Sunday Review (2019-05-12)
Tags: dotnet, review, retrospective, news
Published: 2019-05-12 18:34:14

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title: Sunday Review (2019-05-12)
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description: The week that was and has been
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## BUILD it and they will come...

It's the most wonderful time of the year!

Yes I'm talking about Microsoft BUILD 2019.

I've never been prouder to be a .NET developer using the Microsoft stack and the tools available. It's a promising future ahead with the announcement of .NET 5 building on the solid foundation that .NET Core has provided. 

There's great tools coming like the newest online code editor, (which I'm sure will get a better name than Visual Studio Online because it's just confusing) which takes the huge momentum behind Visual Studio Code and enable quick edits in the browser. I'll be interested to see where this goes as I'm often on the bus home thinking of little things I'd like to do or review a pull request in more detail.

Microsoft have changed so much in the last 10 years, embracing a plethora of platforms, languages and ideas.

## Learning

Having completed the Pluralsight Python path I wanted to get the Scrum Framework one done this week and succeeded.

To get fully completed I went through the “[Product Owner Fundamentals - Plotting the Product Owner's Career Path](https://app.pluralsight.com/library/courses/product-owner-fundamentals-product-owners-career-path/table-of-contents)” by [Jeremy Jarrell](https://app.pluralsight.com/profile/author/jeremy-jarrell) and then [Big Scrum](https://app.pluralsight.com/library/courses/big-scrum/table-of-contents) by [David Starr](https://app.pluralsight.com/profile/author/david-starr).

I now need to go through the Skills IQ tests for both Python and Scrum. I may well try and do a separate post to highlight my thoughts on these.

## The News

Each week I'll post a few links that I've found the most interesting from technology blogs, Reddit and other parts of the Internet.

BUILD has dominated the news for me this week and the best highlight of their strategy for the next few years is written up nicely in [.NET Core is the Future of .NET](http://bit.ly/2JkmwBT) and then [Introducing .NET 5](https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/introducing-net-5/).

As a bonus make sure you watch [Microsoft's launch video for the New Terminal](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gw0rXPMMPE). It's very Apple...

Check out some other articles I've found interesting below:

### Technology / General

* Breaking Up Facebook Is Not the Answer - https://nyti.ms/2Hejfmi
* DuckDuckGo proposes the Do-Not-Track Act of 2019 - https://selnd.com/2DJlhsx
* Google Brings Flutter to the Web in Technical Preview - http://bit.ly/2JoOGMf
* Google Fights Back - http://bit.ly/2VPTjW9
* Introducing GitHub Package Registry - http://bit.ly/2E1l5Fc
* Microsoft Reboots the PowerToys for Windows 10 - http://bit.ly/2VpMICA
* Microsoft Throws in the Towel on UWP Elevates Win32 - http://bit.ly/2HcRRnE
* Microsoft will ship a full Linux kernel in Windows 10 - http://bit.ly/2Ls1owq
* Nintendo 'Must Keep Up' With Cloud Tech But Sees Further Potential In Dedicated Hardware - http://bit.ly/2WB25oo
* Nest the company died at Google I/O 2019 - http://bit.ly/2PTePUw
* Uber opens at a disappointing $42 per share - https://tcrn.ch/2JfaESO
* Watch the HoloLens 2 Apollo 11 Demo - http://bit.ly/2PZhD2w

### developers

* Build 2019: Windows 10 to Pick Up Tabbed Terminal More - http://bit.ly/2WmACXf
* Database IDs Have No Place In URIs - http://bit.ly/2VeQcCL
* HTTP headers for the responsible developer - http://bit.ly/2Zv8C5O
* The Liskov Substitution Principle and why you might want to enforce it - http://bit.ly/2vSVPfE
* When Engineers Become Whistleblowers - http://bit.ly/2VnAoTg

### .NET / Azure

* Announcing ML.NET 1.0 - http://bit.ly/2DSaV9Y
* Announcing .NET Core 3.0 Preview 5 - http://bit.ly/2DQ2NGY
* Azure Tips and Tricks Part 196 - Testing Azure Functions - http://bit.ly/2V4fzHo
* Build 2019: Microsoft Announces .NET 5 - http://bit.ly/2PSxFLx
* Default timeouts in .Net code. What are they if you do not specify? - http://bit.ly/2vW3HwU
* Immutability in C# - http://bit.ly/2PZ3nXz
* Introducing .NET 5 - http://bit.ly/2Lt5Uuv
* Lightweight custom authentication with ASP.NET Core - http://bit.ly/2V2PdFN
* Your .NET 5 Questions Answered (Kinda Sorta) Part 1: WCF - http://bit.ly/2VTFp5m

Have a great week!