News
hack.summit() 2016
hack.summit() - a virtual conference for developers kicks off on Monday. It features many prominent industry thought leaders and proposes to be the largest virtual conference in history, the largest programming conference in history and the largest hackathon in history.
Discontinued Technology in .NET Core
It's not all shiny new happiness in .NET Core. Some technologies are not being ported and as such basically being phased out. Is a technology you rely on being discontinued?
Configuring Visual Studio Code for PHP development
Helping a friend out with their WordPress blog? Want to check out CodeIgniter? You can use Visual Studio for PHP development too!
Process
Scientist: Measure Twice, Cut Over Once
When faced with the task of rewriting a critical component of their services, GitHub engineering team came up with Scientist. Built on top of a fairly common architectural pattern for making large-scale changes known as Branch by Abstraction, the Scientist pattern (and library) attempts to provide a constant, Production-grade feedback loop into how your changes are implemented. And there even a couple of .NET ports in the works.
Debug
Enabling Live XAML Debugging in Visual Studio
Struggling with your XAML? Turn on live XAML debugging in Visual Studio.
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