Articles on Glimpse, WebHooks and ASP.NET on AWS

Welcome to 1Gig Tech update!

In today’s edition, there are 10 articles on technology, news, open source, community on the fantastic and ever evolving technology world.

• Let’s Encrypt is a new Certificate Authority:It’s free, automated, and open. In Public Beta
  Internet Security Research Group (ISRG) is a California public benefit corporation, and is recognized by the IRS as a tax-exempt organization under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code.

• quozd/awesome-dotnet (quozd)
  Awesome .NET! A collection of awesome .NET libraries, tools, frameworks, and software. Inspired by awesome-ruby, awesome-php, awesome-python, frontend-dev-bookmarks and ruby-bookmarks.

• 01 Punit Ganshani – Packaging your libraries with NuGet
  Speakers: Punit Ganshani Average: 5 (1) Download How do I download the videos? To download, right click the file type you would like and pick “Save target as…” or “Save link as…” Why should I download videos from Channel9? It’s an easy way to save the videos you like locally.

• Coding is boring, unless… — Enki Blog — Medium
  As a developer, I never managed to stick to the same job for more than two years. Each new job was a good career move, and a high turnover is common in our industry. But my previous employers were not particularly happy that I left.

• Glimpse v2 Beta1 Released! (nikmd)
  This morning at the Connect(); event in New York city, Scott Hanselman announced some exciting news: Glimpse v2 Beta1 is now available! Glimpse v2 is a major evolution of the platform. We’re extremely proud of what we’ve accomplished thus far, and we think you’ll like what you see.

• Using ASP.NET WebHooks with IFTTT and Zapier to Monitor Twitter and Google Sheets (Heath Stewart)
  With the latest drop of ASP.NET WebHooks we have added a generic JSON WebHook receiver, which can be used to receive WebHooks from services like IFTTT and Zapier.

• Restricting Columns Retrieved in Entity Framework (Peter Vogel)
  A couple of months ago, I wrote a column on how to avoid downloading columns in a table that has hundreds of columns or columns containing large objects (or, at least, only downloading those columns when you want them).

• ASP.NET 5 on AWS EC2 Container Service in 10 Steps (Armen Shimoon)
  One of the most promising features of ASP.NET 5 is the ability to run on Windows, Mac, and Linux. With regard to development, I imagine most people will continue to use Windows or develop from OS X (even if the tooling is less mature).

• Re: Tyranny of NuGet
  My old friend Mitch Denny (it’s been a while!) wrote about the Tyranny of NuGet. In addition to these two popular uses, NuGet is also used by the new PowerShell Package Management tools as one possible source/provider of packages, once again for installation of software.

• .NET Reflector 9.0 release notes (Tom Crossman)
  The Roslyn compiler and the C#5 compiler emit different IL for asynchronous and anonymous methods. Reflector can now correctly decompile Roslyn-compiled code for these language constructs. Thanks to Paulo Morgado for his input during the beta program.

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