Community Picks·3yDid You Know? Shift+Ctrl+Alt+Win+L Opens LinkedIn on Windows
In October 2019, Microsoft introduced a new keyboard design that included a dedicated "Office" key. The key is typically positioned between the right Alt and the Emoji key near the space bar. You can press Office+W to open Microsoft Word, Office+X to open Excel or Office+L to open the LinkedIn website.
Snyk·3yModern VS Code extension development: The basics
Microsoft Visual Studio (VS) Code is currently the most popular source code editor. It can be used as a fully-fledged integrated development environment (IDE) All you need to do is add the right set of extensions from the Visual Studio Code Marketplace. Snyk Security is defined as a linter and programming language extension.
gitconnected·3y10 Best Coding and Programming Interview Books in 2023
10 Best Coding and Programming Interview Books in 2023. In the past, I have hared some of the best online courses to prepare coding interviews. These books are enough to crack even the toughest of the job interviews at Amazon, or Microsoft. They provide excellent coverage of all essential topics for programming job interviews.
.NET Escapades·3yIntroducing the Identity API endpoints
ASP.NET Core Identity lets you store user accounts in your app, manage user details, enable two factor authentication, and associate third-party logins with users. These endpoints serve as API-friendly alternatives to the "default UI" that has been available for some time.
asayer·3yCross-Browser Compatibility: Tips and Techniques
Cross-browser compatibility makes it possible for websites to run on any browser. It helps to manage the time and expenses used in browser-specific coding and testing. Gecko, Blink, and Trident are four of the most widely used rendering engines. For example, Chrome has gained market share over the past few years.
Codrops·3yWeekly Frontend News: Collective #784
The article features various topics including an inspirational website, a free web database, the State of HTML survey, a JavaScript library called Nue, creating responsive type scales using CSS, a code search engine called SeaGOAT, the complexities of creating a design system, an open-source tool called HyperDX, an Inception experiment, achieving a realistic glass backdrop with CSS, a Windows 95 operating system experiment, beautifully designed components with Radix Vue and Tailwind CSS, a startup simulation game, the ups and downs of the text-wrap property, 3D mapping Earth from space, ink and water simulation, a data visualization toolkit called Vizro, a Figma guide to handoff, and a data exposure incident on Microsoft's AI GitHub repository.
Pointer·3yHow Microsoft does Quality Assurance (QA)
The Redmond Big Tech giant pioneered the SDET role in the 90s. Microsoft was the first major company to come up with a specialized testing role which went well beyond manual testing. The SDET (Software Development Engineer in Test) role was one that Microsoft pioneered across the tech industry.
Community Picks·3yI've found about this Search Engine that can connect to multiple databases, data sources like GitHub, Google Search, Bing, Outlook, Teams, Docs, Different types of documentations and provide answers i
Using LLMs and ChatGPT API it can perform answer generation. So, we get answers on our queries from our data, basically RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) Looks like a good tool, that I'll be exploring. Will try to contribute to it in a manner.
Microsoft·3yAnnouncing Microsoft Copilot, your everyday AI companion
Microsoft 365 Copilot will begin to roll out in its early form as part of our free update to Windows 11, starting Sept. 26. It will work as an app or reveal itself when you need it with a right click. New Windows 11 Update delivers over 150 new features, including bringing the power of Copilot to the PC.
Pointer·3yfrom prototyping, testing to production deployment and monitoring.
Prompt flow is a suite of development tools designed to streamline the end-to-end development cycle of LLM-based AI applications. It makes prompt engineering much easier and enables you to build LLM apps with production quality. The project has adopted the Microsoft Open Source Code of Conduct.