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Oren Eini | Ayende @ Rahien | 21 Jul 2017 09:00
Oren Eini writes "....During reviewing a PR I run into what seemed like a strange thing. Take a look at this change:This came with its own exception class, and left me pretty confused. Why would I want to have something like that?Here we have some error handling code..."
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PR Review: Is your error handling required?
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Scott Hanselman | Scott Hanselman's Blog | 20 Jul 2017 22:13
Scott Hanselman writes "....Typographic ligatures are when multiple characters appear to combine into a single character. Simplistically, when you type two or more characters and they magically attach to each other, you're using ligatures that were supported by your OS, your..."
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Monospaced Programming Fonts with Ligatures
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Oren Eini | Ayende @ Rahien | 20 Jul 2017 09:00
Oren Eini writes "....Looking back at this series, I have the strong feeling that I’m being unfair to Resin, I’m judging it using the same criteria I would use to judge our own production, highly optimized code. The projects have very different goals, maturity and..."
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Reviewing Resin: Part VI – Analyzing I/O and being unfair
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Steve Smith | ardalis | 19 Jul 2017 13:45
Steve Smith writes "....I recently ran across a great tip from Kevin Griffin for how to quickly switch from your current git branch to your previous one: Instead of typing out the full name of the branch when using git checkout, you can simply specify – (minus or..."
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Switch Between git Branches Easily
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Oren Eini | Ayende @ Rahien | 19 Jul 2017 09:00
Oren Eini writes "....In the previous part, I looked at how indexing and queries are handled in Resin. This post is mostly about the pieces I haven’t talked about so far. We’ll start with the query parser and move to the trie. Queries in Resin looks like this:This is..."
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Reviewing Resin: Part V
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Oren Eini | Ayende @ Rahien | 18 Jul 2017 09:00
Oren Eini writes "....In the previous part, I looked at UpsertTransaction in Resin and speculated about how the queries work. In this one, I’m going to try to figure out how queries work. Our starting point is this:We start from the index header, and we’ll traverse down..."
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Reviewing Resin: Part IV
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Scott Hanselman | Scott Hanselman's Blog | 18 Jul 2017 06:54
Scott Hanselman writes "....Debugging is a satisfying and special kind of hell. You really have to live it to understand it. When you're deep into it you never know when it'll be done. When you do finally escape it's almost always a DOH! moment. I spent an entire day..."
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13 hours debugging a segmentation fault in .NET Core on Raspberry Pi and the solution was...
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Rick Strahl | Rick Strahl's Web Log | 18 Jul 2017 06:54
Rick Strahl writes "....A couple of weeks ago I updated Markdown Monster to run as a fully portable application that no longer requires administrative privileges to install. Yay! The installer now doesn't trigger admin elevation and the resulting installation is a free..."
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Updating Windows Applications and Installers for non-Admin Installation
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Oren Eini | Ayende @ Rahien | 17 Jul 2017 06:00
Oren Eini writes "....I’ve just completed writing chapter 6 (distributed RavenDB) and pushed a preview up. This put the page count at over 200 pages so far, with another two thirds or so left. This chapter was really hard to write, and I would really appreciate any..."
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Inside RavenDB 4.0: Chapter 6 is done
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Oren Eini | Ayende @ Rahien | 14 Jul 2017 09:00
Oren Eini writes "....In the previous part, I started looking at UpsertTransacction, but got sidetracked into the utils functions. Let us focus back on this. The key parts of UpsertRansaction are:Let us see what they are. The DocumentStream is the source of the documents..."
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Reviewing Resin: Part III
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