This is a defense of the most prolific and dedicated public servant that has graced the world in my lifetime. One man has added hundreds of billions, if not trillions of dollars of value to the global economy. This man has worked tirelessly for the benefit of everyone around him. It is impossible to name a publicly traded company that has not somehow benefited from his contributions, and many have benefited to the tune of billions. In return for the countless billions of wealth that people made from the fruits of his labor, he was rewarded with poverty and ridicule. Now that the world is done taking from him, they are heading to the next step of vilifying him as incompetent.

I’ve been avoiding even thinking about the latest rev of Angular as every time I did look at it, I came away with a headache. It was weird and the docs were even weirder. I saw plenty of blog posts on the topic, but in general they dealt with one small slice of Angular 2 and were too confusing for me to grok. 

A new version of Notepad++ has been released. The updated version of the text editor adds support for ARM64 systems, as well as extending its range beyond x86 and x64 systems. 

C# and .NET Development in VS Code for Beginners
Writing C# applications in Visual Studio Code has never been easier!  We recently introduced the new C# Dev Kit extension In this video series, you’ll learn how to get started writing, debugging, testing, and running your C# applications productively in VS Code using the new C# Dev Kit extension. 

The future of gRPC in C# belongs to grpc-dotnet 

.NET and .NET Core (and Windows!) have been getting better and better with Docker. I run Docker for Windows as it supports both Linux Containers and Windows Containers. They have both a Stable and Edge channel. The Edge (Beta) channel is regularly updated and, as a rule, gets better and better in the year I've been running it. 

In this video, you will get to experience bringing SQL and Spark together as a unified data platform running on Kubernetes and learn how:

• Data virtualization integrates data from disparate sources, locations and formats, without replicating or moving the data, to create a single "virtual" data layer

• Data Lake - SQL 2019 provides SQL and Spark query capabilities over a scalable storage, across relational and big data

• Data Mart provides an ability to scale out storage for super-fast performance over big data or data from other external sources 

ReSharper 2022.3 Released With More C# 11 Features, NuGet Vulnerabilities Detection, and Support for Visual Studio ARM64