A new (and free!) e-book on extending the capabilities of Power BI with R is now available for download, from analytics consultancy BlueGranite. The introduction to the book explains why R and Power BI are a great match together. 

This release will be shortly followed by R Tools 1.0 for Visual Studio 2017 in early May. RTVS is a free and open source plug-in that turns Visual Studio into a powerful and productive R development environment. 

The U.S. defense industry is the inventor of numerous software processes and even a programming language. This series discusses the challenges to using agile in the U.S. defense industry and some ways agile has made a difference. 

Many small devices are equipped with a simple GSM modem and a SIM card, and the only means you have of communicating with the outside world is via the SMS (Smart Messaging Service) that's exposed on many of these devices. 

This is a tiny utility which stores multiple network and proxy configuration as profiles. You can apply a profile to set specific network setting and proxy from simple shortcuts.  

The new .NET framework is modern, lean, modular and open source. No longer is .NET a system-wide installation – it is merely a folder. Instead of a huge underlying framework, you only pick and choose the pieces of the .NET framework that you need in your apps. And more importantly, you can package the required components of the .NET framework right alongside your app. We’re entering an age of app-runtime silos and ultimate portability. 

Browser Preview for VS Code enables you to open a real browser preview inside your editor that you can debug. Browser Preview is powered by Chrome Headless, and works by starting a headless Chrome instance in a new process. This enables a secure way to render web content inside VS Code, and enables interesting features such as in-editor debugging and more! 

Event and delegate have a similar relationship as Property and variable. Events are a wrapper around a delegate. When a delegate is wrapper by event and exposed outside the class, we could only subscribe or unsubscribe from it.

Add Github like mentions autocomplete to your application.  Demo

• Support IE 7+ for textarea.
• Supports HTML5 contentEditable elements (NOT including IE 8)
• Can listen to any character and not just '@'. Can set up multiple listeners for different characters with different behavior and data
• Listener events can be bound to multiple inputors.
• Format returned data using templates
• Keyboard controls in addition to mouse
  • Tab or Enter keys select the value
  • Up and Down navigate between values (and Ctrl-P and Ctrl-N also)
  • Right and left will re-search the keyword.
• Custom data handlers and template renderers using a group of configurable callbacks
• Supports AMD