Month: June 2018

The Last Slice: challenge

Enrico

Beat challenge 1 (download the game, change the code) here. Then beat challenge 2. First five to beat challenge 3 win $10,000 USD each. No joke. Challenge 1 This is the first of three challenges for The Last Slice: A retro 8-bit video game that’s currently impossible to beat. Clone or download the code, install the prerequisites on your Windows 10 PC, open TheLastSlice.sln file with Visual Studio and run the game. You have the source code…change it any way you’d like to beat the game. The Prerequisites Here’s what…

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Gravatar Tag Helper for .NET Core 2.1

Enrico

A tag helper is any class that implements the ITagHelper interface. However, when you create a tag helper, you generally derive from TagHelper, doing so gives you access to the Process method. In your ASP.NET Core project, create a folder to hold the Tag Helpers called TagHelpers. The TagHelpers folder is not required, but it’s a reasonable convention. Now let’s get started writing some simple tag helpers. Tag helpers use a naming convention that targets elements of the root class name (minus the TagHelper portion of the class name). In…

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Amazon’s Fire TV Cube is a set top box crossed with an Echo

Enrico

Amazon just added another model to its increasingly crowded selection of living room offerings. There’s bound to be some consumer confusion around the line, but the Cube differentiates itself by bridging the gap between Fire TV and Echo. Sure, past set top offerings have incorporated Alexa control, but this latest addition folds in the full smart speaker experience. In fact, the Cube looks like a big, square Echo Dot. It’s not much to look at, honestly, but the familiar design elements are all there, including the four Echo buttons on…

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Microsoft snaps up GitHub for $7.5 billion

Enrico

As we anticipated yesterday, Microsoft has reached an agreement to buy GitHub, the source repository and collaboration platform, in a deal worth $7.5 billion. The all-stock deal is expected to close by the end of the year, subject to regulatory approval in the US and EU. Decade-old GitHub is built on Git, the open source version control software originally written by Linux creator Linus Torvalds. Git is a distributed version control system: each developer has their own repository that they make changes to, and these changes can be propagated between…

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Microsoft has reportedly acquired GitHub

Enrico

Microsoft has reportedly acquired GitHub, and could announce the deal as early as Monday. Bloomberg reports that the software giant has agreed to acquire GitHub, and that the company chose Microsoft partly because of CEO Satya Nadella. Business Insider first reported that Microsoft had been in talks with GitHub recently. GitHub is a vast code repository that has become popular with developers and companies hosting their projects, documentation, and code. Apple, Amazon, Google, and many other big tech companies use GitHub. Microsoft is the top contributor to the site, and…

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