18 March 2020

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Coursera | Build Skills with Online Courses from Top Institutions

Join Coursera for free and learn online. Build skills with courses from top universities like Yale, Michigan, Stanford, and leading companies like Google and IBM. Advance your career with degrees, certificates, Specializations, & MOOCs in data science, com…

Brilliant | Learn to think

Brilliant - Build quantitative skills in math, science, and computer science with fun and challenging interactive explorations.

The reckless, infinite scope of web browsers

Since the first browser war between Netscape and Internet Explorer, web browsers have been using features as their primary means of competing with each other. This strategy of unlimited scope and perpetual feature creep is reckless, and has been allowed to go …

NDC Online Community Ambassador : dylanbeattie.net

In which Dylan Beattie announces that he'll be working with NDC Conferences for the next three months to help them figure out how to do this whole virtual online conference thing.

Windows Terminal 0.10 adds mouse support for WSL

Microsoft has released a new version of the Windows Terminal with a couple of new features. It now supports mouse input in Windows Subsystem for Linux apps, and you can duplicate the current pane.

Being More Productive With The JetBrains Rider Debugger

JetBrains Rider, The cross-platform .NET IDE from JetBrains, has been my defacto .NET development environment for over a year now (maybe even two). Having the same tool across macOS and Windows environments is a joy, and with every iteration, the team at JetBr…

MacBook Air

MacBook Air features a Retina display, new Magic Keyboard, Touch ID, up to 2x faster performance, and all-day battery life.

Blazored Modal Docs

A beautiful and customizable modal implementation for Blazor applications.

Blazor- A Beginners Guide

In human years, Blazor appeared just recently. However, in software years, it has already grown into a mature framework—an environment for scalable, rich, interactive web applications ready to take its place in the ASP.NET line. This book is our way of invitin…

What Is the Geometry of the Universe? | Quanta Magazine

In our mind’s eye, the universe seems to go on forever. But using geometry we can explore a variety of three-dimensional shapes that offer alternatives to

Textbooks | What We Publish | Cambridge Core

Cambridge University Press publishes research monographs, academic reference, textbooks, books for professionals, and books for graduate students.

The Philosophy of Computer Science

The philosophy of computer science is concerned with those ontological, methodological, and ethical issues that arise from within the academic discipline of computer science as well as from the practice of software development. Thus, the philosophy of computer…

The good parts of AWS - A visual summary

A summary of Daniel Vassallo and Josh Pschorr Ebook. Find out about the secrets of DynamoDB, S3, EC2, Lambda and others. A Guide for AWS DevOps enthusiasts.

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VB.NET is done, not dead

This post on  Visual Basic support planned for .NET 5.0 has caused some to complain that Microsoft is abandoning or killing Visual Basic. D...

C# developers! Your scoped components are more dangerous than you...

There are hidden pitfalls with dependency injection, particularly when managing the lifetime of scoped components. What is safe? And are there other approaches we can take to managing scoped object lifetimes? #csharp #dependencyinjection

New features for Form Recognizer now available

Extracting text and structure information from documents is a core enabling technology for robotic process automation and workflow automation.

We called it RAID because it kills bugs dead | The Old New Thing

The history of defect tracking in the Windows team goes back to Windows 1.0, which used a text file. After Windows 1.01 released, a bunch of people in the apps division got together and threw together a bug tracking database. Because hey,

SharedWorker

The SharedWorker interface represents a specific kind of worker that can be accessed from several browsing contexts, such as several windows, iframes or even workers. They implement an interface different than dedicated workers and have a different global scop…

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