If you’re a Windows user and a Linux enthusiast, you’re probably familiar with Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL). WSL is a feature in Windows 10 that allows you to run Linux command-line tools and utilities directly on Windows, without the need for a virtual machine or dual-booting. One of the great things about WSL is...
This is the second post in the series, if you haven’t read the first, you should stop here and read the first part before continuing. This post covers the system design of the Web Scheduler and the decisions made during the design process. The code for the project can be found here in these repositories . The Tech...
As I learn Go, I figured I would find a lot of interesting content and I totally dislike using bookmarks for things I find interesting. So I decided to create a docs-style site for learning Go. Check it out!
New Beginnings I’m a new engineer on the DigitalOcean App Platform team. I’ve spent the last 20 years writing C# code full-time. I’ve made the switch to Go and to be perfectly honest, I miss writing C#. You know that itch you have for doing something you love so much? Well, I’ve got to scratch that .NET itch somehow...
Scott Hanselmen wrote a post titled Your words are wasted . It’s a great point being made there, worth the read. In the post, he talks about how if you post your content on other platforms, it’s not really yours. He quotes Tim Bray , who I’ll also quote here: Own your space on the Web, and pay for it. Extra effort,...
I use Amazon Web Services’s Elastic Bean Stalk to automagically scale my ASP.Net web applications. I’m using a Windows 2012 R2 based instance. I also use SignalR for real time communications within my app. While, I could use Ajax Long Polling, WebSockets are a tad bit faster. Problem The default AMI has doesn’t have...
I recently attended a week of training courses instructed by Cardinal Path to deepen my knowledge of Google AdWords and Google Analytics . At the end of the course I received the Certification of Completion. All I had to do to get this certification is pay a bunch of money and show up. While showing up is half the...
A few minutes ago I was presented with this dialog box: At first I thought it may have been one of those adware apps that makes some claim about the health of your computer in a thinly veiled attempt to extract some cash out of me. After a a moment of looking to see what spawned that dialog box and a bit of Googling, I...
VB6 Form A blast from the past. If you still have a Visual Basic 6 application in active development, you can keep servicing it for the next ten years. Microsoft’s official stance on Visual Basic 6.0 is: The Visual Basic team is committed to “It Just Works” compatibility for Visual Basic 6.0 applications on Windows...