Geeks With Blogs
geekswithblogs.net · Group blog · on HN since 2008
Geeks With Blogs is a blog host for Microsoft-focused developers, with posts on C#, .NET, TFS and software practice.
What HN saysHN links it for technical .NET posts such as the DLR internals, TFS deployment and design patterns; commenters give no opinion of the site.
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Most-shared posts
- 1C# Extension Methods Demystified1 people · 40 points · first shared 2013 · 16 comments on HN
- 2Get to No as fast as possible1 people · 31 points · first shared 2010 · 18 comments on HN
- 3JavaScript Sucks.1 people · 13 points · first shared 2012 · 19 comments on HN
- 4Stoicism cheatsheet1 people · 8 points · first shared 2014 · 2 comments on HN
- 5Develop for Maintenance1 people · 4 points · first shared 2008 · 3 comments on HN
- 6Production Access Denied Who caused this rule anyways?1 people · 4 points · first shared 2012 · 2 comments on HN
- 7The Golden Rule of Programming1 people · 3 points · first shared 2013 · discussion on HN
- 8When a vendor you love lies1 people · 3 points · first shared 2013 · discussion on HN
- 9Strangling the life out of Software Testing1 people · 3 points · first shared 2012 · 1 comments on HN
- 10When Intel’s Hyper Threading goes bad1 people · 3 points · first shared 2010 · 2 comments on HN
- 11Open Source MariaDB, the MySQL fork to replace MySQL?1 people · 2 points · first shared 2012 · discussion on HN
- 12Questions You Should Ask Before Moving Your App to the Cloud1 people · 2 points · first shared 2012 · discussion on HN
- 13Five C#/.NET Little Wonders that make code better1 people · 2 points · first shared 2010 · 2 comments on HN
- 14Inside the DLR - Invoking methods1 people · 2 points · first shared 2012 · discussion on HN
- 15It's the maintenance, stupid (or: Something is rotten in developerland.)1 people · 2 points · first shared 2010 · discussion on HN
What HN people wrote when they linked it
jimmcslim · 2014-10-29
Chocolatey is great... although I wish it had a different "more professional"-sounding name.
When I was using it in anger a while ago I also found the quality of some of the packages to be a bit random, many of them just seemed to be random developer X's favourite aggregation of other packages. In which case I'm happy to see that they are adopting package moderation;
http://geekswithblogs.net/robz/archive/2014/10/27/chocolatey-now-has-p…
danso · 2013-05-29
Pedantic question here: Which of the classic Gang of Four patterns does interactors fall into? Mediator?
http://geekswithblogs.net/subodhnpushpak/archive/2009/09/18/the-23-gan…
tolmasky · 2009-06-25
Is this a joke? I honestly can't tell, because of all the following:
- Mobile Safari already supports local storage
- Mobile Safari already supports geolocation: http://geekswithblogs.net/MobileLOB/archive/2009/06/19/getting-locatio…
- Mobile Safari also already has other portions of HTML 5 implemented, such as canvas, not to mention really good coverage of css 3.
So as it turns out shipping Mobile Safari already has much better HTML 5 support than many desktop browsers. You may be able to fault iPhone and Mobile Safari a lot of things, but standards support is certainly not one of them.
scarface74 · 2020-01-29
All of this can be done with TFS and agents running on the deployment machines.
This is the earliest article I could find about using TFS for deployments from 2010.
http://geekswithblogs.net/TarunArora/archive/2013/02/23/continuous-int…
Don’t get me wrong, while for the most part, I hate dealing with “pets” and I was hired partially to kill all the servers we could and go all in on AWS’s native hosted toolings, Octopus Deploy is a joy to use even just to deploy CloudFormation templates where the actually code is either in S3 (lambda) or ECR (Docker) not to mention deploying to our remaining pets.
Just the ability to use Octopus Deploy’s library sets that are scoped to environments that can be referenced in Config files and templates is worth paying for.
On the other hand, I am on a mission to kill Jenkins and replace it with AWS CodeBuild - Serverles builds using a Docker Containers.
zamalek · 2017-04-20
The codegen creates a cache of delegates (created using expression trees), but uses a structure more suited to the problem than a simple ConcurrentDictionary.
[1]: http://geekswithblogs.net/simonc/archive/2012/07/20/inside-the-dlr---c…
taspeotis · 2016-08-08
There's a free one from Microsoft, or InstallShield LE.
https://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/f1cc3f3e-c300-40a7-8797…
http://geekswithblogs.net/TarunArora/archive/2014/04/24/visual-studio-…
That said: I use WiX and I find it works adequately.
keithly · 2014-02-20
A response to this post from another asp.net developer:
http://geekswithblogs.net/dlussier/archive/2014/02/19/155486.aspx
"...early on in my MVP/Community days (2007ish). Microsoft hired some non-traditional devs to head up something in the ASP.NET group. Phil Haack, Scott Hanselman, Rob Conery all came on board and launched ASP.NET MVC which BLEW. ASP.NET. UP."
j_s · 2013-10-11
RDP makes it easy to access drives, devices, etc. from the the client... do you do any additional configuration to disable these features?
http://geekswithblogs.net/DesigningCode/archive/2010/04/19/file-transf…
lhorie · 2010-05-10
Reminds me of that concept for a code editor UI with bubbles[1]. If the user interfaces let me visually organize the code in a way that makes sense, then the way the data is saved on disk doesn't really matter anymore.
[1] http://geekswithblogs.net/andrewbrust/archive/2010/03/12/code-bubbles-…
On the flip side, I guess there's the problem of being locked to the applications
_giu · 2009-08-18
I totally agree with you! the code is definitely more readable. I think the object initalizer (e.g. var o = new MyObject(){ID=123};) was a step in the direction of named parameters.
however, it looks like named parameters will be shipped with .NET 4.0: http://geekswithblogs.net/michelotti/archive/2009/01/22/c-4.0-named-pa…
gtani · 2012-02-16
There's a few of these lists, depending on what aspects of science/engineering/coding you're interest is
http://www.reddit.com/r/compsci/comments/gprp0/is_there_a_list_of_the_…
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3011964
http://geekswithblogs.net/MarkPearl/archive/2011/05/19/summary-of-comp…
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3382962
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http://www.reddit.com/r/compsci/comments/j10m3/im_an_experienced_devel…
http://www.reddit.com/r/compsci/comments/jyz6z/i_want_to_learn_actual_…
http://matt.might.net/articles/what-cs-majors-should-know/
http://www.reddit.com/r/compsci/comments/kb3sa/what_every_computer_sci…