Developer Tools Weekly

Articles

• Integrated Spell Checking with ReSpeller in ReSharper and Rider
  This is one of those things that doesn't seem very exciting at first - but I'm a bit of a stickler for proper spelling and grammar, and I'm happy to see tools that improve that.
  Maarten Balliauw
• Android Emulator - AMD Processor & Hyper-V Support
  The Android Emulator has been making performance improvements; the latest ones come for users of AMD processors and Hyper-V virtualization.
  Jamal Eason
• Exception Perceptions: Everything is Cool When You’re Part of a Team
  How do you ensure that errors are getting reported to the right people? The new Teams functionality in Sentry includes ownership rules, so the right people are notified in an outage.
  Chloe Condon
• Pwned Passwords V3 is Now Live!
  A new version of the infamous Pwned Passwords. You can - and should - integrate with it to ensure that your users aren't using known-vulnerable passwords.
  Troy Hunt
• Visual Studio Code: Introducing Logpoints and Auto-Attach
  Improving the debugging experience in Visual Studio Code: a look at logging for debugging, auto-attach for Node debugging and debugging NPM.
  Kenneth Auchenberg

In Brief

• Announcing TypeScript 3.0 RC TypeScript
• Watchdog: Auto-detect performance anomalies without setting alerts Monitoring
• .NET Core July 2018 Update .NET
• Xamarin.Forms: Drop Shadows on Android Navigation Toolbar Xamarin
• GitHub Engineering Adopts New Architecture for MySQL High Availability Database

New Releases

• FSF Binutils Release 2.31 is Now Available GNU
• Atom 1.28.2 is Released Atom
• IntelliJ IDEA 2018.2 Release Candidate is here! IDEA
• CoreDNS GA for Kubernetes Cluster DNS Kubernetes

Podcasts

• Talk Python: 10 Python Security Holes and How to Plug Them Python
  Python doesn't have unsafe memory access like C, but you can still write insecure software. A look at several common security issues in Python code that you should watch out for.
• Hanselminutes: Accessibility with Nicolas Steenhout Accessibility
  Accessibility should be a key design point when you're building applications. Nic Steenhout discusses building accessibility in web apps, mobile apps, and even physical spaces.

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