Developer Tools Weekly

Articles

• What Did Ada Lovelace's Program Actually Do?
  Ada Lovelace is - rightly - credited as the first computer programmer. But she build programs for a computer that didn't actually exist - so… what did her software actually do?
  Sinclair Target
• Sourcetree 3.0 Branches Out with New Hosting Services
  SourceTree is one of the first graphical GUI clients for Git. And yet, they're still innovating - now they're adding support for hosting providers like GitHub Enterprise and VSTS.
  Kelvin Yap
• Fuzzing the .NET JIT Compiler
  Fuzzing tries to find bugs and security holes by sending random data to an application; 'Fuzzlyn' works to fuzz Roslyn, the .NET compiler.
  Matt Warren
• What’s Coming Up in JavaScript 2018: Async Generators, Better Regex
  A breakdown of what's coming in JavaScript from the latest ECMAScript standard update, including async generators and improvements to regular expressions.
  Mary Branscombe
• State of DevOps 2018: Strategies for a New Economy
  DORA - DevOps Research and Assessment - continues its annual research into software delivery performance. Their latest report is the most comprehensive analysis of DevOps yet.
  Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humble, Gene Kim

In Brief

• Open Datacenter Hardware - What is OCP? OpenHardware
• How to collect, customize, and manage Rails application logs Monitoring
• TypeScript and Babel 7 TypeScript
• Introducing Source Code Link for NuGet packages NuGet
• Are Containers Replacing Virtual Machines? Containers

New Releases

• Babel 7 Released JavaScript
• GitLab Security Release: 11.2.3, 11.1.6, and 11.0.6 GitLab Security
• Atom 1.30.0 Editor
• ReSharper Ultimate 2018.2.1 is released! .NET

Podcasts

• The Open Source Show: The Role of Ethics in Open Source and Online Communities
  Stephanie Hurlburt talks about putting the community back into open source by lending privilege, going beyond quickly reviewing pull requests and clear documentation
• .NET Rocks: Coding on Twitch with Jeff Fritz
  I only know Twitch because the kids are livestreaming their games - but can you livestream writing software? That's exactly what Jeff Fritz does.

Events

• TechBash 2018, an Affordable Regional Developer Conference
  The schedule has just been published for TechBash 2018 - a great regional developer conference in Poconos Manor, PA.

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