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My latest e-book, The Kademlia Protocol, has been published by SyncFusion. It's even on their home page! Free download (you just have to provide an email.)
Free E-books | Syncfusion | Succinctly Series | The Kademlia Protocol Succinctly
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I wish they would use a smaller font. And there's too much whitespace between code lines. This thing is 194 pages!
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Kademlia Protocol? Hadn't heard of that.
Interesting.
Congrats on the book completion and publication.
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There's nothing wrong with large fonts!
Small fonts are a real issue for a great many of us. I've pretty much stopped buying printed books for the simple reason that most of them are utterly eye-strain inducing and now do 90% of my reading on a Kindle where I can have it as large as I like.
And I love a bit of white-space in code, too, regardless of font-size - it makes things much easier to read.
Congratulations on the new book.
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Just downloaded the PDF and added to my "must read" list .... 
Congrats and BR,
BTW, you're right about the code layout (less open space would be better ...)
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Congrats, man!
Writing a book is like hitting yourself in the kneecap with a hammer. It feels so good when you're done. 
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i dunno but to me dosnt seems to much of an issue really,it got published online and thats more then some people get.
And as of size i read responses below, about,most computers has zoom in if not the the software
just my humble opinion
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Kademlia ?!
What the Hell?!?!
Congratulations
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Awesome congrats Marc. I'll snag a copy!
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Gefeliciteerd (congratulations), did you eat a lot of Macademia nuts for inspiration 
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is “the de facto standard searching algorithm for P2P (peer-to-peer) networks on the Internet.” Kademlia is a protocol specification for decentralizing peer-to-peer network operations, efficiently storing and retrieving data across the network.
Okay Marc, I'd like a bit of context, if you don't mind. How did you wander into this subject matter such that a book popped out?
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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charlieg wrote: How did you wander into this subject matter such that a book popped out?
I've been interested in the tech behind things like cryptocurrency (blockchain, proof of work, Merkle trees, etc.) and P2P was one of the puzzle pieces. Also, supposedly "distributed data" is one of the emerging newfangled waves and I wanted to learn more about how that all works, pros and cons, etc.
I poked around looking at various P2P implementations and the Kademlia Protocol kept popping up as the defacto standard for distributing data across a P2P network. I thought, cool, how hard can this be. Riiight.
What I found was the typical morass of contradictory protocols (there was an earlier version of Kademlia that seems to have been removed from the web at this point but that a variety of people appear to have implemented), contradictory/confusing statements within the protocol definition itself, and a LOT of really bad (buggy or just plain unfinished) open source implementations.
The standard implementation in the *nix world appears to be libp2p with various language ports (who knows how well implemented) but none in C#. Ah ha! Opportunity!
So what I thought would be a simple and short article for CodeProject turned out to be a large investigation to resolve all the conflicts and confusion and understanding the "why" behind various seemingly simple sounding algorithms became a 100 page tome (first cut), so I decided to see if SyncFusion would be interested in it. And they were!
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Thanks, neat story. 
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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Downloaded.
Reading...
Read the About the Author:
About The Author "Marc enjoys playing the lyre and going on adventures with his fiancee."
As soon as I completed that sentence I thought, "He's a Magic Bard. He's actually a traveling Magic Bard." Then my mind went back to the old Commodore 64 game...
The Bard's Tale (1985 video game) - Wikipedia[^]
Is that you by the fire with the lyre?
Does that sentence rhyme? 
The Bard's Tale (1985 video game) - cover pic[^] 
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raddevus wrote: Then my mind went back to the old Commodore 64 game...
I remember that game! But no, that's not me. I was a lot younger then! 
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When I read the name of the book.." The Kademlia Protocol " ...could this be the next Frederick Forsyth....
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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abmv wrote: could this be the next Frederick Forsyth
Hah! That would be a good title!
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The context is being used in Code First mode with code that was generated from an EDMX file for either Database First or Model First development. This will not work correctly. To fix this problem do not remove the line of code that throws this exception. If you wish to use Database First or Model First, then make sure that the Entity Framework connection string is included in the app.config or web.config of the start-up project. If you are creating your own DbConnection, then make sure that it is an EntityConnection and not some other type of DbConnection, and that you pass it to one of the base DbContext constructors that take a DbConnection. To learn more about Code First, Database First, and Model First see the Entity Framework documentation here: Entity Framework (EF) Documentation
So glad I don't use EF!
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Marc Clifton wrote: So glad I don't use EF!
Why? Is it because it's wise to wait a while to see if Mickeysoft ditches it again in favor of something else? Or is it because some frameworks tend to hide a problem's complexity while introducing its own new complexity?
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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CodeWraith wrote: Is it because it's wise to wait a while to see if Mickeysoft ditches it again in favor of something else? Or is it because some frameworks tend to hide a problem's complexity while introducing its own new complexity?
I see you've experienced EF as well.
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Doing so right at this moment.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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I find the opposite is true, when a little complexity is required one spends too much time fighting the frameworks simplistic / single dimensional approach to get the task done.
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Sacrilege! Mickeysoft never falls short of any expectations!
Again, before the fanbois recover from their shock, let's get their outcry out of the way: You must be a hater who always hates and is easily confused by facts. You are also a troll who enjoys stomping on their tender feelings. 
Also, this has become #3 on my checklist when to avoid putting too much time in Mickeysoft's grand new thingie.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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As long as you realise the language you use means no-one is going to take you seriously, it's all good.
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What gave you the impression that I'm still around here for anything serious?
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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