Sports For Nerds: Gridiron Football, Part 1
In my original post, I covered some of the reasons why everyone should have a basic understanding of sports and introduced the first sport I’m to cover: grid...
Sports for Nerds
For a long time, I’ve been saying that I should do a Sports for Nerds series of blog posts. I’ve always thought that there’s a certain sort of sadness in the...
Chef, Knife, AWS, and Windows: Part 3
In Parts 1 and 2, I got started with Chef, knife-ec2 and knife-windows to bootstrap Windows machines. I’ve been slowly chipping away at the required amount o...
Chef, Knife, AWS, and Windows: Part 2
Update: Part 3 removes the need for explicit password setting!
Chef, Knife, AWS, and Windows: Part 1
UPDATE #2: Also see Part 3, which slims down the scripting a bit by removing the password reset requirement.
Windows, SSH Agent, and Emacs
Because I’m a sick sort of puppy, I work in Emacs on Windows for basic text editing and especially for working with Git (Magit is the best), and use Powershe...
Customizing Your Prompt in Powershell
As I’ve been using Windows more and more (Visual Studio <3), I’ve grown to really like Powershell. I was showing my brother around some of the more powerf...
Anova Precision Cooker impressions
I love to cook when I’ve got the time, and few things are more trendy in the world of home cooking right now than sous vide. Sous vide cooking uses precisely...
Improving security with unit tests and reflection
Back in November of 2014, Phil Haack published his Avoid async void methods blog post—it contained two useful things: a warning about an antipattern (I have ...
Building and Testing ASP.NET 5 Projects in TeamCity
We’ve been using TeamCity for a long time due to its widespread use in the .NET community—generally, if it can be done, someone’s already done it and blogged...
Combining EF6 with ASP.NET 5
For some upcoming work my team is doing, we wanted to use Entity Framework as our base DAL (with a micro-mapper like Dapper overlaid on top) and ASP.NET 5 as...