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Exploring a minimal WebAPI with ASP.NET Core
They are still working on the "dotnet new" templates, but you can also get cool templates from "yo aspnet" usingn Yeoman. The generator-aspnet package for Yeoman includes an empty web app, a console...
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Exploring a minimal WebAPI with .NET Core and NancyFX
In my last blog post I was exploring a minimal WebAPI with ASP.NET Core. In this one I wanted to look at how NancyFX does it. Nancy is an open source framework that takes some inspiration from Ruby's...
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GitKraken Pro git client teaming up with NightScout to support Open Source...
There's a great new cross-platform Git client available now called GitKraken. It's totally free to download and but the optional Pro version includes some great features like a Merge Conflict editor,...
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Collecting Windows 10 "Anniversary Edition" Keyboard Shortcuts
I'm a big fan of keyboard shortcuts. There's a fantastic list of Windows 10 shortcuts *inside* the Windows 10 Insiders "Feedback Hub" app. The in-app direct link (not a web link) is here but I think...
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Two tools for quick and easy web application load testing during development
I was on the ASP.NET Community Standup this morning and Jon mentioned a new tool for load testing called "Netling." This got me to thinking about simple lightweight load testing in general. I've used...
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Visual Studio 2015 - Fixing "Dependencies npm not installed" from fsevents...
Maria and I were doing some work together on Thursday and I did a clone of one of her ASP.NET Core repositories and opened it in Visual Studio 2015 Community Edition on my local machine. Some of the...
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Visual Studio's most useful (and underused) tips
There was a cool comment in my last blog post (one of many, as always, the comments > the content). Btw, "until I realized that the Solution Explorer tree nodes are searchable." This one is a saver!...
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Announcing PowerShell on Linux - PowerShell is Open Source!
I started doing PowerShell almost 10 years ago. Check out this video from 2007 of me learning about PowerShell from Jeffrey Snover! I worked in PowerShell for many years and blogged extensively,...
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Psychic Weight - Dealing with the things that press on your mind
 I was really stressed out ten years ago. I felt that familiar pressure between my eyes and felt like all the things that remained undone were pressing on me. I called it "psychic weight." I have...
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What is Serverless Computing? Exploring Azure Functions
There's a lot of confusing terms in the Cloud space. And that's not counting the term "Cloud." ;) IaaS (Infrastructure as a Services) - Virtual Machines and stuff on demand. PaaS (Platform as a...
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Publishing an ASP.NET Core website to a cheap Linux VM host
A little Linux VM on Azure is like $13 a month. You can get little Linux machines all over for between $10-15 a month. On Linode they are about $10 a month so I figured it would be interesting to setup...
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How to deal with Technology Burnout - Maybe it's life's cycles
Sarah Mei had a great series of tweets last week. She's a Founder of RailsBridge, Director of Ruby Central, and the Chief Consultant of DevMynd so she's experienced with work both "on the job" and "on...
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Putting (my VB6) Windows Apps in the Windows 10 Store - Project Centennial
I noticed today that Evernote was in the Windows Store. I went to the store, installed Evernote, and it ran. No nextnextnextfinish-style install, it just worked and it worked nicely. It's a Win32 app...
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Self-contained .NET Core Applications
Just in case you missed it, .NET is all open source now and .NET Core is a free, open source, cross-platform framework that you can download and start with in <10 minutes. You can get it on Mac,...
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FIXED: Xbox One losing TV signal error message with DirectTV
I've got an Xbox One that I love that is connected to a DirectTV HDTV Receiver that I love somewhat less. The setup is quite simple. Since I can control the DirectTV with the Xbox One and we like to...
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Lonely Coding
It's official. I'm a better programmer when I'm pairing with someone. Pair Programming (two people, one keyboard) has been around for at least 20+ years, if not much longer. Usually one person types...
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Sharing Authorization Cookies between ASP.NET 4.x and ASP.NET Core 1.0
ASP.NET Core 1.0 is out, as is .NET Core 1.0 and lots of folks are making great cross-platform web apps. These are Web Apps that are built on .NET Core 1.0 and run on Windows, Mac, or Linux. However,...
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How to reference an existing .NET Framework Project in an ASP.NET Core 1.0...
I had a reader send me a question yesterday. She basically wanted to use her existing .NET Framework libraries in an ASP.NET Core application, and it wasn't super clear how to do it. I have a quick...
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Exploring ASP.NET Core with Docker in both Linux and Windows Containers
In May of last year doing things with ASP.NET and Docker was in its infancy. But cool stuff was afoot. I wrote a blog post showing how to publish an ASP.NET 5 (5 at the time, now Core 1.0) app to...
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Learning Arduino the fun way - Writing Games with Arduboy
My kids and I are always tinkering with gadgets and electronics. If you follow me on Instagram you'll notice our adventures as we've built a small Raspberry Pi powered arcade, explored retro-tech,...
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