Recently, I installed Visual Studio 2017 RC. This also installed the latest version of .NET Core. This also meant I started to run into the error "No executable found matching command dotnet-projectmodel-server" when opening .NET Core projects in Visual Studio 2015. To work around this, you need to specify a SDK version in your global.json file [...]
We have been visiting Thailand for the last week. We spent a couple days in Bangkok and explored some temples around the area. We then hopped down to Phuket and took in some sunshine and lounged on the beach. Finally, we’ve arrived in Chiang Mai. It’s a historic and holy city speckled with temples connected [...]
Automated code conversion is a handy tool but it never does as good of a job as a developer doing the conversion. I built the C# to PowerShell converter to help with the conversion but it will never be perfect. After a lot of feedback, I realized that a human touch was the best so [...]
Earlier this week, I blogged about a neat little tool I built to convert C# to PowerShell. It’s still a work in progress but I wanted to make it even easier. Here's another handy tool for using the code conversion service. I’ve developed a Chrome extension and REST API for converting C# to PowerShell. You [...]
Click here to try the C# to PowerShell Converter Recently, I was on StackOverflow looking at a question about POSTing a JPG image to a web server. Nearly the exact answer to the question was already available in C#. After translating the answer from C# to PowerShell I realized there should be a tool for [...]
Recently, I’ve been using MongoDB every day. Before this, I was used SQL server almost exclusively. I decided to use MongoDB over SQL for my most recent project and it has a bit of a learning curve. Here are a couple MongoDB concepts that took me a little bit to understand and get working within .NET. [...]
As Sarah and I gear up for our upcoming trip to Thailand, I made a last-minute stop at the local travel clinic to ensure I was up to date on my vaccinations. Here some things that the doctor recommended when traveling to Thailand this time of year. Vaccinations If traveling primarily in only urban areas [...]
My Ironman journey started about two years ago, when I purchased my first serious road bike. After watching and volunteering at the 2015 Ironman, I made the decision to compete in 2016. It was a new world of races, sweaty clothes and Cliff bars. I spent an enormous amount of my free time training, eating [...]
I've spent a lot of time using WordPress. I built CSharpening.net on WordPress. I maintained my own theme and used a large host of plugins. I had plugins for syntax highlighting, spam protection and took advantage of Jetpack. I hosted my site on Arvixe. They also took care of my URL registration. After over 8 years [...]
I’ve been trying to decide how to react to valuations of “home,” “groundedness,” and “engagement” that I’ve come across in blogs and newspaper opinion columns recently. Reading these makes me feel I have to justify my lifestyle, but I don’t know if I can. I don’t travel with the express purpose of creating distance from [...]
