A COLLECTION OF LINKS FOR LOVERS OF I.T.

Dirk Strauss

Visual Studio Code Extensions

• Visual Studio Code just keeps getting better – with extensions via Scott Hanselman’s Blog

Other

• A Harvard grad with a perfect SAT score explains how to ace the test via Business Insider
• Google plans to open a new British HQ and create 3,000 more jobs via Business Insider
• These eye-tracking heat maps show what people really care about via Business Insider
• Here’s why blockchain will be widely used by 2021 via Business Insider
• Cisco has deployed a new cloud for smart cities via Business Insider
• Upgrading From A Podcast To Late-Night TV… A Month Before The 2016 Election via Digg Top Stories
• Thousands of low-priced Android phones are reportedly sending user data to China via Business Insider
• 60 time-saving keyboard shortcuts every office worker should know via Business Insider
• How We Make Money at Stack Overflow: 2016 Edition via Hacker News
• Generate the Admin Microservice of your App with Lumber via WebAppersWebAppers
• Google won’t build ad blocking into Chrome via Business Insider
• Mark Zuckerberg Is in Denial via Hacker News
• Encrypted apps and services have spiked in the wake of Trump’s election via Business Insider
• Nintendo’s first iPhone game will launch in December for $10 via Business Insider
• Secret Backdoor In Some US Phones Sent Data To China via Digg Top Stories
• Microsoft is partnering with Elon Musk’s $1 billion AI research company to help it battle Amazon and Google via Business Insider
• Twitter just announced new features to crack down on its endemic abuse problem via Business Insider
• A 17-year-old boy has reportedly admitted to hacking into TalkTalk via Business Insider
• A ‘renegade’ group of Facebook employees reportedly formed a taskforce to stamp out fake news via Business Insider
• What If You Got $1,000 A Month, Just For Being Alive? I Decided To Find Out. via Digg Top Stories
• Two former Apple and LloydsPharmacy execs have launched a healthcare startup via Business Insider
• A British man dodged security guards and climbed to the top of Dubai’s second tallest building via Business Insider
• WhatsApp is launching free video calling for all 1 billion users — here’s how to use it via Business Insider
• Google Music Taps Big Data To Build a Robot DJ Mind-Reader via Digg Top Stories
• Facebook Bans Fake News Sites from Using Its Advertising Network via Hacker News
• 10 Reasons Why WooCommerce Is The Best Solution For Emerging Businesses via Lifehack
• 10 Essential Things To Know Before Building A Website In 2016 via Lifehack
• 10 Pros And Cons Of Choosing Magento For Your Ecommerce Store via Lifehack
• WhatsApp Scams and Tips to avoid them via Lifehack
• Microsoft accidentally reveals that its flagship tool for programmers is coming to the Mac via Business Insider
• Apple is working on smart glasses via Business Insider
• 12 things successful people do in the last 10 minutes of the workday via Business Insider
• Samsung is looking into ‘holograms’ for future TV tech via Business Insider
• 2016 MacBook Pro with Touch Bar Review via Hacker News

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Even More

• Google’s new PhotoScan app makes saving your old prints ridiculously easy via The Next Web
• 5 UX tips from Facebook’s VP of Design via The Next Web
• Don’t Sleep With Your Phone via Gizmodo
• Google wants to introduce VR to a million British schoolchildren via The Next Web
• Super Mario Run finally makes its iOS debut on December 15 via The Next Web
• How To Stop Windows 10 From Screwing Up Your Gorgeous Wallpaper via Gizmodo
• Microsoft and Code.og unveil new Minecraft-themed tutorial for ‘Hour of Code’ via GeekWire
• Skype now lets you make calls without an account via The Next Web
• Two Hurt After Plane Takes Evasive Maneuvers To Avoid Hitting Drone via Gizmodo
• Brain Implant Allows Paralyzed Woman to Communicate With Her Mind via Gizmodo

Podcasts

• S2E9: Creating a Data Visualization Startup with Eugene Woo via Learn to Code With Me
• Winning With Data with Tomasz Tunguz via Software Engineering Daily
• JavaScriptServices with Steve Sanderson via .NET Rocks!
• Data & the Future with James Whittaker & Dona Sarkar via MS Dev Show

Programming

• Slides from my session @ ‘Azure MVP Bootcamp – 2016, Vizag’ via Kunal-Chowdhury.com
• Stupid Things I’ve Done With SQL via Brent Ozar Unlimited
• Microsoft Releases Asp.Net Core 1.1 Preview 1 via InfoQ
• What’s the Truth about Running ASP.NET WEBAPI Asynchronously? via Dave M Bush
• Windows Mobile: Watch the Memory Footstep of Running Processes via CodeProject Latest Articles
• How to Apply the Agile LEAN Meeting Format to Improve Your Hiring Process via MSSQLTips – Latest SQL Server Tips
• Finding SQL Server Table and Data Differences using PowerShell via MSSQLTips – Latest SQL Server Tips
• SQL SERVER – Analysis Services and the Network Performance via SQL Server Journey with SQL Authority
• Deploy Security Changes with Copy-SqlLogin via SQLServerCentral.com Articles
• SQL Server 2016 Distributed Availability Groups via SQLServerCentral.com Articles
• When A File Is Not A File via CodeProject Latest Articles

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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