Cory Smith
@DualBrain
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'The only bug free software is dead software.' (#entrepreneur, #microsoft #visualbasic #dotnet, #radio #broadcasting, #motorcycle, #jkd #jeetkunedo)
North Richland Hills, TX
Joined May 2007
Someone came up to me after the presentation and said: "Those pictures of the kids weren't just any kids, right?" I responded, "You caught that, did you?" He confirmed and told me he was whispering that "those aren't just any kids" to his friend during the presentation.
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VCFSW 2025 WAS AWESOME! The video of my presentation has been posted... https://t.co/Arv4I0IbsY
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https://t.co/WgmD8BWcwE YES... YES... YES... YES... and YES!!!! As a father of two young girls who are directly impacted by the current experiment... and as someone deeply involved in technology for over 30 years; I can 100% agree with every... single... word... she said!
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Is a "one-time pin" really a one time pin if you have to repeat the process every time you authenticate? Is this the seriously the best thing that *smart people* could think of? Every time I go through the process I feel like I'm being a bit insulted... or is that just me?
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Posit the question... what if there were a *true* replacement to QBasic? What would that look like? How fast could it run? What would the overall Edit/Run (F5) experience be? Here's a sneak peek at what could be...
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Certainly not implying it's of *production quality* at this point, but passing along that @AvaloniaUI templates for #visualbasic now available in source form at https://t.co/OTOhrbyIfO ; will will publish as nuget packages after some time for testing and (hopefully) feedback.
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The *missing* (and new) project, item, multi-project, web and multi-item `dotnet new` templates for Visual Basic. - CommunityVB/Templates
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You know... you have to give it to a project maintainer that is attempting to educate a group on how there's no interest by a particular community when several from that very community are actively engaged in that very conversation. #visualbasic #dotnet #notdeadyet
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I took a moment to check out the progress with .NET 8 `PublishAot`, specifically, with a vbPixelGameEngine example and I have to say that I'm very excited to see the attached.
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And, you know... with access to pixels with essentially unlimited colors; you know I couldn't resist leveraging all of this capability to reproduce the look of...
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Also played with a bit with reproducing MS-DOS-style fonts... and to test, made a couple of samples so I could rock-n-roll like it's 1988; for starters...
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Made a bit of progress on improving some of the performance characteristics in vbPGE... #visualbasic
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Woot! Another sample Windows Forms application dragged forward (kicking and screaming) from 2005 to 2024! #visualbasic #dotnet
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And then there was "blinking lights"!!!!!! Who says you can't use #visualbasic for cross-platform development? In #visualstudio? On #windows? No #nuget... just #dotnet #linux #wsl2
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