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Jesse Liberty | Jesse Liberty - Silverlight Geek | 14 Oct 2024 18:10

Reboot!Subscribe to Jesse Liberty - Silverlight Geek

Jesse Liberty writes "....This site has been quiet for a few months while I finish up my book (.NET APIs with C#). I’m happy to reboot both the blog and Yet Another Podcast, starting soon with an interview of Mads Torgerson (lead designer … Continue reading..."
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Reboot!
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Oren Eini | Ayende @ Rahien | 11 Oct 2024 12:00

Querying over the current time in RavenDBSubscribe to Ayende @ Rahien

Oren Eini writes "....We got a really interesting question from a user, which basically boils down to:I need to query over a time span, either known (start, end) or (start, $currentDate), and I need to be able to sort on them.That might sound… vague, I know...."
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Querying over the current time in RavenDB
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Scott Hanselman | Scott Hanselman's Blog | 09 Oct 2024 19:32

Webcam randomly pausing in OBS, Discord, and websites - LSVCam and TikTok StudioSubscribe to Scott Hanselman's Blog

Scott Hanselman writes "....I use my webcam constantly for streaming and I'm pretty familiar with all the internals and how the camera model on Windows works. I also use OBS extensively, so I regularly use the OBS virtual camera and flow everything through Open Broadcasting..."
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Webcam randomly pausing in OBS, Discord, and websites - LSVCam and TikTok Studio
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Oren Eini | Ayende @ Rahien | 23 Sep 2024 12:00

New features for RavenDB CloudSubscribe to Ayende @ Rahien

Oren Eini writes "....The Cloud team at RavenDB has been working quite hard recently. The company at large is gearing up for the upcoming 6.2 release, but I can’t ignore the number of goodies that have dropped for RavenDB Cloud Customers.Large Clusters &..."
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New features for RavenDB Cloud
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Oren Eini | Ayende @ Rahien | 18 Sep 2024 12:00

RavenDB 6.2 releaseSubscribe to Ayende @ Rahien

Oren Eini writes "....It has been almost a year since the release of RavenDB 6.0. The highlights of the 6.0 release were Corax (a new blazing-fast indexing engine) and Sharding (server-side and simple to operate at scale). We made 10 stable releases in the 6.0.x line..."
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RavenDB 6.2 release
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Oren Eini | Ayende @ Rahien | 17 Sep 2024 12:00

Debugging the Linux kernel using awesome psychic powersSubscribe to Ayende @ Rahien

Oren Eini writes "....I wanted to test low-level file-system behavior in preparation for a new feature for RavenDB. Specifically, I wanted to look into hole punching - where you can give low-level instructions to the file system to indicate that you’re giving up..."
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Debugging the Linux kernel using awesome psychic powers
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Rick Strahl | Rick Strahl's Web Log | 04 Sep 2024 09:31

Getting the ASP.NET Core Server Hosting Urls at Startup and in RequestsSubscribe to Rick Strahl's Web Log

Rick Strahl writes "....Today I was helping out a customer with their ASP.NET core application that wasn't starting up on a live server, hosted in IIS. Not uncommon in a first install, and when this happens I often resort to starting the app directly using Kestrel first,..."
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Getting the ASP.NET Core Server Hosting Urls at Startup and in Requests
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Oren Eini | Ayende @ Rahien | 28 Aug 2024 12:00

Seeing the results of Corax in productionSubscribe to Ayende @ Rahien

Oren Eini writes "....Corax was released just under a year ago, and we are seeing more customers deploying that to production. During a call with a customer, we noticed the following detail:Let me explain what we are seeing here. The two indexes are the same, operating..."
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Seeing the results of Corax in production
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Oren Eini | Ayende @ Rahien | 19 Aug 2024 12:00

Caching documents in RavenDB: The good, the bad and the uglySubscribe to Ayende @ Rahien

Oren Eini writes "....RavenDB has a hidden feature, enabled by default and not something that you usually need to be aware of. It has built-in support for caching. Consider the following code:async Task<Dictionary<string, int>> HowMuchWorkToDo(string userId) {..."
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Caching documents in RavenDB: The good, the bad and the ugly
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Oren Eini | Ayende @ Rahien | 16 Aug 2024 12:00

Optimizing old code: StreamBitArray refactoringSubscribe to Ayende @ Rahien

Oren Eini writes "....RavenDB is a pretty old codebase, hitting 15+ years in production recently. In order to keep it alive & well, we make sure to follow the rule of always leaving the code in a better shape than we found it. Today’s tale is about the..."
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Optimizing old code: StreamBitArray refactoring
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Scott Hanselman is a Senior Program Manager at Microsoft. He was also involved in the MVP and Regional Director programs and is an avid speaker on the topic of computing.

Jeff Atwood (codinghorror)

Jeff Atwood (codinghorror) Sometimes people ask me why I'm not on Facebook or G+. I was already an AOL user once, why would I do that again? http://t.co/ncbuusrx 4387 days ago from web


Jeff Atwood (codinghorror)

Jeff Atwood (codinghorror) @fmanjoo no child, even my own, is enough to get me on Facebook. I'll go to my grave without an account. I'm Just Not That Into Zuckerberg. 4387 days ago from web


Jeff Atwood (codinghorror)

Jeff Atwood (codinghorror) @fmanjoo I don't have a Facebook account, no plans to start one. Or G+ for that matter. But, I do watch TV! Well, downloaded TV. Sort of. 4387 days ago from web


Jeff Atwood (codinghorror)

Jeff Atwood (codinghorror) @fmanjoo looks like "log in - Facebook" to me 4387 days ago from web


Bertrand Le Roy (bleroy)

Bertrand Le Roy (bleroy) Julia Gillard's Speech Over Opposition's Sexism, Misogyny: http://t.co/696ULgfy via @youtube 4387 days ago from Tweet Button


Bertrand Le Roy (bleroy)

Bertrand Le Roy (bleroy) Ha! http://t.co/ofThpizS 4387 days ago from TweetDeck


Bertrand Le Roy (bleroy)

Bertrand Le Roy (bleroy) @wwahammy This is as if Creative Commons was preventing you from using Photoshop. 4387 days ago from TweetDeck


Bertrand Le Roy (bleroy)

Bertrand Le Roy (bleroy) @wwahammy http://t.co/9Sf85PXD "CAD files must be provided, it must use formats unencumbered by closed licenses" 4387 days ago from TweetDeck


Bertrand Le Roy (bleroy)

Bertrand Le Roy (bleroy) @wwahammy It's the case with lots of things the FSF does. I appreciate some of what they do for freedom of speech but man they're extreme. 4387 days ago from TweetDeck


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Bertrand Le Roy (bleroy) @wwahammy It's according to http://t.co/QAdf1k2y 4387 days ago from TweetDeck