In this blog post, guess what? Our favorite villain is making a comeback in Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire! We’re also diving into some technical aspects of the .NET Migration and discussing Hangfire’s role in background tasks. We’re pondering the crucial difference between ‘taking action’ and ‘being in motion,’ reminiscing the history of checkboxes, analyzing the meltdown of the U.S. media industry, and learning about decision making with the OODA loop. Intriguing, eh?

• Our fave bureaucratic villain is back in Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire trailer: We also welcome the return of Janine Melnitz: “Ghostbusters, whaddaya want?”
• Tales from the .NET Migration Trenches – Hangfire: Hangfire is an easy way to perform background tasks/processes in a .NET web application, and it also supports persistent storage for both the jobs and queues. I use it quite a lot in applications where I don’t want to introduce a separate host for processing messages, or introduce a specific queue/broker for background jobs. Hangfire supports fire-and-forget jobs as well as “cron”-based jobs. It also provides a nice dashboard where you can see completed and failed jobs, with the option of retrying failed jobs as desired.
• The Mistake Smart People Make: Being In Motion vs. Taking Action: Are you taking action or are you simply in motion? Read this article to discover the common mistake smart people make (and how to avoid it).
• In Loving Memory of Square Checkbox: History of checkboxes and radio buttons in user interfaces
• Why the U.S. Media Industry Is in Meltdown: Between the layoffs at Sports Illustrated, Pitchfork’s absorption into GQ, and many other hits to major news organizations, the U.S. news industry is in a dire situation
• OODA loop: Make faster decisions with incomplete data.