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Turn your Raspberry Pi into a portable Touchscreen Tablet with SunFounder's...
I was very fortunate to get a preview version of the "RasPad" from SunFounder. Check it out at https://raspad.sunfounder.com/ and at the time of these writing they have a Kickstarter I'm backing! I've...
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Automatic Unit Testing in .NET Core plus Code Coverage in Visual Studio Code
I was talking to Toni Edward Solarin on Skype yesterday about his open source spike (early days) of Code Coverage for .NET Core called "coverlet." There's a few options out there for cobbling together...
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Command line "tab" completion for .NET Core CLI in PowerShell or bash
Lots of people are using open source .NET Core and the "dotnet" command line, but few know that the .NET CLI supports command "tab" completion! You can ensure you have it on .NET Core 2.0 with this...
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Easier functional and integration testing of ASP.NET Core applications
In ASP.NET 2.1 (now in preview) there's apparently a new package called Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Testing that's meant to help streamline in-memory end-to-end testing of applications that use the MVC...
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Audio Switcher should be built into Windows - Easily Switch Playback and...
I've been running a podcast now for over 600 episodes and I do most of my recordings here at home using a Peavey PV6 Mixing Console - it's fantastic. However, I also work remotely and use Skype a lot...
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Optimizing an ASP.NET Core site with Chrome's Lighthouse Auditor
I'm continuing to update my podcast site. I've upgraded it from ASP.NET "Web Pages" (10 year old code written in WebMatrix) to ASP.NET Core 2.1 developed with VS Code. Here's some recent posts:...
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Updating jQuery-based Lazy Image Loading to IntersectionObserver
Five years ago I implemented "lazy loading" of the 600+ images on my podcast's archives page (I don't like paging, as a rule) over here https://www.hanselminutes.com/episodes. I did it with jQuery and...
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Retrogaming on original consoles in HDMI on a budget
My sons (10 and 12) and I have been enjoying Retrogaming as a hobby of late. Sure there's a lot of talk of 4k 60fps this and that, but there's amazing stories in classing video games. From The Legend...
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How to setup Signed Git Commits with a YubiKey NEO and GPG and Keybase on...
This week in obscure blog titles, I bring you the nightmare that is setting up Signed Git Commits with a YubiKey NEO and GPG and Keybase on Windows. This is one of those "it's good for you" things like...
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HttpClientFactory for typed HttpClient instances in ASP.NET Core 2.1
I'm continuing to upgrade my podcast site https://www.hanselminutes.com to .NET Core 2.1 running ASP.NET Core 2.1. I'm using Razor Pages having converted my old Web Matrix Site (like 8 years old) and...
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Adding Resilience and Transient Fault handling to your .NET Core HttpClient...
Last week while upgrading my podcast site to ASP.NET Core 2.1 and .NET. Core 2.1 I moved my Http Client instances over to be created by the new HttpClientFactory. Now I have a single central place...
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Adding Cross-Cutting Memory Caching to an HttpClientFactory in ASP.NET Core...
Couple days ago I Added Resilience and Transient Fault handling to your .NET Core HttpClient with Polly. Polly provides a way to pre-configure instances of HttpClient which apply Polly policies to...
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The Programmer's Hindsight - Caching with HttpClientFactory and Polly Part 2
In my last blog post Adding Cross-Cutting Memory Caching to an HttpClientFactory in ASP.NET Core with Polly I actually failed to complete my mission. I talked to a few people (thanks Dylan and Damian...
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Eyes wide open - Correct Caching is always hard
In my last post I talked about Caching and some of the stuff I've been doing to cache the results of a VERY expensive call to the backend that hosts my podcast. As always, the comments are better than...
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Announcing .NET Core 2.1 RC 1 Go Live AND .NET Core 3.0 Futures
I just got back from the Microsoft BUILD Conference where Scott Hunter and I announced both .NET Core 2.1 RC1 AND talked about .NET Core 3.0 in the future. .NET Core 2.1 RC1 First, .NET Core 2.1's...
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Using LazyCache for clean and simple .NET Core in-memory caching
I'm continuing to use .NET Core 2.1 to power my Podcast Site, and I've done a series of posts on some of the experiments I've been doing. I also upgraded to .NET Core 2.1 RC that came out this week....
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Building, Running, and Testing .NET Core and ASP.NET Core 2.1 in Docker on a...
I love me some Raspberry Pi. They are great little learning machines and are super fun for kids to play with. Even if those kids are adults and they build a 6 node Kubernetes Raspberry Pi Cluster. Open...
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Installing PowerShell Core on a Raspberry Pi (powered by .NET Core)
Earlier this week I set up .NET Core and Docker on a Raspberry Pi and found that I could run my podcast website quite easily on a Pi. Check that post out as there's a lot going on. I can test within a...
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Real Browser Integration Testing with Selenium Standalone, Chrome, and...
Buckle up kids, this is nuts and I'm probably doing it wrong. ;) And it's 2am and I wrote this fast. I'll come back tomorrow and fix the spelling. I want to have lots of tests to make sure my new...
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The year of Linux on the (Windows) Desktop - WSL Tips and Tricks
I've been doing a ton of work in bash/zsh/fish lately - Linuxing. In case you didn't know, Windows 10 can run Linux now. Sure, you can run Linux in a VM, but it's heavy and you need a decent machine....
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