Sports For Nerds: Gridiron Football, Part 1

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In my original post, I covered some of the reasons why everyone should have a basic understanding of sports and introduced the first sport I’m to cover: grid...

Sports for Nerds

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For a long time, I’ve been saying that I should do a Sports for Nerds series of blog posts. I’ve always thought that there’s a certain sort of sadness in the...

Chef, Knife, AWS, and Windows: Part 3

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In Parts 1 and 2, I got started with Chef, knife-ec2 and knife-windows to bootstrap Windows machines. I’ve been slowly chipping away at the required amount o...

Windows, SSH Agent, and Emacs

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Because I’m a sick sort of puppy, I work in Emacs on Windows for basic text editing and especially for working with Git (Magit is the best), and use Powershe...

Customizing Your Prompt in Powershell

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As I’ve been using Windows more and more (Visual Studio <3), I’ve grown to really like Powershell. I was showing my brother around some of the more powerf...

Anova Precision Cooker impressions

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I love to cook when I’ve got the time, and few things are more trendy in the world of home cooking right now than sous vide. Sous vide cooking uses precisely...

Combining EF6 with ASP.NET 5

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For some upcoming work my team is doing, we wanted to use Entity Framework as our base DAL (with a micro-mapper like Dapper overlaid on top) and ASP.NET 5 as...