15 February 2021

43 links · Monday

HubCount - BuiltWithDot.Net

HubCount is a startup that was born from the junction of technology with the world of accounting. Our mission is to transform the way accounting is done by bringing innovative solutions to existing challenges. Created and developed in Brazil. Database: Azure E…

RepoZ - BuiltWithDot.Net

RepoZ is a lightweight git repository information aggregator for Windows and macOS. It comes with Windows Explorer- & CLI-enhancements helping you keeping track of git repositories on your development machine.

ModelState in ASP.NET 5.0 MVC

Let's explore the ModelState, IsValid, ModelStateDictionary, and ModelStateEntry to explain what the ModelState does in ASP.NET 5.0 MVC!

I Really Blew It | Interactive Storytelling Tools for Writers

I recently realized that I have been wasting my time on a dumb effort for the last 35 years. It all started back in 1983. My game for the Atari, Eastern Front (1941), had been a big hit, and Dale Yocum of the Atari Program Exchange suggested that I release the…

OTCC : Obfuscated Tiny C Compiler

My goal was to write the smallest C compiler which is able to compile itself. I choose a subset of C which was general enough to write a small C compiler. Then I extended the C subset until I reached the maximum size authorized by the contest: 2048 bytes of C …

Ice Formations Diurnal Freeze-Thaw Cycles

In January 2007 I was introduced to some interesting photos of ice growing from a metal fence on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.  I corresponded with Sheryl Terris about her photos and she gave me permission to use them on my w…

Julia 1.6: what has changed since Julia 1.0?

Julia 1.0 came out well over 2 years ago. Since then a lot has changed and a lot hasn’t. Julia 1.0 was a commitment to no breaking changes, but that is not to say no new features have been added to the language.

Control Panel

In praise of dials, toggles, buttons, and bulbs. A companion blog to the Control Panel group on Flickr. Your panelists: Stephen Coles and Norman Hathaway.

thegrims/UsTaxes

Tax filing web application. Contribute to thegrims/UsTaxes development by creating an account on GitHub.

JonPSmith/EfSchemaCompare

EfSchemaCompare.EF6 allows you to compare Entity Framework's database modal with an actual SQL database. - JonPSmith/EfSchemaCompare

elmah.io - BuiltWithDot.Net

elmah.io is a cloud-based error management system for .NET web developers. Everything is built on top of various .NET features. We use a combination of ASP.NET MVC/Web API websites, internal services in ASP.NET Core and a lot of Azure Functions. Everything is …

Australia's 10 most dangerous snakes

Australia is known for its dangerous snakes, and we have many – but in reality few people die from bites.

High-Performance Large-Scale Image Recognition Without Normalization

Batch normalization is a key component of most image classification models, but it has many undesirable properties stemming from its dependence on the batch size and interactions between examples. Although recent work has succeeded in training deep ResNets wit…

Announcing TypeScript 4.2 RC | TypeScript

Today we’re excited to announce our Release Candidate of TypeScript 4.2! Between now and the stable release of TypeScript 4.2, we expect no further changes apart from critical bug fixes. To get started using the RC, you can get it through NuGet,

Half Doses of Moderna Produce Neutralizing Antibodies - Marginal REVOLUTION

A new phase II study from Moderna shows that half-doses (50 μg) appear to be as good as full doses (100 ug) at generating correlates of protection such as neutralizing antibodies. In this randomized, controlled phase 2 trial, the SARS-CoV-2 vaccine candidate m…

Microsoft Ignite

Microsoft Ignite | Microsoft’s annual gathering of technology leaders and practitioners delivered as a digital event experience this March.

Creating a Windows Service with C#/.NET5 | #ifdef Windows

Windows Services Windows Services have been a foundation of Windows since Windows NT. They help users, or system admins, manage long-running programs that execute in their own Windows sessions. It is fairly trivial to set them up and start whenever the compute…

How to Upgrade a UWP Application to WinUI 3.0 - Nick's .NET Travels

As we get close to preview 4 of WinUI 3.0 (it’s Feb 2021 already so where’s my WinUI preview4!), now’s the time to start looking at how you’re going to upgrade your UWP application to WinUI3.0. In this post we’ll look at a migration approach that will allow yo…

Running custom availability tests using Azure Functions

This article shows you how create and run custom availability tests using Azure Functions. This is an update to the blog post about monitoring WebJobs using Application Insights, since Microsoft is deprecating the Load Test and Performance features, this is th…

Hangfire - BuiltWithDot.Net

Hangfire is an easy way to perform fire-and-forget, delayed and recurring jobs inside ASP.NET applications. CPU and I/O intensive, long-running and short-running jobs are supported. No Windows Service / Task Scheduler required. Backed by Redis, SQL Server, SQL…

Why is Python Popular?

We dig into all things Python, which Allen thinks is pretty good, and it's rise in popularity, while Michael and Joe go toe-to-toe over a gripe, ahem, feature.