ODBC is back.

It was gone from dotnetcore because the brief is multi-platform, and ODBC is a Windows thing.

But it seems that now it's also a Unix thing. More than that, apparently it's the … more

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If you look at photos in earlier posts, what I thought to be a lime or a lemon has turned out to be a mandarine. It had yellowish-green foliage that wasn't corrected by superphosphate. Next I tried … more

Start the Group Policy Editor. If you don't know how to do that you probably shouldn't fiddle with it.

Computer Configuration Administrative Templates Windows Components Windows Update … more

Unix is arguably a giant text adventure. The people who rave about it have usually forgotten two things.

Not everyone loves learning arcane stuff about computers.

The people who use the software … more

There's no EDMX designer support for EF Core. Code first is possible but why would you doodle about like that when the database almost certainly already exists, and even if it doesn't SQL Management … more

Stack Overflow isn't a community of developers.

The designers set out to gamify it and they succeeded. It is a long running game, and unsurprisingly it is dominated by experienced players of that … more

In Thor: The Dark World, we learn that Odin's father Bor led the armies of Asgard to defeat the Frost Giants in Norway because it was his dominion as part of the Nine Realms. Then in Thor: Ragnarok … more