Digital Wasabi

Have I Returned?   I am going to resurrect this blog and rebrand it. I had been trying to get away from blogger and use cool "new" tech like CLI site generation and Markdown. But it seemed everytime i tried this, the true costs didnt make sense (monetary and time) when blogger has always been here. Yes, one day it will go away too, but until then I am going to take advantage of it. Also, There are some great old discussions such as me possibly leaving ZFS . At the time, ZFS was basically married to Solaris (and later OpenSolaris and then illumos). It has since had a divorce and OpenZFS was born. I was sad to have to give up DTrace , but now Dtrace is everywhere. I am happy to say I am still using ZFS and have quite a bit of storage stood up. Whats Next? I have some things brewing, some ideas on MCPs, AI, C#, Zig (my new language love), Jujutsu , Serverless, etc.  Stay tuned.

Just a note. Azure App services do not directly support 64bit dotnet core applications. https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/webdev/2018/01/09/64-bit-asp-net-core-on-azure-app-service/

So, big news. The Oculus/Facebook folks just announced that all kickstarter backers who got a unit, will get a commercial unit!  As, an original backer of the Oculus (and one of the backers who was actually ok with the facebook purchase), I am extremely happy, and extremely proud/humbled that I was a part of helping VR come back.  Big Thank you to the folks at Oculus! As a small token of our appreciation for your support, all Kickstarter backers who pledged for a Rift development kit will get a free Kickstarter Edition Oculus Rift! And like all Rift pre-order purchasers, you’ll receive a bundled copy of Lucky’s Tale and EVE: Valkyrie. To claim your free Rift, fill out the survey you’ll receive from Kickstarter before February 1, 2016 and provide a shipping address that is located in one of the 20 countries Rift is launching in. For those who don’t live in one of those 20 countries, we’re working on an alternative, and you can let us know your preference in the for...

What have I been up to? Currently I am really into Microsoft's SignalR technology. It has me thinking about things like realtime applicatoin configurations as well as realtime dashboards with decentralized data points. Right now you have things like splunk and such which are great for historical processing of data, etc but what if you want realtime monitoring of an application and also communicate configuration to that application?  There are some great examples out there of this stuff, So i am going to dive in and hopefully have some code up on bitbucket or github! Also I am a bit interested in bringing a more efficient transport mechanism to SignalR like  MessagePack    or Protocol Buffers or even an elder statesmen like hessian!

Finding Libc So,  as you know, I've been tooling around with the LLVM IR syntax and the Gold Parser framework. I have the scaffolding for the CIL conversion 90% done, and I am almost ready to parse the "Hello world" code found in the LLVM documentation. There is just one catch. In the Hello world, there is a call to an external standard io library function called puts() . Those fimilar with C/C++ would know that you include the standard header, #include <stdio> or #include <stdio.h> and you magically gain access to this function. Porting that specific line into CIL would be easy, i'd just replace any puts call with a WriteLine call included in the standard System Library. This is fine to get the sample code running, but it is not a solution going forward. I need to get a list of basic libc commands and rewrite them to work with the System library in the CLI. DotGnu Project Resurrected? Years ago (around 2003-2004), the GNU community was really int...

ZFS my one true love I've used ZFS at home since about 2007. Thats a long time for a technology. I have used it through Solaris 9, 10, 11, Nenenta, Illumos, at al. It is an amazing feat of engineering. Dtrace is another little thing i use, from time to time, on Solaris as well...but not so much in recent times. Time for an annulment? While I could say its been all roses, it hasnt. There have been issues with running third party software on solaris. FFMPEG was a beast in the early days to get compiled an running. I used my storage array for many things, and transcoding was one of them. I wanted to move away from running things like tversity on my desktop. I also wanted to get away form development on my desktop, so I started moving toward VMs for everything, which turned out to be the best thing ever....except for a few issues....USB support was shabby for awhile on virtualbox so deploying software onto a device was difficult (to say the least). Things have gotten better. I ...