2018 - March/April
Rick Strahl serves up our lead article this month with his in-depth and incredibly educational “Ready for Prime Time: .NET Core 2.0 and ASP.NET Core 2.0” article. See the About the Cover sidebar in Rod’s “Ending Malaise” editorial for more information about the cover. Rounding out the rest of the issue, Wei-Meng Lee continues to guide us down the machine learning path with this “Introduction to the R Programming Language” article, Sahil Malik gets you started creating your own bots and the remaining articles cover creating better mobile apps by eliminating HTML tables, Facebook reversing its course and ditching its ReactJS licensing scheme, getting started implementing Node streams in your applications and much more. Happy reading.
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Ending Malaise
Rod encounters Motivational Difficulties and comes up with a way through them.
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Eliminate HTML Tables for Better Mobile Web Apps
At this point, you’re clear that your app has to work on all platforms, especially on smartphones. Paul gets tables to adjust their sizes based on which platform is being used to view it.
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Bots
Bots are no longer some cool effect in a sci-fi movie. Sahil shows you how to begin programming yours.
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Legal Notes: Potpourri
John lets you know about some recent legal changes, such as Facebook’s ReactJS licensing reversal, the new EU General Data Protection Regulation, copyright enforcement, professional liability insurance, and the new Linux Foundation Community Data License.
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Better Extract/Transform/Load (ETL) Practices in Data Warehousing (Part 2 of 2)
Kevin shows us how to solve tangles in SQL Server, and in this article, he looks at some questions that have come up since his last article on ETL practices in Data Warehousing.
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Ready for Prime Time: .NET Core 2.0 and ASP.NET Core 2.0 Have Arrived
Rick explores the new features in .NET Core and ASP.NET Core and shows you that the wait was worth it.
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Getting Started with Node Streams
If your synchronous load drowns in a sea of code, a lifeboat can be found in NodeJS. Chris explains how to use node streams to organize the flow of data.
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Introduction to the R Programming Language
Learning R sets you up for creating machine learning projects. Wei-Meng takes a close look at the language, which can implement a wide variety of statistical techniques, tests, analysis, classification, clustering, and can help you produce publication-quality graphs.
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Azure Skyline: Terms (Resource Groups, App Service Plans and SQL Elastic Pools)
Azure has come out with some great new tools. Mike introduces some of them, including Resource Groups, App Service Plans, and SQL Elastic Pools.
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On Managers
Ted talks about being a manager, having a manager, and the difference between a good and a bad manager.
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What’s New in ASP.NET Core 2.1
Daniel takes you on a tour of the new features in the new release of ASP.NET. He thinks you’ll find it exciting, especially regarding its SignalR capabilities.