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ASP.NET Single Page Applications Angular Release Candidate
I was doing some Angular then remembered that the ASP.NET "Angular Project Template" has a release candidate and is scheduled to release sometime soon in 2018. Starting with just a .NET Core 2.0...
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Exploring the Azure IoT Arduino Cloud DevKit
Someone gave me an Azure IoT DevKit, and it was lovely timing as I'm continuing to learn about IoT. As you may know, I've done a number of Arduino and Raspberry Pi projects, and plugged them into...
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Building 0verkill on Windows 10 Subsystem for Linux - 2D ASCII art deathmatch...
I'm a big fan of the Windows Subsystem for Linux. It's real Linux that runs real user-mode ELF binaries but it's all on Windows 10. It's not running in a Virtual Machine. I talk about it and some of...
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Running BBS Door Games on Windows 10 with GameSrv, DOSBox, plus telnet fun...
I continue to enjoy seeing what can be done with WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) but even more fun is combining CMD.exe (the Windows console), Ubuntu on Windows (WSL), and DOSBox (an x86 emulator...
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You got this! You know the fundamentals. You are a learner. Plus The...
Sometimes we all get overwhelmed. There's a million (no irony there) reasons to be overwhelmed today, to be sure. I got an email from a community member who was feeling like they hadn't kept up on the...
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Building a Raspberry Pi Car Robot with WiFi and Video
Last year I found a company called SunFounder that makes great Raspberry Pi-related kits and stuff. I got their Raspberry Pi 10" Touchscreen LCD and enjoyed it very much. This month I picked up the...
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How to set up Kubernetes on Windows 10 with Docker for Windows and run...
Docker for Windows is really coming along nicely. They have both a Stable and Edge channel and the Edge (beta, experimental) one just included a lovely new feature - Kubernetes support. Per their docs,...
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Everyone should get a Dashcam
I've put Dashcams in both my car and my wife's car. It's already captured two accidents: one where I was rear-ended and one where someone fell asleep as they were driving a few cars ahead of me on the...
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Why should I care about Kubernetes, Docker, and Container Orchestration?
A person at work chatted me, commenting on my recent blog posts on the Raspberry Pi Kubernetes Clusters that are being built, and wondered "why should I care about Kubernetes or Docker or any of that...
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Surface Book 2 Developer Impressions and the Magic of USB-C
I recently got a updated laptop for work, a 15" Surface Book 2. It's quickly become my go-to machine, and I'm often finding myself using it more than my main desktop machine. I considered myself...
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One Email Rule - Have a separate Inbox and an Inbox CC to reduce email...
I've mentioned this tip before but once more for the folks in the back. This email productivity tip is a game-changer for most information workers. We all struggled with email. Some of us just declare...
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The Squishy Side of Open Source
A few months back my friend Keeley Hammond and I did a workshop for Women Who Code Portland called The Squishy Side of Open Source. We'd done a number of workshops before on how to use Git and the...
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az webapp new - Azure CLI extension to create and deploy a .NET Core or...
The Azure CLI 2.0 (Command line interface) is a clean little command line tool to query the Azure back-end APIs (which are JSON). It's easy to install and cross-platform: Install on Windows Install on...
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Upgrading a 10 year old site to ASP.NET Core's Razor Pages using the URL...
My podcast has over 600 episodes (Every week for many years, you do the math! And subscribe!) website was written in ASP.NET Web Pages many years ago. "Web Pages" (horrible name) was it's own thing. It...
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Running ASP.NET Core on GoDaddy's cheapest shared Linux Hosting - Don't Try...
First, a disclaimer. Don't do this. I did this to test a theory and to prove a point. ASP.NET Core and the .NET Core that it runs on are open source and run pretty much anywhere. I wanted to see if I...
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A multi-player server-side GameBoy Emulator written in .NET Core and Angular
One of the great joys of sharing and discovering code online is when you stumble upon something so truly epic, so amazing, that you have to dig in. Head over to https://github.com/axle-h/Retro.Net and...
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Major build speed improvements - Try .NET Core 2.1 Preview 1 today
Head over to the main .NET Core download page and pick up .NET Core 2.1 - Preview 1. The SDK contains the tools you need to build and run apps with .NET Core and supports Mac, Windows, Ubuntu, Debian,...
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Upgrading my podcast site to ASP.NET Core 2.1 in Azure plus some Best Practices
I am continuing to upgrade to podcast's site. Today I upgraded it to .NET Core 2.1, keeping the work going from my upgrade from "Web Matrix WebPages" from last week. I upgraded to actually running...
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Setting up Application Insights took 10 minutes. It created two days of work...
I've been upgrading my podcast site from a 10 year old WebMatrix site to modern, open source ASP.NET Core with Razor Pages. It's off IIS and now running cross-platform in Azure. I added Application...
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Cross-platform GUIs with open source .NET using Eto.Forms
This is one of those "Did you know you could do THAT?" Many folks have figured out that C#/F#/.NET is cross-platform and open0source and runs on basically any operating system. People are using it to...
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