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One of the recent endeavors here at Liberty Fox was to create a knowledge base and wiki with the goal of creating a single, well-maintained, and central location for everything Liberty Fox does. Confluence, an Atlassian product, provides the tools necessary to accomplish this goal. At its core, Confluence is software that allows anyone to build and maintain a wiki, whether for internal uses, for customers, or for a mixture of both.

In the fast-paced world of agile development, thorough documentation ...

One of the fundamental aspects of running a website is understanding your user base. A solid understanding of who comes to your website, what they look at and for how long, when they come back and in what intervals is crucial to understanding your users. Google Analytics is a free web service that makes all of this streamlined and efficient and offers site administrators tools to review the data collected by Google.  Capturing data for your website is as simple ...

Effective communication is a key to success in any walk of life. Here at Liberty Fox, all of our team members interact with clients on a daily basis, making it vital to have clear, concise, and cogent communications. Grammarly is a tool that makes cleaning up emails, documentation, work logs, and notes, a simple and streamlined process. Far more than a standard spell checker, Grammarly evaluates every aspect of what we write to provide suggestions and corrections. From checking grammar ...

While working on <PROJECT_NAME_HERE>, I began to run into an issue on the UAT server. Several test cases were failing while running under Jenkins, all with the same cryptic error message. You may have seen this error in your own tests as well. It states:
System.InvalidOperationException:

The Entity Framework provider type ‘System.Data.Entity.SqlServer.SqlProviderServices,EntityFramework.SqlServer, Version=6.0.0.0,Culture=neutral,PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089’ for the ‘System.Data.SqlClient’ ADO.NET provider could not be loaded.

Make sure the provider assembly is available to the running application.

This is rather confusing because the app was clearly using ...