A rare mineral, first discovered in Urals Mountains of Russia in 1839 by Lev Prevoski, has excited scientists by exhibiting properties that could be exploited to make our internet around a lot faster than today
A quick two months after 2.6, Git 2.7 has been released with a plethora of features, fixes and performance improvements. Here's some of the new stuff we found interesting on the Bitbucket team.
Big news: a new version of the NuGet clients has been released! This is version 3.3 of the client, with a new command-line and Visual Studio 2015 extension available for use.
MSDN magazine has released a special Windows 10 issue. The issue spans a large number of topics from Visual Studio tooling to game development to user experience to notifications.
Sometimes, you need to send data between two processes. One traditional way to do this has been to use SendMessage with the message WM_COPYDATA passing a COPYDATASTRUCT as a parameter.
Keycloak.AuthServices provides robust authentication mechanisms for both web APIs and web applications. For web APIs, it supports JWT Bearer token authentication, which allows clients to authenticate to the API by providing a JWT token in the Authorization header of their requests. For web applications, it supports OpenID Connect, a simple identity layer on top of the OAuth 2.0 protocol, which allows clients to verify the identity of the end-user, obtain basic profile information about the end-user, etc.
- New interaction utilities. Quickly set
user-selectwith the new utilities and Sass map. - New Reboot style for pointer cursors. We now include a
role="button"selector in Reboot to setcursor: pointeron non-<button>element buttons. - Examples are now downloadable. We’ve added a script to zip up and offer all our Examples as their own download from the docs.
- Saved ~5% from the compressed minified JS builds.
The ASP.NET Core tag helpers improve on the HTML templated helpers in ASP.NET MVC 5. ASP.NET Core comes with some useful stock tag helpers for common tasks such as creating custom elements or extending existing HTML elements, but their use can be extended to making a framework such as Bootstrap easier to work with. Dino shows how helpers are used, and demonstrates a Bootstrap Modal Tag Helper
In this episode, Robert is joined by Phil Japikse for a chat about design patterns. Software design patterns have been around long before the MVC Framework gained momentum. Phil starts with a review of Robert C. Martin's (Uncle Bob) SOLID macronym. After building the proper foundation,he reviews several design patterns, their C# implementation and when and how they should be used in modern software development.
152 psql Tips — This was originally 100 tips when we first included it, but this list of bite-sized tips for the tried and tested psql client continues to grow. If you have a psql session coming up any time soon, this is worth a browse. It’s also possible to load a single tip and hop through randomly if you prefer your tips snack-sized.
