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Weekly Newsletter (29 Apr 2019)


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Weekly Poll Results

How do you picture your days of coding?

Survey period: 22 Apr 2019 to 29 Apr 2019

Different phases of a programming project bring different challenges. Which of the following reflect your days at the keyboard? (Suggested by Sylvia List)

Option	Votes	%
Fighting and slaying dragons and monsters.	69	16.39
Shovelling excrement	77	18.29
You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike	65	15.44
Tidying and bringing order to a house where toddlers have run wild without supervision	101	23.99
Nurturing a baby to new life	60	14.25
Playing and enjoying a complicated but enjoyable puzzle	165	39.19
Casting spells and arcane incantations and crossing your fingers	62	14.73
I just code. It's as simple as that	140	33.25
I don't code	10	2.38
Responses	421
Respondents were allowed to choose more than one answer; totals may not add up to 100%

This week's survey: What are the most important things you wish for in a manager?

Latest Additions

New articles added

.NET Framework

Creating a Faster HashSet for .NET

(9 votes) by Peter Devo (updated 5 days ago)

FastHashSet for .NET

Algorithms & Recipes

Data Visualization using Matplotlib

(1 votes) by Azim Zahir (updated 4 days ago)

This article demonstrates Data Visualization using Matplotlib library of Python.

Applications & Tools

HTTP Live Streaming (HLS-VOD)

(4 votes) by Shashangka Shekhar (updated 6 days ago)

In this post, we are going to create a video server that can serve videos with multiple bit-rate also known as adaptive bit-rate streaming.

ASP.NET

CRUD Operation using ASP.NET CORE 2.2 and React Redux with EntityFramework Core (Database First Approach) and PrimeReact Components

(5 votes) by PrashantRamteke (updated 4 days ago)

CRUD Operation using ASP.NET CORE 2.2 and React Redux with EntityFramework Core (Database First Approach) and PrimeReact Components

Azure

Build and Deploy an ASP .Net Core Web Application as Docker Container using Microsoft Azure - Part 1

(1 votes) by Gaurav Gahlot (quickdev) (updated 4 days ago)

This article is the first in the series where we are going to build a simple ASP .Net Core web application, containerize it with Docker and run it on local host.

Build and Deploy an ASP .Net Core Web Application as Docker Container using Microsoft Azure - Part 2

(0 votes) by Gaurav Gahlot (quickdev) (updated 4 days ago)

In this article we are going to setup a Microsoft Azure DevOps build pipeline to automate the tasks we did manually in first article of the series.

How to Use Microsoft Azure Key Vault

(1 votes) by Gaston Verelst (updated 3 days ago)

How to set up and use an Azure key vault to store your secret values

Telemetry Correlation in Azure Functions

(0 votes) by Markus Greuel (updated 4 days ago)

ASP.NET automatically parses distributed tracing headers, in azure functions however a bit of custom code is required.

Boards / Embedded devices

Rodney - A Long Time Coming Autonomous Robot (Part 7)

(3 votes) by Phil Hopley (updated 5 days ago)

Seventh part in a series on a ROS (Robot Operating System) House Bot

Book Chapters

Operation and Maintenance of AKS Applications

(0 votes) by Packt Publishing (updated 4 days ago)

This article shows you how to secure your AKS cluster with role-based security by leveraging Azure Active Directory as the authentication provider.

Button Controls

A Custom WPF Slider Button

(2 votes) by Leif Simon Goodwin (updated 4 days ago)

This article describes a simple slider button using dependency properties and a template.

Content Management Server

SQL DISTINCT Clause For SQL Server

(4 votes) by essentialSQL (updated 2 days ago)

SQL DISTINCT Clause For SQL Server

Cross Platform

Vulkan API with Kotlin Native - Draw

(1 votes) by Igor Kushnarev (updated 2 days ago)

Vulkan API with Kotlin Native. Drawing loop.

Game Development

Configuring Terraform Development Environment

(0 votes) by Kevin Mack (updated 4 days ago)

How to configure Terraform Development Environment

General Graphics

Illustration for Geometric Optics

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

Illustration for Geometric Optics

Hardware & System

x64 Memory Access Monitor

(5 votes) by Member 13737597 (updated 5 days ago)

This article shows how to automatically catch memory access (read /write) for some memory region and log these changes into file

Java

Auto Generation Of POJO Classes

(0 votes) by matalan44 (updated yesterday)

Generation of POJO Classes is explained in this article

Product Showcase

Building Dynamic React Apps with Database Data

(0 votes) by Jerod Johnson (updated 6 days ago)

This article walks through setting up the CData API Server to create a REST API for a SQLite database and creating a simple React Web application that has live access to the database data.

Building a prediction model using SaaS-based AutoML tool R2 Learn

(0 votes) by Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan (updated 2 days ago)

R2 Learn, a SaaS-based end-to-end automated machine learning (AutoML) tool, makes it easy for data scientists or data engineers to get from importing a dataset, to training models and getting predictions in just a few steps.

Wijmo Sales Dashboard

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

When it comes to the enterprise-grade charting and graphing components that can help you create an awesome dashboard, Wijmo has you covered.

Web Services

Quarks - A New Approach with a New Mindset to Programming

(0 votes) by Mukit, Ataul (updated 5 days ago)

With the advent of modern C++, it has become easy to achieve many things elegantly, for example a web-server. As hardware gets modern (like Flash disk instead of magnetic ones), the concept of database and web-services needs to be modernised as well. Hence a new approach - Quarks.

Distributed Method of Web Services

(0 votes) by sun.shuo@aliyun.com (updated 3 days ago)

Distributed method of web services

Beginner's Introduction to Distributed System Design - 1. Splitting in Microservice Architecture

(0 votes) by sun.shuo@aliyun.com (updated 9 hours ago)

This is a beginner's Introduction to Distributed System Design - 1. Splitting in Microservice Architecture

Articles updated

Algorithms & Recipes

Chatbot Tutorial

(83 votes) by Gonzales Cenelia (updated 4 days ago)

Tutorial on making an artificial intelligence chatbot

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Adding Object Detection with TensorFlow to a Robotics Project

(8 votes) by Phil Hopley (updated 15 hours ago)

In this article we will add AI to an existing ROS (Robot Operating System) House Bot.

C / C++ Language

QxOrm - C++ ORM (Object Relational Mapping) Library

(61 votes) by QxOrm (updated 4 days ago)

QxOrm C++ library: Persistence (based on QtSql Qt library) - Serialization (based on boost::serialization library) - Reflection (introspection)

Constructing Fast Lexical Analyzers with RE/flex - Why Another Scanner Generator?

(18 votes) by Robert van Engelen (updated 6 days ago)

This article introduces RE/flex for C++. RE/flex generates fast lexical analyzers similar to Flex, but supports Unicode patterns, indent/nodent/dedent, lazy repeats, smart input text handling, and performance tuning. RE/flex is compatible with Bison/Yacc.

C#

Universal Type Converter

(136 votes) by Thorsten Bruning (updated 3 days ago)

Converting nearly every type to another type

Entity Framework Core 2 for the Enterprise

(139 votes) by HHerzl (updated 1 weeks ago)

Entity Framework Core 2 for the Enterprise

Cross Platform

Vulkan API with Kotlin Native - Surface, Devices

(1 votes) by Igor Kushnarev (updated 2 days ago)

Vulkan surface, physical and logical devices with Kotlin Native

Vulkan API with Kotlin Native - Instance

(0 votes) by Igor Kushnarev (updated 2 days ago)

Creating Vulkan instance with Kotlin Native

Game Development

Chess Console Game in C++

(11 votes) by Jerome Vonk (updated 2 days ago)

Simple chess game, written in C++, that runs in a console. Made for didatic purposes and fun :)

Libraries

PDF417 Barcode Encoder .NET Class Library and Demo App

(4 votes) by Uzi Granot (updated 6 days ago)

The PDF417 barcode encoder .NET class library is written in C#. The encoder class allows you to create a PDF417 barcode image from a text string or a byte array. The demo project allows you to explore the library and produce PDF417 barcodes.

List Controls

MFC List Control with Tooltip and Menu Ability

(8 votes) by Jovibor (updated yesterday)

List control with cells tooltips, menu ability, and even more

Raspberry Pi

App Development on Windows IoT using VS 2019

(0 votes) by Martin Gmuca (updated 8 hours ago)

In this article, we will look at the process of app development, deploy and debug on Raspberry Pi 3 using VS2019.

New Tips and Tricks added

ASP.NET

Verifying MSMQ is working fine for IIS based web applications

(0 votes) by _Asif_ (updated 6 days ago)

Access rights issue over MSMQ could lead to hours and hours of investigation

Azure

Find Duplicate Text

(1 votes) by Dharmesh Barochia (updated 5 days ago)

Recommended best practices for finding and removing Duplicate Text/Documents

C#

List Only Files Created or Modified Yesterday in C#

(4 votes) by OriginalGriff (updated yesterday)

This is an alternative for "List Only Files Created or Modified Yesterday in C#"

List Only Files Created or Modified Yesterday in C#

(2 votes) by Member 12695777 (updated yesterday)

Create a list of all files in a folder and its sub-folders that were created or modified yesterday using a C# console application

Programming Tips

Update Checker For Software Update

(5 votes) by Bloody Chicken (updated 5 days ago)

This is a program to check out there is a updated files on the update server. If there's one, this program executes the update process.

Visual Studio Tips - Code Definition Keyboard Shortcuts

(3 votes) by Jeremy Hutchinson (updated 3 days ago)

Code definition keyboard shortcuts in Visual Studio

New Technical Blogs added

Code Generation

A Simple Branching Strategy to Work in CI/CD and Code Review Policy in Agile

(0 votes) by Benktesh Sharma (updated 2 days ago)

Here is a simple branching strategy to work in CI/CD and code review policy in Agile

Content Management Server

SQL Server Hierarchical Query using the hierarchyid Type

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

SQL Server Hierarchical Query using the hierarchyid type

SQL Reporting Services

SQL COALESCE Function and NULL

(4 votes) by essentialSQL (updated 2 days ago)

SQL COALESCE Function and NULL

Uncategorised Technical Blogs

Numerical Methods in C++ Part 2: Gauss-Legendre Integration

(2 votes) by thoughts-on-cpp (updated 3 days ago)

Implementation of Numerical Integrations with Trapezoidal and Simpson Rule Approach.

Building a Solr Cluster with TerraForm – Part 1

(0 votes) by Kevin Mack (updated yesterday)

How to build a Solr cluster with Terraform

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