Teacher, coder, author of heavy books. Many-time Microsoft MVP. Left this circus for Mastodon. Find me @prosetech@hachyderm.io

Toronto, Ontario
Joined January 2012
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This season of black mirror is not as good as the first
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Help define our 2023 roadmap - the BIG ROCKS! It only takes 5 min to complete! RT for reach please. 🙏 surveymonkey.com/r/ZVM6VB3
I feel like .NET 6 has been released yesterday, but the first preview on .NET 7 is out today! devblogs.microsoft.com/dotne…
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#csadvent first entry, one of my favorites so far. It's @prosetech - "Can You Teach #CSharp as a First Language for Kids?" medium.com/young-coder/can-y…
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For this year's #csadvent (and my last post of the year!), I've got a stocking of sorts: a few random, little things that should make your development life simpler and easier. daveabrock.com/2021/12/08/do…
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WinForms and WPF devs, help us decide if we should build a new feature for .NET desktop platforms and what should be our priorities in the future. Schedule a call with me via aka.ms/dotnetdesktopcall. Your feedback is super valuable! 🙏
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Guess what runs on a Raspberry Pi Zero 2?
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#dotNETConf speakers are confirmed & the agenda is posted‼️ Learn as experts from the product teams & community share .NET 6 news & show you what you can do with the latest release. It's just around the corner so don't forget to save the date: hubs.li/H0ZWyvX0 #dotnet
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BREAKING: The hacking collective Anonymous has announced another data leak from the web hosting company Epik. Data includes full disk images of Epik's server infrastructure & exposes at least 59 API keys for Twitter, Coinbase, PayPal, & more. Story here: dailydot.com/debug/anonymous…
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[NEW RELEASE] JavaScript Cookbook, 3E -- The recipes in this book by @adamdscott @prosetech & @shelleypowers take advantage of the latest features in ECMAScript 2020 and beyond and use modern JavaScript coding standards. oreil.ly/kztDj #OReillyExperts #NewBook
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I just published My Job Search and FAANG Interview Experience link.medium.com/EvSBMsC2Vib
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Happy Fibonacci Day! 8/13/21 Great joke. Well, it’s as good as the other two I read combined. Interviewer: “Well, Leonard, we’ve narrowed it down to you and this guy named Link Liszt.” 😄 #programming #humor #jokes #funnybutnothahafunny – at Plano, TX
I wonder what they got Fibonacci to do during his interviews…
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WIN + CTRL + SHIFT + B Tells the computer you're experiencing a black screen and tries to fix it
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I don't think I saw this back in March. What really jumps out to me is that #Scala is the only functional language in the top 20 today. Haskell dropped off and Clojure only made a brief appearance. RedMonk Top 20 Languages Over Time: January 2021 redmonk.com/kfitzpatrick/202…
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🔥 Woohoo! My new @pluralsight course is published: Uno Platform Fundamentals. Learn how to use @UnoPlatform @WindowsUI #XAML #CSharp & @dotnet to build a multi-platform app for #Windows #Android #iOS #WASM #Linux #macOS pluralsight.com/courses/uno-… #uno #winui #dotnet #unoplatform
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Just saw that “Functional Programming, Simplified” is the #2 best-seller in Amazon’s “functional programming” category that is actually about functional programming. So thank you all for that! 🙏 #FunctionalProgramming #Scala
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It's the 1st birthday of the @dotnetstacks! This special issue is available to all right away. I have #MSBuild updates, #dotnet Preview 4, and more. If you've enjoyed my content, please consider sharing so I can help reach others. Thanks so much! daveabrock.com/2021/05/31/do…
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