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Weekly Newsletter (4 Dec 2017)


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Weekly Poll Results

Which devices have you coded against?

Survey period: 27 Nov 2017 to 4 Dec 2017

For many of us the days are gone when you could safely focus on one class of computer.

Option	Votes	%
Super computer (Cray, Fujitsu etc	52	5.18
Mainframe	351	34.96
Desktop class	953	94.92
Mobile phone / tablet	488	48.61
Raspberry Pi	212	21.12
Arduino or compatible (eg netduinos, beaglebones)	211	21.02
Hobby Embedded (eg Galileo)	70	6.97
Professional Embedded (eg Eurotech, Advantech)	153	15.24
Other	280	27.89
I've never coded or aren't actually sure	13	1.29
Responses	1,004
Respondents were allowed to choose more than one answer; totals may not add up to 100%

This week's survey: Are you starting new projects or maintaining tried-and-true legacy apps?

Latest Additions

New articles added

.NET Framework

Console Logging and Reading Excel Files with .NET Core 2

(4 votes) by Juan G. Carmona (updated 6 days ago)

Proper logging in .NET Core 2 Console App

Elasticsearch, Kibana and Docker using .NET Standard 2

(3 votes) by Juan G. Carmona (updated 10 hours ago)

Advanced logging in modern .NET applications. A sunday-morning-proof-of-concept.

Algorithms & Recipes

The astounding Pickover's biomorphs

(10 votes) by Miguel Diaz Kusztrich (updated 5 days ago)

An infinite set of biological shape fractals in the complex plain

A short tale on two patterns that live in .NET

(1 votes) by Eddy Vluggen (updated yesterday)

Exploring some patterns that are used in the .NET framework and how they could be usefull

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Sequence Detection With a Finite-State Machine

(5 votes) by Dmitrii Nemtsov (updated 2 days ago)

A way to build a finite-state machine identifying predefined sequences in a stream of characters.

ASP.NET

Angular 4: User Authentication using JWT Token

(0 votes) by Raihan Alam (updated 2 days ago)

User authentication in Angular 4 App using ASP.NET Core JWT Token

Azure

Azure Service Fabric demo

(11 votes) by Sacha Barber (updated 4 days ago)

Azure Service Fabric Demo + IOC, logging, encryption

C / C++ Language

Data Logging using IPC in Windows

(0 votes) by Andy Galluzzi (updated 2 days ago)

This is yet another MMF IPC data transfer class, but with the particularities of a logging tool: it has one operative process that simply collects all the logged data and one or more passive process that generate and write the log information.

C#

Boosting Performance with Dynamic Assemblies

(0 votes) by wmjordan (updated 2 days ago)

Circumventing language obstacles and optimizing performance with Dynamic Methods, Dynamic Assemblies.

Client side scripting

Building SPA with Angular 4 and Redux

(4 votes) by Pankaj Kumar Choudhary (updated 5 days ago)

Building SPA with Angular 4 and Redux

ES6: Arrow Function

(1 votes) by Aniket Agrawal (updated 2 days ago)

Discusses about the usage of arrow function

Database

Using EF Core with MySQL in DotNet Core 1.0

(0 votes) by Siddharth R Barman (updated 21 hours ago)

Interact with MySQL database using EF Core in DotNet Core 1.0.

Game Development

Game engine using SDL2 and ZetScript

(8 votes) by jespa007 (updated 4 days ago)

Example game engine by using SDL2 and ZetScript

Unity Graphics Emulator for Native Plugin Development

(2 votes) by EgorYusov (updated 3 days ago)

This article describes Unity low-level plugin interface and the Unity graphics interface emulator that facilitates native plugin development.

Mobile Development

Impression and experience from App Store, Play Store and Windows Store

(2 votes) by Sergey Kizyan (updated 11 hours ago)

In this article I'm sharing personal and common experience that were received during last years working with application stores from Google, Apple and Microsoft

Node.js

ESB - logging and monitoring

(3 votes) by lars paisley (updated 3 days ago)

A simple approach to documenting ESB transactions and transformations

Programming Tips

Four Reasons Developers Need Chatbot Technology Skills

(3 votes) by Jesse Casman (updated 5 days ago)

Do developers really need to pay attention to chatbots in a fairly small market of just over a billion dollars?

Testing and QA

Getting started with Selenium 3.7 using Visual Studio 2017/C#

(1 votes) by Mohammed Faci (updated 3 days ago)

This article provides detailed steps for writing test cases using Selenium 3.7.0 and Visual Studio 2017/C#.

Universal Windows Platform and Windows Runtime

Programming Windows 10 Desktop: UWP Focus (4 of N)

(4 votes) by raddevus (updated 6 days ago)

Get Started in UWP (moving away from WinForm) Chapter 4 Adding Windows Controls (Building the DailyJournal app)

Programming Windows 10 Desktop: UWP Focus (7 of N)

(4 votes) by raddevus (updated 4 days ago)

Get Started in UWP (moving away from WinForm) Chapter 7 Saving journal entries in the file system

Programming Windows 10 Desktop: UWP Focus (6 of N)

(3 votes) by raddevus (updated 5 days ago)

Get Started in UWP (moving away from WinForm) Chapter 6 Programmatically Adding Tabs (Pivot) for Multiple entries in DailyJournal (includes CommandBar and Menu concepts)

Programming Windows 10 Desktop: UWP Focus (5 of N)

(2 votes) by raddevus (updated 5 days ago)

Get Started in UWP (moving away from WinForm) Chapter 5 Adding Tabs (Pivot) For Multiple Journal Entries

Programming Windows 10 Desktop: UWP Focus (8 of N)

(2 votes) by raddevus (updated 2 days ago)

Get Started in UWP (moving away from WinForm) Chapter 8 Applied OOP, Designing Objects, SoC and going deeper into designing the DailyJournal app.

UWP Binding vs. XBind

(0 votes) by urielxy (updated 3 hours ago)

Xaml Binding vs. XBind

Web Security

Siva - A Tool to find vulnerabilities in your website

(2 votes) by VISWESWARAN1998 (updated 5 days ago)

Siva is a standalone tool programmed in Python which is cross-platformed, and is capable of scanning your websites and finding vulnerabilities in it.

Web Services

Creating a Real-time Cryptocurrency Websocket API

(2 votes) by Pierre Nortje (updated 21 hours ago)

We do not want to keep asking for information. Let's create an API to send push messages regarding the current cryptocurrency stock market.

Windows Presentation Foundation

A Highlightable WPF/MVVM TextBlock

(6 votes) by Dirk Bahle (updated 6 days ago)

Implementing text highlighting in a WPF TextBlock control with MVVM

Articles updated

Ajax

4 Ways To Use jQuery Load in Your Website

(25 votes) by Yogi S. (updated yesterday)

This article explains how useful the jQuery Load method is for doing AJAX calls in our web projects. I will explain the 4 ways/situtations where you can use this method and create a great feature for the users.