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rasmusklon How we enforce .NET coding standards to improve productivity

CSharpier is pretty good for a prettier like feel: https://csharpier.com/

rasmusklon Writing a .NET Garbage Collector in C# – Part 1

Sounds good. It is a jungle to find the right optimization options. It's not getting that much publicity.

rasmusklon Writing a .NET Garbage Collector in C# – Part 1

Can you share more on this? Any examples that helped you or anything you've written on the WASM .NET topic?

rasmusklon Guide to Personal Productivity Methods

One thing that helped me get a better mental model for procrastination was Wait But Why's articles on the topic.

It might seem silly, but just thinking in terms of the rational decision maker and the instant gratification monkey makes it more concrete in my mind and easier to resist.

http://waitbutwhy.com/2013/10/why-procrastinators-procrastin...

rasmusklon AWS Device Farm

Xamarin Test Cloud is not limited to Xamarin apps for either platform.

Disclaimer: I work at Xamarin.

rasmusklon Z Launcher

Seems to run fine on my rooted HTC One with CyanogenMod.

rasmusklon Microsoft takes .NET open source and cross-platform

Oh btw C# does have immutable collections now. Adoption isn't too high yet AFAIK, but they're pretty awesome..

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn385366(v=vs.110).a...

rasmusklon LastPass command-line interface tool

I actually went with Dashlane bacause of this. I wonder why there's no mention of it in this thread. Most of the people where I work use 1password - but since I'm on both Windows and OSX, I needed something that runs on both platforms.

rasmusklon Corruption Perceptions Index 2013

There's lots of cool start-up culture in Denmark. (Podio, Zendesk, Zyb, etc)

While the system isn't always too kind to start-ups (high tax etc) they still do exist.

I've been working as a developer in Denmark for 7 years now (currently Xamarin) and haven't had a problem finding interesting projects.

rasmusklon Javascript Frameworks Are Amazing and Nobody Is Happy

Agreed. I wish more open source would make it an actual goal to provide awesome error messages. A good example is the Rebus service bus for .NET which has it as an actual goal to have the best error messages - resulting in stuff like:

https://github.com/mookid8000/Rebus/blob/master/src/Rebus/Co...

rasmusklon Into the Wormhole: An afternoon with Eve Online's least understood demographic

This. I spent so much time reading http://eve-pirate.com/ even after I stopped playing. Love the stories.

rasmusklon 8 things forgotten on our SaaS launch

9. Linking your logo to the main homepage (currently the blog).

rasmusklon When you have a nail in your eye, everything looks like a nail

Great post. Now off to write some software that can track when I'm focusing too much on the technology!

rasmusklon Dropbox will kill your insane MacBook Air 2013 battery

One solution to the whole "storing source in dropbox" problem that I liked to use previously (using bitbucket now instead) is just to have a bare git repo in dropbox + the real checkout somewhere else and just push commits to the bare dropbox repo whenever I'm about to switch machine. Could even be set up to happen more automagically since the repo isn't shared.

Syncing binaries (I mainly work in C#) and lots of small changes seems silly to me.

rasmusklon Why I'm switching back to Firefox

I was actually thinking the same thing and am giving it a try.

One thing that strikes me as vastly inferior in FF given my use cases is the way private browsing works. I use incognito tabs in Chrome all the time in dev to get a clean tab with no sessions etc. FF only allows for either normal tabs or private tabs, not both. Oh well :-)

rasmusklon Dropbox Sync API

Great stuff. Now it just needs to find it's way into the KeePass apps.