SQLite adds support for .NET Core 2.0 and .NET Standard 2.0

The open source SQLite database engine goes from strength to strength, largely by not changing that much: it remains small, fast, reliable, cross-platform, and completely free. The engine is written in C but there are many wrappers for different languages, a recent addition being .NET Core 2.0 and .NET Standard 2.0: 1.0.109.0: Add preliminary support … Continue reading SQLite adds support for .NET Core 2.0 and .NET Standard 2.0 →

Audirvana Plus for Windows review: a music player which combines convenience and no-compromise audio

Audirvana Plus, an audiophile music player for the Mac, has now been released for Windows. Audirvana was developed in France by Damien Plisson, originally as an open source project (you can still get this here but it has not been updated since 2012). The description there still applies: “No equalizer, no trendy special effects, just … Continue reading Audirvana Plus for Windows review: a music player which combines convenience and no-compromise audio →

Microsoft’s Dynamics CRM 2016/365: part brilliant, part perplexing, part downright sloppy

I have just completed a test installation of Microsoft’s Dynamics CRM on-premises; it is now called Dynamics 365 but the name change is cosmetic, and in fact you begin by installing Dynamics CRM 2016 and it becomes Dynamics 365 after applying a downloaded update. Microsoft’s Dynamics product has several characteristics: 1. It is fantastically useful … Continue reading Microsoft’s Dynamics CRM 2016/365: part brilliant, part perplexing, part downright sloppy →

Mozilla Firefox and a DNS security dilemma

Mozilla is proposing to make DNS over HTTPS default in Firefox. The feature is called Trusted Recursive Resolver, and currently it is available but off by default: DNS is critical to security but not well understood by the general public. Put simply, it resolves web addresses to IP addresses, so if you type in the … Continue reading Mozilla Firefox and a DNS security dilemma →

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