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Enabling Websockets for Socket.io Node apps on Microsoft Azure
NOTE: This is a technical post, I'll blog more about Nightscout later this week. Subscribe and watch for my take, or visit http://www.nightscout.info. I'm running an application called Nightscout that...
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NuGet Package of the Week - Courtesy Flush to flush buffers earlier and...
Yes, really. It's got to be the best name for an open source library out there. It's a great double entendre and a great name for this useful little library. Perhaps English isn't your first language,...
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Announcing .NET 2015 - .NET as Open Source, .NET on Mac and Linux, and Visual...
It's happening. It's the reason that a lot of us came to work for Microsoft, and I think it's both the end of an era but also the beginning of amazing things to come. The .NET 2015 wave of releases is...
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ASP.NET 5 (vNext) Work in Progress - Exploring TagHelpers
TagHelpers are a new feature of ASP.NET 5 (formerly and colloquially ASP.NET vNext) but it's taken me (and others) some time to fully digest them and what they mean.Note that this, and all of ASP.NET 5...
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OmniSharp - Making cross-platform .NET a reality, and a pleasure
In case you missed it, make sure to read Announcing .NET 2015 - .NET as Open Source, .NET on Mac and Linux, and Visual Studio Community because there's been some big stuff going on. Here's the summary...
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Getting ready for the future with the Microsoft .NET Portability Analyzer
.NET has been getting more and more portable. Not only is .NET Open Source going forward (read Announcing .NET 2015 - .NET as Open Source, .NET on Mac and Linux, and Visual Studio Community) but you of...
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The real and complete story - Does Windows defragment your SSD?
There has been a LOT of confusion around Windows, SSDs (hard drives), and whether or not they are getting automatically defragmented by automatic maintenance tasks in Windows.There's a general rule of...
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Getting Started with Robots for kids and children in STEM this holiday season
Now's the perfect time to buy your kids/nieces/cousins some robots. Robots are a great way to get children excited about computers. Robots get them stoked in a way that a simple Hello World console app...
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Refresh Your PC in Windows, AppData, and my missing Minecraft worlds
I thought I lost everything today. Well, not really, I have a very regular Backup Strategy (stop reading this blog post NOW and back your stuff up!) so I could get stuff back if I really needed to. But...
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NuGet Package of the Week: Polly wanna fluently express transient exception...
LOL at my own post title. Pardon me. Michael Wolfenden has a very clever open source library called Polly. Polly is a .NET 3.5 / 4.0 / 4.5 / PCL library that allows developers to express transient...
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How to map an Insert Key on your Surface Pro 3 Keyboard
I'm very happy with my Surface Pro 3 and continue to use it happily. However, the Type Keyboard on the Surface Pro 3 lacks an Insert Key. For some this may feel like a real problem, but remember your...
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Reality TV for Developers - Where is Twitch.tv for Programmers?
Twitch.tv is basically YouTube where you can watch other folks play video games. It initially sounds ridiculous but it's actually surprisingly compelling. You can see how other people solve problems...
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Quake Mode Console for Visual Studio - Open a Command Prompt with a hotkey
Back in March of 2013 when Phil Haack was deep into GitHub for Windows development we were going back and forth in email about how to quickly get into a shell from a specific project. I hate always...
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Rollup: Microsoft HoloLens, Surface Hub, Windows 10, Xbox One game streaming...
Disclaimer: I currently work for Microsoft, but this blog, and the words within are all my opinion. Mistakes and dumb ideas are mine. My impartiality or lack thereof stands on its own. I just got done...
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VIDEO: Do you really know how to use Microsoft Word? The Power of Tabs and...
I spent part of my lunch hour today remoted into a friend's computer who was having a lot of trouble with Microsoft Word. Like most of you she's an "experience Word user" and would happily put...
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The Basics of 3D Printing in 2015 - from someone with 16 WHOLE HOURS' experience
I bought a 3D printer on Friday, specifically a Printrbot Simple Metal from Amazon for US$599. I did a few days of research, looking at all the consumer models under $1000. Some were enclosed, others...
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Changing perspectives on your job - Will you renew your boss for another season?
Within a single week two different friends of mine called me to talk about their job satisfaction. One didn't like the project they were working on and felt that when they were pitched the job they...
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Creating exact 3D Models for 3D Printing with JavaScript and OpenJSCAD
I have this 3D Printed Spool Holder on the top of my Printrbot Simple Metal 3D Printerl that looks like this: It works great and fits my RioRand generic PLA Filament spool exactly. However, I went down...
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The new Raspberry Pi 2 will run Windows 10 and run Universal Apps
I'm a huge Raspberry Pi fan. I've got three around the house, I use one for a Media Center, one for 3D Printing, and one for messing about. Now I'm gonna get a BUNCH more as the Raspberry Pi 2 has been...
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The .NET CoreCLR is now open source, so I ran the GitHub repo through...
The hits keep on coming, Dear Reader. Just as we announced a few months back, .NET Core is open source. We said it would run on Windows, Mac, and Linux, but then the work of doing it has to actually...
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