A COLLECTION OF LINKS FOR LOVERS OF I.T.

Dirk Strauss

Ensure HTTPS Enabled

• Google Pushing for HTTPS via InfoQ

Other

• Five Things You Notice When You Quit the News via Hacker News
• Computation and State Machines [pdf] via Hacker News
• Bill Gates et al launch massive clean-energy fund to fight climate change via Hacker News
• 4 Free Video Editing Tools via Lifehack
• Google’s self-driving car team to spin out from Alphabet via Hacker News
• Why Google Pixel lags 10x more than Moto Z via Hacker News
• 5 Best Tools for E-Book Lovers via Lifehack
• 5 Youtube Apps And Software You Can Use To Enhance Your Viewing Experience via Lifehack
• Millions of routers allegedly backdoored with malware that can’t be removed via Hacker News
• CodeSOD: This is the Endian via The Daily WTF
• Microsoft: more people are switching from Macs to Surface than ever before via Hacker News
• Google is opening up its voice-activated Assistant to app creators via Business Insider
• The battle for Aleppo is almost over — here’s what it looked like before the war via Business Insider
• Facebook is hiring a 20-year media veteran to help it rethink news via Business Insider
• Microsoft says the ‘disappointment of the new MacBook Pro’ has helped Surface sales via Business Insider
• How Microsoft emerged from the darkness to embrace the cloud via Hacker News
• Google employees confess all the things they hated most about working at Google via Business Insider
• Apple is changing how you watch videos on iPhone and Apple TV via Business Insider

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Even More

• Google’s amazing iOS keyboard finally comes to Android (oh, the irony) via The Next Web
• Go Download Your New iOS Emoji Right Now via Gizmodo
• Apple releases iOS 10.2, including important new emoji via The Next Web
• Instagram Live video is rolling out to everyone in the US via The Next Web
• Facebook Live video goes 360, but not for everyone via The Next Web
• Microsoft Ventures launches new fund dedicated to AI startups, unveils six investments via GeekWire
• How to Turn a USB Stick into an Ultra Portable PC via Gizmodo
• Skype breaks the language barrier with real-time translation for mobile and landline calls via The Next Web
• Apple now lets you report iCloud calendar spam via The Next Web
• Get Started In Smartphone Virtual Reality With These Apps via Lifehack
• Microsoft Bot Makes Your Worst Pop Culture Nightmares Come True via Gizmodo
• Petition to Commute Chelsea Manning’s Sentence Has Enough Signatures to Force Response From White House via Gizmodo

Podcasts

• Ep. 118 – Truck Driver (George Moore) via CodeNewbie
• Merge Conflict 23: ORM or Bust via Merge Conflict
• Episode 5 – Xamarin For All! via The Cynical Developer
• Cloud Foundry with Cornelia Davis via Software Engineering Daily
• Lessons From The Lab via Developer Tea

Programming

• Presentation: But I Need a Database that _Scales_ via InfoQ
• TypeScript 2.1 Released via InfoQ
• Facebook Builds an Efficient Neural Network Model Over a Billion Words via InfoQ
• [Video] Office Hours 2016/12/07 (With Transcriptions) via Brent Ozar Unlimited®
• Using Kendo UI With Angular 2 via Telerik Developer Network
• Your Professional Development and the PASS Organization via SQLServerCentral.com Articles
• Setting Up Geo-Replication in SQL Azure via MSSQLTips – Latest SQL Server Tips
• SQL Server Functions to Mask Confidential Data using CLR or PowerShell via MSSQLTips – Latest SQL Server Tips
• Presentation: Creating Delightful Product Experiences with Micro-interactions via InfoQ
• Google Pushing for HTTPS via InfoQ
• Presentation: Impact of Machine Learning Systems in Industries via InfoQ
• jQuery Snippet: Enable Submit if Input Field has Value via Learning jQuery
• SQL SERVER – Clustered Instance Online Error – SQL Server Network Interfaces: Error Locating Server/Instance Specified [xFFFFFFFF] via SQL Server Journey with SQL Authority
• Presentation: OpenID Connect & OAuth – Demystifying Cloud Identity via InfoQ

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Visual Studio 2015 and Windows 10 Goodness

• Windows 10 courses in MVA, Microsoft Virtual Academy
• Developer for Windows 10
  • What’s New
  • Get Started
  • Design
  • Develop
  • Publish
• Channel 9 – A great online resource for Windows 10 related videos
• Developer Tools Download,Download any Visual Studio sku’s, including VS 2015

For more excellent content, have a look at these great sites

• The week in .NET, Bertrand Le Roy
• Abhijit’s World of .NET,Abhijit Jana
• Kunal Chowdhury’s Technical Blog
• Lock Me Down – Security For The Everyday Developer by Max McCarty
• GeekLift
• James Michael Hare
• Interesting Finds by Jason Haley
• FormatException by Brian Mullen
• Dew Drop by Alvin Ashcraft
• Regular Geek by Robert Diana