Do you dread code reviews? Dr. Michaela Greiler believes they are essential and if done right, can be enjoyable and powerful. She talks about the general practice of code reviews, what goes wrong, and how we can get better at them! What are the responsibilitie…
Setting up and running a microservice application locally can be time-consuming and complex. Visual Studio PM Nick Greenfield shows how Bridge to Kubernetes enables you to connect to a Kubernetes clus
channel9.msdn.com·by Robert Green, Leslie Richardson [MSFT]··3 minutesidescontainers
Fast forward to 2020 and we’ve had iPads take on the desktop replacement challenge with some degree of elegance. First came the laptops. Those beastly, 17-inch hunks with a fan big enough to cool your entire bedroom. Okay, I’m exaggerating, but those things we…
Long story short, after coronavirus made me come back from the Los Angeles part of my March business trip early and importing was out of the question, I decided to start a podcasting company. By myself, with my $150 Blue Yeti mic. Not much, but certainly enoug…
Successful model development can be surprisingly dependent on good engineering practices. Despite this, many model implementations scattered about Github are difficult to follow and hard to recreate locally. But what should a good model look like? I would pro…
As developers, we make a lot of assumptions about the world. We have to. The world is messy, unorganized, unsorted, and chaotic, and so is the data that this world generates. It's nigh impossible to process data in an orderly fashion if you can't organize it a…
brianschrader.com·by Brian Schrader··7-8 minuteswebjavascript
This week, James is joined by Leomaris Reyes, Microsoft MVP, who walks us through building beautiful user interface step-by-step with Xamarin.Forms! Show Links: AskXammy.comBlog - Replicating User Pro
channel9.msdn.com·by James Montemagno··3 minutescloudyoutube
On September 29, an internet routing error by an Australian ISP redirected a third of our global traffic. ISPs must start taking BGP hijacking seriously.
Photo by Jefferson Santos on Unsplash Programming is a complex task that includes five steps: problem identification, solution design, coding, testing and reporting. All of these steps are necessary to analyze security standards. Nowadays, attacks on IT system…
A simple framework for determining if you should get an MBA. The decision of whether or not to go to b-school is unnecessarily tough.. this simple guide is here to help.
Theodora is a software development student at the Institute of Technology Carlow in Ireland. After her internship was cancelled due to COVID-19, she decided to develop a mobile app using Xamarin that she use could calculate her progress in her studies.
In th…
We discuss reinforcement learning – an AI approach that is especially promising for training naturally behaving game characters with nuanced reactions to human players. Viewers learn about key concept
Tl:dr Brock Allen and I have been working on the IdentityServer code-base for more than 10 years. In 2020 we will be making some important changes to it. Here’s why we are doing this. Our HistoryTh…
.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.
The .NET Foundation announced a new open source project under its direction, the .NET nanoFramework, which allows for C# coding in Visual Studio for constrained embedded devices.
visualstudiomagazine.com·By David Ramel10/01/2020··5-6 minutesidesclouddotnet
In this episode of Data Exposed with Vladimir Ivanovic, he announces a set of major performance improvements for Azure SQL Managed Instances, which enable customers to migrate their more performance-h
Last time, we saw that C++/WinRT provides a few bonus operators to the IIterator<T> in order to make it work a little bit more smoothly with the C++ standard library. Today we’re going to look at IIterable<T>, which is an interface that says “You can get an it…
Having trouble finding job opportunities as a junior developer? Drew Clements built protege.dev for junior developers just like you that are looking for remote positions. In this video, we talk about tips, tricks, and advice for finding job opportunities as a …
Since 1977, U.S. states have passed laws steadily raising the age for which a child must ride in a car safety seat. These laws significantly raise the cost of h
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When you know these facts of history, you understand what “industrial civilization” is and why it is the benefactor of everyone who is lucky enough to live in it
Before joining the group or attending any of our sessions please make sure to review our Code of Conduct (https://bit.ly/2uzRRvz).The Azure Sydney User Group is here to help Sydney developers, enginee
Tue, 6 Oct 2020, 6:30 pm: Come and join us for this second Melb․Net online event.․Net and all technologies around it are evolving, and so are we, even in lockdown!Dial in on Tuesday, Oct. 6 at 6:30 pm
This post shows how to implement an Azure client credential flows to access an API for a service-to-service connection. No user is involved in this flow. A client certificate (Private Key JWT authe…
Tue, Oct 6, 2020, 6:30 PM: Come and join us for this second Melb․Net online event.․Net and all technologies around it are evolving, and so are we, even in lockdown!Dial in on Tuesday, Oct. 6 at 6:30 p
Get out your dirndl and lederhosen - it's that time of year again! We're excited to be sponsoring Hacktoberfest 2020. Hacktoberfest is an opportunity for contributors worldwide to give back to their f
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On the spectrum of “chill” languages, JavaScript is on the higher end of permissible syntax. The ability to patch together a disparate group of values and treat them as one collection can help developers “get stuff done”. C# and .NET are on the more strict sid…
To build scalable applications it’s important to understand how your downstream dependencies scale and what limitations you can hit. The majority of Azure services expose functionality over HTTP REST APIs. The Azure SDKs, in turn, wrap the HTTP communication i…
Microsoft is committed to enabling the industry to move from ‘computing in the clear’ to ‘computing confidentially’. Why? Common scenarios confidential computing have enabled include: Multi-party rich and secure data analytics Confidential blockchain with se…