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jongalloway2on ASP.NET Core: Saturating 10GbE at 7M Rps

It's available in 2.1 if Tiered Compilation is enabled: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/dotnet/2018/08/02/tiered-co...

jongalloway2on Keyboardio Kickstarter Day 1278: A startling discovery

I have one. I went from a Microsoft Sculpt Ergo keyboard to this one. I loved the Sculpt, but like this better. I'm typing on it now. It feels really nice to type on, the key press feels nice, and I'm happy that I can customize the keyboard layout via simple Arduino programming.

Disclaimer: The keyboard layout is different, and it will take some time to adjust. I think it's worth it, but be forewarned.

Also, hi Phillip! High five!

jongalloway2on Keyboardio Kickstarter Day 1278: A startling discovery

I could not disagree more. I bought one after the Kickstarter, and the hardware is very high quality.

jongalloway2on Keyboardio Kickstarter Day 1278: A startling discovery

This is an update from a Kickstarter that ran in 2015. All the backers got their rewards, and I ordered one after the Kickstarter was over and got one of the highest quality products I've ever ordered.

The logic here is that, despite being lied to by a trusted account manager, they shipped all of their promised products, at very high quality. They have made continued software updates for years, much better than either Kickstarters or other project's I've purchased: https://github.com/keyboardio/

If you follow their updates, they've made many trips to China, despite having a newborn baby and running a new company.

jongalloway2on Announcing .NET Foundation Open Membership

That's hard - I've got a lot of big expectations here. If I have to summarize, I'm anticipating that this will make it clear to everyone that .NET is bigger than Microsoft, and the whole open source community is empowered to get things done without waiting for Microsoft to do it or give permission.

.NET Foundation is an independent organization, with Microsoft as an important member and big contributor, but .NET is owned by the community. I've heard a lot of great ideas for how the .NET Foundation could support projects better, do more for our Meetups (including providing content, support speakers with things like speaker grants, etc.), put on in person events, etc. - but we haven't had a good way for people to make it happen, and the foundation could only do so much. Now, by letting the community guide the foundation through community board seats and bringing on corporate sponsors, we really can scale up so that if someone has a great idea, they can just do it!

jongalloway2on Announcing .NET Foundation Open Membership

Thanks, Brian! Thanks for all you've done to push us further with TechEmpower benchmarks.

jongalloway2on Announcing .NET Foundation Open Membership

Great question! I'll get a blog post out with a more detailed answer, but some quick tips for getting started:

1. Start with conversation - it's much better to start with a new issue or a comment on an existing issue, letting the repo owners know that you're interested and want to contribute to a specific issue. They may give you tips, let you know that the issue's already being worked, etc.

2. Docs are a great way to get started. You can go to any of the .NET Core / ASP.NET Core docs on docs.microsoft.com (e.g. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/), click the edit button, make your corrections or contributions in the browser, and submit.

3. Many projects use the up-for-grabs label for issues that are easy for first time contributors, e.g. https://github.com/aspnet/AspNetCore/labels/up-for-grabs (again, start with a comment on these, since some of them are a little old and may no longer be relevant)

4. Don't just think about the big name .NET projects. Membership is open to contributors to any .NET Foundation project, including a lot of projects with small teams that would love some help. Check out the full list here (https://dotnetfoundation.org/projects), or tweet me with hashtag #dotnethelpwanted and I'll rt to help get you matched up.

5. Check out some of the help wanted listings, e.g. https://discoverdot.net/issues/?tab=helpwanted (remember we're looking for .NET Foundation projects for membership)

jongalloway2on Announcing .NET Foundation Open Membership

Hi, .NET Foundation Executive Director here, happy to answer any questions. Also, check out Miguel de Icaza's post here for details and background: https://tirania.org/blog/archive/2018/Dec-04.html

jongalloway2on ASP.NET Core 3.0 will only run on .NET Core

They've already started moving to .NET Core: https://twitter.com/nick_craver/status/1031858480888639488

jongalloway2on The Whole of WordPress Compiled to .NET Core

  * Faster
  * More secure
  * Write plugins in C#
  * Use NuGet / .NET libraries in Wordpress
  * Best of Wordpress ecosystem + speed / perf / ecosystem benefits of .NET
  * Why not?

jongalloway2on A collection of free datasets from Microsoft Research

It's a different license. Here's a direct link to the Microsoft Research Data License Agreement (PDF): https://msrodr-api.azurewebsites.net//licenses/2f933be3-284d...

Disclaimer: I don't know if this affects your concerns, but it's at least the right license. Disclaimer 2: I work for Microsoft, but not for MSR, and don't know anything specific about this.

jongalloway2on Certificates for localhost

If you're using ASP.NET Core, this is built into the most recent 2.1 release - local dev cert as well as HTTPS redirection middleware and HSTS in development.

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/webdev/2018/02/27/asp-net-c... https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/security/enforc...

As the letsencrypt article points out, you want to start building and testing with HTTPS as early as possible, so this is all wired up as part of creating a new project with ASP.NET Core 2.1.

[disclaimer: on .NET team, Nazgûl]

jongalloway2on Ask HN: Has working remotely harmed your career growth?

Absolutely. And I'd do it all over again.

jongalloway2on General purpose quantum computing closer to reality with Microsoft breakthroughs

It looks like it was related to Liquid. Info here: http://stationq.github.io/Liquid/

That specific code sample looks like it was based on the Teleport sample: https://github.com/StationQ/Liquid/blob/master/Samples/Telep...

jongalloway2on The Little ASP.NET Core Book

First off, you picked a great time to ask this question because this week there's a free, online conference going on at https://www.dotnetconf.net/. There's a lot of good ASP.NET Core content, so you can see for yourself.

One of my favorite things about the ASP.NET team is that a lot of them were community leaders - speakers, writers, open source library authors, etc. - before being hired at Microsoft. So it's hard to pick just one or two community leaders on the team, as pretty much everyone regularly speaks at conferences, publishes open source code, blogs, etc. So it's really hard to make a short list! Hopefully this is still useful to someone.

As several others have mentioned, you really should start with Scott Hanselman (https://www.hanselman.com/ and @shanselman). [Disclaimer: he's my boss, but I joined his team because I was a big fan long before either of us worked at Microsoft]

The ASP.NET Weekly Community Standup is a great place to connect both with the team and with the leading members of the developer community. It's at https://live.asp.net/ with Damian Edwards, Scott Hanselman and me. Damian Edwards (https://twitter.com/damianedwards) is the program manager for the ASP.NET team. During the show, I usually share 10ish links to top posts, open source projects, etc. by the community. We feel like the ASP.NET Community is made up of developers both inside and out of Microsoft, so you'll see a mix. The links are usually in the show notes, and we also tweet the links out daily at @aspnet. I'm not going to risk making a list because I don't want to leave anyone off - there are too many for me to even try to pick favorites!

Next, check out the "official" Web Dev blog: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/webdev/. We have a general rule that all posts are signed by actual people, not "the ___ team", so you can see who's working directly on specific topics. You'll definitely see a lot of posts by Jeff Fritz (my team mate), who (in addition to program managing several features) does a ton of work to write up release posts, organize content for conferences, etc.

I think of David Fowler (https://twitter.com/davidfowl) as the "crazy genius" on the team. He and Damian wrote SignalR, he worked on prototyping some of the very early work that became ASP.NET Core (and .NET Core all up), etc. Check out this video to see what I mean: https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/NDC/NDC-Oslo-2017/BRK06

For front end dev, make sure you follow Mads Kristensen (https://twitter.com/mkristensen) and Steve Sanderson (https://twitter.com/StevenSanderson). Mads is a program manager for web developer tools in Visual Studio, and also writes a ton of open source Visual Studio extensions for web developers (https://github.com/madskristensen) and builds things like http://webdevchecklist.com/. Steve is always pushing the boundaries of front end development, both with things like JavaScriptServices (https://github.com/aspnet/JavaScriptServices, now shipping in the Visual Studio 2017 Angular / React project templates) and more recently with Blazor (https://github.com/SteveSanderson/Blazor - .NET code running in the browser via Web Assembly).

You'll also see Glenn Condron (https://twitter.com/condrong) listed on several of the recent Web Dev blog posts. He covers a lot of deep back end tech, including a lot of stuff with ASP.NET Core on Docker.

You can see quick (5-10 minute) interviews with most of those people, as well as a lot of other people on the .NET team, on a show that Maria Naggaga (https://twitter.com/ladynaggaga) and I started up recently called Code Conversations (https://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Code-Conversations). These are short, code focused interviews you can watch while your code is compiling and hopefully put to work right away.

Finally, please ping me at @jongalloway if I can help connect you with anyone or if you're having trouble finding information, code samples, etc. I'm happy to help!

jongalloway2on Awesome Windows

On Windows 10 / Bash you can just apt-get install zsh

https://www.howtogeek.com/258518/how-to-use-zsh-or-another-s...

jongalloway2on Awesome Windows

What are your main uses for Cygwin as opposed to just using WSL / Bash on Windows?

jongalloway2on Awesome Windows

https://github.com/aleksandar-todorovic/awesome-linux

You can look up all the awesome lists here: https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome

jongalloway2on A Preview of C# 8 [video]

Yes, it looks like that's "Import Symbol Completion" - https://www.jetbrains.com/resharper/features/code_completion...

jongalloway2on Hello WebAssembly

Some additional updates to the Blazor project here: https://github.com/aspnet/blazor-hackathon

jongalloway2on .NET Standard 2.0 is final

For people confused about what .NET Standard is and how it relates to .NET Core:

Here's an FAQ: https://github.com/dotnet/standard/blob/master/docs/faq.md Here's a series of short videos from the product team explaining it: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRAdsfhKI4OWx321A_pr-...

Short excerpt from the FAQ:

  .NET Standard is a specification that represents a set of APIs that all .NET platforms have to implement. This unifies the .NET platforms and prevents future fragmentation. Think of .NET Standard as POSIX for .NET.

  Having a standard solves the code sharing problem for .NET developers by bringing all the APIs that you expect and love across the environments that you need: desktop applications, mobile apps & games, and cloud services.

Conceptually, I think of it in terms of browsers and browser standards. The relationship between .NET Standard and the various .NET platforms (.NET Core, .NET Framework, Mono, Xamarin, UWP, etc.) is similar to HTML specifications (e.g. https://www.w3.org/TR/html5/) and individual browsers. Newer HTML features are available on newer browsers, and some browser feature implementation is contextualized (e.g. some web features don't make sense on a mobile phone browser). I know there are rabbit holes to #wellactually on that, so if it doesn't work for you don't worry about it, but as an analogy I've found it helpful.

Having a defined feature matrix makes it easier to see which APIs are available for a given platform and version.

(Microsoft employee, .NET team member, Nazgûl)

jongalloway2on Windows Subsystem for Linux on Windows Server

There's some interesting technical background on the WSL blog, e.g. https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/wsl/2016/05/23/pico-process...

jongalloway2on Windows Subsystem for Linux is out of beta

I'm a Microsoft employee, but never tell them that when I go to the local store to get an idea how they treat everyone else. I've returned a few things and been shocked at how good and fast the service is.Basically it's Sorry! Here's a new one! Bye!

Disclaimers: Inside the US, Microsoft employee, Nazgûl

jongalloway2on Peachpie – Open Source PHP Compiler to .NET and WordPress under ASP.NET Core

.NET 4.7 shipped earlier this year and includes Web Forms support. Looking at the support lifecycle page, I can see how the order of answers calling out .NET 4.5.2 at the top might be confusing. The last answer on that page ( What is the Lifecycle Policy for the different versions of the .NET Framework?) is the one I think you want - it indicates that .NET Framework 4.7 ships with Windows Server 2016 and Windows 10 CU (1703), which pushes you out to 2022 (minimum, every release keeps resetting the clock) for Mainstream Support.

[disclaimer: Microsoft employee, .NET Foundation staff]

jongalloway2on Microsoft Paint to be killed off after 32 years

I'm running Windows 10 on a 7 year old desktop. Just typed win+snip+enter as fast as I could, it launched the snipping tool.

jongalloway2on Fastest Way to Delete Large Folders in Windows (2015)

If you're doing this regularly, a good alternative is to install on a separate partition and symlink it. Then to delete, you just quick format the partition.

  echo Y | format Z: /FS:NTFS /X /Q

source: https://superuser.com/a/352321

Also, on Windows 10 you can use Ubuntu bash and run rm -rf. I've read that it's faster, but haven't tested extensively.

Update: I did a quick test with 100,000 files and the 'del /f/s/q foldername > nul' approach was about 50% faster than 'rm -rf' on my machine.

jongalloway2on C.S. Lewis's Greatest Fiction: Telling Kids They’d Like Turkish Delight (2015)

I brought my kids home some Turkish delight from Istanbul and they absolutely devoured it. It was not sickly sweet and the flavors were wonderful. I think our favorite was rose - delicate and much more complex than the mass produced candies they were used to.

jongalloway2on Ardour 5.9 released

Now that the MP3 patents are expired, it'd be nice if Ardour added MP3 import / export. I understand why they didn't in the past, but it's been a showstopper for times when I wanted to recommend a FOSS audio editor to non-technical friends.

Here's the latest discussion I saw on it: https://community.ardour.org/node/14616

jongalloway2on Show HN: A new hobby OS from “scratch” in C#

Would be nice if there was an ISO or cloud-installable VM image available. I've distributed "live cd" VM ISO's via legal torrent sites, which is a little hassle to set up but will make it a lot easier for people to get involved.

jongalloway2on .NET Core WebSockets – Cross-Platform WebSockets From DMZ to API - Service Zone

Just to clarify since the naming might be a little confusing - NetCoreStack is Gencebay's project. Looks very cool, I'll mention it on our next ASP.NET Community Standup (http://live.asp.net). The ASP.NET team recently released a WebSocket implementation (https://github.com/aspnet/WebSockets) but it's not very full featured yet. For instance, the NetCoreStack project has some proxy handling, whereas I don't think the ASP.NET team's implementation handles proxies yet.

SignalR for .NET Core is under active development (https://github.com/aspnet/signalr), but a release date hasn't been announced. SignalR brings in things like connection and group management, and the update can take advantage of some of the performance and architectural changes in .NET Core.

[Disclaimer: Microsoft employee, Nazgûl]