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    Geeks With Blogs

    geekswithblogs.net · Publication · on HN since 2008

    Geeks With Blogs is a blog host for Microsoft-focused developers, with posts on C#, .NET, TFS and software practice.

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    What HN says

    HN links it for technical .NET posts such as the DLR internals, TFS deployment and design patterns; commenters give no opinion of the site.

    Stats for nerds
    50HN people shared it
    53linked in comments
    163story points
    Jan 2020last shared
    2009people per year2020

    Top posts on HN

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      1 person · 4 points · first shared 2012 · 2 comments on HN
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      1 person · 3 points · first shared 2012 · 1 comments on HN
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      When a vendor you love lies
      1 person · 3 points · first shared 2013 · Discussion on HN
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      The Golden Rule of Programming
      1 person · 3 points · first shared 2013 · Discussion on HN

    What HN people wrote when they linked it

    • scarface74Jan 2020

      All of this can be done with TFS and agents running on the deployment machines.

      This is the earliest article I could find about using TFS for deployments from 2010.

      http://geekswithblogs.net/TarunArora/archive/2013/02/23/continuous-integration-automated-deployments-and-release-management.aspx

      Don’t get me wrong, while for the most part, I hate dealing with “pets” and I was hired partially to kill all the servers we could and go all in on AWS’s native hosted toolings, Octopus Deploy is a joy to use even just to deploy CloudFormation templates where the actually code is either in S3 (lambda) or ECR (Docker) not to mention deploying to our remaining pets.

      Just the ability to use Octopus Deploy’s library sets that are scoped to environments that can be referenced in Config files and templates is worth paying for.

      On the other hand, I am on a mission to kill Jenkins and replace it with AWS CodeBuild - Serverles builds using a Docker Containers.

    • gtaniFeb 2012

      There's a few of these lists, depending on what aspects of science/engineering/coding you're interest is

      http://www.reddit.com/r/compsci/comments/gprp0/is_there_a_list_of_the_canonical_introductory/

      http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3011964

      http://geekswithblogs.net/MarkPearl/archive/2011/05/19/summary-of-computer-theory-important-things-to-know.aspx

      http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3382962

      ---------------

      http://www.reddit.com/r/compsci/comments/j10m3/im_an_experienced_developer_looking_to_master/

      http://www.reddit.com/r/compsci/comments/jyz6z/i_want_to_learn_actual_computer_science_not_just/

      http://matt.might.net/articles/what-cs-majors-should-know/

      http://www.reddit.com/r/compsci/comments/kb3sa/what_every_computer_science_major_should_know/

    • tolmaskyJun 2009

      Is this a joke? I honestly can't tell, because of all the following:

      - Mobile Safari already supports local storage

      - Mobile Safari already supports geolocation: http://geekswithblogs.net/MobileLOB/archive/2009/06/19/getting-location-on-a-mobile-webpage.aspx

      - Mobile Safari also already has other portions of HTML 5 implemented, such as canvas, not to mention really good coverage of css 3.

      So as it turns out shipping Mobile Safari already has much better HTML 5 support than many desktop browsers. You may be able to fault iPhone and Mobile Safari a lot of things, but standards support is certainly not one of them.

    • jimmcslimOct 2014

      Chocolatey is great... although I wish it had a different "more professional"-sounding name.

      When I was using it in anger a while ago I also found the quality of some of the packages to be a bit random, many of them just seemed to be random developer X's favourite aggregation of other packages. In which case I'm happy to see that they are adopting package moderation;

      http://geekswithblogs.net/robz/archive/2014/10/27/chocolatey-now-has-package-moderation.aspx

    • lhorieMay 2010

      Reminds me of that concept for a code editor UI with bubbles[1]. If the user interfaces let me visually organize the code in a way that makes sense, then the way the data is saved on disk doesn't really matter anymore.

      [1] http://geekswithblogs.net/andrewbrust/archive/2010/03/12/code-bubbles-disruption-comes-to-the-ide.aspx

      On the flip side, I guess there's the problem of being locked to the applications

    • keithlyFeb 2014

      A response to this post from another asp.net developer:
      http://geekswithblogs.net/dlussier/archive/2014/02/19/155486.aspx

      "...early on in my MVP/Community days (2007ish). Microsoft hired some non-traditional devs to head up something in the ASP.NET group. Phil Haack, Scott Hanselman, Rob Conery all came on board and launched ASP.NET MVC which BLEW. ASP.NET. UP."

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