30 April 2020

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Jukebox

We’re introducing Jukebox, a neural net that generates music, including rudimentary singing, as raw audio in a variety of genres and artist styles. We’re releasing the model weights and code, along with a tool to explore the generated samples.

NuGet Trends

Check out NuGet packages adoption and what's trending on NuGet.

Announcing the SourceHut project hub

sourcehut is a network of useful open source tools for software project maintainers and collaborators, including git repos, bug tracking, continuous integration, and mailing lists.

Life, part 5

Code for this episode can be found here. I have not added any more code to the engine, but the client now has two features of great use to me; pressing space toggles whether the simulation is runni…

Visual Studio Codespaces

With a new name of Visual Studio Codespaces, lowered pricing, a Basic instance type, and many other new features, there's never been a better time to try remote development.

Game of Life 32 by Desire

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Blazor Tutorial : Deploy to IIS - EP28

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Service Fabric Community Q&A 43

We will have our  Service Fabric Community Q&A call for this month on April 30th  10am PDT.  Join  us  to ask us any questions related to Service Fabric, Mesh, containers in Azure, etc. This month's Q&A features one session on: April 30th 10:00am PDT: htt…

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The Open Web is Dying | PerezBox

It’s difficult to comprehend that there would be anything else more important right now than public health and the COVID-19 pandemic, but in the midst of it all, there is...Read More

Data Breaches: How to Respond to a Tipoff of a Problem

What should an enterprise do when someone reaches out and claims to have the company's data or information about a breach? Although it can be a delicate situation

Using Reinforcement Learning in the Algorithmic Trading Problem

The development of reinforced learning methods has extended application to many areas including algorithmic trading. In this paper trading on the stock exchange is interpreted into a game with a Markov property consisting of states, actions, and rewards. A sys…

SSH Tips & Tricks

A few of our favorite SSH tricks and tips sure to improve your daily experience.

Introducing Insomnia Designer

TL;DR: Insomnia Designer a new open-source desktop application that provides a modern workflow for teams to design and collaborate on APIs. If you're a software developer, there's a good chance you interact with APIs almost every day…

Introducing Postgres Projects in Azure Data Studio

How do you design and deploy your Postgres code? Some of you probably define the data model directly in your application code. Deploying a new build of your app then creates and updates the objects in your Postgres database. This approach can be pretty quick a…

diagrams.net

diagrams.net is free online diagram software for making flowcharts, process diagrams, org charts, UML, ER and network diagrams

Demystifying Memory Profilers in C# .NET Part 2 - Memory Leaks

Memory leaks are very common, hard to notice, and eventually, lead to devastating consequences. The main tool to detect and fix memory leaks is a Memory Profiler. In fact, I believe the most common usage of memory profilers in .NET is exactly for the purpose o…

The Dispose Pattern is Broken

SafeHandles came to solve the problem, but the MSDN documentation on them is also broken.

Announcing TypeScript 3.9 RC | TypeScript

Today we’re announcing the availability of TypeScript 3.9 RC, the release candidate of TypeScript 3.9. Between now and the final release, we expect no further changes apart from critical bug fixes. To get started using the RC, you can get it through NuGet,

DevExpress Reports: Localization with Azure Text Translator API

If you’ve watched our first Report Localization-video, you know that v20.1 – set to ship in May 2020 – allows you and your end-users to quickly translate individual reports for global distribution. In this video, we’ll describe a v20.1 feature we did not have…

I could do that in a weekend!

I can't think of a single large software company that doesn't regularly draw internet comments of the form “What do all the employees do? I could build their product myself.” Benjamin Pollack and Jeff Atwood called out people who do that with Stack Overflow. B…

INotifyPropertyChanged with C# 9.0 Source Generators

In a design meeting far, far away, source generators were designed to be part of C# 6.0, but sadly never came to be. At the time, wanting that source generation feature pretty badly, I went on implementing the specification which later became Uno.SourceGenerat…

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