (Part 4)
Dec 15 - Applying Kanban to IT Processes (Part 3)
Dec 08 - Applying Kanban to IT Processes (Part 2)
Dec 01 - Applying Kanban to IT Processes (Part 1)
Nov 10 - Visual Studio - MetalScroll Add-On
Nov 03 - LessThanDot Redesign - Here We Go
Oct 30 - LTD Re-Design Tidbit #2
Oct 26 - LTD Re-Design Tidbit #1
Oct 23 - LessThanDot Re-Design
Apr 22 - An Invisible Project is a Failed Project