Hello, I'm   Jason

In Angular 10, the Angular team announced a strict mode that would perform build-time optimizations and help to deliver a faster application. However, it is not enabled by default as they’re still accepting feedback on which trade-offs you are willing to accept.

With in-person technical events being cancelled across the world, DevIntersection is hosting a virtual workshop event. Attend a workshop for $199 and attend a keynote for free.

Microsoft Press has Introducing Machine Learning on sale at 50% off this week for only $13.99. This book is aimed at professionals who are looking to build machine learning applications and is applicable for developers looking to improve data science skills or data scientists who are looking for relevant programming skills. Published on January 31st this year, this 400 page book covers the following topics:

During the #POWERfulDEVs conference in July this year, the Power Platform influencers and Cloud Advocates talked about tackling problems in low code environments using Azure and the Power Platform. Charles Lamanna wrapped up the event with a talk about fusion dev teams. Starting at 11:55am EDT (8:55am PDT) today, he’ll be available for an Ask Me Anything session. You can register for the event and sign-in by visiting jasong.us/2Yy8weW.

I often copy code in Visual Studio or Visual Studio Code where I need to hit Shift+Tab to remove the initial indentation for source code. I struggled to justify in my own mind that this was a solid feature request. However, Thomas Ardal has now officially submitted.

The Azure Hybrid virtual event content is now available on demand at jasong.us/34hTP36. You’ll get insights from industry experts, hear best practices, and learn how to extend services to any infrastructure with Azure Arc.

Umbraco 8.7 will be released on September 3rd, 2020. However, you can test out the 8.7 Release Candidate now. Interested in what’s new?

TypeScript 4.0 has been released and is available for the Insiders version of Visual Studio Code, Visual Studio 2017, or Visual Studio 2019.

Late last month, the Bing team announced the new Bing Webmaster Tools. There are several really nice enhancements and new features that have been added. One of the features that has had an overhaul is the import from the Google Search Console. This import allows you to be granular with the domains to pull in.

I’ve been reviewing Pluralsight courses lately for my team to review. There are some really good courses that have come been published soon. While I couldn’t list them all, here are some to pay attention to: