Now that Christmas is a distant memory, have a read over a few of our favourite tech blog posts which you may have missed during the festive season.
https://www.troyhunt.com/the-trouble-with-politicians-sharing-passwords
If you follow UK politics, you may remember Nadine Dorries getting into a bit of a twitter spat with the tech community over the sharing of passwords. Troy Hunt gives an excellent breakdown of why this is a terrible idea.
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/mt814808
Don’t be fooled by the article date, this was first published in December! In this article Steven Toub goes in depth on the new .NET value type System.Span
https://medium.com/pluralsight/ask-john-papa-getting-ready-for-the-future-of-web-92ab2b81c3db
John Papa, developer advocate at Microsoft, shares his thoughts on the web in 2018 in a free webinar. In this post, Pluralsight also highlight some tweets from his related Twitter Q&A.
https://mattwarren.org/2017/12/19/Open-Source-.Net-3-years-later
A fascinating look at how the community contributions to Microsoft .NET repositories have progressed, during the three years since parts of the .NET Framework were open sourced.
https://calendar.perfplanet.com/2017/clearing-cache-in-the-browser
Cached assets are used to improve performance in the browser, but it’s all too easy to give these a long lifetime by mistake. This article describes a few solutions to the problem.
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