As a developer, you sometimes have to correctly normalize strings. Be it to do quick case-insensitive lookups, or to compare stuff. The question is, what is considered a correct normalization for these use cases? This post uses C# for the sample code, but this topic applies to all languages and environments equally.
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Using versioning in your ASP.NET Core API
Why should you care about versioning your API? Well, writing a web API with ASP.NET Core is easy. Getting it in production also. But what happens when you have your API live, clients are out there consuming it, and the need arises to change something? This is, when you should have thought about versioning your ASP.NET Core web API. This article shows how to version a web API written using ASP.NET Core. It shows different approaches and explains the differences between them.
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English keyboard layout hints for German developers
The German keyboard layout is great. It has everything you need, including all of the umlauts, the ß and also the µ. For programming, however, the German keyboard layout is 💩: The normal braces are on 8 and 9 with shift state, just off by one from the English ones at 9 and 0, but the square and curly braces are available only on Alt-Gr combos left and right from that. Also the forward and backward slashes are Shift and Alt-Gr combos. You can imagine that this slows you down.
So, to be more efficient when writing code, I tried and trained myself to use an English keyboard layout. This is, what I learned. Continue reading "English keyboard layout hints for German developers"
Using VSTS Wildcards for .NET Core projects
On our Thinktecture Research Retreat I had the chance to have a deeper look at the Visual Studio Team System (VSTS), especially in regards to VSTS and its Build / CI System. Right on the first steps with it I ran into an issue with the VSTS wildcards for .NET Core projects.
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My developers toolbelt 2016
I cought a tweet a few days ago asking for your developers toolbelt, specifically on windows. And I gave a very short answer and mentioned I would blog about this:
@modocache @devlead vs code & Atom. Cmder. Outlook. Actually, wait a bit and I'll blog my toolbelt 😉
— Sebastian PR Gingter (@PhoenixHawk) December 8, 2016
So, this is a more elaborate answer to the developers toolbelt question. My default windows developer installation contains the following:
Running Windows 10 Ubuntu Bash in Cmder
"Can you run Bash in Cmder?" - In the comments of my last post (install and run (Oh-my-) zsh on Bash on Ubuntu on Windows), I was asked whether it would be possible to run the Bash (or Zsh) also in Cmder. First I thought it was not possible, but then I got curious. After digging in a bit more it turned out that it IS, in fact, possible. And it's not difficult too.
So, since I figured out how it works, I also want to show you how you can run the Windows 10 Ubuntu Bash (and/or Zsh) in Cmder.
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How to install and run (Oh-My-) zsh on Windows
I run zsh on Windows. But why? Some time ago, when I was still using a Mac, one of my colleagues suggested to use zsh instead of bash.
Since then I switched to a Surface Book which I happily preferred over OS X mac OS and mainly use cmdr as my shell. Now the Windows 10 Anniversary update is out, and it comes with "Bash on Ubuntu on Windows".
Now, while having bash on my fingertips again, my colleagues' suggestion came back to my mind, and I tried to use zsh again.
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Microsoft Edge – First impressions
After the upgrade to Windows 10 I started using Microsoft EdgeMicrosoft Edge as my main browser. Now, just a few days later, I can tell you about my first impressions.
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Static site gens the 2nd: Hexo and Sandra.Snow
In my recent blog post I wrote about my experiences so far with static site gens in general. I said I was looking into Hexo before I go on with my plan B and this is what I did.
Hexo is very capable. If you really just want to a blog, then this is the way to go (imho). The main problem with Hexo is that it is a one-man-show from China and that this guy is currently in the middle of the process to release Hexo 3.0. Which is not a bad thing, but for one several plugins have not yet been updated, which makes it very hard to get things running. Then again, some plugins like the sitemap plugin that should generate a sitemap.xml do not have access to all entries for the tags and the categories. That said, I could probably write my own, but while the API is documented somehow I don't got around configuring my WebStorm IDE correctly so that it indeed provides me with code completion on the Hexo API, which makes everything very tedious.
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Ask a Ninja: Current state of static site generators
Over the course of the last weekend I tried to built a website for a side project of mine (gaming related). To broaden my horizon, and to be able to host the website cheap and fast, I wanted to use a static site generator for it.
First try: Jekyll. TL;DR: Does not work on windows.
Since Jekyll is directly supported by Github pages, and I wanted to host here, and a lot of other guys around on my Twitter timeline use Jekyll, I thought this is the way to go.
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