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A mate of mine is behind - http://numbertap.com/

Similar concept but with cross platform multiplayer.


Lots of Australian home brewers (me included) will do brew in a bag then no chill. Saves time, equipment and water and still makes a cracking beer.


To be fair, I dont think he could have gone much worse.


I started then gave up on a .NET CMS installed via a nuget package. Definitely an area where the .NET tools/libraries are lacking.


I like the design but the font rendering on chrome makes it very difficult to read


Reminds me of how the windows phone people hub works (which I think is a good thing).


The .net world has http://miniprofiler.com/ and http://getglimpse.com/ which work really well.

They will also show you the sql (useful when it is generated by an orm) and breakdown each queries time cost.


With particular reference to database queries, if you're using .NET with SQL Server you're better off keeping the SQL Server Profiler open on one monitor with:

* Showplan XML (Statistics Profile)

* SP:StmtCompleted

* SQL:StmtCompleted

(I think there's an RPC:StmtCompleted that's useful in some circumstances but I don't use it.)

Personally I pay more attention to the execution plans [1] than execution times, unless you have lots of data (indicative of what's on your production database) in your development database all your queries will complete quickly (table scans, nested loop joins and all).

You also see the N+1 problem very quickly when you're presented with a wall of trace results.

This isn't a silver bullet, but it's been a very long time since I've let any significantly suboptimal query get to production.

[1] Some difficulty arises with small development databases, because SQL Server will frequently scan a clustered index instead of a non-clustered index + clustered seek/key lookup because it's quicker to do the one thing. In this case you have to understand that the query is not bad and treating the clustered index scan as "bad" is not correct.


Unfortunately you have to buy a commercial solution to easily monitor and report what everyone is experiencing; these tools report on the current user.


I'm currently building a web app I'd like to sell as self hosted. Something that would be great for me is a service that handles payment and license generation for this type of software. Things like supporting purchase orders and quotes would be useful too.


A screencast app (or browser extension) specifically to create those short gifs showing product interactions that have been showing up recently.


I making something sort of like this for Mac. It's for recording a selection of your screen with the system audio. I have not made it so it can convert to Gif or WebM, but that is in the plans!

https://github.com/Jonovono/cutter.


LICEcap [1] does this beautifully.

> LICEcap can capture an area of your desktop and save it directly to .GIF (for viewing in web browsers, etc) or .LCF.

[1] http://www.cockos.com/licecap/


This is pretty awesome. Would be rad to have something similar for the world cup for us non us sports loving coders.


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