12 March 2020

28 links · Thursday

Developer Resume Reviews (Live Stream)

In an effort to give back, I have been doing resume reviews for developers across the world. In this live stream, we looked at 7 different resumes! Request a resume review - https://www.peerreviews.dev Resume review 1 (Mahmoud)- 7:40 Resume Review 2 (Walker)…

Work in the Time of Corona

A guide to maintaining good mental health for new remote workers.

How to delete yourself from the internet

‘Trying to delete yourself from the internet is like trying to take piss out of a swimming pool,’ says Troy Hunt, one of the most highly regarded cyber-security staffers at Microsoft (where they know a thing or two about the internet) and regional director of …

The Evolution of Windows Search | Windows Search Platform

Welcome to our new blog focusing on all things related to the Windows Search Platform, also known over the years as Windows Desktop Search, the Indexing Service, WSearch, and the Content Indexer. This is the first post in what will be a 4-part series covering …

Windows Search Platform

Windows.Storage.Search Storage APIs, Windows Search Indexer service, Structured Query Language, Content Indexing

QA Blog - 2020 - Mindful QA

QA blog with posts and tips about QA testing for software/websites. Featured on "Best QA blogs in 2020" lists. Manual and automated software testing blog.

Goal-oriented brain

Lately, I’ve been writing a lot more personal content that is more in alignment with my authentic self. Writing technical content is easy…

Continuous integration and deployment for desktop apps with GitHub Actions | .NET Blog

From speaking to desktop developers, we’ve heard that you want to learn how to quickly set up continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) workflows for your WPF and Windows Forms applications in order to take advantage of the many benefits CI/CD p…

Nintendo NES FamiCom Creator - Computerphile

Bring Donkey Kong home! - The unenviable task given to Masayuki Uemura by Nintendo bosses in the early '80s. Unimpressed by Atari's 2600 they set out to bring a true videogame arcade experience into the home. Many thanks to The National Videogame Museum in Sh…

Excalidraw

Excalidraw is a whiteboard tool that lets you easily sketch diagrams that have a hand-drawn feel to them.

What do you want to see next in ML.NET? | .NET Blog

ML.NET is an open source and cross-platform machine learning framework made for .NET developers. Using ML.NET, you can stay in .NET to easily build and consume custom machine learning models for scenarios like sentiment analysis, price prediction, sales foreca…

When Remote Work Goes Wrong

Remote work is great, but it requires systemic support. And even then, it’s not for everyone. What to try when it’s not going well for an inexperienced team member.

Getting Started with Architecture Decision Records - ardalis

Have you ever been on a software team for a while, and then someone new joins the team and starts asking the usual questions about why this or that technology or pattern is being used on the project? And then a few months later, someone else joins and all the …

The ASP.NET Core security headers guide

The ultimate guide to adding security headers in ASP.NET Core. Some features are built-in to core using middleware while others require manual work.

Generate Outputs with Razor Engine in .NET Core

Razor is a powerful templating language that enables developers to mix their C# knowledge to build dynamic outputs. Developers often conflate Razor with ASP.NET MVC. The two are separate technologies, although ASP.NET MVC does utilize Razor as its HTML renderi…

Visual Basic support planned for .NET 5.0 | Visual Basic Blog

We’ve heard your feedback that you want Visual Basic on .NET Core. Earlier versions of .NET Core supported Class Library and Console applications types. Starting with .NET 5 Visual Basic will support: Class Library Console Windows Forms WPF Worker Service ASP…

We made SQL visual - why and how

Through months of design, prototypes, and user tests we made a visual version of SQL - which has proven to enable 80% of business users to write complex quer…