“Expression and implicit animations can now be applied directly in XAML” and other tweeted links…

Expression and implicit animations can now be applied directly in XAML!! Check out @pag3rd talking about what's new in XAML BRK2423 What's New for Windows UX Developers: Fluent and XAML

#XAML developers are used to BooleanInverseConverters. But what if x:Bind would support that conversion with a C# style syntax? Would make your XAML code shorter and from my point of view more readable. If you think so too, vote for it: [wpdev.uservoice.com]#uwp#xbind#windev[twitter.com]

@kevintgallo introduced using #xaml compiled binding {x:Bind} in #wpf applications at #msbuild. This is really starting to align all these platforms with the incredible features of #uwp, without requiring developer to rewrite. [twitter.com]

I just published “Little bites of Xaml #4: {x:Bind is even cooler}” [shoreparty.org]#uwp

We are investing heavily in x:Bind to make it not only fast and super debuggable, but also a super set for all data binding scenarios from all Xaml technologies. [twitter.com]

The Windows Community Toolkit 4.0 is out! With a great addition for enterprise developers: the DataGrid control! [blogs.windows.com]#uwp#windows10

MaterialDrawer now in it's final v6.1.0 release. This comes with #AndroidX, the new #MaterialDesignComponents and the awesome #ConstraintLayout, all items rewritten, and upgraded to follow the fantastic Material 2 design guidelines.[github.com][twitter.com]

Just released Giraffe 3.0.0! Huge perf improvements for the GiraffeViewEngine & JSON endpoints, routes support Short GUIDs & Short IDs (YouTube IDs), 1st class support for [asp.net] Core's response caching (incl. VaryByQueryKey) and more! [github.com]

ComponentConf should be a thing. JS umbrella is too generic and I want to zoom in a little bit. But React/Vue/Angular/Ember communities are too isolated and often don’t realize they talk about the same problems. Need a common space.

Support proposed ES Next "|>" pipeline operator #17718[github.com]

Vapid is an intentionally simple content management system built on the idea that you can create a custom dashboard without ever leaving the HTML. [vapid.com][twitter.com]

.@MicrosoftEdge does not support the Web Animations API [[developer.microsoft.com]] and the @angular shim I have noticed is profoundly slow. Why do I think Microsoft is ahead of me when they keep demonstrating time and time again that they are not? [twitter.com]

“I’m joining Nrwl as VP of Marketing and we’re seeking more Angular experts” by @samplingculture[blog.nrwl.io]

Microsoft Details How and Why it's Data Center went Offline This Month - Petri [nzzl.us] via @nuzzel thanks @PetriFeed

Combating article theft by delaying RSS feeds [ctrl.blog] via @CtrlBlog

New Blog Series: Customizing ASP.​NET Core [ift.tt]

Cool new stuff in the @AzurePortal prior to #Ignite from @joe_elway[petri.com]#Azure#CloudComputing#NewFeatures

Dive into Azure Boards. Manage all the work for your software projects including Issues, Bugs, Tasks, Stories, & Features… all while supporting the customizable Scrum & Kanban dashboards your team is used to: [msft.social]#AzureDevOps[twitter.com]

Today is the #AzureStack preday event at #MSIgnite. @jsnover is currently going over how Azure Stack fits into the #IntelligentEdge. If you missed it, go to his session on Tuesday - BRK2297 [twitter.com]

Microsoft Ignite 2018 – Azure Virtual Machines News [lnkd.in]

GA on Azure SQL DB - General availability: Immutable storage for Azure Blob storage - [azure.microsoft.com]#sqlserver#azuresqldb#azure

Microsoft Unintentionally Details the Failure of the Windows Store [twitter.com]

Go back and change all your null checks because of [rimdev.io]? No. Theoritically (but not likely in practice) someone could overload == and violate normal semantics, but that would be a bug. You fix bugs at the source, not change 17 years of usage for them.

.@DonovanBrown for us longtime VSTS users, this is super-important: Converting VSTS build definitions to YAML [simonvane.com] 🤠

The Bloomberg Terminal's success in the 1980s birthed an empire. Today, that empire is under siege from competitors, government regulations, and the changing nature of finance itself. [cbinsights.com]

Webserver for downloading youtube videos. Ready for docker. [github.com][twitter.com]

Most software today is too large to be developed by a single person, and open source, especially Linux, has proven this time and time again. Thus, software engineering is both, a technological challenge as well as a social challenge. Excellence requires excelling at both.

A primary cause of software complexity is that vendors uncritically adopt almost any feature that users want. People seem to misinterpret complexity as sophistication. The incomprehensible should cause suspicion rather than admiration. —Niklaus Wirth [lvguowei.me][twitter.com]

New in #WolframU: Free interactive Intro to #Calculus! Learn fundamental concepts with 38 video lessons & #WolframNotebooks in the Cloud. [wolfr.am]#GetItDoneWithWolfram[twitter.com]

Our world runs on open source. @tidelift works to connect the builders of that critical source code to customers with the idea that incentivizing code maintenance keeps us all more secure and up and running. @klintron for @WIRED has the story. [wired.com]

Will Visual Studio 2019 be an Evergreen Release of Visual Studio? [telerik.com]

This high-tech farmer grows leafy greens like kale in a factory [bloom.bg][twitter.com]

2/3 In 1968, Rainer Mallebrein - an engineer at telefunken who had worked on air traffic control systems - built a small trackball inside a turtle-shaped enclosure, flipped it upside down and created the first ball mouse, as well as first commercially shipping mouse. [twitter.com]

3/3 Without knowing about Mallebrein's 1968 mouse (almost nobody did), Ronald Rider reinvented the ball mouse which Xerox patented in January 1973. This is the mouse that really got the ball rolling ... Such is the nature of innovation and its long nose. [twitter.com]

"The risk is that crowdwork, particularly microtask work, has the potential of deskilling work and also displacing or replacing some forms of skilled labour with unskilled labour, as jobs tend to be broken down into smaller tasks." [twitter.com]

"New vulnerability allow hackers to gain access to computers if they’re in sleep mode" [mspoweruser.com]

Hackers stole credit card details of Newegg customers who entered their payment info between 8/14-9/18 of this year [bit.ly][twitter.com]

"Google admits changing phone settings remotely.. Android phone users noticed that the battery saver setting was remotely activated last week without their consent" [bbc.com]

Google recently made a change in Chrome 69 that logging into a Google service automatically logs you into Chrome. One CRAZY consequence of this is that your browser history quietly starts being uploaded to Google servers. This is Facebook-like overreach [ha.x0r.be]

Tech Giants Spend $80B to Make Sure No One Else Can Compete [bloomberg.com]

it’s happened to me upwards of three times: an org has a Ballmer-era investment in MSFT tools and code and there is a perceived “promise” to move forward into modern MSFT but what actually happens involves Java and/or nothing at all

whether these anti-MSFT moves required “leadership” deceiving me or not, my disappointment and sometimes outright depression for this repeating situation is openly visible: there are no “professional ways” to conceal my reaction

when “leadership” in such MSFT-invested-but-anti-MSFT orgs claim they use the “best” tool for the job what is really being said is that they would have used “free” tools had the org recognized them before investing in MSFT

so the org is wrong for being willfully ignorant of modern MSFT and I am wrong for trying to stay employed by the org in spite of overwhelming evidence of strategic disfunction (my reasons for staying become sane when we consider things like feeding small children without travel)

so the more functional and viable issue here is my relationship to corporate travel rather than my historical relationship with dysfunctional, self-hating, MSFT-based orgs; SoCal (specifically West Los Angeles) is not a hotbed of MSFT-based, fullstack love

https://github.com/BryanWilhite/