It's autumn, and the days are getting shorter in the Northern Hemisphere. That means fewer cookouts, more long nights indoors, and maybe more time for your hobby project? Are you going to build something cool this winter? If so, let me know what, I'd love to hear all about it.
Articles
- Thank you for 100 million repositories
It's incredible to see GitHub growing to 100 million repositories; besides the obvious community value, it's incredible that they've built such a reliable and scalable git hosting provider.
- Real Time Communication for Mobile with SignalR (Core)
SignalR has been around for a while, supporting notifications and RTC. But the new SignalR Core has been simplified to just a few simple packages for your backend server and client apps
- Building C# 8.0
C# 8.0 is coming - and it will be available soon, in the previews of Visual Studio 2019. There are some really cool new features coming in 8.0.
- Don’t just think database DevOps. Think compliant database DevOps
Now that you're convinced that you need to follow DevOps best practices for your database, it's time to level up again: bring compliance into your Database DevOps.
- Azure DevOps rolls out a dark theme preview
One of the most requested features in Azure DevOps was a dark theme - and it's finally here! Plus a number of other themes are now available in preview.
In Brief
- A preview of UX and UI changes in Visual Studio 2019 VisualStudio
- #Hacktoberfest 2018: Thank you! OpenSource
- Announcing .NET Standard 2.1 .NET
- Why Docker containers will take over the world Containers
- Minidumps: Giving Weight to Your Electron Bug Reports Monitoring
New Releases
- Announcing ML.NET 0.7 (Machine Learning .NET) AI/ML
- GitKraken v4.1 Git
- Visual Studio Code 1.29 (October 2018) IDE
- Security fixes for Team Foundation Server DevOps Security
Podcasts
- .NET Rocks: Web Performance Tools in 2018 with Benjamin Howarth
Performance
What are you doing to improve your web site performance? Carl and Richard talk to Benjamin Howarth about performance especially for low-powered and low-bandwidth devices.
- RunAsRadio: State of DevOps in 2018 with Nicole Forsgren
DevOps
When I tell you that DevOps makes you more productive it's not just a guess: Dr Nicole Forsgren analyzes the data about the workings of DevOps teams and how they improve.
Events
- Mark your calendars for Developer Day at Atlassian Summit
Keep up to date with the Atlassian stack, there's a Developer Day at their upcoming Atlassian Summit conference. - Microsoft Connect(); 2018
Microsoft
Connect is less than a month away - I'll be talking about sustaining open source software. Plus, it's entirely virtual, so you can watch no matter where you are.