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ASP.NET Core in .NET 8 Preview 4: Blazor Streaming, Form Handling, Native AOT, Identity API and More
The latest release of .NET 8 Preview 4 brings significant improvements to ASP.NET Core. Notable enhancements include Blazor's streaming rendering and form handling, expanded support for form binding in minimal APIs, Native AOT compilation for improved performance, enhanced authentication and authorization with Identity API endpoints, and the addition of metrics for application monitoring.
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Adopting Artificial Intelligence: Things Leaders Need to Know
Artificial intelligence (AI) can help companies identify new opportunities and products, and stay ahead of the competition. Senior software managers should understand the basics of how this new technology works, why agility is important in developing AI products, and how to hire or train people for new roles.
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Uno Platform for Figma Preview 5: Enhanced Features for Designers and Developers
Uno Platform has released Preview 5 of its Figma plugin, offering enhanced features for designers and developers. The latest version of the plugin allows the creation of custom colors, enables the import of Design Systems Packages (DSP), and offers new controls such as Pips Pager, TabBar, and ItemsRepeater for greater flexibility in creating dynamic designs.
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IDPs with Poor User Experience are Destined to Fail
User Experience design is of paramount importance for implementing an Internal Developer Platform, finds Fernando Villalba. In a comprehensive blog post detailing what great design and UX (user experience) means, Villalba expands on how to leverage these best to build an IDP (internal developer platform) that is user-friendly and hence more likely to be adopted widely.
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Spotify Reveals Metrics for Success of Developer Portal Backstage
Music streaming giant Spotify has recently shared how it measures the return on investment (ROI) of Backstage, its open platform for building developer portals. Hgh-frequency Backstage users deploy software more often and in less time, with higher perceived productivity, and employees using it also stay longer with the company.
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QCon New York: Five Tracks to Level-up on the Latest Software Development Practices
The 2023 edition of the QCon New York (June 13-15) software development conference, hosted by InfoQ, is set to bring together over 800 senior software developers. The three-day conference will feature over 80 innovative senior software practitioners from early adopter companies sharing how they are solving current challenges, providing new ideas and perspectives across multiple domains.
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.NET MAUI 8 Preview 3: UI improvements, Memory Management, and NuGet Versioning
Microsoft has recently released the third preview of the .NET MAUI framework in .NET 8. This latest release includes UI improvements, focusing on memory management also. In addition, Preview 3 also brings support for NuGet package versions of the app. This means that developers will now have the ability to preview future builds and lock their applications to a specific version of .NET MAUI.
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Remote Development with JetBrains Rider
JetBrains provides access to Remote Development Beta. The tool works by locally running a thin client and connecting to the IDE backend which gives a fully functional user interface. It can be handled by JetBrains Rider or JetBrains Gateway. The workflow of the tool is smooth as editing is done locally and the JetBrains client synchronises changes with the backend.
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Visual Studio 2022 v17.6 Preview 2: Productivity, Game Development and Enterprise Management
Visual Studio 2022 v17.6 Preview 2 is available, bringing new features and improvements for boosting productivity, game development, and enterprise management. The release includes updates such as a new Android Manifest Editor, Unreal Engine Code Analysis, HLSL Tools Extension, Create Member Function features, Git Stage and Commit During Build, Merge Dialog updates, and breakpoint groups, etc.
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Low-Code API Builder Postman Flows Moves into General Availability
Postman moved Postman Flows, their low-code API building tool, into general availability. Postman Flows provides a collaborative, graphical interface for building API-driven applications and workflows. It integrates with the Postman API Network to access publicly available APIs.
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Uno Platform 4.8: New App Template Wizard & Design System Package Import, .NET 8 Preview 2, and More
Uno Platform released version 4.8 of their framework for building native mobile, desktop, and WebAssembly apps. The latest version brings over 200 fixes and new features, as well as support for .NET 8 Preview 2. The highlight of the new release is the new startup experience, new App Template Wizard, OpenGL Acceleration, Design System Package Import, updates for Reactive / MVUX, and many more.
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Green Software Development - What Can You Do Now, and Where is the Industry Heading?
Making code more efficient often ends up saving carbon. Storing less information and compressing it can also lower your carbon footprint. There are open-source projects and standards and guides available that can be used to increase sustainability in software development. Measurement standardization is needed to compare the environmental impact of cloud suppliers.
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Distributed Application Runtime (Dapr) v1.10 Released
Recently, the Dapr maintainers released V1.10 of Distributed Application Runtime (Dapr), a developer framework for building cloud-native applications, making it easier to run multiple microservices on Kubernetes and interact with external state stores/databases, secret stores, pub/sub-brokers, and other cloud services and self-hosted solutions.
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ASP.NET Core 8 Preview 2: QuickGrid and Enhanced Blazor WebAssembly Performance
.NET 8 Preview 2 brings several enhancements to the ASP.NET Core. The highlights of the release are the Blazor QuickGrid component, which promises to simplify data presentation and manipulation, and improved performance for Blazor WebAssembly through the use of the new runtime feature called jiterpreter.
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JetBrains Releases Rider 2023.1 EAP 6 with Improvements in UI and Debugging Experience
Recently JetBrains released Rider 2023.1 EAP 6. This new release contains some UI improvements: adding Compact Mode, project tabs for macOS users and the option to split the tool window area. Additionally, EAP 6 improves the debugging experience for developers.