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William Holroyd

Windows Subsystem for Multiple Linux Distributions

As of Windows 10 Anniversary Update, there was the inclusion of an awesome new tool that allowed users to have their very own Bash terminal on Windows without needing to run a Linux image in a hypervisor. This new tool was called the Windows…

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Keep the timezone as an offset and not an adjustment

I’ve been working on a side project at home the last few days to snipe hard to find restaurant reservations and came across a weird issue I’ve never experienced before while using the .NET framework.

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Cheat Sheet: .NET Framework Targeting

If you’ve ever had problems trying to target particular .NET frameworks, this cheat sheet put together by @bradwilson, @onovotny, and myself a while ago might help. I’m not going to go into depth on about what PCLs are what targeting means with the new frameworks…

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Working towards microservices with enterprise cultures, Part 1

Getting started on a microservice adoption isn’t trivial given the challenge of migrating existing data, merging with other data sets, keeping yourself in a ‘known good state’, and the new requirement of honoring contracts…

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Getting Started: NextBSD

There has been a lot of noise in the UNIX/Linux world recently when a presentation was made at the last Bay Area FreeBSD Users Group meetup where a couple of guys have patched the most recent FreeBSD release with a bunch of services like the Mach IPC, launchd, notifyd, asld, and…

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Working towards microservices with a defined scope

In the work that I’ve done recently for evangelizing the principles behind our DevOps movement, it was interesting to hear the question of how microservices has anything to do with DevOps at all. It seems my blogging and marketing within the…

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Agent-less method to enumerate certificates on a remote machine

Ever needed to enumerate certificates installed on a remote machine using just C# and .NET without having to use an agent? It was a problem I’ve had a couple of times now and was able to figure out without the help of…

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