mookid on code

When you’re packing your NuGet packages with
and the Whatever project happens to reference another project, Whatever.Dependency.csproj (with the <ProjectReference ...> tag in Whatever.csproj), the default behavior is to treat the reference as if the referenced project was ALSO a NuGet...

Consider this stack trace from an exception thrown by Entity Framework 6.1.3:
Lucky for me, I know which tiny change I made to the code I am working with to induce the exception, and therefore I am pretty confident that I know what caused it. Had I not been so fortunate, this stack trace would have provided almost no help at all...

There is a piece of advice in the software development world, which is pretty clearly expressed in this blog post by Joel Spolsky. It basically says that you should never rewrite your code from scratch.
I agree with this advice as a general rule to avoid running with the impulse of throwing out what you are working on sometimes, because you might feel like starting over fresh....

Since the inception of Rebus more than four years ago, I have been a happy user of this small messaging library targeted at being intuitively easy and natural to configure and use.
I am not the only one who has been using it, though. Over the course of Rebus’ lifetime I have had contact with several companies who were using it to solve their business problems, and I have always been delighted to hear about both good and bad experiences...