Vim Plugin Development Workflows

June 3, 2020

I use a Vim Plugin Manager called Vundle to install and update all my Vim plugins.

When developing a new plugin with Vim, it is useful to be able to develop locally, test the changes in Vim and be able to push the changes to a Git repository.

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Building Dotnet Diagnostics

May 31, 2020

I’m getting an error trying to build dotnet/diagnostics:

root@85bd9fba8925:/app/diagnostics# dotnet build
A compatible installed .NET Core SDK for global.json version [3.0.100] from [/app/diagnostics/global.json] was not found
Install the [3.0.100] .NET Core SDK or update [/app/diagnostics/global.json] with an installed .NET Core SDK:
  3.1.200-preview-014999 [/app/sdk/.dotnet/sdk]

Hmmm. ok, let’s look at that global.json:

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Understanding Dotnet Core Pdb Files

May 10, 2020

The following documents how to inspect pdb symbols and metadata with the dotnet core metadata visualizer, which is part of the metadata-tools. I’m running this for a sample app I wrote for debugging in SOS, called test_debug. The source for it is available in my dotnet-sos testing repo.

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Simple Sos Debugging

April 25, 2020

Follow along at home:

The following is based on the docker images and dotnet core application located at the repository here

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Troubleshooting a Vim dotnet Plugin

February 16, 2020

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I had a problem on a new MacBook.

I was trying to get C# working in Vim. I found a package online called omnisharp-vim and decided to give it a go.

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Using Volumes With Docker in Docker

December 27, 2019

Docker in Docker (DIND) is a way of accessing a docker container within another docker container. It is commonly used in CI/CD pipelines as it allows the build server to be run in a docker container and allows the build pipeline that is run on the build server to also be run in a docker container.

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Using Python for hex, strings, bytes and integers

October 10, 2019

I’ve taken an interest recently in cryptography, strings, signing strings and using prime numbers for cryptography. I had to keep searching online for the best way to do a transform of my data for:

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Common IDE Keyboard Shortcuts

June 29, 2019

I’m working on an IDE framework called Tide for Vim and other editors, and thought that it would be useful to survey the ‘lay of the land’ in the space of keyboard shorcuts in existing IDEs. Below are the results of a 20 minute survey on the subject.

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Gdb on MacOS

June 29, 2019

GDB, or the GNU Debugger has been around for years. It was first written by Richard Stallman in 1986 and has a long heritage on Unix, Linux and other Operating Systems. I’ve started using it recently for debugging applications in assembly from my MacBook Pro.

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