My conference season 2017

It is, again, the time of the year where the schedule for the conference season comes together nicely. So, without further adue, these are the conferences I will be giving talks on this year. Continue reading

Using VSTS Wildcards for .NET Core projects

On our Thinktecture Research Retreat I had the chance to have a deeper look at the Visual Studio Team System (VSTS), especially in regards to VSTS and its Build / CI System. Right on the first steps with it I ran into an issue with the VSTS wildcards for .NET Core projects. Continue reading

How to: Deep link into an Angular SPA on IIS

When you create a single page application (SPA) with Angular (or other SPA-frameworks, for the matter), you might want to leverage the power of the web and allow a deep link directly to a certain route within your application. Continue reading

My developers toolbelt 2016

I cought a tweet a few days ago asking for your developers toolbelt, specifically on windows. And I gave a very short answer and mentioned I would blog about this:

@modocache @devlead vs code & Atom. Cmder. Outlook. Actually, wait a bit and I’ll blog my toolbelt ;)

— Sebastian PR Gingter (@PhoenixHawk) December 8, 2016

So, this is a more elaborate answer to the developers toolbelt question. My default windows developer installation contains the following:

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Running Windows 10 Ubuntu Bash in Cmder

“Can you run Bash in Cmder?” - In the comments of my last post (install and run (Oh-my-) zsh on Bash on Ubuntu on Windows), I was asked whether it would be possible to run the Bash (or Zsh) also in Cmder. First I thought it was not possible, but then I got curious. After digging in a bit more it turned out that it IS, in fact, possible. And it’s not difficult too.

So, since I figured out how it works, I also want to show you how you can run the Windows 10 Ubuntu Bash (and/or Zsh) in Cmder.

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How to install and run (Oh-My-) zsh on Windows

I run zsh on Windows. But why? Some time ago, when I was still using a Mac, one of my colleagues suggested to use zsh instead of bash.

Since then I switched to a Surface Book which I happily preferred over OS X mac OS and mainly use cmdr as my shell. Now the Windows 10 Anniversary update is out, and it comes with " Bash on Ubuntu on Windows".

Now, while having bash on my fingertips again, my colleagues’ suggestion came back to my mind, and I tried to use zsh again.

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Microsoft Edge - First impressions

After the upgrade to Windows 10 I started using Microsoft Edge Microsoft Edge as my main browser. Now, just a few days later, I can tell you about my first impressions. Continue reading