Setting up my infrastructure - Part 1: Basic tools

For my new pet project I want to use good and efficient tooling. Since I want to create a tool for me and other .NET developers and I feel at home on this platform, I’m going to use C# for the project. I have my personal MSDN Professional subscription, and so I use Visual Studio 2012 Professional for development. I add my personal ReSharper licence for productivity and I chose Windows 8 Professional as my development OS (in a VM on my MacBook Air). Continue reading

My new pet project

As already announced on twitter, this year is the year of my pet project. I’m going to develop something and, hopefully, will be able to release it this year. I can’t tell you much about it at this stage, but the main idea is to create some developer tooling where I couldn’t find anything useful on the market up to now and of course to try out new things and stuff. Continue reading

This game has to be made: Elite: Dangerous

The Kickstarter reached it’s funding goal, and also the stretch goal of 1.4 mio GBP for a Mac version. With a few hours to go it’s still possible to accomplish the 1.5 mio stretch goal for 10 additional playable ships. There is currently a Kickstarter by David Braben to create a sequel to the lengendary Elite computer game. I want this game, and so I want to point some additional people to this kickstarter. Continue reading

Windows Server 2012 - First impressions

I thought I could play a little bit with Windows Server 2012. Said that, I logged into my Windows Azure management portal and created an extra small VM with Windows Server 2012 on it. A few minutes later my VM was provisioned and ready. The virtual hard disk is sized to 30 GB and fits in the free storage that is part of my MSDN subscription. The VM already had a remote desktop endpoint configured and I added a new endpoint for port 80. Continue reading

The 'Apache on OS X Mountain Lion' problem

Whoah, I just dived into severe problems with the apache web server on my MacBook Air, running OS X 10.8 - Moutain Lion. In preparation of my sessions " JavaScript" and " HTML5" at the EKON 16 conference in november I wanted to set up the web server that is in fact included in the OS X installation. In previous versions of OS X there was a ‘Web sharing’ option in the system preferences, but this was removed in Mountain Lion. Continue reading

Ask a Ninja: Do I need Typescript?

If the .Net Ninja would have been asked this question, this would be the answer: A few days ago Anders Hejlsberg showed a new thing currently brewing in the Microsoft labs: TypeScript. TypeScript is: JavaScript + some (optional) language extensions + a Compiler (more of a extractor, in fact), that removes the extensions and throws out vanilla JavaScript The compiler itself is also written in TypeScript, so it can be compiled down to pure JavaScript and run wherever JavaScript will run too. Continue reading

The Robocopy exit code and MSBuild postbuild error problem

The recent blog post of my friend Jeroen Pluimers about " Robocopy exit codes 0 and 1 usually mean success" reminded me of a problem I had with this fact a few years ago. Robocopy behaves strange… Just to sum his blog post up again: Robocopy returns exit code 0 if it successfully had nothing to do (i.e. all target files were already up to date), and returns with exit code 1 if it successfully copied something. Continue reading