.Net, JavaScript, Azure, Cloud, Coding, Idea and stuff
Hackster is hosting an IOT challenge: “Secure Everything with Azure Sphere”, build your IOT device and win prizes.
Head to: https://www.hackster.io/contests/SecureEverything
At the least, you can get free Azure Sphere Kit, worth $75 !!
Azure Cosmos DB is great, but what if you need expose it as OData standard, including the query in URI convention? Well, you integrate it with OData. Hassan covers the basic of Cosmos DB, what is it and how to set it up, and how to integrate it with OData.
One can never has enough Visual Studio Code plugins. Here’s another 40 for you.
Machine learning is on the rise and everyone develops their own standard. ONNX (read `onix`) is an open standard model for machine learning. This explains what is it in more details as well as where to get the pre-build ONNX models (model zoo).
CSDojo explains Big O Notation in a simple, easy to understand way and how time and space complexity are calculated. There are some maths involved, but they are pretty basic.
And along with Big O Notation, these articles go over the data structures that are available in C#. Learning and knowing when to use these data structures are important in building the fast algorithm.
Very good read if you want to learn new programming langugage. Sam Fare challenges you to build 3 simple apps with a new programming langauge: Hello World, Anagram and Pizza app. I’ll throw in one more as a bonus: a Todo app.
https://dmitripavlutin.com/become-better-software-developer-digging-climbing/
Even if you are an experienced developer, it’s still a very good read. Dmitri shares what he did to become a better developer (and we always have room to become a better developer). It’s a conceptual idea, which is why it’s a very good read, with some practical examples.
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/event-driven-analytics-with-azure-data-lake-storage-gen2/
If you are dealing with big data, the ingestion, processing, storage, consumption and ETL stuff, add this to your reading list. It outlines a way to use event-driven technique using Azure services to build data for analytics.
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/solutions/architecture/
One of my favorites. This is more of a reference than a reading. Microsoft docs provides cloud architecture solutions (based on Azure services) for different scenarios and needs. Definitely check it out when you need to design and build a new system.
Yet another good resource for a reference. This guides you through way-too-many Azure services based on your needs, sorta help you to decide what Azure service to use for a specific scenario. There’s also Solution Architect map and Security Architect map. Links are in the article.
https://michaelscodingspot.com/pipeline-pattern-implementations-csharp/
Part 1 of 2 where Michael explains how to implement pipeline pattern in C#. This is not about `System.IO.Pipelines` library, but rather,
Part 2 – https://michaelscodingspot.com/pipeline-pattern-tpl-dataflow/
Don’t worry if you don’t know what GraphQL is, this article introduces the basic of GraphQL and went further on how to use it in .NET Core. The NuGet package used allows you to expose C# class as query-able Graph API.
If you’re into giving a talk kinda guy, you definitely should follow Jeremy Likness. He has lots of tips and tricks from how you get started to how to engage your audiences after the talk. This particular one is what you need to do after your talk. It’s part of the whole series of technical presentation guide.
Super cool and fairly easy way to build FAQ chat bot. Chloe also built fake boyfriend app which link you can find in the article. This FAQ chat bot involves Azure Bot Services and Twilio.
After you have coded for a long time, it’s easy to forget the basic principles of OOP design. This article talks about how to write a clean code with OOP design pattern. Although example is in Java, the principles can be used in most languages. Some basic principles includes DRY, SOLID, Delegation, Program for Interface, etc.
The world has not moved on from Microservices yet, now there’s Microfrontends! It’s micro-app but for frontends. You can mesh Angular, Reach, Vue, jQuery and everything else into a single-SPA, isn’t that amazing? If that sounds terrible, there’s a reason why Microfrontends makes sense. Read on.
Everyone stuck at a problem every once a while. But who knows talking to a duck can help? Yes!
This is a fun read, a lil bit of educational, but more of informative IMO. Anoop explains how Kubernetes has changed DevOps: automation. And with idempotency and immutability, we can increase efficiency and economics benefits in DevOps-ing Kubernetes.
34-minute video that goes back to basic: unit testing, why we need it and how to do it. But this one goes even deeper, how to do it in Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code and Azure Pipelines, executing tests in parallel, migrating, diagnostics crashes and much more! Worth your 34 minutes.
Build your analytics program with startup mindset. Yes, it may not be a technical read, more of philosophical, but still a good read regardless.
I thought this thread is pretty cool, people come together to discuss their own side projects. Get some creative ideas going and some of the projects are actually really cool! This thread is for July 2019, but there is a new thread every month.
Have you ever used `try/catch` blocks but still miss some errors? Dino explains a more effective way to trap exceptions that go unnoticed and unhandled in ASP.NET Core 3.0
Generics is coming to Go language! Parametric Polymorphism, a fancy way to say Generics, however, is still in a draft. But, let’s hope it’s going to be released soon.
https://habr.com/en/post/458692/
Dmitry Tikhonov outlines how to create `Maybe` object in C# that carries 2 states (think about success and failure object) in a monad way. The implementation includes code sample and usage in async / await.
https://www.codeproject.com/Articles/5162828/Functional-Programming-in-Object-Oriented-Programm
Emulate functional programming in an object oriented programming world. Yes it is possible. I do feel a basic understanding of functional programming is needed.
https://www.infoq.com/articles/2019-state-testing-report/
Worth your time to read if you are involved a lot in testing. At least, read the “Key Takeaways”. This report covers what’s going on around global testing community as it surveys 1000 participants from around 80 countries.
https://github.com/Clancey/HotUI
A MVU (Model View Update) way of building UI. Platform supported includes: iOS, Android, UWP, WPF, Mac OS, Xamarin.Forms, Blazor. And it support hot reload! It’s still proof of concept though, definitely don’t use it in production.
https://github.com/runvnc/noscriptweb
I thought this is a very cool concept. The idea is to build all pages in a website from markdown. 100% JavaScript free. That means, no ads, secure, fast browsing. Still work in progress, but promising.
Given 5 boxes with different weight [24, 27, 17, 15, 17], distribute the weight as even as possible among 3 trucks of the same size. The trucks can fit unlimited number of boxes. The weight of the boxes can’t be transferred, for example move 4 from box 1 (originally weight 24) and transfer to box 2.
What if we have more boxes with different weight, let’s say 6 boxes with weight of [1, 2, 17, 21, 7, 6].
What if the number of truck change to 5 trucks?
What’s the most effective algorithm to distribute the boxes evenly (in weight) within all the trucks?
