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Windows 10 Tip: Surface Pen Shortcuts

September 07, 2016
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When I first got my Surface I did not get the Pen, I was kind of locked into the idea that what I had purchased was a ...

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Instant Articles for dasBlog

August 29, 2016
3 min read

A few months ago now Facebook opened up Instant Articles to publishers great and small. Instant Articles have become ...

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Adding Bash on Windows 10–New Dev tools

August 24, 2016
5 min read

So I am working on integrating AMP pages into dasBlog (coming along nicely, thanks for asking) and as I am going ...

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.NET version and feature release

August 07, 2016
2 min read

Supporting an application with installs across multiple versions of the .NET Framework becomes challenging especially ...

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Some thoughts on Twitter

August 01, 2016
3 min read

I have long since abandoned the frequent Facebook checks, I realized that I did not need to keep up on the random ...

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Does your software need a superhero?

July 29, 2016
3 min read

I have been on numerous software projects over the years, and I am glad to say that the overwhelming majority over ...

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ASP.NET Core Kestrel - The Need for Speed

July 13, 2016
7 min read

Kestrel is the new cross platform .NET web server (based on libuv) which runs on Linux, Mac and Windows 10 and will, ...

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.NET Core 1.0–The Framework we need

July 05, 2016
3 min read

Are you old enough to remember the release of ASP.NET? I unfortunately am, I distinctly recollect it presenting a ...

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WinDbg Tip:Failed to load data access DLL

June 28, 2016
3 min read

For the past few months I have been almost exclusively using WinDbg to debug high severity production issues. It ...

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