I've been using Docker for more development tasks recently. Pulling a new pre-configured image and getting on with what I'm trying to do saves a lot of time. I've lost count of the number of hours I've "lost" chasing version numbers. Downloading files, installing them and then figuring out why it doesn't work isn't fun. When I read you can run the Azure CLI in a Docker container, I decided to use it.

However, authenticating with `az login` every time got old quick. Here's how I managed to persist the azure cli docker container credentials between sessions.

I recently had the opportunity to update the quality of logging in an application. Exceptions were handled well, but it was hard to see the values passed through the layers.

I ended up using a Roslyn CodeFix to add a ToString method.

I ran across MediatR the other day while looking into the command pattern. I’ve been working a lot with micro-services. So I wanted to see how I could use the Command Pattern in Web API 2 with MediatR and Ninject.