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Preface

I've spent a bit of time using Linux as someone who considers themselves a regular grass toucher so use this as a guide to actually enjoying your computer again and dropping Windows.

What actually is Linux?

Something that is both a blessing and a curse with Linux is the nature of how it is developed is that the fact you're using Linux is generally quite abstracted away from what you day to day.

Linux is a base (technically the kernel) of all these varieties (formally known as Distributions or Distros) of operating systems.

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Web Development Roadmap (WIP)

Preface

Web Development is in a weird spot. I don't think there's been a better time to build websites and interactive web applications however it's incredibly challenging to

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using System.Diagnostics.CodeAnalysis;
using System.Net.Http.Json;
using System.Text.Json.Serialization;

var httpClient = new HttpClient();

try
{
    // Section 1 - async I/O
    /**

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My Various Programming Opinions

These aren't supposed to be hot takes as most of these are pretty lukewarm and things that for the majority people follow anyway, thought it would be nice to have them all in one place.

Loops vs Functional Array Methods

I like to use loops where possible with functional array methods (not sure what the best terminology for it is but in JS it's stuff like map, reduce, filter and in C# it's Where, Select etc...).

The design of these array methods is to follow very standard functional programming concepts so methods such as a .ForEach where nothing is returned from these iterations always bug me.

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Configure By Example

Learn the power of ASP.NET Core's Startup.Configure method with examples.

What is the Configure(IApplicationBuilder app, IHostingEnvironment env) method?

The Configure method in Startup.cs is essentially a fundamental part of Microsoft's OWIN implementation Katana. To sum up what OWIN and Katana are:

OWIN

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Frozen Oak API Documentation

Alex Billson (@pielegacy)

Preface

The Frozen Oak is a revolution in beverages and being the forward thinking company that Oak is it was only right that an associated Frozen Oak Locator was developed. This locator is powered by a versatile, simple,

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// JS array equivalents to C# LINQ methods - by Dan B.

// Here's a simple array of "person" objects
var people = [ 
	{ name: "John", age: 20 }, 
	{ name: "Mary", age: 35 }, 
	{ name: "Arthur", age: 78 }, 
	{ name: "Mike", age: 27 }, 
	{ name: "Judy", age: 42 }, 
	{ name: "Tim", age: 8 } 

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How to work with MonoGame's Content Pipeline

With all the documentation you'll read for XNA, there will be one differentiating factor and that is the content pipeline.

The Content Pipeline can be a pain in the ass but it's overall very helpful as it nicely packages content for the game in the Content folder.

This tutorial will show you how to import a texture and load it in the game.

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Power Up your Angular 1.x projects with Typescript

An explorative report by Alex Billson

AngularJs for years has provided a very solid framework for creating scalable MVC (Model View Controller) and MVVM (Model View ViewModel) applications using HTML, CSS and JavaScript.

As shown in this graph from May 2016, newer versions of the framework such as Angular 2 and Angular 4 despite being more feature-full and efficient than its predecessors have still failed to

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MVC in The Web

The Model-View-Controller (also known as MVC) in many ways is the cornerstone of modern web application development. Through seperation of these three major aspects of an application we are able to ensure that our product is not only a solid user experience but a structured development experience as well. Before we get into what MVC is and how we can facilitate it in modern Web Application development, we need to ensure that we're up to scratch with our basic web technologies.

HTML, The Looks