29 October 2020

63 links · Thursday

Hanselminutes with Scott Hanselman

Hanselminutes is Fresh Air for Developers. A weekly commute-time podcast that promotes fresh technology and fresh voices. Talk and Tech for Developers, Life-long Learners, and Technologists.

Understanding Azure Arc Enabled SQL Server

In this episode of Data Exposed with Sasha Nosov, learn how Azure Arc allows you to leverage Azure Services for your existing database applications hosted on-premises or in other public clouds, withou

Intro to PyTorch Tutorial: Building fashion recognizer

PyTorch is one of the most popular open source machine learning framework that accelerates the path from research to production deployment. In this tutorial, Dmytro Dzhulgakov, core contributor for Py

JDConf - Save the Date!

Microsoft welcomes you to JDConf, the first ever Java conference hosted by Microsoft for the Java community. This 3-day digital event will be the first of a series of Java-focused and community-oriented events. From the cloud to bear metal, from high to low le…

What is the Strategy Pattern? (Software Design Patterns)

In this video, learn why the Strategy Pattern is such an important design pattern. I tell you what the strategy pattern is, how it works, and explain it with an example. Code: https://github.com/awssimplified/StrategyPattern Buy Head First Design Patterns: O…

A Tour of C++ Modules in Visual Studio | C++ Team Blog

C++ module support has arrived in Visual Studio! Grab the latest Visual Studio Preview if you want to try it out. C++ modules can help you compartmentalize your code, speed up build times, and they work seamlessly, side-by-side with your existing code.

My Resignation From The Intercept

The same trends of repression, censorship and ideological homogeneity plaguing the national press generally have engulfed the media outlet I co-founded, culminating in censorship of my own articles.

paulio/UnityPhilipsLights

Scripts for changing the colour of Philips lights from Unity 3D - paulio/UnityPhilipsLights

Stride Game Engine

Stride is an open-source MIT C# game engine designed for the future of gaming.

The VSTO startup sequence

Earlier this week I was looking for an old photo, and while browsing I came across a photo I took of my whiteboard in my office at Microsoft in 2004. Or rather, it was two photos; I’ve crudel…

Unity 2020.1 is now available

Our first TECH stream release of the year is available as of today. Unity 2020.1 includes a wide range of features and improvements that make Unity workflows even more intuitive and make you more productive, while Unity 2019 LTS remains the recommended version…

Introduction to GitHub

Whether you're working on your own project, contributing to an open source project, or working with a team to build something new, GitHub provides you with the support and structure to plan, develop, and share your code with confidence. In this session, you wi…

LEGO® Microgame - Unity Learn

For anyone who’s ever loved building with LEGO® bricks, the LEGO® Microgame is the perfect place to start your Unity journey. Use these Creative Mods to build on the project and create your own custom experience, while learning the basics of Unity. Viewing f…

Unity’s future starts with U - Unity Technologies Blog

Today is a historic day for Unity as we list on the New York Stock Exchange with the stock ticker symbol “U”.  I’ve spent a few decades working in games and technology. One of the most enjoyable and surprising days I can recall was in the fall of 2013 when I a…

Wave Engine for business and industry

The unrivalled graphics development engine for business and industry. Build high-quality 3D and 2D solutions and deploy to any platform. Completely free.

3b1b/manim

Animation engine for explanatory math videos. Contribute to 3b1b/manim development by creating an account on GitHub.

Fungus

Fungus brings your game to life by making it easy to add colourful characters and gripping storylines to your Unity 3D game. Its intuitive interface lets you create beautiful story games easily - for free and with no coding!

The remarkable number 1/89

The Fibonacci series is a famous example of an object with a simple mathematical description, but a nearly inexhaustable list of bizarre and complicated properties. Originally, the series was described by Fibonacci in the 15th century in connection with the f…

Study helps explain why motivation to learn declines with age

MIT neuroscientists have identified a brain circuit critical for learning to make decisions that require evaluating the cost or reward of an action. They showed this circuit is negatively affected by aging and in Huntington’s disease.

Xamarin.Forms 5 Is Here! | The Xamarin Show

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 through what is in, what is out, and what are the major them…

Introducing Bot Analytics

Nearly 40% of Internet traffic is automated. Today, Cloudflare is taking its Bot Management product to new heights with the release of Bot Analytics.

Introducing SparkFun À La Carte

Point and click your way to a fully-populated, custom board from SparkFun.

Pyston v2: 20% faster Python

We’re very excited to release Pyston v2, a faster and highly compatible implementation of the Python programming language. Version 2 is 20% faster than stock Python 3.8 on our macrobenchmarks…

.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.

The Future of Visual Studio Extensions | Visual Studio Blog

As we continue improving Visual Studio and expanding to the cloud, let's talk about our upcoming plans to improve the ways we write and use extensions.

Test Series: Part 2 Unit Testing

Part 1 is here – where I intro Testing Strategies. Unit testing is the single most important test suite within ANY application. It is the first line of defense guarding against defects and is…

A Type of Useless

TypeScript offers certain advantages over JavaScript. Compile time type-checking can catch a lot of errors, it can move faster than browsers, so it offers the latest standards (and the compiler handles the nasty details of shimming them into browsers), plus it…

Tip 293 - 5 Things you didn't know about Azure Cognitive Services

Artificial Intelligence enables you to creates smart applications that go beyond simple forms-over-data. Azure Cognitive Services (opens new window) is a family of APIs that provide AI capabilities out-of-the-box, without the need to create algorithms and trai…

The System

Once upon a time, I started a job as a technical lead for a web development group.