Eddie Abbondanzio

With all this metal laying around it was about time I started putting it to use.

My new metal brake finally arrived.

Just shy of two years ago now, I embarked on the largest rust repair job I’ve ever done on my XJ.

Having driven over 2,500 miles and raced in 2 auto cross events, the Integra has had a few issues pop up along the way, but is still holding strong.

Wrapping up a project isn’t always the funnest.

The exhaust on my new to me 88 Integra was beyond saving with several holes in the resonator and the muffler having turned questionably brittle.

With the headgasket and timing belt swap fully completed it feels like the rest of this project will be a piece of cake.

It’s been just under a month since my last post about fixing up this Integra and I’ve made a ton of progress.

With February quickly approaching, I’m starting to feel like I’m running short on time to get my recently acquired 1988 Acura Integra road ready.

Last weekend I had the opportunity to purchase a bone stock 1988 Acura Integra from it’s original owner.

I’ve been driving my Jeep around for almost 6 months now with no rear bumper.

Delaying the Inevitable When it comes to my cars, I like to bunch up my repairs / mods into batches where I’ll focus on one small sub-category of tasks before moving onto the next.

It’s hard to explain, but driving a car at night that has an auto dimming rear view mirror is a real treat.

Everyone knows good code is easy to maintain, but that also means anyone can maintain it.

The epoxy primer I used on the underside of my repairs is some pretty good stuff, but I wanted just a hair more protection down there.

The least exciting portion of this project by far was closing up the two holes left in the floor directly below where the rear seat goes.

One of my biggest concerns about my custom fabricated frame rails was the vertical welds joining the frame sections.

The Fuel Neck Housing I’ve been ignoring the gaping hole around where the fuel neck passes through the interior to travel down towards the gas tank.

I didn’t want to try to salvage the original cargo area floor from my Jeep.

Directly below the floor of the XJ in the cargo area sits the gas tank.

With the frame squared away I needed something that I could mount up the suspension to.

The driver side frame rail was in far worse shape than the passenger side on my XJ.

Using a metal brake to bend up new frame rails wasn’t my plan A.

Background I like to joke and say that anyone else would have sent my XJ to the junkyard.

The front axle of my Cherokee has been in desperate need of some attention for quite awhile.

I’m a big fan of the async await syntax in ES2017.

While LiteNetLib may run on UDP (User Datagram Protocol) which is an unreliable network protocol, LiteNetLib offers multiple delivery methods, some of which even offer “reliability”.

Continuing off the previous post about how to build a basic server / client set up with LiteNetLib it’s time to talk about sending data.

LiteNetLib already provides a good example for creating a basic server / client set up in their documents, but if we want to use it with Unity there’s a few extra steps we’ll need to take.

TL;DR Download the most recent stable release source code zip and copy the /LiteNetLib folder to the Plugins folder in your Unity project.

With the rise of ASP.NET Core over ASP.NET 4.x, the built in authentication has undergone a shift from role-based access control (RBAC) to claim-based access control (CBAC).

ASP.NET Core supports dependency injection directly out of the box.

The Cherokee strikes again.

Coming from the .NET world String.Format() was by far my most used function for generating user readable error / log messages.

Hyper Text Transfer Protocol (HTTP) powers the web.

I’ve honestly been very lucky with my Jeep.

HTTP cookies are small bits of text that are included with each HTTP request made from a user’s web browser to web servers.

If you were expecting a phone call from a friend, you (hopefully) wouldn’t sit by the phone and continuously pick it up to see if your friend was on the other end.

What’s so Magical About Magic Strings?

For beginners TypeScript is like the carrot on the end of the stick, always just out of reach no matter how hard you try.

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With winter approaching fast, and my Civic only having summer tires I needed to hurry up and finish the Cherokee.

Patching Holes This post is a continuation of the mini series about restoring my old XJ cherokee.

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Preface Unit tests and integration tests are designed to serve two different purposes.

Where I’ve Been, and Where I’m Heading I took somewhat of an unplanned hiatus from working on No Mans Blocks.

It’s quite typical for a Domain Driven Design (DDD) project to need validation for it’s domain models.

This post is the second part in my mini-series of restoring my old xj cherokee.

I’m a big fan of older vehicles.