Talk - Exploring .NET’s memory management – a trip down memory lane - JetBrains Day - South Korea - Seoul
At JetBrains Day Seoul, I had the opportunity to speak about Exploring .NET’s memory management – a trip down memory lane. Read more »
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Talk - Become a productive .NET developer with JetBrains Rider - JetBrains Day - South Korea - Seoul
At JetBrains Day Seoul, I had the opportunity to speak about How to become a productive .NET developer with JetBrains Rider. Read more »
Registering a type as an interface and as self with ASP.NET Core dependency injection
While I am a big fan of Autofac to serve as the framework for making Inversion of Control (IoC) and Dependency Injection (DI) work in an application, it is quite convenient in simple projects to use the built-in dependency injection in ASP.NET Core. Read more »
Talk - Approaches to application request throttling - VISUG User Group - Belgium
At the VISUG User Group, I had the opportunity to speak about Approaches to application request throttling. Read more »
How to become a remote worker
Yes, it’s 2018, us IT folks have probably been working remote for quite a while (full-time or occasionally), but there are other industries where these things take time. Not to mention that in countries like Belgium, remote work also has to be arranged for in employment contracts or ancillary documents. But anyway, ... Read more »
How HTTP Chunked Encoding was killing a request
Recently, someone asked me to look at their ASP.NET MVC application and help figure out why a certain request was taking 16 seconds to complete. It’s always fun to look at those things, so I could not pass on this nerd snipe. Read more »
Remote debugging of Node.js apps on Azure App Service from WebStorm
At Microsoft Build 2018, a number of Azure App Service on Linux enhancements were announced. One that I was interested in was this one: Read more »
Retiring as a Microsoft MVP
I have decided to retire from the Microsoft MVP program. In the first week of April, an e-mail from Microsoft landed in my mailbox. I was given the choice to either remain an active MVP (but without access to NDA content) until my next renewal period, or retire from the program. Read more »
Running Kotlin in Azure Functions
A while back, the Azure folks announced support for Java on Azure Functions. My immediate thought was: “Do they mean Java or JVM? And if they mean JVM, will it work with Kotlin?” In this blog post, we’ll find out! Read more »
Using operator overloads for concatenating file system paths in CSharp
The past few days, I’ve been working on some cross-platform C# code. In this code, I needed to build a path to a file, by concatenating folder names. As you may know the path separator on Windows and Linux operating systems are different: one has a backward slash (\), the other has a forward slash (/). Read more »