The next major milestone for Akka.NET is Akka.NET v1.1, the primary focus of which is a...
Visual Studio ProTip: Copying Binaries on Pre and Post-Build Macros
Last year I had to spend a fair amount of time working on C and C++ projects in Visual Studio 2013, and one of the tasks that I had to learn how to do was use Visual Studio’s pre-build and post-build events to copy all of my dependent DLLs into the final output folder for my applications.
In C# we take the ability to do this for granted - if we need to add a reference to another project in our Visual Studio solution we just Add Reference –> Projects –> [Project Name] and boom, we’re all set. Visual Studio will automatically copy our dependent binaries into our final /bin/[Release|Debug] folder automatically.
In C/C++ - hellllllllll no. You have to do this all yourself!
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Real-time Marketing Automation with Distributed Actor Systems and Akka.NET
This is an archive of a blog post I wrote for the MarkedUp Analytics blog on July 23rd, 2014. It’s been a popular post and I’m posting it here in order to preserve it. I shut down MarkedUp in November, 2014.
The MarkedUp team has had experience developing SDKs, high-performance APIs, working with Cassandra / Hadoop, and service-oriented software for several years. However, when we started laying out the blueprint for MarkedUp In-app Marketing we knew that it would require a radically different set of tools than the traditional stateless HTTP APIs we’d been used to developing for some time.
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Helios 2.0 Development Diary 2 - Channels, Config, and the Curiously Recurring Template Pattern
Picking up where I left off in the previous Helios 2.0 diary entry… After clearing the decks of all of any code I wasn’t 100% certain we’d be keeping, I began writing new code.
IChannel, IChannelConfig, and more
I immediately began by porting Netty’s Channel...
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Cassandra, Hive, and Hadoop: How We Picked Our Analytics Stack
This is an archive of a blog post I wrote for the MarkedUp Analytics blog on February 19th, 2013. It’s been a popular post and I’m posting it here in order to preserve it.
When we first made MarkedUp Analytics available...
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Scalability Lessons we can Learn from Voat
Last weekend I found voat.co on the /r/dotnet subreddit, one of the places I frequent for news and happenings related to...
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Talking about Akka.NET and the Actor Model on Hanselminutes and .NET Rocks
I’ve done a bit of a “press tour” for Akka.NET since we released Akka.NET v1.0 at the beginning of April and I wanted to share a couple of the interviews I’ve done in the .NET community since.
Hanselminutes: Inside the Akka.NET open source...
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How to Start Contributing to Open Source Software
The Petabridge team (all two of us) just wrapped up a big two weeks. We launched Akka.NET V1.0 and then traveled to Portland to talk about .NET open source software at .NET Fringe.
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On a Mission to Mars
This weekend I went through the Landmark Forum and had to confront a big secret that I’ve been keeping hidden for virtually my entire life: the true aim of my ambitions.
Ever since I was a middle schooler, I’ve wanted to help build the first human colony on Mars....