Arthur Rump

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Git-based versioning using FAKE

How to use FAKE to automatically set version numbers based on your Git history.

For Fake.StaticGen, I wanted to have a semi-automated way of determining the version number for each release. Inspired by Nerdbank.GitVersioning, I liked the idea of having a unique version for every commit, but I …

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versionsof.net

Bringing clarity to versions of .NET

.NET Core versioning is a mess. There are lots and lots and lots of version numbers, from runtime to SDK, from Visual Studio to languages and of course .NET Standard. So what SDK corresponds to which runtime again? I know there some sort of a system, but it differs per …

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NetCore.Versions

To display version information about .NET Core on versionsof.net, I had to decode the releases.json files in the dotnet/core repo. Not a big problem, you’d think. These are just JSON files, how hard can it be? That’s fair, but the schema, nor the data of …

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Fallback styling for embedded Tweets

Sometimes you want to embed a Tweet in your blog posts. At least I do. With a bit of CSS, you won’t have to depend on an external script to make your embedded Tweet recognizable as a Tweet.

Embedding a Tweet on your website is easy to do. Find …

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Fake.StaticGen

A fully customizable static site generator using the power of FAKE

Fake.StaticGen is a toolkit for generating static websites using FAKE build scripts. It provides a framework for including pages and files and writing those out to disk in the correct folder structure. Fake.StaticGen tries to be very flexible and give you full control of the way you want …

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Introducing versionsof.net

.NET Core versioning is a mess. There are lots and lots and lots of version numbers, from runtime to SDK, from Visual Studio to languages and of course .NET Standard. So what SDK corresponds to which runtime again? I know there some sort of a system, but it differs per …

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Animating GridViewItems with Windows.UI.Composition (aka the Visual Layer)

If you’ve ever used the beta version of myTube! (and you should), you’re probably familiar with the effect I wanted to create:

I absolutely love this effect, and when I accidentally open the non-beta version of myTube, where it’s not yet implemented, I miss it, often to …

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“Good explanation, but now what?” - Thoughts on getting people started with .NET

On what I think are the biggest problems with education about .NET, and how I would do things different if I were to create a tutorial on C# today.

I was listening to a .NET Rocks! episode with Ian Cooper about starting a .NET Renaissance, analogous to the Java Renaissance …

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Schoolrooster voor Zermelo

The Windows 10 app for viewing Zermelo school timetables

Schoolrooster voor Zermelo is an app that allows students and teachers to check their timetables on all their Windows 10 devices. The app works with all schools and organizations that use the Zermelo portal technology to manage the timetabling process. The app is built on the Universal Windows Platform with …

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My favorite podcasts

I enjoy listening to podcasts. Where others listen to music with everything they do, I much prefer people talking and learning something along the way. Here’s a list of my favorite podcasts, for developers, for techies and some for everyone.

There are a ton of developer podcasts out there …