Viewing profile — pauldbau

We used to use Skobbler, which was great until they basically stopped working and went silent. For the past 18 months, we've used Thunderforest (it's an OpenStreetMap PaaS) and the…

You get to replace the over-engineered P&P crap that is WCF, Entity Framework and WebAPI with an extremely practical, elegant, fast and no-nonsense set of libraries focused on doin…

Felt like I was watching an episode of Silicon Valley, just needed the Hooli logo at the end. Think I threw up a little at some parts (am allergic to cheese), great comedy though, …

Corrected ;)

Title is clickbait and inaccurate - they raised €550k at 100,000 users. So they bootstrapped until 100k users (still a great achievement), but hardly to 4mil users as the title wou…

Out of interest, how does Win 10 compare with Mac OSX in terms of being able to install and change default browser? Given Apple's penchant for lock down, I'd expect it's much the s…

Yeah aware of ElephantSQL but the concern is lack of SLA and lack of big company backing. If you guys disappear, what happens to my databases since they run on your subscription, n…

+1, except would awesome to see this on Microsoft Azure. The current SQL database as a service offering on Azure is expensive with mediocre performance. A highly available Postgres…

Seconded - there are some interesting/challenging social dilemmas ahead for the 1st world in particular.

I think this about sums up the quality and obvious bent of this article: http://cdn.meme.am/instances/500x/57216937.jpg

The key paragraph from the post RE:Mono is: "we’ll make .NET Core great for Windows, Linux and Mac OSX. This also enables the Mono community to innovate on top of the leaner .NET C…

I for one am extremely excited about having MS supported ASP.Net on Linux. Mono is a great community effort, but the server side has always lagged Windows pretty heavily. Having th…

For .NET / SQL Server people, check out GuidCombs if you want better Primary Key performance. These are a great way of making GUIDs sequential for database use, giving indexing per…

You should definitely also check out ServiceStack. Dapper-like ORM, amazing web service capabilities and awesome serializers all in one place. Supports everything too (Mono, Xamari…