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BUILD 2017 Conference Rollup for .NET Developers
The BUILD Conference was lovely this last week, as was OSCON. I was fortunate to be at both. You can watch all the interviews and training sessions from BUILD 2017 on Channel 9. Here's a few sessions...
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Suggestions and Tips for attending your first tech conference
This last week Joseph Phillips tweeted that he was going to his first big tech conference and wanted some tips and suggestions. I have a TON of tips, but I know YOU have more, so I retweeted his...
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Exploring the preconfigured browser-based Linux Cloud Shell built into the...
At BUILD a few weeks ago I did a demo of the Azure Cloud Shell, now in preview. It's pretty fab and it's built into the Azure Portal and lives in your browser. You don't have to do anything, it's just...
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Choice amongst cross-platform .NET IDEs - VS Code, Visual Studio for Mac,...
A few years back, .NET development on a Mac was resigned to Mono and whatever text editor you knew how to exit successfully. Xamarin Studio came out in 2013 as a standalone IDE for mobile app...
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Visual Studio and IIS Error: Specified argument was out of the range of valid...
I got a very obscure and obtuse error running an ASP.NET application under Visual Studio and IIS Express recently. I'm running a Windows 10 Insiders (Fast Ring) build, so it's likely an issue with...
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.NET and Docker
.NET and .NET Core (and Windows!) have been getting better and better with Docker. I run Docker for Windows as it supports both Linux Containers and Windows Containers. They have both a Stable and Edge...
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RetroPie and X-Arcade Tankstick - The perfect Retro Arcade (plus keybindings...
Eight years ago I stumbled on the husk of an old arcade cabinet and along with my buddy John Batdorf, proceeded to reclaim the cabinet, refinish, paint, and turn it into a proper MAME (Multi-Arcade...
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Trying .NET Core on Linux with just a tarball (without apt-get)
There's a great post on the .NET Blog about the crazy Performance Improvements in .NET Core that ended up on Hacker News. The top comment on HN is a great one that points out that the http://dot.net...
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LLBLGen Pro for .NET and .NET Core - Database Entity Modeling with any ORM
There's opinionated frameworks, and then there's opinionated frameworks that also respect your opinion. LLBLGen is one of those. For many years it's been a great entity modeling tool as well as an...
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How to reference a .NET Core library in WinForms - Or, .NET Standard Explained
I got an interesting email today. The author said "I have a problem consuming a .net core class library in a winforms project and can't seem to find a solution." This was interesting for a few reasons....
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Get Solarized - Awesome command prompt colors for VS, VS Code, cmd,...
I was on a call with my co-worker Maria today and she commented on how nice my command prompt in Windows looked. I told it was "Solarized" and then our conference call fell apart as we collected all...
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Solved: Surface Pro 3 USB Driver Issues with the Surface Diagnostic Toolkit
I've got a personal Surface Pro 3 that I like very much. It's worked great for years and I haven't had any issues with it. However, yesterday while installing a 3rd party USB device something got...
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Exploring CQRS within the Brighter .NET open source project
There's a ton of cool new .NET Core open source projects lately, and I've very much enjoyed exploring this rapidly growing space. Today at lunch I was checking out a project called "Brighter." It's...
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Speed of dotnet run vs the speed of dotnet for published apps (plus...
The .NET Core team really prides themselves on performance. However, it's not immediately obvious (as with all systems) if you just do Hello World as a develop. Just today I was doing a Ruby on Rails...
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Porting a 15 year old .NET 1.1 Virtual CPU Tiny Operating System school...
I've had a number of great guests on the podcast lately. One topic that has come up a number of times is the "toy project." I've usually kept mine private - never putting them on GitHub - Somewhat...
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Review: The AmpliFi HD (High-Density) Home Wi-Fi Mesh Networking System
I've been very happy with the TP-Link AC3200 Router I got two years ago. It's been an excellent and solid router. However, as the kids get older and the number of mobile devices (and smart(ish)...
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URLs are UI
What a great title. "URLs are UI." Pithy, clear, crisp. Very true. I've been saying it for years. Someone on Twitter said "this is the professional quote of 2017" because they agreed with it. Except...
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Ubuntu now in the Windows Store: Updates to Linux on Windows 10 and Important...
I noticed this blog post about Ubuntu over at the Microsoft Command Line blog. Ubuntu is now available from the Windows Store for builds of Windows over 16215. You can run "Winver" to see your build...
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13 hours debugging a segmentation fault in .NET Core on Raspberry Pi and the...
Debugging is a satisfying and special kind of hell. You really have to live it to understand it. When you're deep into it you never know when it'll be done. When you do finally escape it's almost...
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Monospaced Programming Fonts with Ligatures
Typographic ligatures are when multiple characters appear to combine into a single character. Simplistically, when you type two or more characters and they magically attach to each other, you're using...
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