It’s amazing how sometimes small changes can make you very happy. This week I was looking at how DragonFruit does its entry point magic, and realized I had a great use case for the same kind of thing. Some of my oldest code that’s still in regular use is ApplicationChooser – a simple tool for … Continue reading New and improved JonSkeet.DemoUtil →

I’ve been immensely privileged to be invited to speak at various international developer conferences, and until now I’ve usually tried to accept the majority of those invitations. I’ve had a wonderful time, and made many dear friends – who I’ve often then caught up with at other events. However, I’ve recently found that travelling has … Continue reading Reducing my international speaking →

If this is the first blog post about V-Drum Explorer you’ve read, see the first post in this series for the background. In this post we’ll look at the MIDI interface I use in V-Drum Explorer to send and receive configuration information. MIDI basics (Apologies to anyone who really knows their stuff about MIDI – … Continue reading V-Drum Explorer: MIDI interface →

This is the first in what I expect to be quite a long series of blog posts, meandering over a fairly wide range of topics as they crop up. There’s nothing particularly technical in this introductory post. It’s really just a starting point. V-Drums In July 2019, inspired/encouraged by a friend name Alice, I bought … Continue reading V-Drum Explorer: Introduction →

This post revisits the problem described in Versioning Limitations in .NET, based on reactions to that post and a Twitter discussion which occurred later. Before getting onto the main topic of the post, I wanted to comment a little on that Twitter discussion. I personally found it frustrating at times, and let that frustration leak … Continue reading Options for .NET’s versioning issues →