What the heck is source code, environments, and versioning for non technical people Had an interesting conversation today and thought I'd share some insight to business people dealing with technical folks The crux of the qu...
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The stages of a side project One experience of mine, though it has roughly mapped to previous side projects: Wow this thing that has no business model is a cool idea, I wonder if anyone has done it before? This is fun, let’s spend an evening hacking on it Wow this is taking way more...
9 Year Homelab history in pictures Since 2012 I have been interested in servers and networking, and started running them at home. Here is a history of changes over the years I don't have full explanations of everything, but ill try to mention things as I go. You will have to excuse the poo...
Taking Notes on Our Feelings No one is ever in tip-top shape for every single second of their lives. Everyone has a few bad days. These lows are sometimes essential…
A new way to learn about technology with Disco's Saron Yitbarek | Hanselminutes with Scott Hanselman CodeNewbie founder Saron Yitbarek is now producing beautifully designed, easy-to-digest audio courses! Is it an audiobook? They're not webinars or labs. Is Disco the future of technology learning?
Ashley Janelle Why You're Not Landing that UX Role [w/ASL Interpreting] As a UX Coach, the question I am asked the most is "How do I actually land that UX role?". While the question is broad, I've identified a few areas where aspiring UX Designers really struggle getting their foot in the door at companies of their choice. In...
An introduction to Data Oriented Design with Rust An introduction to Data Oriented Design with Rust An introduction to Data Oriented Design with Rust In the post we will investigate the main …
How to Shut Off Public Connectivity to Azure SQL Database In this episode with Rohit Nayak, we will cover the Deny Public Network Access setting for SQL Database. Customers can use this setting to block all public access via firewall rules and exclusively re
PowerToys: Utilities to customize Windows 10 Learn about Microsoft PowerToys, a set of utilities for power users to tune and streamline your Windows 10 experience for greater productivity. Clint Rutkas will show you the current PowerToy utiliti
Let's Encrypt's New Root and Intermediate Certificates On Thursday, September 3rd, 2020, Let’s Encrypt issued six new certificates: one root, four intermediates, and one cross-sign. These new certificates are part of our larger plan to improve privacy on the web, by making ECDSA end-entity certificates widely...
Visual Studio Code's C++ Extension Hits v1.0 General Availability -- Visual Studio Magazine Microsoft announced the first generally available release of the C++ extension for Visual Studio Code, graduating to version 1.0 after debuting way back in April 2016,
Becoming a Director of Program Management with .NET’s Scott Hunter Today’s episode features Scott Hunter who is the PM director for the .NET team. We chat about the challenges that come with growing your scope, applying the lessons learned in startups and consulting
On .NET Live - .NET Core Code Coverage with Coverlet Coverlet is a cross platform code coverage framework for .NET. In this session, we'll have the creator of coverlet Toni Solarin-Sodara join us on On .NET Live to talk about how we can use the framework in our .NET applications today. Featuring: Toni Sola...
CQRS and MediatR in ASP.NET Core - Code Maze How to use the MediatR NuGet library in ASP.NET Core, and working with the CQRS and Mediator architectural patterns.
C++ Leads Visual Studio 2019 v16.8 Preview 3 Improvements -- Visual Studio Magazine The third preview of Visual Studio 2019 v16.8 shows the usual assortment of improvements touching upon productivity for Git, the Roslyn .NET compiler platform, and especially C++.
The Countdown Show Join @GraceMacjones @shanselman @taraw and Kendra Smith for the 3rd episode of The Countdown Show to #MSIgnite. They will discuss opportunities for learning and connecting during #MSIgnite next week and how to get the most out of your virtual experience.
Cloudflare and the Wayback Machine, joining forces for a more reliable Web - Internet Archive Blogs Cloudflare now populating and using the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine in its content distribution network application Cloudflare and the Internet Archive are now working together to help make the web more reliable. Websites that enable Cloudflare’s A...
Debug Your .NET Core Apps in WSL 2 with Visual Studio | .NET Blog The .NET Core Debugging with WSL 2 – Preview extension lets run and debug your .NET Core apps in WSL 2 from Visual Studio.
.NET Tooling Community Standup - Sept 17th 2020 - Analysis Levels in .NET 5: Find latent bugs Jon published an excellent post on the new analysis levels we are introducing in .NET 5. We'll also talk about the new warnings and errors in .NET 5 preview that help you find common mistakes early! https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/automatically-find...
Germany will violate 3 international agreements with the Unitary Patent, says FFII Germany set to vote on the Unitary Patent Court (UPC), a proposal that would kill jobs and innovation in software. Open Letter to the Bundesrat: “Germany will violate 3 international agreements with the Unitary Patent” Dear Members of the Bundesrat, Tomor...
Why We Don't Like Our Underground House We had wanted an underground house for years, and finally, we found the perfect one. Or did we? We learned the hard way what realtors and ads don't tell you.
Privacy-focused search engine DuckDuckGo is growing fast DuckDuckGo, the privacy-focused search engine, announced that August 2020 ended in over 2 billion total searches via its search platform.
The C++/WinRT "capture" function helps you interoperate with the COM ABI world | The Old New Thing C++/WinRT is a freestanding library that is not dependent upon any Windows operating system header files. You are welcome to stay completely in the C++/WinRT world, but it’s not uncommon to have to interact with objects outside that world from time to tim...
Dear Programmers, You Are Not F****** Special We're not f****** special, so why do we keep acting like we are?!
RavenDB in Action Workshop in NDC Conference On October 26, I’ll be giving a two days workshop on RavenDB 5.0 as part of the NDC Conference.In the workshop, I’m going to talk about using RavenDB from sc...
ASP.NET App Migration Webinar | Microsoft Azure Join this webinar to learn how to free up time to build your apps and lower costs by migrating your ASP.NET applications to Azure.
GitHub CLI 1.0 is now available - The GitHub Blog GitHub CLI brings GitHub to your terminal. It reduces context switching, helps you focus, and enables you to more easily script and create your own workflows. Earlier this year, we announced the beta of GitHub
Diversity in Tech With Pariss Chandler Let's be real about Diversity in Tech and specifically what it's like to be black in tech. Pariss Chandler joins to talk about what it's like to be black in tech and her initiatives to help more black people lead successful careers in tech. Black Tech Pi...
Philipp is annoyed I’m using the iOS Bedtime feature for years now. With yesterday’s iOS 14 update the feature got moved from the Clock app to the Health app. Unfortunately the migration is done by disabling your existing alarm and showing a button to open the Health app to...
Retrieving Images from the Clipboard and WPF Image Control Woes Retrieving images from the clipboard with WPF seems so simple, but once you get into it you'll find that there are lots of problems with reliable image retrieval that works for all images. In this post I talk about the different issues you're likely to ru...
.NET Framework September 2020 Cumulative Update Preview Update | .NET Blog Today, we are releasing the September 2020 Cumulative Update Preview Updates for .NET Framework. Quality and Reliability This release contains the following quality and reliability improvements. ASP.NET Disabled resuse of AppPathModifier in ASP.Net contro...
Herding Code 242: The COVID Cabin Fever Does time still exist? Maybe! The Kevin, Rob, and Jon chat about some of the top concerns of our current time: Sourdough breadWordpress and PHPNo Code developmentKnock knock jokes Download / Listen: Herding Code 242: The COVID Cabin Fever Links: https://g...
Microsoft Releases .NET 5.0 RC 1 Earlier this week, Microsoft released .NET 5.0 RC1, the first "go live" release of .NET 5 before its official debut in November. .NET 5 is a unified platform for the .NET ecosystem, wrapping together all of its components into one cross-platform package. ...
Azure + Spring Boot = Serverless - Q&A with Julien Dubois Microsoft seems to prove over and over again its focus on cloud and the Java ecosystem is the new normal. Even though Java is amongst the supported languages for Azure functions for some time now, Julien Dubois experimented with Spring Boot and Azure to s...
Microsoft announces new Project OneFuzz framework, an open source developer tool to find and fix bugs at scale - Microsoft Security We're excited to release a new tool called OneFuzz, an extensible fuzz testing framework for Azure.
What is the cloud? Explained I'm continuing my 'Computer Stuff They Didn't Teach You' series on YouTube. Please subscribe! I've set a personal goal ...
Using OpenAPI with .NET Core - Red Hat Developer Learn how to use OpenAPI to describe the APIs provided by an ASP.NET Core service, then use the API description to generate a strongly-typed client.
Building an AWS DevOps Pipeline for Databases - Redgate Software The first time you try to automate a database deployment using any of the available flow control tools, all the moving parts makes the task look insanely
Running 16-bit applications on Windows 10 64-bit I wrote this post as a proof of concept and as a best effort to make a 16-bit application run on Windows 10 64-bit. It will be demonstrated how to use a third-part open source framework called otya128 – winevdm, how to use MSIX, UWP Execution Alias an...
MYSTERY MEMORY LEAK: WHERE DID MY MEMORY GO?! Hello, My name is Jeffrey Worline, and I am a Senior Support Escalation Engineer on the Windows Performance Team at Microsoft. This blog addresses how to troubleshoot unaccounted memory usage or leak to include identifying and data collection. If you ...
Melbourne is not a city in revolt. The truth is far more incredible (and far more boring) No one needs to sensationalise what life is really like here.
.NET Rocks! vNext .NET Rocks! is a weekly talk show for anyone interested in programming on the Microsoft .NET platform. The shows range from introductory information to hardcore geekiness.
iOS 14 is available today iOS 14 reimagines the iPhone experience, delivering a major update to the Home Screen, widgets, and App Clips.
Core Web Vitals - Wix vs. WordPress, Shopify vs. Shopware – What's fastest? - SISTRIX Core Web Vitals analysis of 18.5 million domains to determine what CMS, CDn, country and software is behind the fastest and slowest websites.
Why use MediatR? 3 reasons why and 1 reason not MediatR library has become fairly popular. Why use MediatR? Here are 3 reasons you should and 1 reason why you might not want to.
A Thanksgiving Carol Normally I write about programming topics (usually .NET); today I'm going to veer very far from that track - and talk about society, mental ...
So You Want To Be A The cloud industry has an array of careers to offer, but it can feel daunting figuring out which path to take. Each role comes with its own unique skills and responsibilities, and it isn't always clear how to get started. In this series, we'll work with y...
iOS 14 vs iPadOS 14: Every iPhone feature you’re not getting on the iPad Here's a list of every iOS features that won't be coming to the iPad in the fall.