23 October 2020

47 links · Friday

Intro to Twitch: Join the Live Coding Community!

Have you heard about Twitch.tv? Twitch is a live streaming platform that allows you to connect, ask questions and learn by watching developers code live! It's a great place to join virtual communities to continue your learning journey. In this session we'll sh…

Code Maze Weekly #48 - Code Maze

Hey everyone, W…. eekend is coming, and that’s our favorite time to relax and recharge. We’ve prepared a fresh batch of interesting articles for you to enjoy this time. So prepare your favorite brew, sit down, and pick your favorite topic from the list. .NET a…

Lets Talk .NET 5, with Scott Hunter

Sat, Oct 31, 2020, 4:00 PM: .NET has undergone a lot of improvements over the years from the introduction of the open-source .NET Core and other awesome features from language down to compiler. We are

King County Elections

King County, with more than 1.3 million registered voters, is the largest jurisdiction in the United States to conduct all elections by mail.

Performance Profiling | .NET Async Tool

You know that asynchronous programming makes your UI more responsive. Did you know that you can use the .NET Async tool to profile your async code? Diagnostics PM Sagar Shetty shows how to use this to

Fowl Language

Imperfect parent and coffee enthusiast, Brian Gordon, records his struggles to raise his children while trying to maintain his sanity.

Intro to the Show

Learning to code is full of AHA moments, epic fails, clarity, confusion, and everything in between. And learning how data plays a role is the code we write adds another layer of excitement. Sarah (Dr.

Xamarin.Forms 5 Is Here!

This week, James is joined by David Ortinau, Xamarin Principal Program Manager, who is here to talk about all of the goodies that are available in the brand new release Xamarin.Forms 5.0! He walks us

Data’s Role in Moon Missions: Fictional and Real

Completing a successful Moon Mission doesn't only involve getting to the moon, but also returning safely to Earth – ideally with some rocks to learn from! Join Dr. G as she draws inspiration from the

Preloading content with rel="preload"

The preload value of the link element's rel attribute lets you declare fetch requests in the HTML's head, specifying resources that your page will need very soon, which you want to start loading early in the page lifecycle, before browsers' main rendering mach…

How can I tell whether a file is on an SSD? | The Old New Thing

You might want your program to change its behavior depending on whether the file you are operating on is on an SSD or not. Maybe you’d use Prefetch­Virtual­Memory to get the contents of a memory-mapped file into memory more efficiently if the file is on a hard…

Damian Hickey

I've just pushed version 2.3.4 of ProxyKit to nuget.org which I expect to be the final version.

Quiz Shows and Math Anxiety (with Bobby Seagull) - Numberphile Podcast

School teacher Bobby Seagull made his name on a quiz show - but there's much more to his story. Episode sponsored by Brilliant - https://brilliant.org/numberphile Bobby Seagull's website - https://bobbyseagull.com Bobby on Twitter - https://twitter.com/Bobby…

Bongo Cat

Hit the bongos like Bongo Cat!

Seeing AI

Seeing AI is an app for iOS that narrates the world around you. And it's built with Xamarin and Azure. In this episode of the Xamarin Podcast, Matt talks to the folks behind Seeing AI.

terrajobst/dotnetepicsweb

This site shows the epics, experiences, and user stories that we plan to ship. It provides a hierarchical over the entire product. - terrajobst/dotnetepicsweb

F# Advent Calendar in English 2020

F# Advent Calendar is a long tradition in F# community F# Advent Calendar in English: 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014 F# Advent Calendar (in Japanese): 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, …

C# 9 Record Factories

In this post, I walk through using the Factory Pattern to create instances of C# 9 records where instances can be created using a combination of input from the IoC container, caller input and computed values derived from these.

Viewing Matrices & Probability as Graphs

Today I'd like to share an idea. It's a very simple idea. It's not fancy and it's certainly not new. In fact, I'm sure many of you have thought about it already. But if you haven't—and even if you have!—I hope you'll take a few minutes to enjoy it with me. Her…