Omair Majid

09 Apr 2021

Why Bootstrap? Compiling code is supposed to be straightforward: you run a compiler over the code and the compiler gives...

05 Aug 2020

Have you ever tried to debug a .NET application and seen errors saying debug information or debug symbols are not availa...

08 Jul 2020

If you use enterprise or stable Linux distributions, sooner or later you will see an error like this: app: /lib64/libc.s...

25 Jun 2020

Most programming languages make heavy use of ordinary variables. They also (generally) support using environment variabl...

10 Jun 2020

Ever wonder how file(1)1 works? After reading this post, you should understand all about file and its underpinnings. fil...

29 May 2020

Ever wonder what nuget or dotnet restore is doing? What feeds it using? Or what nuget.config it is using to find feeds? ...

28 May 2020

One exciting feature in the recent release of Fedora 32 is the inclusion of .NET Core in the default repositories. This ...

30 Mar 2017

This post covers the versions and components in .NET Core 1.x. Components .NET Core consists of multiple components that...

04 Oct 2016

Looking to try out OpenJDK 9? If you didn’t know, OpenJDK 9 is going to be the reference implemtation for Java 9 (...

29 Feb 2016

Inspired by this post by Mark Wielaard I started wondering how OpenJDK 9 would fare in a -Wmisleading-indentation test. ...