Last week my co-author Vadim Zaytsev presented our paper A Refined Model of Ill-definedness in Project-Based Learning at the Educators Symposium of MODELS 2022. Go read that paper first, or this won’t make much sense. In this post I try to answer a question we got afterwards.

If you …

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 …

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 …

.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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

How to set your package versions dynamically without creating an AssemblyInfo.cs file.

After the debacle with project.json and .xproj, Microsoft settled on a simpler, more modern version of the old .csproj project system with Visual Studio 2017. One of the changes advanced users will notice when creating a …

Akavache is an awesome library for almost every .NET desktop and mobile application platform to store both important user data and expiring local cache data. I’ve been using Akavache in a UWP app to cache results from a web service. In the Akavache README, the Akavache Explorer application is …

Windows 10 Mobile has lost a lot of the awesome UI/UX from the good ol’ Windows Phone 7 era, but there’s one thing that they kept around: the enormous amount of space the statusbar takes up in landscape view. I still love the look and feel of the …

I’d like to use the opportunity of this first post to tell about the technology behind this blog, as that’s something I’m always interested in myself. This website is build using the Hexo static site generator, hosted on GitLab Pages. The theme is based on Icarus, which …