Developer Tools Weekly

Articles

• Implement "security.txt" to Advocate Responsible Vulnerability Disclosures
  A proposed RFC for sites would add a security.txt at the base of the website to provide security contact and reporting information.
  Rishi Narang
• Git with Unity
  I was at GDC last week talking to game developers about Git; I wanted to post some version control best practices to answer questions about using Git with Unity.
  Edward Thomson
• GitLab 10.6 Released with CI/CD for GitHub
  GitLab introduces a bidirectional sync for repositories in GitHub to enable CI/CD, but leaves it unclear how to resolve conflicts that arise from the synchronization.
  Victor Wu
• Recommended Compiler and Linker Flags for GCC
  An overview of the security hardening and optimization build flags that you can enable in GCC, and recommendations on which ones to enable in your project.
  Florian Weimer
• Our Big Bet on Mobile Games at Game Developers Conference 2018
  Google outlines the libraries and tools they're bringing to Android developers for games, including improved Maps APIs, Arcore, and a multiplayer game server.
  Benjamin Frenkel
• Introducing IBM Watson Services for Core ML
  IBM Watson Services for Core ML can bring Watson's powerful ML capabilities to your iPhone and iPad.
• Recurring Scheduled Deployments
  One of the missing pieces of scheduled deployments in Octopus was recurring reployments; they've remedied that, and have introduced a cron-like scheduler.
  Michael Richardson

In Brief

• Get Started Building .NET Web Apps that Run in the Browser with Blazor .NET
• The Case of the Not So ConcurrentDictionary Debugging
• Women in Technology: Motivation and Momentum Community
• Be Prepared When Disaster Strikes Database
• Tips for Enterprises Migrating To or Adopting Git Git

New Releases

• TFVC Windows Shell Extension for VSTS and TFS 2018 TFVC
• Axosoft v18.0 Release Agile
• Git for Windows 2.16.3 Git
• Kubernetes v1.9.6 is Released Kubernetes
• Bitbucket Server 5.9 Git Bitbucket
• GitLab Critical Security Release: 10.5.6, 10.4.6, and 10.3.9 GitLab Security

Podcasts

• DevOps Lab: Deploying Node to Docker on Azure DevOps
  Brian Clark introduces a DevOps deployment pipeline for node.js, starting with development and ending with deployment into Azure.
• TalkPython: Practical Steps for Moving to Python 3 Python
  An important podcast if you're still stuck on Python 2; Anthony Shaw provides tips to modernize your application and move to Python 3.
• Complete Developer: Normalize Your Database Database
  Understanding how your data is stored is critical to understanding how you can work with it; knowing database normalization helps you organize your database better.

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