A COLLECTION OF LINKS FOR LOVERS OF I.T.

Dirk Strauss

Starting Machine Learning

• Article: Getting started with Machine Learning via InfoQ

Other

• Apple design guru Jony Ive designed a Christmas tree without any decorations via Business Insider
• Google plans to remove the ‘In the news’ section from its desktop search following ‘fake news’ criticism via Business Insider
• 25 essential tips and tricks for Mac owners via Business Insider
• The internet could look vastly different under Trump’s presidency — here’s how via Business Insider
• DeepLearningKit: Open source framework for Apple platforms using Swift via Hacker News
• Google does a better job with fake news than Facebook, but there’s a big loophole it hasn’t fixed via Business Insider
• Apple should buy Snap via Business Insider
• 5 hard-to-find iPhone tricks only power users know about via Business Insider
• A Google Chrome App That Finds Black Friday Coupons For You via Digg Top Stories
• The 5 most exciting technologies the US military is building right now via Business Insider
• Top 3 WordPress Alternatives via Lifehack
• Mark Zuckerberg breaks down what Facebook is doing to clean up its fake news problem via Business Insider
• Facebook is doing a $6 billion stock buyback via Business Insider
• Facebook’s fake news problem in one chart via Business Insider
• 6 surprising downsides of being extremely intelligent via Business Insider
• Scientists Discovered A Mind-Boggling Chasm On Mercury via Digg Top Stories
• Stephen Hawking: ‘We Have 1,000 Years To Escape Earth’ via Digg Top Stories
• New CIA director thinks Snowden should be killed via Hacker News
• Incoming CIA director: Strong encryption in personal communications a red flag via Hacker News
• 27 signs you’re burned out at work via Business Insider
• Microsoft Replaces Command Prompt with PowerShell in Latest Windows 10 Build via Hacker News
• Top 10 Tools That Will Revolutionize Screenshots in 2017 via Lifehack
• 4 Hacks to Create a Professional Looking Website in One Day via Lifehack
• Apple just announced it will fix iPhones with Touch Disease for $149 via Business Insider
• President Obama Slams Facebook For Fake News Problem via Digg Top Stories
• This man created a smart mirror that’s like a giant iPhone via Business Insider

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Even More

• LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner is worried about automation displacing workers, but believes his social network can help via GeekWire
• How to Become a Freelancer and Succeed via Lifehack
• GeekWire Calendar Picks: TEDx comes to Seattle; the politics of tech; and a conversation with Pioneer Square Labs’ Geoff Entress via GeekWire
• Scientists Discovered a Mind-Boggling Chasm on Mercury via Gizmodo
• Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella reassured LinkedIn’s Jeff Weiner about the $26B acquisition with two key remarks via GeekWire
• iPhone lock screen hack puts your contacts, messages and nude pics at risk via The Next Web
• How To Be More Creative [Infographic] via Lifehack
• DocuSign’s Keith Krach: We’re in no hurry to go public, or find a new CEO via GeekWire
• This iPad-like ‘Apple Mirror’ is all I want for Christmas via The Next Web

Podcasts

• MVVM Light Messaging Made Absurdly Easy via Jesse Liberty
• Debugging Stories with Haseeb Qureshi via Software Engineering Daily
• Empathy + Celebrating 5 Million Listens via Developer Tea
• 54: Jonathan Reinink – Forms: The Worst Part of Web Dev via Full Stack Radio
• Software Small Businesses with Patrick McKenzie via Software Engineering Daily
• Interactive Computing Experiences with Nteract and Safia Abdalla via Hanselminutes

Programming

• Podcast: Preslav Le on How Dropbox Moved off AWS and What They Have Been Able to Do Since via InfoQ
• Presentation: Going Reactive: Building Better Microservices via InfoQ
• .Net Standard via CodeProject Latest Articles
• Windows 10 Insider Preview build 14965 ISO is now available via Kunal-Chowdhury.com – Microsoft Technology Blog for developers and consumers
• Builder Design Pattern via CodeProject Latest Articles
• Using Slack for Server Development via CodeProject Latest Articles
• ASP NET Core , Moving IdentityDbContext and EF models to an external project via CodeProject Latest Articles
• Wait on the Database Engine Recovery Handle Failed SQL Server Installation Error via MSSQLTips – Latest SQL Server Tips
• Introduction to C# Scripting for SQL Server DBAs via MSSQLTips – Latest SQL Server Tips
• ASP.NET Core – An Introduction via CodeProject Latest Articles
• SQL SERVER – Back to Basics – What is Azure? via SQL Server Journey with SQL Authority
• What’s New in .NET Core 1.1 via Development With A Dot
• Open Source Development at the UK Government 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