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Sample code of a cross platform analog clock using .NET 6, C# and Avalonia UI

I’m sure you’ve already heard of .NET 6’s cross platform capabilities. Using this platform you can develop a software once and execute on different operating systems. But even with this inherent feature of .NET 6, developing desktop applications, complete with graphical user interfaces, can be a problem. Windows Forms and WPF are two great libraries…

.NET 6

Install LAMP in Ubuntu Server

LAMP is one of the most popular platforms for the development and publication of websites. As many of you know, it’s an acronym that stands for Linux Apache MySql and PHP. In a previuos post we saw how to install Ubuntu Server as a VirtualBox guest. Today we will take the necessary steps to make…

LAMP

Install Ubuntu Server as VirtualBox guest

Ubuntu is one of the most popular Linux distribution, and definitely my favorite. Basically, it is available in two versions: Ubuntu Server Ubuntu Desktop As you may guess, the first one is more suitable for desktop PCs and has a very nice GUI. The latter is better to use it as a server machine (for…

Linux

Create a new Visual Studio Code project

In the previous post we created a basic setup where we installed Visual Studio Code (from now VS Code), npm, and the TypeScript compiler. Now we will see how we can create a simple web page, with the goal of creating the page’s JavaScript code using TypeScript. Let’s start by creating an empty folder in…

TypeScript

Start using Visual Studio Code and Typescript

Good morning my friends! It’s been a while since our last contact, and I’m happy to be here again! Today I want to talk about how to create a basic installation of Visual Studio Code, in order to create a simple TypeScript project. But before we begin, let’s review some basic concepts… What are Visual…

TypeScript

TDP Robot version 0.80.0.0

Hello my friends! I’m publishing this post just to inform you that TDP Robot version 0.80.0.0 has been released. There are same improvements, bug fixes and two new tasks: Sql Server bulk copy task and File system task. Configuration files are not compatible with the previous versions… so I’m sorry but you have to create…

The Dummy Programmer Robot

FuelPHP & PHP installation issues

Some time ago I published some posts about configuring a PHP development environment in a Windows machine. If you are interested, you can find here the first post of the series. Staying on this topic, these days I needed to create a new PHP project with FuelPHP framework, using the environment configured in the posts…

FuelPHP

Is Environment.TickCount reliable?

Hello my friends! Today I want to talk about some problems encountered using the property Environment.TickCount, available since the version 1.1 of .NET Framework. In a nutshell, this property tells you how many milliseconds elapsed since system boot. Why did I have to use it? During the development of TDP Robot, that I remind you…

TDP Robot version 0.70.1.0

Good morning my friends! I’m happy to announce the release of a new version of TDP Robot, specifically 0.70.1.0. There are no new tasks or events, but only some improvements and bug fixes. Configuration files are compatible with the previous version 0.70.0.0, so you shouldn’t have problems installing this new version. As usual, source code…

The Dummy Programmer Robot

The Goldbach’s conjecture

Sometimes I like reading about (simple) mathematical problems and today I want to talk to you about a problem I encountered while reading a math book: the Goldbach’s conjecture. I admit that this is a topic that probably won’t be very useful in our life as programmers, but I find it fascinating and curious and…

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Mathematics