C# Analyzing .NET managed code profile along with external code How to analyze external code high CPU usage in .NET applications
Five principles for the effective code reviewer 1. Be kindWe are all learning. It is often easy to forget that when one has been hyper-focused on a specific code base or area. The memories of struggles one had to overcome
How to open a new terminal on the current working directory in i3 Often times I want to spin off a new terminal window on the current directory I am working on. I use gnome-terminal, and if you just type in 'gnome-terminal' it does spawn a
Ops! I broke mssql-server by running it with sudo I was trying to debug some file access mssql-server process was trying to do with strace. It wasn't quite working so I decided to let strace start the process:sudo strace /opt/mssql/
C# .NET IDisposable implementation The other day I got a code review comment saying that I should implement the full blown disposable pattern for IDisposable including the protected virtual void Dispose(bool disposing) method. For a long
Visual Studio Extensions COM vs MEF: Visual Studio extension service providers When writing a Visual Studio extension, you pretty much need to use Visual Studio services for everything. Put simply, a service in this context, is an object that implements an interface that exposes
C# The interface not supported fallacy Today I was reviewing a colleague's code and I saw a pattern similar to the one below: interface IWorker { void doWork(); void setOfflineTarget(string target); } class OnlineWorker : IWorker { void doWork() { // do some work
How I am organizing my remote desktop connections I've been using freerdp for a while - the command line specifically. It is quite verbose, however, to keep passing all the necessary arguments when calling freerdp, so a pretty common approach is
MSBuild MSBuild NuGet Pack and Restore with older Net 4.5 projects With Visual Studio 2017, MSBuild and NuGet are better integrated, which removes the need for things like package.config, as packages can be tracked in the csproj directly, and custom MSBuild targets for
Ghost Add Disqus to Ghost Blog using code injection Lots of ways to do this out there, ranging from "too much code" to "but, why?". Here's how I chose to do mine: <script> $(function() { var footer
Ghost Start Ghost through NPM and it will eat up your memory Somewhat recently I reduced the size of the virtual machine in which I host this blog. It is quite short on memory, but for the price I pay, can't really complain. Just now
Linux on Surface Cross-compile Linux kernel for ARM and run on QEMU In the process of trying to get Linux to boot on my Surface, I wanted to first get a kernel to boot on QEMU as to reduce as much of the work and
Linux on Surface Chain load Grub from Windows Boot Manager? On last post I got Windows Boot Manager to load GRUB (or what seems like it) on QEMU. Since then I was trying to cross-compile a newer version of GRUB for ARM and
Linux on Surface Virtualize UEFI on ARM using QEMU On my quest for Linux on Surface, I got too tiring of rebooting the tablet, tweaking some changes on the bcd store or efi partition, rebooting, failing and redoing the whole cycle again.
Linux on Surface Linux on Surface RT The other day I came across this interesting ebook by 0xAX, which got me interested into the whole x68 boot process. On the same week, when cleaning up my office, I found my
C# Default property value when serializing with Newtonsoft JSON The other day I wanted to use Newtonsoft JSON serializer to convert objects to JSON strings, with the twist that if some property of the object was null it should be defaulted to
Dynamics 365 Announcing: Commerce Runtime Handyman I've been working on this Visual Studio extension, called Commerce Runtime Handyman. From time to time I spend a significant amount of time writing code on top of the Microsoft Dynamics Commerce Runtime
Ghost Online backup your Ghost blog over SSH Ghost's out of the box import/export backup mechanism works well, but doesn't backup images. I wanted a simple command line I could call to backup my blog and move the backup file
Bot Framework Sending channel specific messages on Microsoft Bot Framework A fundamental reason to use a framework to write a chat bot is so you don't need to do it all yourself, specially, do it all over again if you want your bot
Bot Framework Microsoft Bot Framework on ASP.NET Core Microsoft's Bot Framework is a set of libraries (you can choose between C# and JavaScript) and services that let you author chat bots for different platforms, like Facebook's Messenger, Skype, What'sApp and others
Roslyn Writing a visual studio extension for code generation with roslyn Recently I've been working on a Visual Studio extension to automate the tedious parts of code authoring at work. It turns out that there is a lot of knowledge out there, but quite
JavaScript TypeScript: exposing module types in the global context and why to avoid it Javascript modules have been around for a while, and there are plenty of good reasons why to use them, instead of writing code directly in the global scope. However, you might find yourself
Ghost How to setup HTTPS endpoint for Ghost on Azure WebApp Finally I got the blog setup with an HTTPS endpoint on Azure. I thought I would write up on the points that weren't that straight forward. Get a free SSL certificate I used
