How to achieve career growth: opportunities, skills & sponsors - Blog by Damian Schenkelman
How to define a model for career growth and apply it to get the right sponsors, improve your skills and maximize opportunities
Visual Studio 2019 for Mac - Preview Release Notes
Release notes for new/upcoming features in Visual Studio for Mac, available for pre-release testing by downloading the Preview version.
Reflecting on my failure in building Prosper.
I’m writing this to reflect on why I won't be working on Prosper anymore. What went wrong? What did I learn? And lastly, what I’m working on next.
ASP.NET Core updates in .NET 5 Preview 8 | ASP.NET Blog
.NET 5 Preview 8 is now available and is ready for evaluation. Here’s what’s new in this release: Azure Active Directory authentication with Microsoft.Identity.Web CSS isolation for Blazor components Lazy loading in Blazor WebAssembly Updated Blazor WebAssembl…
Google Play Music Desktop Player
A beautiful cross platform Desktop Player for Google Play Music
Source Generators in C#
Source Generators are a new C# feature currently in preview that runs during compilation and can inspect your program to produce additional files that are compiled together with the rest of your code.
highlightjs/highlight.js
Javascript syntax highlighter. Contribute to highlightjs/highlight.js development by creating an account on GitHub.
.NET Rocks! vNext
.NET Rocks! is a weekly talk show for anyone interested in programming on the Microsoft .NET platform. The shows range from introductory information to hardcore geekiness.
Can Thieves Crack 6-Digit iPhone Passcodes?
Link to: https://twitter.com/hprange/status/1291366907271151616?s=21
Quick S-1 Teardown: Snowflake
The Snowflake IPO is shaping up to be particularly exciting. Their S-1 shows very impressive metrics across the board, including explosive revenue growth at scale (growing 174% annually to $264.7 million for the fiscal year ended January 31, 2020), and “land …
Constrained Open Generics Support Merged in .NET Core DI Container
Continuing the trend of extremely long blog titles...years ago I opened a pull request for supporting constrained open generics in the built-in Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection container. And another. And another....and another. But I did not give up h…
Thorsten Ball - But does it help you ship?
25 Aug 2020
Visual Studio 2019 v16.8 Preview 2 Releases New Features Today! | Visual Studio Blog
New features in Git Integration, .NET Productivity, Web Tools, and Xamarin are releasing in Visual Studio 2019 v16.8 Preview 2.
Leading-Trim: The Future of Digital Typesetting
How an emerging CSS standard can fix old problems and raise the bar for web apps
If Humans Spoke in Vectors...
Would we be as successful as we are now? I'd say no. What are Semantic Vectors But first, what does it even mean to communicate with vectors? Communication can
Announcing .NET 5.0 Preview 8 | .NET Blog
Today, we are releasing .NET 5.0 Preview 8. The .NET 5.0 release is now “feature complete”, meaning that very nearly all features are in their final form (with the exception of bug fixes still to come). Preview 8 is, appropriately, the last preview.
Is cloud security too easy to screw up? | A Cloud Guru
I have a lack of patience with corporations who say “We’ll just dip a toe in cloud. But we won’t invest in doing it properly.”
What's it like as a Senior Engineer?
When I started working at Microsoft, fresh out of college, coding was my life. Writing code was the easiest way to build any cool thing that my brain could imagine. When I thought about what I’d want to do for the rest of my life I thought that I
Do Storks Deliver Babies? - Numberphile
Author and economist Tim Harford talking statistics - more from this interview at https://youtu.be/NOTN2FsdUHQ More video links & book stuff in full description below ↓↓↓ Buy Tim's new book "How To Make The World Add Up" (SIGNED COPIES at no extra cost) from…
DevOps Notts - August 2020 - Michael Gillett and Martin Woodward - OUR FIRST BIRTHDAY 🎉🎂!
Join is this month for our first birthday where we’ll be joined by Martin Woodward and Michael Gillett! Michael is a Solutions Architect at Win Technologies and Martin is a Director of Developer Relations at Github TOPICS: Michael Gillett - How Betway Tests …
Github package registry not compatible with dotnet nuget client
@andreagriffiths11 @jcansdale Any news on a potential fix for this? There are open source projects which are deciding not to publish to GitHub packages because of this bug.
jcansdale/gpr
A .NET Core tool for working with the GitHub Package Registry - jcansdale/gpr
Kindle Collects a Surprisingly Large Amount of Data
Reading a book on a Kindle sends Amazon a lot of data about reading habits. How fast pages are turned, font sizes and views, and device details.
Should you unit-test API/MVC controllers in ASP.NET Core?
In this post I discuss unit testing of API/MVC controllers in ASP.NET Core and some of the difficulties you face.
Build a Pokedex with NextJS and Tailwind CSS - SSR vs SSG
NextJS is a powerful framework built on top of React that allows you to easily mix Static Pages and Server Side Rendered pages. In this video, we'll use NextJS to build a cool Pokedex using the Pokemon API. The index page will be a statically generated page wh…
A New Botnet Is Covertly Targeting Millions of Servers
FritzFrog has been used to try and infiltrate government agencies, banks, telecom companies, and universities across the US and Europe.
Quaternions and 3d rotation, explained interactively
Go experience the explorable videos: https://eater.net/quaternions Ben Eater's channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/eaterbc Brought to you by you: http://3b1b.co/quaternion-explorable-thanks Previous video on Quaternions: https://youtu.be/d4EgbgTm0Bg Nice e…
How to write in plain English
Plain English Campaign is an independent group fighting for plain English in public communication. We oppose gobbledygook, jargon and legalese.
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Blazor by Example
Finally, an alternative to javascript; learn how to build virtually any application using Blazor
The 2020 Virtual LLVM Developers' Meeting Program
The LLVM Foundation is excited to announce the 2020 Virtual LLVM Developers’ Meeting program! Registration will open this week. Keynote: Undef and Poison: Present and Future - J. Lee Technical Talks:
NDC Sydney 2020 | Software Developers Conference
12-16 October 2020 . Conference for Software Developers covering .NET, Cloud, Database, Design, Devops, Embedded, Front-End Framework, Fun, Functional Programming, Gadgets, IoT, JavaScript, Microsoft, Mobile, People, Programming Languages, Security, Testing an…
dotnet/runtime
.NET is a cross-platform runtime for cloud, mobile, desktop, and IoT apps. - dotnet/runtime
The Maths Masterclasses | TalentEd
Following the huge success of our pilot in May, we are now scaling up to a year-long FREE programme. The Maths Masterclasses programme is delivered by TalentEd in partnership with best-selling author Dr. Simon Singh.
Asynchronous programming - C#
Learn about the C# language-level asynchronous programming model provided by .NET Core.
SharpLab
C#/VB/F# compiler playground.
projectkudu/kudu
Kudu is the engine behind git/hg deployments, WebJobs, and various other features in Azure Web Sites. It can also run outside of Azure. - projectkudu/kudu
Please read the paper before you comment
https://twitter.com/maplecocaine/status/1080665226410889217 Yesterday the main character of Twitter was this new paper by Thompson et. al: "Cultural...
LiveSharp
Integrated hot-reload solution for C# projects
Scaling Docker to Serve Millions More Developers: Network Egress - Docker Blog
Learn from Docker experts to simplify and advance your app development and management with Docker. Stay up to date on Docker events and new version announcements!
Oh what a feeling: New Toyotas will upload data to AWS to help create custom insurance premiums based on driver behaviour
Connected car vision has been in first gear for years, cloudy scale could jump-start plans
S-1
As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on August 24, 2020.
Challenge to scientists: does your ten-year-old code still run?
Missing documentation and obsolete environments force participants in the Ten Years Reproducibility Challenge to get creative.
Release Submit Propagation Nation v0.2.2 · haacked/aspnet-client-validation
Fixes an issue when using client validation with an "ajax" form (via @haacked in #1). NOTES A form may have other event handlers attached to the submit event. For example, when implementing an Aja...
Release Squirrel.Windows 2.0.0 · Squirrel/Squirrel.Windows
What's New Fix several issues with MSI deployment (#1453, #1564, #1538), thanks @bitdisaster Squirrel log files have changed names a bit (#1456) and are generally Improved, thanks @bitdisaster Spl...
PaperCall.io - .NET Conf 2020
.NET Conf is a free, three day virtual developer event co-organized by the .NET community and Microsoft. This year .NET 5.0 will launch at .NET Conf 2020! Come celebrate and learn about the new release. We're also celebrating our 10th anniversary and we're wor…
The making of Visual Studio IntelliCode's first deep learning model: a research journey | Visual Studio Blog
IntelliCode leveraged Azure Machine Learning and ONNX Runtime for the first deep learning model available for Python users in Visual Studio Code.
View dependent packages on NuGet.org | The NuGet Blog
There are several ways to evaluate packages on NuGet.org, such as download statistics, update frequency, owner reputation, GitHub Usage, and more. Today, we’re excited to announce that you can now view dependent packages in the Used By section, yet another maj…