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Oren Eini | Ayende @ Rahien | 20 Jul 2018 09:00

Connection handling and authentication in RavenDB 4.0

Oren Eini writes "....An interesting question has popped up in the mailing list about the behavior of RavenDB. When will RavenDB client send the certificate to the server for authentication? SSL handshake typically takes multiple round trips to negotiate an SSL..."
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Scott Hanselman | Scott Hanselman's Blog | 20 Jul 2018 05:46

AltCover and ReportGenerator give amazing code coverage on .NET Core

Scott Hanselman writes "....I'm continuing to explore testing and code coverage on open source .NET Core. Earlier this week I checked out coverlet. There is also the venerable OpenCover and there's some cool work being done to get OpenCover working with .NET Core, but it's..."
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Oren Eini | Ayende @ Rahien | 19 Jul 2018 09:00

Spanification in RavenDB

Oren Eini writes "....We are nearly done with RavenDB 4.1. There are currently a few minor stuff that we are still handling, but we are gearing up to push this to our production systems as part of our usual test matrix. Naturally, this means that we are already thinking..."
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Rob Conery | Rob Conery | 18 Jul 2018 21:39

Working Smarter, Not Harder, Part 1

Rob Conery writes "....This last month has been intense. I'm writing the second volume of The Imposter's Handbook with Scott Hanselman, I moved back to Hawaii, and I'm trying to finish up a sprint for a contract I've been working on over the last few months. My time is..."
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Scott Allen | OdeToCode by K. Scott Allen | 18 Jul 2018 10:14

Edge versus Chrome - A Quick createElement Benchmark

Scott Allen writes "....I’ve been mixing up my browser usage over the last year to give MS Edge a closer look. Some pages are noticeably slower in Edge. Looking in the developer tools, the slow pages have thousands of calls to createElement and createDocumentFragment, so..."
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Scott Hanselman | Scott Hanselman's Blog | 18 Jul 2018 07:39

.NET Core Code Coverage as a Global Tool with coverlet

Scott Hanselman writes "....Last week I blogged about "dotnet outdated," an essential .NET Core "global tool" that helps you find out what NuGet package reference you need to update. .NET Core Global Tools are really taking off right now. They are meant for devs - this isn't..."
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Scott Allen | OdeToCode by K. Scott Allen | 16 Jul 2018 10:03

7 Tips for Troubleshooting ASP.NET Core Startup Errors

Scott Allen writes "....“An unexpected error occurred” is the least informative error message of all error messages. It is as if cosmic rays have transformed your predictable computing machinery into a white noise generator. Startup errors with ASP.NET Core..."
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Scott Hanselman | Scott Hanselman's Blog | 13 Jul 2018 10:16

Lynx is dead - Long live Browsh for text-based internet browsing

Scott Hanselman writes "....The standard for browsing the web over a text-=based terminal is Lynx, right? It's the legendary text web browser that you can read about at https://lynx.invisible-island.net/ or, even better, run right now with docker run --rm -it nbrown/lynx lynx..."
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Oren Eini | Ayende @ Rahien | 13 Jul 2018 05:19

On interns and hiring people at the first stages of their career

Oren Eini writes "....When looking for candidates, there is an ideal candidate. It is the ability to take one of the people already working for you, with all the domain knowledge and expertise and clone them. Hopefully multiple times. If you do this right, you can..."
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Oren Eini | Ayende @ Rahien | 12 Jul 2018 10:32

Living in the foundations, missing all the amenities

Oren Eini writes "....We talked to a candidate recently with a CV that included topics such as Assembly, SQL and JavaScript.  The list of skills was quite eclectic and we called the candidate to hear more about them. The candidate completed a two years degree..."
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