“Dapper, Entity Framework and Hybrid Apps” and other Tweeted Links…

Data Points - Dapper, Entity Framework and Hybrid Apps [msdn.microsoft.com]

Six nifty ES6 tricks [2ality.com]

“Desktop App Converter..can convert existing Windows desktop apps..to Universal Windows Platform (UWP) packages” [blogs.msdn.microsoft.com]

“One way we can add structure to JavaScript code is to make a habit of using constants.” [spin.atomicobject.com]

Lazy Loading Images? Don’t Rely On JavaScript! [robinosborne.co.uk]

German JSONP talk from 2012 [blog.virtualzone.de]

Universal Binary JSON Specification [ubjson.org]

“JSONScript allows you to send a script to the remote system that will be interpreted by the remote system.” [json-script.com]

Dillinger is a cloud-enabled, mobile-ready, offline-storage, AngularJS powered HTML5 Markdown editor. dillinger.io

“When we call module.provider(), we are actually calling the provider() method of the $provide service.” [webdeveasy.com]

Tachyons: “Create fast loading, highly readable, and 100% responsive interfaces with as little css as possible.” [tachyons.io]

A YSlow Alternative for Making Web Pages Faster [maxcdn.com]

Bideo.js: A JS library that makes it super easy to add fullscreen background videos. @tmrdevelops [rishabhp.github.io]

Blisk: The Browser for Developers [noupe.com]

Obtaining and configuring a free HTTPS certificate for an Azure Web App with a custom domain [dlaa.me]

.@Azure functions, an event driven platform as a service [channel9.msdn.com]

“the Notification API allows modern browsers..to push notifications to a user's desktop” push.js [github.com]

“As everything with Rails, it was ‘nice and easy in the beginning’ and then it would turn into unmaintainable crap.” [solnic.eu]

Back up a Windows Server or client to Azure with Azure Backup using the Resource Manager deployment model [azure.microsoft.com]

Ask HN: Will everyone but Docker make money off of Docker? [news.ycombinator.com]

Here are links to what changed in .NET Core and [asp.net] Core between RC1/DNX and RC2 [codeclimber.net.nz]

“The .NET Framework was good. Really good. Until it wasn't.” [blog.jonathanoliver.com]

Using Westwind.Globalization to edit loose RESX Files [weblog.west-wind.com]

“A fully interactive X Linux desktop rendered to ASCII and streamed over SSH” @DonovanBrown [github.com]

Making UX Choices Based On What You Hate About the Internet [thegood.com]

Improve Your Designs With The Principles Of Continuation And Common Fate (Part Three) [smashingmagazine.com]

Google Chrome To Disallow Backspace As a 'Back' Button [tech.slashdot.org]

“it’s still unclear how conversational UIs can be made to work in a practical sense” [blog.intercom.io]

“Big businesses have realised that design is too important to be outsourced” [medium.com]

Today marks the 25th (“Silver Anniversary”) since VB first debuted to the world. [blogs.msdn.microsoft.com]

Covariance and Contravariance: a fresh look at an old issue [pdf] [irif.univ-paris-diderot.fr]

Academics Make Theoretical Breakthrough in Random Number Generation [threatpost.com]

Nassim Taleb explains why Standard Deviation is Ready for retirement (2014) [edge.org]

Stanza: A New Optionally-Typed General Purpose Language from UC Berkeley [news.ycombinator.com]

I'm a long-time @Office guy -over 20 years -I even have #VSTO apps -yet I am doing this: [twitter.com]

Now Available Globally: [fast.com], a New Tool to Check Your Internet Speed @netflix [media.netflix.com]

32 Best Reads on Lean, Agile and DevOps [langerman.co.za]

A New Record for Physics Graduates [wired.com]

“If you don't know how compilers work, then you don't know how computers work.” [steve-yegge.blogspot.com]

MIT, April 20 , 1996 on the occasion of the Rotafest [alumni.media.mit.edu]

A 5-step process for hiring tech talent [opensource.com]