An ongoing debate about the quality of outsourced code prompts a look at the country’s precarious economic and educational picture.
Introducing Visual Studio Live ShareWe are excited to announce that we’re working on “Visual Studio Live Share”, which enables developers using Visual Studio 2017 or Visual Studio Code to collaborate in real-time! Learn more about Live Share and the upcoming limited private preview here.
Things you wanted to know about storing passwords but were afraid to askSecurity breaches are very common. To make matters worse, when it comes to users’ passwords it is frequent that no reasonable precautions were taken to ensure that they can’t be easily extracted from the breached data.
SOLID Deconstruction - Kevlin HenneyThe SOLID principles are often presented as being core to good code design practice. Each of S, O, L, I and D do not, however, necessarily mean what programmers expect they mean or are taught. By understanding this range of beliefs we can learn more about practices for objects, components and interf
Ten features from various modern languages that I would like to see in any programming languageLately I have been studying some modern languages, such as Reason, Swift, Kotlin and Dart. I got excited by many of the features they offer. Many of those features I had never read or heard of before. Today, I want to share with you the 10 features that I would like to see in any language.
Bypassing Browser Security Warnings with Pseudo Password FieldsIt seems that there is no limit to human ingenuity when it comes to working around limitations within one's environment. For example, imagine you genuinely wanted to run a device requiring mains power in the centre of your inflatable pool - you're flat out of luck, right? Wrong!
Niel de la Rouviere on TwitterWoah. Who knew? The emoji is a ligature. So you can do this in your Chrome console. #mindblown
Develop (and test) a dockerized, PostgreSQL backed, ASP.NET Core microservice in less than an hourThese days a .NET developer can create, test and deploy powerful software without breaking sweat. Writing a scalable, easily deployable performant ASP.NET Core microservice is easier than ever.
Why does one NGINX worker take all the load?Scaling up TCP servers is usually straightforward. Most deployments start by using a single process setup. When the need arises more worker processes are added. This is a scalability model for many applications, including HTTP servers like Apache, NGINX or Lighttpd.
The Configuration Complexity ClockWhen I was a young coder, just starting out in the big scary world of enterprise software, an older, far more experienced chap gave me a stern warning about hard coding values in my software.
This Read-It-Later-list is just that, bookmarks of stuff I intend to read or have read. I do not necessarily agree with opinions or statements in the bookmarked articles.
This list is compiled from my Pocket list.