This version is the 112th release of Cake, but just not any release - we've finally hit 1.0 🎉 In this blog post, we will go through some of the major new features of 1.0, which platforms are supported, what to consider when upgrading to Cake 1.0. 

Confused about your job title? Programmer, developer, and engineer all sound like reasonable facsimiles? Here's the inside scoop on what job titles actually mean. 

Entity Framework half-heartedly supported Domain-Driven Design patterns. But the new-from-scratch EF Core has brought new hope for developers to map your well-designed domain classes to a database, reducing the cases where a separate data model is needed. EF Core 2.1 is very DDD friendly, even supporting things like fully encapsulated collections, backing fields and the return of support for value objects. In this session, we'll review some well-designed aggregates and explore how far EF Core 2.1 goes to act as the mapper between your domain classes and your data store. 

“I’ve written before about how React is the new default frontend framework, and how I don’t think most people using React on a regular basis realize quite how much it’s fallen behind.” High level thoughts about the React ‘bubble’ and some reasons to look beyond it, including a round up of some of the alternative options. 

Variable Naming Best Practices in JavaScript

Like any other programming language, JavaScript relies heavily on well-structured and understandable code. One of the fundamental building blocks of clean JavaScript code is effective variable naming.

By adhering to certain best practices, you can significantly enhance the readability and maintainability of your JavaScript projects. Let’s dive into 12 sets of JavaScript variable naming guidelines.

Peeker is a tool that runs Roslyn code analyzers on precompiled .NET binaries. If source mappings are provided in the form of a PDB file, the inspection results are associated with the original source locations. Peeker outputs its results in the SARIF file format. 

Today we released our first public preview of  Blazor , a new experimental .NET web framework using C#/Razor and HTML that runs in the browser with WebAssembly . Blazor enables full stack web development with the stability, consistency, and productivity of .NET. 

The IBM Swift Sandbox is an interactive website that lets you write Swift code and execute it in a server environment – on top of Linux! Each sandbox runs on IBM Cloud in a Docker container. In addition, both the latest versions of Swift and its standard library are available for you to use. 

Windows Package Manager will support every Windows 10 version since the Fall Creators Update (1709)! The Windows Package Manager will be delivered with the Desktop App Installer when we ship version 1.0. If you are building software to run on Windows 10 you will have a simple way for your customers to install your software on billions of machines.