24 June 2019

13 links · Monday

Fixing Random, part 36

One more time! Suppose we have our nominal distribution p that possibly has “black swans” and our helper distribution q which has the same support, but no black swans. We wish to comput…

The World's First Solar Powered Train

The Byron Bay Railroad Company runs the world's first 100% solar-powered train. It wouldn't work everywhere - but in the bright sunshine of Australia, it might just be the right tool for the job. More about the railroad: https://byronbaytrain.com.au/ Edited …

YAML-defined CI/CD for ASP .NET Core

This is the twenty-fifth of a series of posts on ASP .NET Core in 2019. In this series, we’ll cover 26 topics over a span of 26 weeks from January through June 2019, titled A-Z of ASP .NET Core!  A…

DotVVM Minutes #6: Migrate ASP.NET Web Forms apps to .NET Core

This episode is dedicated to ASP.NET Web Forms developers and shows an upgrade path for Web Forms to .NET Core using DotVVM. You'll see how to install DotVVM in an existing Web Forms application, run both technologies side by side in the same project, and st…

dotnet/corefxlab

This repo is for experimentation and exploring new ideas that may or may not make it into the main corefx repo. - dotnet/corefxlab

Package filelock

Package filelock provides a platform-independent API for advisory file locking.