5 Best Xbox One Games Ever

The rundown of the best Xbox One games is an intriguing spot to be, particularly as we sit on the cusp of the people to come. These are the titles that truly flaunt the comfort at its best, pushing the limits of what’s fit, and therefore the subsequent rundown of games is a great thing, even with Xbox Series X and the related forthcoming Xbox Series X games not too far off.  So, whether you’ve quite recently gotten tied up with the Xbox family through an Xbox One S group…

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Microsoft Open-Sources GW-BASIC

When I read that Microsoft released open-sources GW-BASIC, I couldn’t resist to take a look at the code on GitHub. I spent my childhood to play with GW-BASIC and Clipper (do you remember that?) These sources, as clearly stated in the repo’s readme, are the 8088 assembly language sources from 10th Feb 1983, and are being open-sourced for historical reference and educational purposes. This means we will not be accepting PRs that modify the source in any way. A little historical context The GW-BASIC source code being published is dated Feb 10th…

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Windows 10 got a built-in network sniffer

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There are a lot of new features (see this post) coming soon in Windows 10. Microsoft has quietly added a built-in network packet sniffer to the Windows 10 October 2018 Update, and it has gone unnoticed since its release. A packet sniffer, or network sniffer, is a program that monitors the network activity flowing over a computer down to an individual packet level. This can be used by network administrators to diagnose networking issues, see what types of programs are being used on a network, or even listen in on…

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F# 5 and F# tools update

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In the last couple of weeks, I started to create posts about F#. Today, Microsoft has just announced some updates to F# 5 and F# tools update! They shipped a lot of preview features since F# 5 preview 1, and they have all been stabilizing since that release. Today, we’re happy to announce some minor additions to F# 5 and talk about some pretty cool performance work we’ve been doing. Here’s how you get the latest release: Install the latest .NET 5 preview SDK Install Jupyter Notebooks for .NET If you’re using Visual…

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Uno Platform now lets you develop for macOS, Windows, and more using the same code

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Uno Platform announced today that it now supports macOS as a target platform. This new support means that developers can use a single code base to create apps on Windows, iOS, Android, the web, and macOS. According to Uno Platform, this makes it the first and only cross-platform solution to allow the same codebase to run on all these platforms. Uno Platform allows developers to use C# and XAML code to create native apps on several platforms. Rather than running through Electron or emulation, apps that utilize Uno Platform can…

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Introducing Web Vitals: essential metrics for a healthy site

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Optimizing for quality of user experience is key to the long-term success of any site on the web. Through our ongoing engagement and collaboration with millions of web developers and site owners, we’ve developed many helpful metrics and tools across Google to help business owners, marketers, and developers alike identify opportunities to improve user experiences. However, abundance of metrics and tools creates its own set of prioritization, clarity, and consistency challenges for many.  Today we are introducing a new program, Web Vitals, an initiative by Google to provide unified guidance…

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Multiple output in Azure Functions with C#

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In this post I like to analyse how to return multiple output in Azure Functions with C# and Service Bus. If you want more info, in the last week or so, I published some posts about Azure Function in C# or F# like “Create Azure Function in C# Script and Service Bus” or “Creating Azure Function in F#“. You have a platform on Azure and two different services are triggered by a message from Service Bus. At some point, you have an Azure Function doing a procedure that has to…

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