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russ519on Ask HN: Who Wants to Be Fired?

Thank you for this! I'm about to go through a forced job transition and this has helped me feel a little more hopefully that it will all work out, possibly for the better. Glad to hear you're happy now!

russ519on The Tug autonomous medical robot

    (●--●)   - Are you satisfied with your care? 
  //   ♡ \\
  U\＿_ / U
     Ｕ Ｕ

russ519on Cubic 2048

This is brilliant! I recently became addicted to 2048 and this quite literally takes it to another dimension. Would love to see this as a mobile app!

russ519on HangFire – Reliable and transparent background job processing for ASP.NET

I would love it if you would elaborate on this thought. Are you referring specifically to a solution build with Hangfire or any solution involving worker processes on Windows?

russ519on HangFire – Reliable and transparent background job processing for ASP.NET

This post could not have come at a better time! I literally spent the better part of yesterday researching best practices for queueing jobs from ASP.NET (WEB API) hosted on Windows Server, not Azure. I was considering NetMSMQ based WCF, Windows Service Bus 1.1, NServiceBus, MassTransit, ServiceStack, Windows Azure Pack, Redis or RabbitMQ hosting Worker Processes as Windows Services.

I had settled on the later as I wanted to avoid the complicated configuration of WCF, if possible, and just wanted a simple, reliable, and scalable way, to queue messages and process them. Ideally, I wanted a way to host/launch the worker processes from the web app to avoid complicating the development environment by having to install and run separate processes (Windows Service).

I will definitely be looking at this project today and putting it through a PoC.

Update: Forgot to mention ServiceStack in list of frameworks considered.

russ519on Stay away from Digital Ocean

I agree with "you get what you pay for" sentiment. With their margins, I can't see them having the support for any more than what they did. I think the takeaway here should be:

1. Backup your data offsite.

2. Monitor your servers or at the very least, your sites. If a site is important enough to pay for hosting, I would think it would be important enough to monitor for uptime. Bonus points for monitoring server resources as well.

3. Trust noone. Who's to save Linode, Amazon, or Google would act any differently if they detected a compromised server on their network.

These things should be done regardless of how much you are paying for your hosting.

russ519on What’s new in Play 2.2

Play is a web development framework. It has the capability to run standalone using it's built in http server or it can output a .WAR file that can be run under containers like Tomcat.

http://www.playframework.com/documentation/1.2/deployment

russ519on What’s new in Play 2.2

Awesome, thanks for the info!

russ519on What’s new in Play 2.2

For those that have some experience using Play with both Java and Scala, which Play variant do you enjoy working with the most? It sounds like there are some API difference between the Java and Scala versions and I'm curious whether those differences are a factor in deciding whether to go Java or Scala with Play. I'm a long time Java developer, envious of Ruby, interested in Scala for its potential in being a hybrid of the two.