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Xdeson The Cost of Getting My Stolen Computer Back

I'm surprised the author didn't buy a cheap Chromebook or Windows Netbook and have the MacBook taken as evidence.

Xdeson Ask HN: Do you have a girlfriend? Is it good to have one?

Honestly women are more of a bother than a benefit. Part of maturing is learning to reject nature for your own self interest. Women will use your precious time for unproductive and impractical activities. They require constant upkeep and they will try to shape you into their ideals (a lot more of a nerd).

I do not need a woman to be happy. I do not need a woman to have children. There are plenty of children in need of a parent already (even if that is a single parent). Save for your own retirement and enjoy life.

Xdeson Introducing .NET Core

The day has come when I can deploy my .NET apps in docker containers.

Xdeson Chinese hack U.S. Weather systems, satellite network

What is Communism?

Xdeson Microsoft takes .NET open source and cross-platform

I like it how .NET Core has a more permissive license (MIT) than Mono (LGPL).

Xdeson Show HN: Dating Ring (YC W14) – We do the work, you do the dating

Then I should make a fake facebook so I can make a fake profile? One more layer of indirection doesn't necessarily add more security.

Xdeson Universal SSL

There's a nice red and green map that colorblind people cannot see.

Xdeson My $300 Home Cloud Server

Personally I want to make a huge Raspberry PI and Netduino cluster.

Xdeson How to Read a Patent

I wish someone would write "how to read an IETF specification" or "how to read an ECMA standard."

Xdeson Bring Reading Rainbow Back

I dislike books. There are better mediums, like games, for conveying knowledge.

Xdeson Dropbox Webhooks

I'm guessing the boycott is over?

Xdeson Cue, the home lab for quantified self

So what are they going to do with all the health data they harvest from this? I don't suppose the device will be offlinable.

Xdeson How to create a self hosted API for development and testing

You can allow non-administrator access using netsh[1] as an administrator. That way you don't need to run VS as admin.

    netsh http add urlacl url=http://+:8080/ user=DOMAIN\username

You don't need attributes based routing in this example. Convention based routing is built into WebAPI.

For the Delete method you can return an HttpStatusCode instead of throwing an exception.

    public IHttpActionResult Delete(int Id)
    {
        var result = (from b in ourbooks
                      where b.Id == Id
                      select b).FirstOrDefault();

        ourbooks.Remove(result);
        return StatusCode(HttpStatusCode.Accepted);
    }

Also check out the OWIN self host tutorial [2].

[1] https://github.com/NancyFx/Nancy/wiki/Hosting-nancy-with-owi...

[2] http://www.asp.net/web-api/overview/hosting-aspnet-web-api/u...

Xdeson Introducing ASP.NET vNext

My VB is a bit rusty, but you will need to define associations in the configuration.

First add foreign keys to to models (e.g. In the Build class add MainlineID for the Mainline object).

Then you can define the configuration:

    Public Class BuildConfiguration
        Implements EntityTypeConfiguration(Of Build)

        Public Sub New()
            ToTable("Build")
            ' Other mappings
            ' Define one-to-many
            HasRequired(Function(x) x.Mainline) _
            .WithMany(Function(x) x.Builds) _
            .HasForeignKey(Function(x) x.MainlineID)
        End Sub
    End Class

Inside your context you load the configuration:

    Public Class MyContext
        Inherits DbContext

        Public Property Builds As DbSet(Of Build)

        Protected Overrides Sub OnModelCreating(modelBuilder As DbModelBuilder)
            MyBase.OnModelCreating(modelBuilder)
            modelBuilder.Configurations.Add(New BuildConfiguration())
        End Sub
    End Class

Then you can use the Include extension method (or eager loading) on the DbContext to populate the object.

    Using context As New MyContext()
        Return context.Builder.Include(Function(b) b.Mainline)
    End Using