26 January 2021

58 links · Tuesday

PowerApps – Filtering BrowseGallery by Choice Field Values | Developer Support

Brian Culver shares some tips for filtering BrowseGallery by Choice field values using PowerApps. Creating a PowerApp from a SharePoint list is actually very nice and functional. Once you use it for a while though, you come to realize that Choice fields are ig…

Episode 362 - Azure VMWare Solution

Sujit, Kendall, and Cynthia talk with Matt Henry about what Azure VMWare Solution is, how different people can take advantage of the offering, and the position Microsoft is taking given the interesting history with VMWare in the past.

What it means to be a cryptographer

When Michael Lewis came to visit the IEX office in 2016, he had his young son in tow. While he was signing my copy of Flash Boys, he asked…

New campaign targeting security researchers

Details on an ongoing campaign, which we attribute to a government-backed entity based in North Korea, targeting security researchers working on vulnerability research and development.

Backblaze Hard Drive Stats for 2020

This post looks at the lifetime hard drive failure rates of the data drive models in operation in our data centers in 2020.

Improvements to the new Razor editor in Visual Studio | ASP.NET Blog

It’s been six months since we announced the first preview of a new experimental Razor editor for Visual Studio based on a common Razor language server and it’s time to give an update on our progress. The team has been hard at work bringing the new Razor editor…

Mads Torgersen! C# 9 & Beyond

Microsoft’s Mads Torgersen– Lead Designer of C# — talks about how to know when to use the new features in C# 8 and 9, and more.

More Razor syntax coloring

Please take a moment to share some more of your thoughts on Razor syntax coloring in Visual Studio.

Does your code reward the right behavior?

We have rooms in our house; bedroom for sleeping, kitchen for cooking, dining room for dining, and my office is meant for work but in practice doesn’t reward work. There aren’t big dist…

Open Web Docs - Open Collective

High-quality documentation for web platform technologies is a critically important component of our shared, open digital infrastructure. Today, we’re excited to publicly introduce Open Web Docs, a collective project designed to support a community of technical…

Halt and Catch Fire Syllabus

This site features a curriculum developed around the television series, Halt and Catch Fire (2014-2017), a fictional narrative about people working in tech during the 1980s-1990s.

Rider 2021.1 Roadmap – .NET Tools Blog | JetBrains

In this post, we’d like to share our plans for Rider 2021.1 and find out what we can do next to improve your development experience. Your feedback is always welcome! The following is a list of our pri

SQL Server 2019 Always Encrypted: The Searchable Encryption! | Data Exposed: MVP Edition

Always Encrypted in SQL Server 2019 is now in its second iteration which has added the ability to do pattern matching searches on encrypted data with the use of a technology called secure enclaves. In this episode with Mladen Prajdić, we'll take a short look a…

A New Role | bitcrazed.com

In my previous (admittedly lengthy) post, I outlined my last 5 years' work at Microsoft: From sending frustration-mail to a contact at Microsoft, re-joining Microsoft, helping deliver Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), and Windows Terminal, and helping drive t…

The High Price of Mistrust

When we can’t trust each other, nothing works. As we participate in our communities less and less, we find it harder to feel other people are trustworthy. But if we can bring back a sense of trust in the people around us, the rewards are incredible.

Everyday decision making

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Olo - Software Engineer - Back-End, (Mid - Staff Level)

At Olo we develop an online food ordering platform used by many of the country's largest restaurant chains, reaching millions of consumers. Chances are if you've ordered directly from a restaurant brand's app or website, we've made that happen. We need softwar…

AirPods Max sucked for me

The noise cancellation had issues; they didn't isolate my voice from event noise; wireless calls on the Mac were 8kHz and I couldn't use a cable to fix any of this.

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