There once was a guy who was very, very broke. To be clear, he wasn’t the brokest guy you’ve ever heard of. There were poorer people (he knew some, even) but he did spend a long, long time trying to raise a family on not a lot of money; think “a family of four…
On March 14, 2006, Amazon Web Services (AWS) launched S3, the first public cloud service. Since then, cloud consumption has increased each year. Gartner estimates that worldwide spend on public cloud services will reach $600 billion in 2023, up from $410 billi…
Global CO2 emissions from fossil fuels are ~35 billion tonnes (35 trillion kgs) [1] Over one year, on average, a mature tree will absorb about 22 kg of CO2 from the atmosphere [2] Following from 1...
With the world inundated with productivity apps, it feels nice to return to the tried and tested pen-and-paper methods. In this blog post, I'll share my anal...
Should you learn Ruby on Rails? Here's quick overview and exploration of RoR: a full stack framework that follows the MVC pattern to build web apps.
Strict-serializability guarantees that transactions appear to occur in an order consistent with the "real-time" ordering of those transactio...
Aug 4th, 2022
The Forwarded HTTP header has been introduced in RFC7239 from June 2014. It “defines an HTTP extension header field that allows proxy components to disclose information lost in the proxying process, for example, the originating IP address(…)”. However there is…
People write code. Test coverage is never enough. And we all write bugs.
Some occasional thoughts on politics and tech.
One piece of leadership advice that has stuck with me is the idea that for every negative interaction you have with someone, you need to have 5 positive ones to offset every 1 negative
A quality I try to have and look for at my jobs.
Have you ever had to take a Web App offline for maintenance or a software update? How did you do it ?...
'A new .NET Data landing page will help .NET developers quickly navigate to the area of interest.'
Marvin the Martian is an extraterrestrial character from Warner Bros.' Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons. | Download free 3D printable STL models
News emerged last week that famed Windows media player Winamp had been revived after four years of work by developers, whose biggest challenge was upgrading the project from Visual Studio 2008 to Visual Studio 2019.
Join us as we discuss the current happenings in the .NET MAUI Community Toolkit! https://github.com/CommunityToolkit/Maui
EF7 includes a variety of new interceptors and events, as well as many improvements to the existing lifecycle hooks. In this session, Arthur and others from the .NET Data team will dive into this new functionality, including examples for intercepting materiali…
In this episode of the .NET data community standup, we'll explore DbDataSource, a new abstraction being introduced to System.Data in .NET 7.0. DbDataSource unlocks easier integration of ADO.NET drivers with dependency injection, better management of advanced d…
Arthur and others from the EF Team continue their deep dive into the architecture of Entity Framework Core. This is a code-driven discussion looking at how and why things are designed and implemented the way they are. In this session, we look at the initializa…
We often take the .NET Runtime for granted and just let it get on with its job. But not only does it run our code, it ensures that it runs as fast as possible! In this talk we'll take a walk through the internals of the 'Common Language Runtime' (CLR), from a…
We're happy to announce the official launch of the new .NET Community Toolkit version 8.0! Including tons of new features such as MVVM source generators, diagnostics, performance helpers, and more!
When you have multiple instances of Visual Studio open at the same time, it can be tricky to tell them apart. Especially if you’re working on different branches of the same solution, which makes them look almost identical. What if each instance could have a un…
How to lock your C# code in an async way in C# and .NET
Sliding around.
The "future" in the film Terminator 2 is set in the 2020s. If you apply its predictions to the running of a website, it's honestly very accurate.
The future is post quantum. Enable post-quantum key agreement on your test zone today and get a headstart
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Sometimes, we may want to sort and enumerate all the key-value pairs in the dictionary, ordered by their value. Let's find out how.
https://www.dotnetoxford.com/posts/2022-07-lightning-talks
If your app has just ruined my day, I need help, not humour.
Hopes to save a quarter of hosting costs by binning repos that haven't been touched for a year
Today, we're celebrating the 5th birthday of our cross-platform .NET IDE: JetBrains Rider! We initially revealed “project Rider” at NDC London in January 2016. We started with a private preview
Technical Web Development Blog
Today I get to announce Windows Package Manager 1.3 has been released. The team has been adding several enhancements to manifests to improve your package installation experience. We’ve enabled better package version reporting. A new setting allows verbose logs…
You can't yet run .NET 7 on AWS Lambda functions with the familiar managed runtime, but you can with a custom runtime. Here are the few small steps you need.
In this post we'll see what REST Client for Visual Studio 2022 offers us in terms features and we'll see how we can compose multiple requests.
.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.
While deep learning has enabled tremendous progress on text and image datasets, its superiority on tabular data is not clear. We contribute extensive benchmarks of standard and novel deep learning methods as well as tree-based models such as XGBoost and Random…
In this episode of the .NET data community standup, we'll explore DbDataSource, a new abstraction being introduced to System.Data in .NET 7.0. DbDataSource unlocks easier integration of ADO.NET drivers with dependency injection, better management of advanced d…
Arthur and others from the EF Team continue their deep dive into the architecture of Entity Framework Core. This is a code-driven discussion looking at how and why things are designed and implemented the way they are. In this session, we look at the initializa…
Type inheritance hierarchies as used in object-oriented programming do not map naturally to relational database schemas. In this live stream, we will look at different strategies for inheritance mapping when using EF Core with a relational database. This inclu…
EF7 includes a variety of new interceptors and events, as well as many improvements to the existing lifecycle hooks. In this session, Arthur and others from the .NET Data team will dive into this new functionality, including examples for intercepting materiali…
In this episode of the .NET data community standup, we'll explore DbDataSource, a new abstraction being introduced to System.Data in .NET 7.0. DbDataSource unlocks easier integration of ADO.NET drivers with dependency injection, better management of advanced d…
Arthur and others from the EF Team continue their deep dive into the architecture of Entity Framework Core. This is a code-driven discussion looking at how and why things are designed and implemented the way they are. In this session, we look at the initializa…
EF7 includes a variety of new interceptors and events, as well as many improvements to the existing lifecycle hooks. In this session, Arthur and others from the .NET Data team will dive into this new functionality, including examples for intercepting materiali…
Type inheritance hierarchies as used in object-oriented programming do not map naturally to relational database schemas. In this live stream, we will look at different strategies for inheritance mapping when using EF Core with a relational database. This inclu…
We often take the .NET Runtime for granted and just let it get on with its job. But not only does it run our code, it ensures that it runs as fast as possible! In this talk we'll take a walk through the internals of the 'Common Language Runtime' (CLR), from a…
We often take the .NET Runtime for granted and just let it get on with its job. But not only does it run our code, it ensures that it runs as fast as possibl...
Tutorial on the design of a STARK Engine, complete with working source code.
Makes it easier to use Microsoft.Data.SqlClient with Dependency Injection and adds ILogger logging of SqlClient events.