14 November 2022

49 links · Monday

The Importance of Naive Solutions

With algorithm development, naive solutions provide a crucial reference implementation for your testing.

The IndieWeb for Everyone

Many people are looking for alternatives to Twitter. Can the IndieWeb step up? How can we build better social media for people without technical knowledge?

Hey Internet, hold my beer....

Crummy sketches about stupid IT issues.

Verified Personal Website

Max did a funny thing where he verified his personal website. (He also official-ified it, as there appears to be a difference between the two — at least at the time of this writing, who knows that could change…)

DDD North 2022

DDD North is a free technical event for developers. This is the 10th Developer! Developer! Developer! North Community Event.

Stop lying to yourself – you will never “fix it later”

Recently I approved a pull request from a colleague, that had the following description: “That’s a hacky way of doing this, but I don’t have time today to come up with a better im…

Multi-repository Support Released!

Learn about multi-repository support in Visual Studio 17.4 or later. Explore enhancements to branch management, network operations, and more.

Every single feature added in C# 11

Until the 28th of Nov 2022 use discount code BF2022 for up to 25% offat: https://nickchapsas.comBecome a Patreon and get source code access: https://www.patr...

35 Misconceptions about date and time - Gérald Barré

In this post, I will share 33 misconceptions about date and time, including the difference between UTC and GMT or the some issues with daylight saving time.

Release mold 1.7.0 · rui314/mold

mold 1.7.0 is a new release of the high-speed linker. Just like previous versions, you need to apply oneapi-src/oneTBB@137c1a8 to libtbb if you do not use a bundled version of OneTBB library. OneTB...

.NET Upgrade Assistant Now Migrates WCF Services to CoreWCF

Sam Spencer, Microsoft’s .NET Core team program manager, announced on November 4th 2022 that the Upgrade Assistant .NET tool now includes a preview of an extension that migrates WCF (Windows Communication Foundation) service code from .NET Framework to .NET St…

Episode 45: Go - with Joseph Woodward

In this episode, I was joined by Joseph Woodward to chat all about the Go programming language. Joe has done a lot of dotnet in the past, but is now focusing more on Go - so an ideal guest to help us compare on contrast. Joseph is a Software Engineer at Form3,…

332: .NET Conf 2022 Recap - All Things .NET 7

Finally .NET Conf is here with all the latest news and information! We break down all the .NET 7 new and our favorite sessions from the conference.

Callbacks in JavaScript

In today’s post, we will be looking into callback functions in JavaScript and how they can be used in our workflows.

Released: Microsoft.Data.SqlClient 5.1 Preview 2

Microsoft.Data.SqlClient 5.1 Preview 2 has been released. This release contains improvements and updates to the Microsoft.Data.SqlClient data provider for SQL Server. Our plan is to provide GA releases twice a year with two or three preview releases in between…

Background Tasks in .NET

It's common when running applications to have to occasionally execute background work outside the context of a specific request. For example, perhaps you have a database table which is recalculated every ten minutes based on some other data plus an expensive c…

Immutability: Dart vs. F#

Read about immutability in Dart and F#, and compare how the two languages approach it.

.NET Architects Panel | .NET Conf 2022

Join the .NET Architects for a live interactive discussion about how .NET is designed, developed, and brought to millions with each release. https://www.dot...