26 February 2021

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What's new in .NET 5

Learn about .NET 5, a cross platform and open-source development platform that is the next evolution of .NET Core.

Flow-based monitoring for Magic Transit

Today, we’re announcing new functionality to improve the experience for on demand Magic Transit customers: flow-based monitoring. Flow-based monitoring allows us to detect and notify customers when they’re under attack so they can activate Magic Transit for pr…

Kamus - BuiltWithDot.Net

Kamus solve the problem of secret management on Kubernetes platform. It allows users to encrypt secrets for a specific Kubernetes application, so only this application can decrypt it. You can read more about it, why we build it and how it affects us on this bl…

ISO 8601: the better date format | Blog

If you haven’t been living under a rock, you’ve probably heard that there are different date formats in the world such as the American one (mm/dd/yyyy) and the European one (dd.mm.yyyy). If you’re smart enough, you’ve probably also noticed that the American on…

What does error E_ILLEGAL_DELEGATE_ASSIGNMENT mean? | The Old New Thing

A customer reported that they program was crashing because it got the error E_ILLEGAL_DELEGATE_ASSIGNMENT. The description of this error is “A delegate was assigned when not allowed,” but what does that mean? The most common source of this error is attempting …

2.92 — blender.org

A completely new workflow for editing meshes, new physics simulation methods, faster Cycles rendering, better compositing with Eevee, and so much more.

Microsoft Releases Azure Firewall Premium in Public Preview

Microsoft Azure Firewall is a managed, cloud-based network security service that protects your Azure Virtual Network resources. The company recently announced a preview release of a premium version of the cloud-based network security service.

SmarTracks Athlete - BuiltWithDot.Net

SmarTracks Athlete is a running app deploying the smartphone magnetometer (compass) to detect magnetic timing gates on specially equipped tracks (so-called SmarTracks). Provides insights for distance timing with accuracy unachievable with GPS. Two run types…

How efficient is RavenDB?

We have been working on a big benchmark of RavenDB recently. The data size that we are working on is beyond the TB range and we are dealing with over a billi...

Librsvg, Rust, and non-mainstream architectures

Almost five years ago librsvg introduced Rust into its source code. Around the same time, Linux distributions started shipping the first versions of Firefox that also required Rust. I unashamedly wanted to ride that wave: distros would have to integrate a ne…

ASP.NET Core Pagination Library - BuiltWithDot.Net

I needed to do pagination for one of my project, so i built it and made it open source for others so that they can find it useful too. If you pass total item count and number of items you want to show it in page , this library will use that and render a nic…

redbean

redbean makes it possible to share web applications that run offline as an single-file αcτµαlly pδrταblε εxεcµταblε zip archive which contains your assets. All you need to do is download the redbean.com program below, change the filename to .zip, add…

Profile Store KQL Cheat Sheet

With KQL support in the Rest API for Episerver profile store we have been given a powerful tool to query against the tracked profiles. In this post I share a collection of cool and useful queries you can use.

PeachPie.io - BuiltWithDot.Net

PeachPie is a modern PHP compiler based on the Microsoft Roslyn compiler platform and drawing from our popular Phalanger project. It allows PHP to be executed within the .NET framework, thereby opening the door for PHP developers into the world of .NET – and v…

Azure .NET SDK: Q&A With Jeffrey Richter

Recently Microsoft released a new version of its Azure .NET SDKs, available as a series of NuGet packages designed to provide a consistent and familiar interface to access Azure services from your .NET applications. InfoQ interviewed Jeffrey Richter, a softwar…

PowerShell for Visual Studio Code Updates - February 2021 | PowerShell Team

  We are excited to announce that updates to our PowerShell extension and PowerShell Preview extension are now available on the Visual Studio Code marketplace. This blog will explain what is new in these releases as well as what you can expect from the extensi…

YamlDotNet - BuiltWithDot.Net

YamlDotNet is a .NET library for YAML. YamlDotNet provides low-level parsing and emitting of YAML as well as a high-level object model similar to XmlDocument. A serialization library is also included that allows to read and write objects from and to YAML strea…

microsoft/clarity

A behavioral analytics library that uses dom mutations and user interactions to generate aggregated insights. - microsoft/clarity

Windows 10 System High CPU Usage ACPI.sys

Hello all, Post upgrade to Windows 10 Pro I have been experiencing higher than usual system CPU usage (~10%), accompanied with system interrupts. I used process explorer (screenshot attached). It

Linux front-end development environment: my experience.

When I started programming I had no idea of the difference between front-end and back-end development. I had a basic knowledge of java and php and I had experience in a Windows environment. For some reasons I urgently needed a laptop and installed ub...

Imagining a Better Social Media

Between the negative impacts on mental health, the spread of disinformation, and concerns with data privacy, the problems with social media seem more in the spotlight than ever before. The Social Dilemma, a recent Netflix documentary highlighting these problem…

Ownership as code • brouillon

In software development, ownership is a term that’s often thrown around but poorly understood. What does it mean to own something? Why is this something we strive to attain? At Samsung Ads, the engineering team had been growing very rapidly (2x... | brouillon …

The Difficulty of Pricing DevOps Transformations

I do not know quite what it is, but Lapa who is the CMO of Eficode has a way of triggering me in such a way that I must respond. He is almost my private /r/writingprompts. Even though I was already…

Leaving Comments on My Own Pull Requests

For the record, the process of leaving comments on my own pull requests isn’t something I came up with on my own. I adopted it from a previous colleague of mine, Jean Cochrane.

So long, Fry's

I can't say I'm surprised to hear that Fry's Electronics is closing their doors . Back in the distant pre-pandemic year of 2019, I went to a...

at age 15, I founded a tech startup. here's what I learned.

The story of how I, a 15-year-old with no tech background, founded a tech startup to help my community battle the COVID-19 virus. What I learned from my experiences, and how I hope to share them with you! Hi there! My name is Adrian, and I am a 15-year-old fro…