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PlantUML – Missing Docs
I’ve been using PlantUML for my technical diagrams recently; the ability to include the source for my diagrams along side my projects has been a documentation game changer. The tool is pretty well documented on their website but a few things are not immediately clear until you stumble with using it a few times. How […]
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Refreshing my Windows 10 dev machine
Run Windows Fresh Start to clean up the machine from all of the bloatware either came with the computer or has been installed over time. This post is a work in progress and will be updated as more tools are identified. Install chocolatey Install the dev tools via chocolatey. Make sure you run chocolatey from […]
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dotnetcore 2.0 on Linux suffering inotify errors
I am currently writing my first dotnet core 2.0 application deployed to a Linux environment. The development has been on a Mac using a combination of the dotnet cli and Visual Studio for Mac. In deploying the app to a QA site, we experienced an error I’ve never seen before An exception occured reading app […]
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AWS re:invent 2016 Questions and Learnings
I am attending AWS re:invent. The conference has grown to about 35000 attendees and the sessions span not only the Venetian hotel but also Palazzo, Mirage, and Encore casinos. re:invent offers an amazing opportunity to ask the AWS engineers questions you have about particular use cases. Often, it’s the minutiae between a couple options that […]
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The new Microsoft at BUILD 2016
I attended Microsoft’s annual developer conference BUILD and am pretty excited about this new Microsoft that has emerged under the guidance and leadership of Satya Nadella. A lot of my surprise comes from the new services and APIs that Microsoft has announced at the conference. The Cognitive Services APIs offer an amazing opportunity for creating […]
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A guide for the modern web for small businesses
The online world, it is a changing. Google updates their search engine all the time and what worked before may not only not work anymore, but it may be hurting you. Also, SEO is a long game. Old tricks may provide bumps in traffic here and there but a clean implementation will provide steadier gains […]
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The new iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus needs more storage
The new features of iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus are nice. I particularly like the updates they’ve made on the photo camera and video camera. The move to 60 fps video is amazing but is also cause for my biggest issue with the phone. The 16GB of storage is simply not enough space to […]
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Is Node.js better than ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC?
Is Node.js better than ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC? What I’m writing is in no way a ciricism of Node.js but the hype that some have blindly bought into. Javascript is a great language and Node.js is a good API built on Google’s V8 engine but it’s not the end all and be all that some people […]
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Deploying LESS changes to a Windows Azure Website via Git
In developing vacashare.com, I am using LESS to generate my CSS as I have found the technology to be a developer-friendly way of generating clean, flexible CSS. The Web Essentials extension for Visual Studio 2012 automatically compiles my LESS files into a .css and .min.css files ready for production use. The automated CSS generation combined with .NET Bundling […]
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So what if Windows 8 has no start button?
I like Windows 8…that alone should earn me some hate. Windows 8 is a testament to exactly how much people hate change. Look at Facebook, each time there’s a major change to their layout you people creating new page “bring back the old look”. When Windows 8 was released in 2012, the loudest grumbles were around […]