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Recommended Multiplayer Doom WADS

Posted on August 17, 2021

For a while now a bunch of friends and I have been playing co-operative Doom using custom WADS. These WADS are utterly incredible, vastly improving the original doom with mind-blowing map design, new monsters, new weapons, new sounds & new puzzles. The amount of things that can be done with... [Read More]

Tags: doom multiplayer zandronum

Talking To Doom In 1993 From Discord In 2021

Posted on August 17, 2021

Did you know that multiplayer doom is still alive and kicking? Nope, not Doom Eternal. Not 2016 Doom.. but 1993 doom! Thanks to the legends who work on Zandronum, you can play deathmatch or co-operative play over the internet using the original doom engine. Except the engine has been improved... [Read More]

Tags: discord c# dotnet zandronum udp nuget

Moving Dotnet App To Linux And Docker

Posted on June 2, 2021

A few months back, I decided to convert an existing .NET core application to run on Linux. As part of this work, I decided to run it inside a Docker container, which meant I could have my application running on Linux without worrying about setting up all of the dependencies... [Read More]

Tags: dotnet docker linux c#

Porting From Dotnet Framework To Dotnet Core

Posted on September 24, 2020

I recently gave a talk (over zoom) about moving your Asp.Net Framework application to .NET Core. After moving a bunch of my own applications, I realised that there was an easy road to take, and a hard road to take. Moving your application doesn’t have to be a dangerous experiment.... [Read More]

Tags: dotnet dotnetframework dotnetcore workshop popular

Optimise Your App With Visual Studio's Profiler

Posted on August 30, 2019

Do you want to optimise your app so it run faster? Just read this. [Read More]

Tags: performance c# optimisation visualstudio workshop popular

Fixing My Dad's Archtop

Posted on August 19, 2019

This is a photo of my Dad's 1981 Noyce archtop guitar: [Read More]

Tags: guitar jazz pickups

Using Seq And Asp Dot Net Core

Posted on July 17, 2018

I am unabashed in how awesome I think Seq is. For troubleshooting stuff in production, this thing is a goldmine. Let's say I have some code: [Read More]

Tags: seq c# dotnet logging

Throttling Your Api In Asp.net

Posted on February 14, 2018

Can someone DOS attack your API and bring down your webservice? Could I hit your API at 100 requests a second and bring down your server? Or can you throttle your users like this? [Read More]

Tags: c# dotnet throttling api

Deployments With Zero Downtime In Asp.net

Posted on December 13, 2017

Did you know that you can have zero downtime deployments with your ASP.NET application? [Read More]

Tags: deployments iis

Setting Up CI To Setup Your Success

Posted on October 15, 2017

Does your build save you time and effort? Or does everyone emit a collective groan whenever you hear the dreaded "Someone broke the build" ? A great build setup you will love, a bad setup you will hate. How do you get started and where do you want to end... [Read More]

Tags: ci deployments devops craftsmanship popular

Rocklan's Blog

Rocklan's Blog

Recommended Multiplayer Doom WADS

Talking To Doom In 1993 From Discord In 2021

Moving Dotnet App To Linux And Docker

Porting From Dotnet Framework To Dotnet Core

Optimise Your App With Visual Studio's Profiler

Fixing My Dad's Archtop

Using Seq And Asp Dot Net Core

Throttling Your Api In Asp.net

Deployments With Zero Downtime In Asp.net

Setting Up CI To Setup Your Success

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