Category: Tech
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Android Emulators and Hyper-V for fun and profit
There are various reasons to enable Hyper-V on Windows 10 installs especially for developers. Tools like Docker and WSL 2 require it. One hurdle though, especially for gamers like myself, is that the Android emulators designed for gaming were not compatible with Hyper-V. The official Android emulator does support Hyper-V, but it is pretty awkward…
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Verisign SSL Certs with Apache2
Just spent a couple of hours wrestling with this… So apparently Verisign certs do not work with mod_ssl because they are packed in the PKCS#7 format. For my own future reference: Source: Using a Verisign SSL Certificate with mod-ssl.
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Database Drivers not provided by Microsoft
Good post by Joseph Guadagno about database drivers not provided by Microsoft. He missed a few, though, so here they are: PostgreSQL PostgreSQL needs no introductions. Probably my favourite open source DBMS. Npgsql is de facto the ADO.NET provider. Performance and stability seems alright. PostgreSQLDirect .NET is a commercial provider, and is supposed to out-perform…
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Intense for Community Server 2.1
Originally a design by sofaspud, adapted for WordPress by Sadish which was used as the basis for the CS 2.1 adaptation.
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Tamarin (Adobe + Mozilla Love)
Very exciting, Adobe open sourced their ActionScript Virtual Machine, a “high performance” VM featuring a Just-In-Time (JIT) compiler. They have also contributed it to Mozilla which created the Tamarin Project will eventually be integrated to the core JavaScript engine. The good news for developers is that they are targeting ECMAScript 4 (which means JavaScript 2),…