1 October 2020

62 links · Thursday

Bridge to Kubernetes

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

The Next Desktop Replacement: Phones? | Joshua Austin

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…

Short-form podcasts are the future, just not mine - Martin's Thoughts

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…

How to avoid overengineering

Articles about systems, programming, and software engineering management written by Evan Meagher

My Deep Learning Toolchain

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…

Assumptions and Variable Names

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…

Replicating User Profile UI | The Xamarin Show

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

Why not PHP?

I was intrigued by Why Not Rust, a list of compelling disadvantages written by someone who uses Rust a lot, and the author of a popular Rust static…

Adopting a clean gold standard

  Last month I wrote an article about banning gold mining. It received plenty of feedback from different parts of the internet. Some loved ...

Programmers need to think like hackers!

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…

On .NET Live - Building a College Diary with Xamarin.Forms

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…

The Future of IdentityServer

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! 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.

BlazorRepl/BlazorRepl

Write, compile, execute and share Blazor components entirely in the browser - BlazorRepl/BlazorRepl

mono/website

Mono's web site. Contribute to mono/website development by creating an account on GitHub.

How normal am I?

In this test face detection algorithms will determine how normal you are. 100% privacy friendly.

Industrial literacy

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

Melb․Net Virtual Meetup in October

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

Melb․Net Virtual Meetup in October

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

Windows Performance Analyzer "WPA" Intro

Brief intro to WPA's features to get you started at analyzing performance issues!

Google TV

Enjoy content from your favorite apps, organized just for you. Tune into live shows, curate watchlists, and control smart home devices. Meet the streaming device that helps you do more with your TV.

Serialize Interface Instances With System.Text.Json

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…

.NET Framework Connection Pool Limits and the new Azure SDK for .NET | Azure SDK Blog

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…

Confidential Containers Nodes Now Supported on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) – Public Preview

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…

Say goodbye to hold music

Hold for Me helps you take your time on hold back, starting with an early preview on Pixel 5 and Pixel 4a (5G) in the U.S.

Advanced Arrays

When discussing the various data structures implemented within Collectathon, the best starting point...