Stop Analyzing Me!

I installed Microsoft Visual Studio 2015 Community a few weeks ago to debug a Web API services project created with the CoreCLR runtime. As expected, the debugger worked great, but whenever I start the project, the new diagnostics view kicks...

Testing without a backend

AngularJS makes it very easy to mock out a server API, giving you control over the returned data without the need for a network connection. Thanks to the $httpBackend service in ngMockE2E you can setup your own rules for intercepting...

Third time's a charm

There is some truth in popular wisdom. After having to install VS Code on my desktop and re-install it on my laptop, I finally got it working great. All the problems I had before were because I thought only CoreCLR...

Unpacking NodeMCU

I received a brand new NodeMCU from China I got on ebay a few days ago. The NodeMCU takes an ESP8266 Wi-Fi chip and sticks it in a complete package with breadboard friendly GPIO pins and one USB port for...

Starting ASP.NET5 on Linux, Part 2

Starting where we left off in Part 1, to get OmniSharp integration (tasks, IntelliSense and more) in Visual Studio Code, I need to install Mono first. Following the official Mono instructions, I ran: sudo apt-key adv --keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80 --recv-keys 3FA7E0328081BFF6A14DA29AA6A19B38D3D831EF...