Why I Still Recommend that Developers Learn Elm Elm has something for everyone to learn. Its principles are nearly universally applicable to other development environments.
How We Found Our First 30 Clients It’s been less than a year since I started Draft.dev and we’ve already built up a roster of 32 clients, over 60 freelance writers, and a full-time ...
How to Validate Your Startup Idea in One Day for $0 So, you've got a brand new idea for a startup and are looking to validate it to see if anyone is interested in your new thing? Sounds good! This will let you know how the market responds to it and give you valuable information and fuel to keep going and
Crypto and Monetization Don’t underestimate the ability of crypto protocols and clients to make money. One of the big promises of crypto is that it will significantly lower the fees of financial services by removing middlemen, enabling competition, and giving users a voice on th...
Cross-platform Awesome with Shiny 2.0 | The Xamarin Show Today, James is joined by Allan Ritchie, Microsoft MVP, who shows off the latest version of his cross-platform library Shiny. Shiny is a cross platform frame...
Java on VS Code Plans: Improve Inner Loop, Security, Remote Development & More -- Visual Studio Magazine The regular monthly update to Java tooling on Visual Studio Code is light on new features but does provide a peek into future plans, which include improving the fundamental inner loop experience, security, remote development and much more.
New ‘mirror’ fabric can cool wearers by nearly 5°C Synthetic material emits infrared radiation, cooling the body
Code Scanning C++ with GitHub Actions Last year, GitHub released code scanning, which enables developers to incorporate security checks into their CI/CD environment and developer workflow. This post demonstrates the basics of using CodeQL, the analysis engine behind code scanning, with GitHub...
RMNB answers all your questions about NFTs This week the Washington Capitals announced they would debut their very first collection of NFTs, prompting some questions such as: what?, huh?, and um, why? Here are some answers. What is an NFT? An NFT is a non-fungible token. What?...
Announcing Arti, a pure-Rust Tor implementation | Tor Blog Greetings! Today I'm happy to announce a new era in Tor implementation. Over the past year or so, we've been working on "Arti", a project to rewrite Tor in Rust. Thanks to funding from Zcash Open Major Grants (ZOMG), we can finally put the Arti project up...
What's New in .NET for Apache Spark v1.1.1 .NET for Apache Spark empowers .NET developers to participate in the world of big data analytics. In this episode, Jeremy chats with Michael Rys to discuss s...
Work offloading and controlled parallelism For a database engine, controlling the amount of work that is being executed is a very important factor for the stability of the system. If we can’t control ...
What does 100% mean in CSS? <p>One of the CSS units I use most is the wonderful <b>%</b> — so handy for positioning elements on the page.</p><p>Unfortunately, the rules aren’t exactly straightforward. One question I’m always asking myself is: Percent of what?</p>
On the perils of holding a lock across a coroutine suspension point, part 3: Solutions So far, we’ve been looking at the horrible things that can happen if you hold a lock across a coroutine suspension point. What can we do to avoid the problem? For reference, here’s the code in question: IAsyncAction MyObject::RunOneAsync() { std::lock_gu...
Ban Eproctoring Digital and human rights groups are calling on schools to end the use of invasive eproctoring apps.
How The Chronicle is trying to malign Sci-Hub A new article was published in The Chronicle about me running Sci-Hub, a project dedicated to providing free access to academic journals all over the world. Their goal is to present Sci-Hub and its…
The hidden cost of Exceptions in .NET 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...
Code Maze Weekly #84 - Code Maze Issue #84 of the Code Maze weekly. Check out what’s new this week and enjoy the read. .NET and C# How Does the StringBuilder Work in .NET? (Part 1) [www.stevejgordon.co.uk] Properly understanding and using the StringBuilder class is the topic of this seri...
Streambus, Video Podcasting over RSS When you publish with Streambus, you create a website, on your own domain name. Reach your audience over RSS on the podcast apps they already have on their phone.
NDA Expired - let's spill the beans on a weird startup Many moons ago, when I was very young and you were even younger… London was in full bloom of tech-startups. I was running my own consultancy. Dashing from business to business, trying to pick…
Episode 80 - VR Applications in Unity with Justin Barnett In this episode of the .NET Core Podcast we talked with Justin Barnett about you can get started in VR application development without having to spend thousands of dollars
Evaluating Large Language Models Trained on Code We introduce Codex, a GPT language model fine-tuned on publicly available code from GitHub, and study its Python code-writing capabilities. A distinct production version of Codex powers GitHub Copilot. On HumanEval, a new evaluation set we release to meas...
The Final Xamarin Podcast It's over. Done. Finished. Caput. No more. This is the last Xamarin podcast ever. What's going to happen next month?
What Is WebAssembly — and Why Are You Hearing So Much About It? - The New Stack WebAssembly is an open, industry-wide collaborative effort to combine the performance and security of an assembly-like language with the convenience of high-level languages. It could spark a revolution in cloud development.
C# Language Highlights: Null Coalescing Assignment Learn about Null Coalescing Assignment in short video from James and Maira. Useful Links ?? and ??= operators (C# reference)Nullable Reference typesUnderstanding Nullable Reference TypesFirst steps
Probably Are Gonna Need It: Application Security Edition - Jacob Kaplan-Moss My list of “Probably Are Gonna Need It” security features for your web app – things that you should build up-front, not wait until you need them (when it’s already too late).
Not Enough Data? GPT-3 to the rescue Mithun Prasad, PhD, Senior Data Scientist at Microsoft “I don’t have enough relevant data for my project”! Nearly every data scientist has uttered this sentence at least once. When developing robust machine learning models, we typically require a large ...
List of elevator special modes Elevator special modes are mode for elevators usage in special situations. Anti-Crime Protection (ACP)Earthquake emergency return (EER) Emergency power operation (EPR) Fire service mode (EFS) Medical emergency/Code Blue service (EHS)Attendant service (AS)...
Using A Function App with a Dedicated Static IP Create an HTTP Trigger Function Create an HTTP Trigger C# function with a name of your liking. Use an App Service Hosting Plan SKU or Standard or Premium, both support VNET integration. You may use Standard plan for this set up, as it is cheaper. Replace...
Building a data team at a mid-stage startup: a short story You are brought into a startup to run their three-person data team. This is a story about teams and organization, and how you spend a year getting the team to a good place.
The Best Regex Trick Describes a regular expressions technique to match a word or pattern except in certain contexts: excluding tags, ignoring contents, word blacklist.