Developer Tools Weekly

Articles

• My History of Visual Studio
  A fascinating look back at Microsoft's developer tools leading up to - and including - Visual Studio.
  Rico Mariani
• How generics were added to .NET
  A look at generics in .NET - beginning with Don Syme's initial research and ending with the actual implementation that provides generics.
  Matt Warren
• How I Coined the Term 'Open Source'
  On the 20 year anniversary of the term "open source", Christine Peterson explains how she came up with the now-ubiquitous term.
  Christine Peterson
• Improving Your OSS Dependency Workflow with Licensed
  GitHub provides an open-source tool to help discover potential licensing problems with dependencies.
  Jon Ruskin
• What’s new for the Command Line in Windows 10 version 1803
  Debian GNU/Linux and Kali Linux arrive in the Windows Store for WSL, plus an NTFS volume is now only sometimes case sensitive.
  Yosef Durr

In Brief

• Brian Harry takes a leave of absence from Microsoft for a year Microsoft
• GitKraken Now Integrates with VSTS Git
• What's Groovy about IntelliJ IDEA 2018.1 IntelliJ
• When MSDN says NULL, is it okay to use nullptr? C/C++
• How to Contribute to Git (on Windows) Git
• Supporting Women in Technology Culture

New Releases

• Git LFS 2.4.0 released Git
• Visual Studio 2017 version 15.6 and Visual Studio for Mac 7.4 released VisualStudio
• GitLab Security Release: 10.5.3, 10.4.5, 10.3.8 GitLab Security
• Apache Spark 2.3 with Native Kubernetes Support Spark Kubernetes
• nano-2.9.4 is released GNU
• GitKraken 3.4 with VSTS Integration and LDAP authentication Git

Podcasts

• Git tools in Visual Studio Git VisualStudio
  Jasmine Greenaway discusses the official GitHub extension for Visual Studio.
• Five Things About TypeScript TypeScript
  Anders Hejlsberg discusses the five coolest features in TypeScript and how the language can better check and improve our JavaScript.
• Cross-Platform Is So Easy I Don't Even Have to Do It .NET
  How to get started with cross-platform development for your next mobile app.
• SharePoint Development in 2018 with Sahil Malik SharePoint
  What's new in SharePoint, and what's coming in SharePoint 2019? Sahil talks about customizing SharePoint with SharePoint Framework and JavaScript.

Events

• TensorFlow Dev Summit 2018 AI/ML
  Bringing together machine learning users from around the world. March 30, Mountain View.

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