16 March 2020

36 links · Monday

Out of office pop up showing up constantly for all users

Hi, We at work are in a group chat and when someone is out of office, the little grey bar ontop of the chat box keeps showing up with the info that the person is out of office and may not respond. You can close it but every time you re-open the chat tab it p…

Announcing .NET 5 Preview 1 | .NET Blog

At the end of last year, we shipped .NET Core 3.0 and 3.1. These versions added the desktop app models Windows Forms (WinForms) and WPF, ASP.NET Blazor for building single page applications and gRPC for cross-platform, contract-based messaging. We also added t…

Teams Backgrounds | Collections | WallpaperHub

A collection of images for use as backgrounds within Microsoft Teams. Download free wallpapers for your PC, phone and tablet. Get official Surface wallpapers and the Bing daily image for your device. 4K, 1080p & Surface Studio resolutions are all available to …

Pumping up your internet speeds with the Unifi Security Gateway and 4G/5G

I've worked from home for quite some time and having both fast and reliable internet access has of course always been a huge concern for me. In order to increase both the speed and reliability of my internet connection, I recently made an upgrade. My Ubiquiti…

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Fireiron: A Scheduling Language for High-Performance Linear Algebra on GPUs

Achieving high-performance GPU kernels requires optimizing algorithm implementations to the targeted GPU architecture. It is of utmost importance to fully use the compute and memory hierarchy, as well as available specialised hardware. Currently, vendor librar…

AzUpdate: CosmosDB Free tier, ASR Update Rollup, Azure Hybrid Virtual Event, and DIY Acoustic Panels

Another week comes to an end and with it comes another AzUpdate.  Let's explore some of the news that happened in the Azure world this week.     Azure CosmosDB Free tier   This week saw the launch of a free tier within Azure CosmosDB, which can be used to ru…

Unit Testing Entry and Entry Points — Roy Osherove

Let’s talk about the word “unit” in unit testing.  To me, a unit stands for “unit of work” or a “use case” inside the system. A unit of work has a beginning and an end. I call these entry points and exit points . A simple example of a unit of work, a…

Different ways to Check for Null – Thomas Claudius Huber

What is the classic way to check if for example a parameter value is null? If you've developed with C# since a while, you might be familiar with this classic syntax: public static int CountNumberOfSInName(string name) { if (name == null) { throw new ArgumentNu…

How to uninstall old versions of .NET Core

Uninstalling old versions of .NET Core used to be a tedious process, so much that I still had previews of 2.0 installed. But now it's super easy thanks to the newly released .NET Core Uninstall Tool. Have a look at how it works

Back to Basics: Rewriting a URL in ASP.NET Core

Sometimes in an application you need to take over the routing process with some custom processing that acts on an incoming URL and actually has to go to another URL. This can be a simple relinking task from old content to new, or it can be more complex where y…

Tip 255 - What's Azure Private Link and how can I get started?

It is very important to secure all aspects of your application, including your data communications. This can be difficult as services in the cloud are often exposed to the public internet. Azure Private Link can help to secure traffic between Azure services an…

Akka.NET v1.4 is Available on .NET Standard 2.0

As of this week, Akka.NET v1.4 is now fully available for users to use. We’ve published a detailed article on the Akka.NET website that describes what’s new in Akka.NET v1.4, but we wanted to capture some of the highlights here.

The Ethical Source Movement: Open Source, Evolved.

The Ethical Source working group is a community for open source maintainers and contributors, tech ethicists and advocates, licensing experts, and more to come together to strategize about ways to incorporate ethics into our open source work.