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Penny Pinching in the Cloud: Your web app doesn't need 64-bit
Often times I hear folks say that they need (or want) 64-bit support when they deploy to the cloud. They'll deploy their modest application to Azure, for example, as a Web Application, then immediately...
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Moving beyond Beginner when 3D Printing and becoming a Handy Person
OK, let's just say it. I'm not that handy and I'll never be handy. I'm consistently impressed with all my friends and family members who put up pictures of their amazing dining room tables made from...
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Diabetes Technology: Dexcom G5 CGM Review - So much wasted potential
As you may know, I'm a Type 1 Diabetic and have been for well over 20 years. I wear a Medtronic Insulin Pump 24 hours a day and use a Dexcom CGM (Continuous Glucose Meter) to monitor my blood sugar,...
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Control how your bower packages are installed with a gulpfile in ASP.NET 5
ASP.NET 5 beta 8 is out. Yes, that's a lot of betas, but it's important to get things right when you're doing something new like this. You can find instructions in our documentation for installing...
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Integrating Visual Studio Code with dnx-watch to develop ASP.NET 5 applications
Visual Studio Code is a great cross platform code editor that is also free. You can get it at code.visualstudio.com for Mac, Windows, or Linux. It's great for web development, and particularly shines...
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It's happening - OpenSSH for Windows...from Microsoft
Back in June the folks over at the Microsoft PowerShell blog indicated they were going to support SSH in Windows soon. I read the post a few times and I must admit I read deeply between the lines and...
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NuGet Package of the Week: Microphone registers and discovers Web APIs and...
I'm sitting on a plane on the way back from a lovely time in Europe. I attended and spoke at some great conferences and met some cool people - some of which you'll hear on the podcast soon. Anyway, one...
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How to simulate a low bandwidth connection for testing web sites and...
Facebook just announced an internal initiative called "2G Tuesdays" and I think it's brilliant. It's a clear and concrete way to remind folks with fast internet (who likely have always had fast...
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Using the Surface Pro 4 Type Cover with Fingerprint Reader on a Surface Pro 3
Last year in August I went and bought a Surface Pro 3 with my own money (it's not machine that work paid for) and I've been very happy with it. Now the Surface Pro 4 came out, and well, it's silly to...
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Using Redis as a Service in Azure to speed up ASP.NET applications
Microsoft Azure has a Redis Cache as a Service. There's two tiers. Basic is a single cache node, and Standard is as a complete replicated Cache (two nodes, with automatic failover). Microsoft manages...
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The Crowdsourcing of Software Quality
I posted a rant back in 2012 called "Everything's broken and nobody's upset." Here's another. Lots of people commented on that first post and a number agreed with the general premise. Some were angry...
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ASP.NET 5 and .NET Core RC1 in context (Plus all the Connect 2015 News)
It was a huge day in New York today as I got to join Scott Guthrie and the team at the Connect() 2015 event as they announced a bunch of stuff, including, but not limited to: Visual Studio Code is now...
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RFC: Server-side Image and Graphics Processing with .NET Core and ASP.NET 5
The .NET Core and the Core Libraries are open source and run on Windows, Mac, and Linux. In fact, you can run them with support, today, in production on Windows and Linux (Mac is for development, not...
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Announcing PowerApps with Azure App Service
Microsoft announced Azure App Service in March of this year on ScottGu's blog. Azure App Service includes all this stuff for one price. In fact, if you are already using Web Apps/Sites, have many of...
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Fixed: Microsoft Edge can't see or open VirtualBox-hosted local web sites
I'm using VirtualBox on a Windows 10 machine along with Docker to deploy ASP.NET websites to local Linux Containers. To be clear, this isn't accessing websites with http://localhost, this is accessing...
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Brainstorming development workflows with Docker, Kitematic, VirtualBox,...
First, a disclaimer. I have no idea what I'm talking about. I'm learning and exploring some ideas, and I wanted to see what the development process looks like today (December 2015) with Docker,...
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The 2015 Christmas List of Best STEM Toys for your little nerds and nerdettes
My 8 year old (recently 7, they grow so fast) asked recently, "are we nerds yet?" Being a nerd doesn't have the negative stigma it once did. A nerd is a fan, and everyone should be enthusiastic about...
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Announcing Open Live Writer - An Open Source Fork of Windows Live Writer
Today is the day. An independent group of volunteers within Microsoft has successfully open sourced and forked Windows Live Writer. The fork is called Open Live Writer (also known as OLW) and it is...
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Signing into Windows 10 with your Face - Using an Xbox One Kinect with...
The original version of the Kinect camera had an Xbox version and a PC version, and this sucked for a few reasons. Fast forward to the days of Xbox One, and the Kinect v2 for Xbox One has changed a...
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3D Printing is for so much more than just making brightly colored plastic...
When you first start learning about 3D Printing you'll usually find yourself looking at a bunch of brightly colored plastic busts. The first 3D printed thing I ever saw was a florescent green Yoda...
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