Links #18

CSS is powerful, you can do a lot of things without js.

As part of an ongoing attempt to learn more about how a real-life Garbage Collector (GC) works and after being inspired by Julia Evans’ excellent post, I spent a some time writing a tool to enable a live visualisation of the .NET GC in action.

This guide is a primer for Spring Security, offering insight into the design and basic building blocks of the framework. We only cover the very basics of application security but in doing so we can clear up some of the confusion experienced by developers using Spring Security.

You may have seen the release of .NET Core and ASP.NET Core 1.0 was announced at DevNation recently. During the KeyNote presentation Scott Hanselman demonstrated deploying a .NET Core application to a Red Hat Linux server using Octopus Deploy (Scott takes the stage at 48:15 and demonstrates Octopus Deploy integration at 1:02:00).

There are three things that are guaranteed to increase all the time. Distance between stars, Entropy in the visible universe, and business requirements. Here are 10 over-engineering mistakes and mindsets that lead to legacy code.