This week I have been busy mostly busy with bug fixing some code we have which used to be a windows service but is now a TopShelf service - if you use windows services you’ll know that there hard to debug, enter TopShelf
TopShelf is almost identical to a windows service but runs like a console app and that allows you to debug the code you would have within your windows service. To change your code from a windows service to a TopShelf service is minimal code indeed and well worth the small amount of effort.
What I learned this past week
- Visual Studio 2012 and Windows 8 are available, if you use Visual Studio 2012 then check out a fantastic extension called Web Essentials - go check it out.
- RavenDB - the guys who bring you Raven are hard at work on a 1.2 release which will bring a number of great changes, I have upgraded my home-brew project to the latest unstable version and the upgrades to the front end are cool and most welcome - more soon when I get more time hands on.
- Select2 is a very neat little javascript library which you use to make your select boxes on web pages far sexxier - take a look here. Elmahr 0.91 is out - more here.
What did you find useful this week? - please let me know by leaving a comment after the beep.
