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Re: Stack Overflow: The Architecture - 2016 Edition

Scott Koon — Wed, 02 Mar 2016 16:14:04 -0000

I love this stuff. Especially when you mention setting the process affinity due to L2/L3 cache being saturated. Do you have some examples of how you determined that the cache hits were || could cause latency?

Re: Open Source .net libraries that make your life easier

Scott Koon — Fri, 10 Apr 2015 12:08:42 -0000

Both Hangfire and Topshelf also have NuGet packages out that support most, if not all, of the DI containers. Which makes them super simple to use with WebAPI2 self-hosting. Adding Hangfire to my windows service that self hosts WebAPI was about 5 lines of code, including braces.

Re: GitHub Flow Like a Pro with these 13 Git Aliases

Scott Koon — Mon, 28 Jul 2014 13:08:26 -0000

aa = add -A

I think I got this one from Paul. I use it all the time

pu=!git fetch origin;git fetch upstream;git merge upstream/master

This one is my all-in-one update my clone to the cloned repo command.

I still use
fu = reset --hard

Because I'm often using git-svn, which means my repo is often screwed up through no fault of my own and I just need to reset and get rid of all my merge conflicts.

Re: Your Editor should Encourage You - You've Been Haacked

Scott Koon — Mon, 23 Jun 2014 12:25:55 -0000

Oh man, now I totally want emoji support in Visual Studio.

Re: Reassign JavaScript Function Parameters In Reverse Order, Or Lose Your Params

Scott Koon — Tue, 18 Mar 2014 14:19:34 -0000

It's not really an array. It's just a weird object that has a length and ordinals.

Re: Master time with Reactive Extensions

Scott Koon — Mon, 17 Mar 2014 12:50:50 -0000

mmmmmmm, 80's Pam Dauber.

Re: Avoid Premature Standardization

Scott Koon — Tue, 05 Nov 2013 13:04:53 -0000

Filed under "Overthinking" ;)

Re: The Lawyers Won’t Let Us

Scott Koon — Wed, 10 Jul 2013 13:42:20 -0000

Truly a gem in a great article:
"He reminded me that the lawyers work for us. We do not work for the lawyers. If the lawyers had their way, we wouldn’t do anything because that’s the safest option."

That being said, when will the GitHub for Windows source be available? ;)

Re: First try with TypeScript

Scott Koon — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 11:29:02 -0000

As it should have been.

Re: First try with TypeScript

Scott Koon — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 21:59:15 -0000

Hmmm, your point about using TypeScript to express your intent is an interesting one. Scott Bellware had suggested that perhaps TypeScript could become an IDL for JavaScript. In that case, I would see some use for TypeScript. There have been other attempts to bring interfaces and interface checking to JavaScript, most notably by Dustin Diaz in his book "JavaScript Design Patterns". But ultimately the more you work with JavaScript, I believe the more you realize that you don't really care about the type as a whole. You really only care if it accepts the message that you want to pass to the object.

Re: First try with TypeScript

Scott Koon — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 21:53:59 -0000

The only way that TypeScript will check the types being passed to a function is at compile time. Which means that both the calling code and the code being called have to be written in TypeScript. So, if you want the type checking, you have to write all of your app JS code in TypeScript. Otherwise, TypeScript just turns into an interesting metadata annotation system.
The main goal of TypeScript is, ultimately, to give the current IDEs something to work with at design time. In my opinion, to drag JavaScript down to C#'s level to accommodate Visual Studio.

Re: Some methods for printing playing cards

Scott Koon — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 15:59:51 -0000

I have done that for some pnp games. I recently printed out the Thunderstone pnp release and just put them in some ultrapro standard sleeves. Then I bought the same sleeves for my TS:Advanced cards do I can mix the two sets.
Usually if the pnp cards come with back graphics I print both sides using the technique I outlined above as it gives the cards a better feel while playing. If the cards are going to be shuffled quite a bit during play, then I use sleeves with my pnp cards or give them a quick coating with an acrylic spray.

Re: The current state of technical conferences

Scott Koon — Wed, 18 Jul 2012 19:01:17 -0000

"getting started with x"
"x in the enterprise"
"what's new with x version y"
"do {magic thing} with x"
"advanced {thing} with x" - ends up being very basic and not very advanced.
"{funny, quirky, hip title that ends up being a getting started with x session}
"tdd/unit testing with x" - devolves into a discussion of what is or isn't a unit test.
"{something with Git}" - ends up just being an example of pushing and pulling, never merging.
{vendor demo disguised as a session where the presenter apologizes for past failings of the tool. Tool sometimes stops working during the session as well}
{watch me configure my machine and the projector for 30 minutes}

Re: Why Twilio Wasn’t Affected by Today’s AWS Issues

Scott Koon — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 23:05:12 -0000

Curious if you are fronting your service component pools with F5 BigIPs?

Re: Developers: a new kind of IDE arrives in Cloud9 (First look!)

Scott Koon — Sat, 12 Mar 2011 12:33:19 -0000

Another interesting idea is SourceKit. A TextMate like editor that is a Chrome app and uses Dropbox to store your files. Combined with Chrome app syncing, it gives you a portable development environment. I've used it a few times to edit files I have in my Dropbox account and it's good. Nice to clone Git/Hg repos to your Dropbox account and be able to edit them without having to install an IDE.

Running portable Vim from portableapps.com from a Dropbox folder is another great option.

Really need a portable .NET compiler.

Re: 10 Exclusive Action Figures You'll (Probably) Never Own

Scott Koon — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 11:49:00 -0000

I had the cantina set. I still have the figures blue Snaggletooth and all, but my 5 year old daughter keeps wanting to play with them. The nerve! ;)

Re: Twitter, You're Fired

Scott Koon — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 09:39:27 -0000

Voice communication requires both participants to be available at the same time and for the same duration of the call, that is however long it takes. While texting/tweeting dont have the same constraint. Same as email.

Re: Twitter, You're Fired

Scott Koon — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 22:40:51 -0000

I can't disagree with your reasons because they are your reasons. I can say that I've gotten two jobs through Twitter. Sure I could have gotten them through emails too, but I didn't. I've had a few other positives come from Twitter professionally, almost immediate answers to questions about a piece of technology I am working with, and in personal development, impromptu code reviews of things I'm trying out in my spare time

What I get out of Twitter and Facebook is a sense of connecting with people at a time in my life when I can't really get out and connect with people for a couple of reasons. 1) busy life 2) young kids. I get to connect with people who I would normally be disconnected from either due to lack of availabilty or physical distance. That makes the difference for me.

And really Rob, we're both the only males in our households and you know as well as I do that the amount of toilet paper under the sink is VITAL information that you must know. ;)

Re: I am ALT.NET Pursefight!

Scott Koon — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 17:39:58 -0000

Hmmm, I don't remember Jim and Charlie abusing Scott B. that night. In fact, I think Jim said, and I'm paraphrasing, after seeing machine.spec, "if it weren't for C# getting in your way you'd really have something."

I could be wrong about that, it was a whole kid ago for me.

Re: Google Wave Pisses Me Off

Scott Koon — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 10:14:15 -0000

@MK - Re: Advanced DataGrid vs. JS.

Never underestimate the albatross that is requiring a plugin. Sun couldn't pull it off with Java, Microsoft couldn't pull it off with ActiveX. Adobe has come the closest thanks to YouTube.

Re: Google Wave Pisses Me Off

Scott Koon — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 00:38:20 -0000

Honestly? The same reason that Microsoft doesn't put together products like Wave even though they could have using ActiveX years ago and that Sun doesn't even though it could have been a Java applet.

Adobe is, first and formost, a tools company. You build tools and put them out there. The question you should be asking Adobe is: Why hasn't Adobe built something like Wave into Adobe Photoshop or Dreamweaver? How does something like Wave or GMail built in Flex/Flash promote the bottom line of tool sales? Anything Google can do to increase traffic to their .com domain helps their ad sales, whether they are serving ads or just gathering mindshare.

Re: An Open Spaces Observation

Scott Koon — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 14:25:14 -0000

Usually if one or two people dominate the conversation, you can move to a fishbowl style arraignment. There are a couple of other conversation techniques that I can't remember or find online right now that enable silent participants to become more active.

Re: Some Thoughts on Oxite : Rob Conery

Scott Koon — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 20:03:13 -0000

Ricky: Now, Url.Encode is meant to prepare a string to be passed in a url e.g if you have a domain or page name with a space in it "http://foo.com/My page.html", which is a valid filename, and you Url.Encode it it will come out like this "http://foo.com/My%20Page.html". If you Url.Encode a string for display on a page, say to prevent script embedded in the string from executing, the script will still execute.

Html.Encode is used often to prevent script attacks because it converts the brackets to their appropriate character entities. e.g. < goes to & l t ; (with no spaces) which will prevent the script execution.

Re: OY, WP 2.5.1 update. Gotta upd…

Scott Koon — Sat, 03 May 2008 02:01:13 -0000

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Re: Visual Studio for Windows vs XCode for Mac OS X

Scott Koon — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 06:30:58 -0000

Hi Keith,

I did a little head-to-head comparison a couple of years ago myself and came to some of the same conclusions. I haven't upgraded to Leopard yet so I can't comment on the new version of XCode and Objective C 2.0. There are two points where Xcode + IB shines over Visual Studio.

1) Enforcing the MVC pattern - the entire framework and interface design tool are built around MVC. With Visual Studio, as you demonstrated, it's very easy to fall into the drag-and-drop mush world of application design.

2) I never get the sense that IB is working against me. I feel like I'm fighting Visual Studios designer much of the time.

My personal opinion is that dynamic dispatch/message passing languages are much more productive that static languages. So in that respect, Objective-C wins for me. But thanks to the effort of John Lam and the IronPython team, that won't be the case for very long. :)

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