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COVID19 Contact Tracing

April 11, 2020
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Apple and Google are partnering to build a new contact tracing system into both Android and iOS, in an effort to help ...

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ReJIT on Attach

April 01, 2020
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A really useful feature of the CLR is that it allows a user to request a new JIT (aka 'reJIT'). This is really ...

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Suppressing Disassembly

March 24, 2020
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The great majority of folks loved the new decompilation features in Visual Studio 16.5, but that did not stop me having ...

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A New Reality

March 22, 2020
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I have been trying to figure out for days what I might say on this blog about this catastrophic interruption to our ...

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Azure Lets Encrypt - DashboardConnectionString field is required

March 17, 2020
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Let’s Encrypt is a free, automated, and open certificate authority (CA), run for the public’s benefit. It is a service ...

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Not everything that can be counted counts

March 13, 2020
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I think the following is a quote from Einstein: 'Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that ...

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Creating a Quick CLI

March 06, 2020
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I had some recent concerns that if anyone wanted to get going with using DasBlog Core in a production environment that ...

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Why is decompilation possible?

February 26, 2020
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There are a lot of decompilers available in the .NET ecosystem and this has always been the case. I mean always. ...

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Avoiding CLIs and getting productive

February 18, 2020
3 min read

There have been interesting conversations around whether, in the interest of productivity, devs should exclusively use ...

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