5 August 2020

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Visual Studio 2019 for Mac version 8.7 is now available | Visual Studio Blog

Visual Studio 2019 for Mac version 8.7 is available today and includes support for gRPC / OpenAPI client generation and improved unit testing integration. Additionally, it includes several improvements for Xamarin developers, including Xamarin.Forms 4.8 Suppor…

Why are you testing your software?

15 years ago, automated tests didn’t exist in the Java ecosystem. One had to build the application and painfully test it manually by using it. I was later introduced to the practice of adding a main method to every class and putting some testing code there. Th…

SharpLab

C#/VB/F# compiler playground.

SharpLab

C#/VB/F# compiler playground.

Consumer Data Exposed in Telemarketing Adviser Breach

A California-based organization that helps telemarketing companies avoid lawsuits for unsolicited calls exposed its internal files to the internet. Ironically, the

On finding your passion — CULLIN

A few years ago I was catching up with an old friend from my childhood over the phone. It was an electric conversation - we were both thrilled to hear from each other. The dreaded question came up. “What have you been up to?” I hated this question. For the l…

Don't just learn to code, learn to create

Learning to code is fun. It's exciting, isn't it? It gives you powers to create anything you want. But learning how to code is not enough, building real stuff is the real deal. The biggest mistake I did as a beginner was getting stuck in the tutorial...

Chris Sainty: Blazor Routing - What you need to know

Mon, Aug 10, 2020, 7:30 PM: We'll open the Zoom meeting at 7:15 pm and aim to start the presentation at 7:30 pm sharp. This will give everyone time to join and get set up. Where possible, please join

Watch SpaceX ACTUALLY hop Starship SN-5 150m!!!

Gene and Rachel from Spadre [@SouthPadreIsle] are right at the edge of the exclusion zone with one of my my slow motion cameras to catch SpaceX perform a test flight of Starship SN-5! Follow my friends @SpacePadreIsle for all their hard work and help! - https…

Query Design performance issues #01 - All-in-one query

When looking into performance issues on support cases there is one pattern called ALL-IN-ONE QUERY that we always sees that cause many issues. This pattern is very common and logically looks correct but will cause huge performance degradation.   The idea behin…

Data Prep for Machine Learning: Normalization -- Visual Studio Magazine

Dr. James McCaffrey of Microsoft Research uses a full code sample and screenshots to show how to programmatically normalize numeric data for use in a machine learning system such as a deep neural network classifier or clustering algorithm.

Microsoft joins Open Source Security Foundation

Microsoft is proud to be a founding member of OpenSSF, collaborating on securing open source software with industry partners.

Azure Event Hubs With Kafka

So it’s been a while since I wrote a post about Kafka (and Azure too actually, at work we use AWS)   But anyway someone mentioned to be the other day that Azure EventHubs come with the ability…