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An update on ASP.NET Core 1.0 RC2
What's going on with ASP.NET Core 1.0 RC2? Why is RC2 taking so long over RC1 and what's going to happen between now and the final release? I talked to architect David Fowler about this and tried to...
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Chatting with Prince on AOL in 1999 - "this way is modern"
Before the Internet as we know it today, before social media, there was AOL. Specifically there was AOL chat rooms. The digital world was smaller but Prince was always there. He was so ahead of his...
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10 years and over 520 episodes of podcasting - Tech is a marathon, not a sprint
I try not to be prideful, as a rule, but darnit, I'm REALLY proud of my podcast. As of this writing I've done 526 episodes. Each one 30 minutes long. Every Thursday, for the last decade. That's over...
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Playing with TensorFlow on Windows
TensorFlow is a machine learning library from Google. There are no Windows builds but I wanted to run it on Windows. There are some other blog posts that show people trying to get TensorFlow running on...
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.NET Core 1.0 RC2 - Upgrading from previous versions
.NET Core RC2 is out, it's open source, and it's on multiple platforms. I'm particularly proud of the cool vanity domain we got for it. http://dot.net. ;) It makes me smile. Here's the important blog...
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White House Visit - Foster Care and Technology Hackathon
Hey friends! I am so proud to be a technology advisor for the the White House Foster Care and Technology Hackathon this week! While I'm participating in this event and advising as a private citizen,...
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Is technology killing curiosity?
I was talking with Kishau Rogers this week at a Hackathon we were helping with at The White House for ThinkOfUs. (See how I dropped The White House in there like it was nothing? It was everything....
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MSBuild Structured Log: record and visualize your builds
MSBuild has been open source for a while (over a year now!) and is used to build .NET and .NET Core projects. In fact, MSBuild is used to build the .NET Core Runtime itself. Recently Kirill Osenkov...
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The Promising State of Diabetes Technology in 2016
I've been a Type 1 Diabetic now for nearly 25 years. The first thing that every techie does once they've been diagnosed with Diabetes is they try to solve the problem with software or hardware....
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Stop saying learning to code is easy.
I saw this tweet after the Apple WWDC keynote and had thought the same thing. Hang on, programming is hard. Rewarding, sure. Interesting, totally. But "easy" sets folks up for failure and a lifetime...
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Forgotten (but Awesome) Windows Command Prompt Features
It's always the little throwaway tweets that go picked up. Not the ones that we agonize over. I was doing some work at the command line and typed "dotnet --version | clip" to copy the .NET Core version...
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Adding a Custom Inline Route Constraint in ASP.NET Core 1.0
ASP.NET supports both attribute routing as well as centralized routes. That means that you can decorate your Controller Methods with your routes if you like, or you can map routes all in one place....
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.NET Core 1.0 is now released!
I feel like it's the culmination of all these years of work in .NET and Open Source. This is why I came to work at Microsoft; we wanted to open source as much as we could and build a community around...
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VIDEO: How to run Linux and Bash on "Windows 10 Anniversary Update"
Ya, I'm not a fan of the name Windows 10 "Anniversary Update" but it has been a year since Windows 10 came out. It's my daily driver and it gets better every month. This year it's gonna get better...
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Is your stuff backed up? Recovering from a hardware failure
I had a massive hardware failure over the holiday weekend. I can only tell you what I think happened. I'm not an electrical engineer so if you know more (and I'm sure you do), do feel free to share...
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Where's DNVM? Safely running multiple versions of the .NET Core SDK and...
On June 27th both the ASP.NET Core and .NET Core 1.0 runtimes were officially released. They are now version 1.0 and are both supported frameworks. However, the "tooling" around .NET Core remains in a...
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Self-care matters: Pay yourself first
I was meeting with a mentee today and she was commenting how stressed out she was. Overwhelmed with work, email, home, life, dinners, the news, finances...you know. LIFE. I am too. You likely are as...
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Exploring dotnet new with .NET Core
I'm very enjoying the "dotnet" command line. Mostly I do "dotnet new" and then add to the default Hello World app with the Visual Studio Code editor. Recently, though, I realized that the -t "type" and...
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Windows 10 "Developer Mode"
The new Windows 10 update coming in a few weeks. It's called Windows 10 "Anniversary Edition" (I would have just called it 10.1, because, I dunno, monotonically increasing numbers and all, but...
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Making YouTube videos look sharp and professional on a budget
My team is doing some videos to show off some features in Visual Studio. Most of my videos or YouTubes are screencasts so the video quality of the people parts aren't a huge deal. I REALLY try to make...
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