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Using Ghost's Public API to Select Five Random Posts

One of the changes I made recently to this site is the addition of the "Five Random Posts" area on the left sidebar. Here's a screenshot in case I decide to change my layout later: I use Ghost [https://ghost.org/] as my blogging engine, and recently they've unveiled a

Exploring the JSON Configuration Files in ASP.NET Core 1.0

As I have mentioned before, my team and I are working on getting up and running with a new ASP.NET Core 1.0 application. I've spent some time with them going over the new JSON-based configuration files like project.json, global.json, and appsettings.json, and now I'm finally

Performance Doesn't Matter (Unless You Can Prove That It Does)

I get bombarded with questions like these all the time from my fellow developers: * "Which is faster, .Count() or .Any()?" * "Should I use a Redis database for my reads rather then SQL Server? I heard Redis is amazingly fast." * "Won't [Snippet X] be faster than [Snippet Y] because it's more

Using Gulp.js and the Task Runner Explorer in Visual Studio 2015

We're setting up a new ASP.NET 5 ASP.NET Core 1.0 [http://www.hanselman.com/blog/ASPNET5IsDeadIntroducingASPNETCore10AndNETCore10.aspx] project in Visual Studio 2015, and my team is trying to get used to the idea of "Task Runners" such as Grunt.js or Gulp.js. We're brand new to

Implementing CQRS in .NET Part 4: More Events and Summary

This is the final part of a four-part series describing how to build an application in .NET using the Command-Query Responsibility Segregation (CQRS) [http://martinfowler.com/bliki/CQRS.html] and Event Sourcing (ES) [http://martinfowler.com/eaaDev/EventSourcing.html] patterns, as well as the SimpleCQRS [https://github.com/tyronegroves/SimpleCQRS]

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