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An open source maintainer shares his strategy for encouraging first-time contributors by creating easy, guided opportunities to submit code.
An open source maintainer shares his strategy for encouraging first-time contributors by creating easy, guided opportunities to submit code.
A guide to creating type-safe Core Data objects in Swift, covering convenience initializers and factory methods to avoid string-based APIs.
Cimbalino Toolkit 2.0.0-beta1 released, now compatible with Windows 10 UWP for universal app development.
Explores CSS techniques for handling long words and preventing layout breaks, covering hyphens, word-break, overflow-wrap, and ellipsis.
Compares CSS and SVG techniques for creating graphical text effects, focusing on background-clip, masks, and pattern fills.
A developer argues for the importance of clean, high-quality code comments and clarifies their relationship to documentation.
A guide to dynamically generating a robots.txt file in ASP.NET MVC, including SEO benefits and code examples.
A technical guide to fixing the 'account settings out of date' error in the Windows 10 Mail and Calendar app by reinstalling the app and clearing its data.
Explains how to use Laravel 5.1's built-in login throttling feature to prevent brute-force attacks by limiting failed login attempts.
A developer details the architecture of his custom-built blogging platform, explaining the Azure services and technologies used to power it.
A tutorial on creating a custom extension for the handroll static site generator, from code to configuration.
SoundCloud's journey from a monolithic architecture to a microservices system using Scala and Finagle, including monitoring with Prometheus.
Exploring Aspect-Oriented Programming in JavaScript to handle cross-cutting concerns like logging, using the aspect.js library.
A PowerShell guide to automatically enable Device Naming on all virtual network adapters for Generation 2 VMs on a Hyper-V host.
Explores the architecture and performance of proxy browsers, explaining their global importance and how they differ from typical browsers.
A tutorial on setting up a basic Gulp.js workflow to automate SASS compilation, JS concatenation, and minification for web development.
A CSOM developer tip for retrieving installed add-in/app information on a specific SharePoint Online site using code snippets.
Strategies for involving designers in open source projects to improve diversity and project outcomes.
Learn how to retrieve all apps from your Office 365 tenant app catalog using SharePoint Online CSOM API with a code snippet.
Quick Office 365 dev tip on retrieving tenant-level WebTemplates using CSOM and PnP with code snippet.