Elevenses #9

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Opinion

• Things nobody will tell you about React.js
• Stack Overflow charted the woefully short lifespan of your favourite frameworks
• Starting Over: How FreshBooks Reinvented Its Online Accounting Service On The Fly
• Designing for the Appearance of Speed
• OAuth Bearer Tokens are a Terrible Idea

Development

• ASP.Net Core 1.1 - Getting Started Tutorial (Courtesy of AB)
• Building Animated SVG Banners
• Microsoft’s .NET-mare for developers: ASP.NET Core 2.0 won’t work on Windows-only .NET oh yes it will! (Courtesy of RY)
• Razor Pages in ASP.NET Core (No controller views for the win!)
• Free video on ASP.NET Core 1.1
• Flutter - This month’s framework ;-)
• BUILD 2017 Conference Rollup for .NET Developers
• CSS animations Vs web animations API
• Headless mode in Chrome is nearer here) but not yet on Windows :-(

SQL

• Planet-scale document DB Cosmo announced by MS (plus other bits)

JavaScript / Angular2+ / Ionic2

• Implementing Event Modifiers in Angular
• Router animations in Angular 2
• 7 Angular Tools That You Should Consider
• ngConf videos
• Angular (2) Universal Server-side rendering example
• Service worker cookbook
• Ionic 3!?!?!
• Pluralsight (license required) - Progressive web apps fundamentals
• Custom Preloading and Lazy Loading Strategies with Angular
• Facebook Open Source
• JS - async vs defer
• sketch.app - Design in Sketch, code in React

Libraries / Plugins / Components

• Zurb Building Blocks
• Material components
• Numerous components for Angular2+ (Courtesy of CM)
• Ionic marketplace
• Top 27 Angular 2 Components for Web Developers (Angular2 Maps)[https://angular-maps.com/]
• The what and how of Web Push

Data / APIs

• Building for Builders: Stripe’s 8 Tips for Designing APIs and Supporting Developers

[Web] Design

• The invisible parts of CSS

Tools / Apps

• Microsoft To-Do List
• Copy to Clipboard from Command Line
• Mavo - create web apps by writing HTML! - built by the awesome Lea Verou)
• PopSQL - Collaborate on your SQL - (deserves inclusion on the name alone!)
• Slack - Screen sharing comes to slack
• A tool for making JavaScript code run faster - by facebook
• VS Code keyboard shortcut cheatsheet for Windows, and mac, and Linux
• New Photo scan app by Google

Security

• Multiple security holes discovered in Linksys routers (I’ve just bought one of these :())
• A new security header: Expect-CT, see also - Certificate Transparency, an introduction
• NIST’s new password rules – what you need to know

Misc

• Case Turns iPhone into an Android
• What Does Facebook Know About You
• Regular tech talks in Leeds, run by we are stac - some of the talks have been filmed and are available on the site

Social / Fun / Cool

• Meet the Intern Who Wrote Solitaire for Microsoft (Courtesy of AB)
• Leeds Food Festival - (pretty sure the website was mocked up in balsamiq and then just left!)
• Need to make your website look like 1996? Problem solved
• Staying with the 90’s theme … this is awesome!
• WebVR experiments - bit wow this one

Codepens

• More favourites

Lifestyle

• Food delivery app UberEATS launches in Leeds
• Tesla releases details of its solar roof tiles (… and they’ll be able outside the US next year)

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