It's been a busy week for developer tools. Last week was GitHub Universe, GitHub's premiere conference with looks back on the last year and many new product announcements. This week we have a special section for the announcements.
Articles
- What I loved about Paul Allen
Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft, has died from a recurrence of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. Bill Gates looks back on meeting Paul, starting Microsoft and his brilliant and wide-ranging mind.
- GitHub goes down — and takes developer productivity with it
GitHub suffered a failure of a data storage system. Parts of the service were offline while they failed over and notification delivery was delayed after recovery.
- What does Stack Overflow want to be when it grows up?
Stack Overflow is 10 years old; co-founder Jeff Atwood looks at what he imagined Stack Overflow would be when he created it and what it's become.
- Automating Release Notes with Azure Functions
Release notes are important for your end-users, but tedious to create. What if instead of doing it manually, you could automate their creation?
- Announcing the GNU Kind Communication Guidelines
RMS rejects codes of conduct for GNU projects, ensuring there is no push to diversity, no clear guidelines for contributors, and no repercussions for violating them.
GitHub Universe
- GitHub Actions: built by you, run by us Workflow
- The State of the Octoverse 2018 Industry
- Behind the scenes of GitHub Token Scanning Credentials
In Brief
- How to stop using console.log() and start using your browser’s debugger JavaScript
- Get your Mac software notarized iOS
- What’s Next for Visual Studio for Mac VisualStudio
- Modern background execution in Android Android
New Releases
- Version 7 of Angular — CLI Prompts, Virtual Scroll, Drag and Drop and more Angular
- GitLab 11.4 released with Merge Request Reviews and Feature Flags GitLab
- Ruby 2.5.3 Released Ruby Security
Podcasts
- EnterpriseReady: The Early Days of GitHub with Tom Preston-Werner
GitHub
Tom Preston-Warner - one of the founders of GitHub - explains how they created an on-premises, Enterprise offering in addition to their SaaS offering. - .NET Rocks: Coding Haskell and F# with Daniel Chambers
Functional
Interested in getting started with functional programming? A look at F# - the gateway drug for functional programming - and the next step up, Haskell. - Azure DevOps Podcast: Lori Lamkin on Shifting to Azure DevOps
AzureDevOps
A look at how Microsoft has evolved its software delivery from a Waterfall model to Agile and DevOps, including the biggest shifts in adopting DevOps.