game: Weekly Newsletter (27 Dec 2021)

Weekly Newsletter (27 Dec 2021)


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Weekly Poll Results

How will you be spending this Holiday period?

Survey period: 20 Dec 2021 to 27 Dec 2021

Another year of strangeness for many, and back to normal for many others. How's your holiday season looking?

Option	Votes	%
Coding without interruptions. Finally	64	9.89
Coding with lots of interruptions from friends and family.	104	16.07
No work. No code. I need a break.	251	38.79
On call / keeping an eye on things but generally kicking back	103	15.92
I'll be working through the holidays / I don't celebrate the Christmas break	55	8.50
Spending time with as many friends and family as possible	59	9.12
Spending time with just a few close friends / family	269	41.58
Spending time only with those in my bubble	110	17.00
Probably spending it in quarantine / self-isolation.	36	5.56
Other (post a comment!)	26	4.02
Responses	647
Respondents were allowed to choose more than one answer; totals may not add up to 100%

This week's survey: What are your New Year resolutions?

Latest Additions

New articles added

Desktop Programming

Productivity Hack Every Successful Developer Should Embrace

(2 votes) by Embarcadero (updated 6 days ago)

As the developer productivity drain crisis is worsening, we will inevitably witness even more manifestations of this problem in the near future. Adopting a smarter approach to building, testing, and maintaining software products without further delay is the way to avoid falling into this trap.

General Programming

FastFA: A Unicode Enabled Regex Engine for Code Generators

(2 votes) by honey the codewitch (updated yesterday)

Explore, run, and manipulate DFA regular expressions from graphs, to state machines with this library

Programming Languages

State Oriented Programming or 'IF' free programming

(6 votes) by Steve_Hemlocks (updated 2 days ago)

A way of thinking about programming that reduces the number of conditional statements in your code and improves testability.

Useful Generic Avalonia Controls located within NP.Avalonia.Visuals Package

(4 votes) by Nick Polyak (updated 6 days ago)

Generic Avalonia controls located within NP.Avalonia.Visuals open source library

Check It Out 2.0, One Step Win32 SDK C Checked Combo and List Boxes

(4 votes) by David MacDermot (updated 3 days ago)

This article describes adding checkboxes to the standard combobox and listbox control.

Behavior Pattern - Visual Behaviors in WPF and Avalonia with Practical Samples

(3 votes) by Nick Polyak (updated 3 days ago)

Here I describe the behaviors - functionality that allows modifying and augmenting an object's behavior non-invasively - without modifying the object's code.

Improving User Experience with Document APIs

(2 votes) by Shilpa Sharma (updated 5 days ago)

In this article, we examine some use cases that demonstrate the problems we can solve with GrapeCity Document APIs.

Security

Bridging Corda To The Permissionless World of Solana

(0 votes) by Sneha Damle (updated 6 days ago)

This blog discusses some of the possibilities of bridging private permissioned networks like Corda to public blockchain systems like Solana.

Web Development

Using JWT Token in AngularJS Application

(2 votes) by Han Bo Sun (updated 5 days ago)

How to use JWT Token with Spring Security for user authentication and authorization