Project Reunion Update Leads Windows Dev News at Build 2021 -- Visual Studio Magazine
Project Reunion 0.8 was announced during this week's Microsoft Build 2021 developer conference, leading a raft of win-dev news items.
nocodb/nocodb
🔥 🔥 The Open Source Airtable alternative. Contribute to nocodb/nocodb development by creating an account on GitHub.
Adventures in rustc Forking
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Buffet-Style Architecture
To get the architecture of the business right, a company must reorganise itself around empowered teams that can operate at speed. For architecture truly to be a pivotal piece of the business transf…
What's in email tracking links and pixels?
This investigation into email tracking attempts to deconstruct tracking links and pixels and highlight the data that is being collected. It covers Mailchimp, …
Is MDPI a predatory publisher?
Edit April 20th, 2021: thanks to Christos Petrou I found a bug in my code. I was considering both “Section” and “Collection” articles as Speical Issue. The whole analysis ha…
How to achieve state of the art results on NLP classification tasks - The Antonai Blog
Unleashing the power of transfer learning using Hugging Face library By Antonio Lisi Intro Hello everyone, after my previous post on “How to create a State of the Art Image Classifier in less than 10 minutes”, I decided to do something similar for the NLP spac…
How to talk to your company about sponsoring an open source project
Open source sustainability is a topic that is just starting to get the attention that it deserves. So much of the technology sector is run on software that can be used for free...
Compaction
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Using Phoenix Without Webpack
Gravitating away from Javascript over the years, I’ve been exposed to many different programming paradigms and languages. One in particular is functional programming with Elixir, and building web apps with the Phoenix framework. Not only is Elixir a clean and …
Action vs. Motion
We are all guilty of the following: We mistake motion with action. We read about taking action instead of actually doing something. That's motion vs. action.
4-Day Workweek
Blog and personal thoughts.
Texas Expat
Way back in the halcyon days of September 2010, I threw my hat in the ring for the first Ludum Dare October Challenge, where a bunch of hobbyist gamedevs built indie games in public, for a month, with the end goal of getting them out for sale before the end o…
The state of tooling for verifying constant-timeness of cryptographic implementations
Messaging and Chat Control
The End of the Privacy of Digital Correspondence The EU wants to have all private chats, messages, and emails automatically searched for suspicious content, generally and indiscriminately. The stated aim: To prosecute child pornography. The result: Mass su…
What's New for F# in Visual Studio 16.10 -- Visual Studio Magazine
F# and F# tools updates listed in the just-released Visual Studio 16.10 include finally addressing a feature request from 2016 and more.
Entity Framework Core 6.0 Preview 4 Focuses on Performance -- Visual Studio Magazine
The new Entity Framework Core 6.0 Preview 4 is described as a 'performance edition,' with the dev team turning from years-long concerns -- such as catching up to the old Entity Framework and adding new features -- to focus on speed.
Microsoft's Open Source OpenJDK for Java Goes GA -- Visual Studio Magazine
The Microsoft Build of OpenJDK, an open source kit for Java featuring 'backported fixes and enhancements we deem important to our customers and our internal users,' has reached general availability.
Azure DevOps Podcast: David Ortinau on Multi-Platform App Development Using .NET MAUI - Episode 142
In this episode, Jeffrey Palermo is speaking with David Ortinau. David is a Principal Program Manager for the .NET Client Apps team at Microsoft, whose team’s primary focus is on Xamarin forms and .NET MAUI. David has been a .NET developer since 2…
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How can I convert between IANA time zones and Windows registry-based time zones? | The Old New Thing
A customer wanted to be able to convert from IANA time zones and Windows registry-based time zones. Is there a function for doing that? Yes, but it’s not somewhere you might think to look. The Windows globalization team emphasizes that what you should not do i…
MDN Plus
The MDN Web Docs site provides information about Open Web technologies including HTML, CSS, and APIs for both Web sites and progressive web apps.
Pwned Passwords is now open source!
This is your .NET Foundation!
Clear is Kind
I’ve been reading Dare to Lead by Brené Brown and one of the chapters has this as its title: Clear is Kind. The full quote is Clear is Kind, Unclear is Unkind. There’s so much here …
Wordpress Headless CMS, GraphQL, and Nextjs - Let's Build a Blog
Wordpress, GraphQL, and Next.js....oh my!! Did you know you can use Wordpress as a Headless CMS for your Jamstack applications? Wordpress often gets a bad re...
Thousands of Chrome extensions are tampering with security headers | The Record by Recorded Future
Thousands of Google Chrome extensions available on the official Chrome Web Store are tampering with security headers on popular websites, putting users at risk of a wide range of web-based attacks.
Announcing .NET 6 Preview 4 | .NET Blog
We are delighted to release .NET 6 Preview 4. We’re now about half-way through the .NET 6 release. It’s a good moment to look again at the full scope of .NET 6, much like the first preview post. Many features are in close-to-final form and others will come soo…
.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.
Where are types allocated in .NET and why people get it so wrong
Subscribe: http://bit.ly/ChapsasSubBecome a Patreon and get source code access: https://www.patreon.com/nickchapsasHello everybody I'm Nick and in this video...
.NET Boxed Visual Studio Integration
You can now create .NET Boxed projects directly from Visual Studio. Here's a short post showing you how.
Building a Source Generator for C#
In this article we’ll be writing a Source Generator for C#. Along the way we’ll explain some of the key technologies you’re going to need to learn in order to build your own and some of the pitfalls you might encounter on the way.
Microsoft Build
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.NET App Developer Links - 2021-05-27
The latest news and resources for .NET app developers.
Create an image classification model with ML.NET with Windows Machine Learning | Windows AI Platform
Learn how to train an image classification model with ML.NET Model Builder and then inference with Windows ML in a UWP application.
Announcing TypeScript 4.3 | TypeScript
Today we’re excited to announce the availability of TypeScript 4.3! If you’re not yet familiar with TypeScript, it’s a language that builds on JavaScript by adding syntax for static types. Tools like the TypeScript compiler can just erase TypeScript syntax, le…
Windows Package Manager 1.0 | Windows Command Line
We started a journey to build a native package manager for Windows 10 when we announced the Windows Package Manager preview at Microsoft Build 2020. We released the project on GitHub as an open-source collaborative effort and the community engagement has been …
WinUI Desktop Unit Tests | #ifdef Windows
Unit Tests From the beginning, the Universal Windows Platform has supported Unit Testing via multiple test frameworks. Now with WinUI Desktop being generally available and given that you can’t do test-driven development without a test framework, a new way to c…
Implementing Nanoservices in ASP.NET Core
Learn how nanoservices differ from microservices and how to build them with ASP.NET and Azure Functions.
Azure is the home for your enterprise Java applications
Microservice architectures are becoming more prevalent, and developers are building more applications on cloud platforms using containers and managed services. The Java ecosystem is complex and running Java applications in the cloud at an enterprise scale can …
Microsoft ❤️ developers: Welcome to Build 2021 - The Official Microsoft Blog
This past year has been unlike any other, and developers have been critical to helping businesses in every industry and people everywhere respond and adapt to the challenges of a global pandemic. Developers have never been more important to the world – and it …
Why (and how) GitHub is adopting OpenTelemetry | The GitHub Blog
Building on top of OpenTelemetry empowers us to provide integrated and opinionated observability solutions for our application engineers.
Melb.NET June 2021 ONLINE Meetup
Tue, 1 Jun 2021, 6:30 pm: UPDATE: Due to the lockdown in VIC and associated restrictions, this event will be fully online🎉 Melb․NET June Meetup is coming to you ONLINE!!Get ready to join us on Tuesda
FindAReddit - Find Subreddits for your Niche
FindAReddit helps you to find popular subreddits for your niche by categorizing a list of 10,000+ Subreddits into more than 500 tags.
New USB-C Type 2.1 standard offers up to 240 W power delivery
240 W power delivery over USB-C lets high-powered laptops lose the barrel jack.
New Storage Providers for Azure Durable Functions
This week at Microsoft’s annual Build conference we made two announcements related to Azure Durable Functions: Two new backend storage providers, and the GA of Durable Functions for PowerShell. In this post, we’ll go into more details about the new storage pro…
Add WebSocket compression support by BrennanConroy · Pull Request #32600 · dotnet/aspnetcore
Fixes #2715 Main questions are around usability. Do we want to allow setting specific deflate options or just have a bool for enabling compression and let the client negotiate choose what it wants ...
.NET MAUI Now Works for All Supported Platforms in Preview 4 -- Visual Studio Magazine
During this week's Microsoft Build 2021 developer conference, .NET MAUI Preview 4 was announced with new controls and features getting the framework ready for general availability in November along with .NET 6.
Collusion Rings Threaten the Integrity of Computer Science Research
Experiences discovering attempts to subvert the peer-review process.
Highly COHESIVE Software Design to tame Complexity
What is cohesion and why should you care? Highly cohesive software design can reduce complexity and coupling if done correctly.
Freenode, The Mainstream IRC Network, Is Collapsing
Freenode is collapsing: Projects are leaving, users are abandoning and staff are resigning. Freenode owners threw it under the bus.