10 September 2019

20 links · Tuesday

Urban Street Network Orientation

My new article, Urban Spatial Order: Street Network Orientation, Configuration, and Entropy, has just been published in one of my favorite journals: Applied Network Science (download free PDF). Thi…

.NET Design Review: GitHub Quick Reviews

00:00:00 - Approved: Review System.Buffers.SequenceReader(T) proposals https://github.com/dotnet/corefx/issues/40962#issuecomment-530060857 01:15:19 - Needs Work: SequenceReader(T).AdvanceTo(SequencePosition) https://github.com/dotnet/corefx/issues/40843#issu…

Say hello to the new Visual Studio terminal! | Visual Studio Blog

Building on the momentum from the recently announced Developer PowerShell, we are excited to share the first preview of the new Visual Studio terminal. This new preview experience is part of Visual Studio version 16.3 Preview 3.   Rather than build everything…

AArnott/Nerdbank.GitVersioning

Stamp your assemblies, packages and more with a unique version generated from a single, simple version.json file and include git commit IDs for non-official builds. - AArnott/Nerdbank.GitVersioning

Publishing A Single EXE File In .NET Core 3.0 - .NET Core Tutorials

Say I have a simple “Hello World” console application that I want to send to a friend to run. The friend doesn’t have .NET Core installed so I know I need to build a self contained application for him. Easy, I just run the following command in my project direc…

awslabs/s2n

s2n : an implementation of the TLS/SSL protocols. Contribute to awslabs/s2n development by creating an account on GitHub.

Taskbar Latency and Kernel Calls

I work quickly on my computer and I get frustrated when I am forced to wait on an operation that should be fast. A persistent nuisance on my over-powered home laptop is that closing windows on the …

GC Perf Infrastructure – Part 0 | .NET Blog

In this blog entry and some future ones I will be showing off functionalities that our new GC perf infrastructure provides. Andy and I have been working on it (he did all the work; I merely played the consultant role). We will be open sourcing it soon and I wa…

Building a modern campus

Microsoft is on a journey, modernizing workplaces across all regions where we do business. We’re making this investment for our employees to provide an exceptional place to work and create greater collaboration and community. We are transforming the way we wor…