Native AOT promises to turn your .NET applications into tiny, self-contained executables that start instantly and run anywhere—no runtime installation required. It's magic when it works. But add SQLite to the mix and suddenly you're debugging cryptic…
The core principle: make releases fast and painless, and you'll release more often. This is critical for agile development - rapid, reliable deployments create the fast feedback loop you need. When deploying is scary or slow, teams batch up changes, increasing…
Docker has fundamentally transformed how we build, ship, and run applications. What started as a simple containerization tool has evolved into a complete ecosystem for modern application development and deployment. This is the fourth and most comprehensive…
Just got home after a very long day, was meant to be a short day but...well... This was the day we planned to deploy the big site we've been developing for the past 8 months to its' final hosting environment. Unfortunately, the environment wasn't configured as…
Rory Blyth- you are my one true god - for this post alone (and having the funniest Techie blog on the planet): Went to the blogger BOF tonight, and all I can say is that I'd like to flush this whole Atom vs. RSS debate down the toilet and do something more…
Just updating the user control...back in a couple of days.. UPDATE: Well, soonish...stupid dev machine is playing up...
Well, went very smoothly - just got the DL off of MSDN subs downloads, mounted the iso as a disk for VMWare, fired it up in "2003 Server" config - installed perfectly! Seems to be better connecting using Terminal Services (RDP) - installing Whidbey now - gotta…
Noticed a post on Robert McLaws' weblog about Hard-links...go and read the post it'll all make sense... Now, I've recently been working on a project where a requirement existed for an 'uploads' directory to be synchronised between two Web Servers...to cut a…
With all the hype about the distribution of the Whidbey Alpha at the PDC, I can't help but worry that people will get their hopes up a bit much...just remember it's an Alpha, whilst phenomenally cool and displaying lots of the new .NET 1.2 (or 2.0, not sure…
I should be asleep...well that was the plan. I have a project to complete tomorrow - well, I'll be doing QA all weekend and bug-hunting etc...but the development will finish tomorrow. We're trying to sort out our development process at the moment at work,…