Been quite some time since I posted anything but last month Appharbor stopped giving service, it was a simple cloud application service for .NET applications with a very good free tier, which I used extensively for testing, trying new tech and learn with personal projects. They were slow on the .NET core adoption and many of my sites were using the classic .NET framework.

Last month I wrote about using autoprefixer with Visual Studio but as Visual Studio 2015 came out we found out that the extension that we used to execute autoprefixer (Web Essentials) was a bit different for Visual Studio 2015. So I decided to seize the moment to explore the new paths that ASP.Net5 wants to introduce, as we can see in the sample project, with tools widely used in the front end development community like gulp or bower.

Autoprefixer helps completing your CSS stylesheets adding vendor specific prefixes to rules making your styles more compatible with more browsers, usually old versions.

[Update 2015-09-20]
Finally managed to get an old Ripjaws module and as expected my computer managed it seamlessly, now finally with 8gb of RAM. Thanks to all who helped out!

To simplify testing with different versions of Internet Explorer and due to Explorer’s tight coupling with the operating system version, we need to test this different versions on virtual machines that contain the desired version of Explorer. Thanks to modern.ie achieving this is a simple task as they provide already configured virtual machines with the different versions of Explorer.

From time to tine I found that Chrome hangs my internet connection on typical tasks like uploading an image, I had resolved this problem a few years ago and suddenly I found the same problem after installing Windows 8.

I’ve been using powershell to automatize some tedious tasks done through visual interface, this is a powerful tool and I recommend everybody with some programmatic skills look into to it. The last task has been removing empty directories in hierarchy, so the deepest directory being empty will be deleted, the parent, when all children directories are deleted for being empty will be deleted if it’s empty, that’s the main idea.