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Reading Notes #530

Good Monday!
It's time to share new ReadingNotes. Here is a list of all the articles, and blog posts, that catch my interest during the week. Are you done watching all the videos from .NET Conf and GitHub Universe? I know I don't...

If you think you may have interesting content, share it!

Cloud

Programming

Miscellaneous

~frank


Reading Notes #470

Every Monday, I share my "reading notes". Those are a curated list of all the articles, blog posts, podcast episodes, and books that catch my interest during the week and that I found interesting. It's a mix of the actuality and what I consumed.

You think you may have interesting content, share it!

Cloud

  • How to Display the Current Azure Subscription in your CLI (Sam Cogan) - This is a game-changer for me. Every time I work in the terminal I was checking what was my current subscription (you don't want to deploy things in the wrong one right?) But know it will always be visible. Wonderfull!

Programming

Miscellaneous

Reading Notes #453


Cloud

Programming

Miscellaneous

Podcasts

  • What is a Developer Game Jam? (Coding Blocks) - Interesting episode about Game Jam... I barely know that universe. Yes, I said universe because it is a completely different world or better another dimension. There are tons of events and participants but you may never hear of that. It's very interesting.

  • A Blast from the Past and Life's Interesting Journey — Back After 8 Years (The Smart Passive Income Online Business and Blogging Podcast) - Inspiring episode about how communities can be built and be interesting.

Reading Notes #421

Every Monday, I share my "reading notes". Those are the articles, blog posts, podcast episodes, and books that catch my interest during the week and that I found interesting.

It's a mix of the actuality and what I consumed. Enjoy!

Programming

  • Try gh, GitHub's new CLI (John Papa) - Oh, that's really nice I like that. I find it funny that t should like you just got a hit in the chest. However, it looks powerful enough to cut your breath... so it probably deserves it.

Podcasts

  • 0241 - Etienne Tremblay - GitHub Actions (Visual Studio Talk Show) - Great episode that compare, discuss, and speculate with GitHub Actions and Azure DevOps. It's in French. I miss you guys it's been too long... Great show.

Miscellaneous


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Reading Notes #344

CI-CD

Suggestion of the week


Cloud


Programming


Books

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The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable (Patrick Lencioni) - I really enjoyed this book. The fact the first the material was passed as a story adds a lot of perspective and to our comprehension. In the last chapter the author return to the theories and gives more details. I completely devour that book; I'm looking forward to reading more.


Miscellaneous


~Enjoy


Reading Notes #342

Connector

Cloud


Programming

  • Writing a Blazor App (David Pine) - This tutorial shows how to build a simple blazor app...and it's NOT the hello-word or todo.

Miscellaneous



Reading Notes #334

canadaflag

Suggestion of the week

  • HTTPS Is Easy! (Troy Hunt) - A wonderful series of 4 videos that explains how to get secure with https. A must!

Cloud


Programming


Miscellaneous


Reading Notes #305

AzureDatabricks

Cloud


Programming


Miscellaneous


Reading Notes #291

Blue-container

Cloud


Programming


Miscellaneous




Reading Notes #261

gummibarchen-359950_960_720Suggestion of the week


Cloud


Programming


Miscellaneous




Reading Notes #260

shopping-cart-1275482_640Suggestion of the week


Cloud


Programming


Miscellaneous


Reading Notes #215

Reading on the roadCloud


Programming


Data


Miscellaneous



Reading Notes #169

 

Happy New Year!


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Suggestion of the week


Cloud


Programming


Miscellaneous



~Frank Boucher


Reading Notes #166

IMG_20141123_093027577_HDRSuggestion of the week


Cloud


Programming


Miscellaneous


~Frank B.


Reading Notes #161

grunge-leaf-1434301-mCloud


Programming


Miscellaneous


~Frank Boucher



Why I switch to Markdown

The Markdown is not a new video game, but a way to write in plain text that can easily be converted in HTML. This "new" standard is gaining in popularity for many reasons. In this post, I will explain why I like it and show you some basic syntax, and nice tools.

What is Markdown

The exact Markdown's definition can by found on the Markdown website and look like this:
Markdown is a text-to-HTML conversion tool for web writers. Markdown allows you to write using an easy-to-read, easy-to-write plain text format, then convert it to structurally valid HTML.
The syntax in Markdown is very easy to learn. In fact, it will come mostly by itself since it will look nice in any text editor.  For example, title and subtitle and list look like:

Title and sub-title
This Is My Title
================

Subtitle 1
----------

Here some items:
- Item 1
- item 2
- item 3

That easy right?! Let's add two more sample, this time a bit more "complex": Links and images.

Link

For links, two styles are possible:

Inline:

[Link Text](http://www.frankysnotes.com)
Reference:

[Link Text][1]
[Another one][link2]

...

[1]: http://www.frankysnotes.com 
[link2]: http://www.frankysnotes.com    

I personally prefer the reference style, because it keeps the text clean and easy to read. To add an image it's mostly the same two style again, but we add an exclamation point in front of the square brackets.

Image
![alternative text](http://frankysnotes.com/images/logo.png)

![alternative text][logo]

...

[logo]:http://frankysnotes.com/images/logo.png

This these simple things cover mostly everything we need when writing documentation, blog posts or reference documents. Obviously if you need more you can always go on the Markdown website. I also put online this full article in Markdown format.


Why Markdown is so nice

First, I really like Mardown because I can edit my files on all platforms. Since they are regular text files, any text editor on Android, IOS, Windows Phone, PC and Linux will do the job perfectly. Plus, your text will never lose is formatting, while changing from a device to another one (like with Word documents).
Likewise, since I'm working on different devices, I usually put my file in a shareable place like Dropbox or OneDrive. A simple text file is very small and quick to synchronize.

Tools, apps and more

Yes, you can edit your file in any text editor, but here are some nice tools that are available that will improve your experience.

MarkdownPad

MarkdownPad is a full-featured Markdown editor for Windows. It`s available in a free and pro version. Some interesting features are:
  • Instant HTML Preview
  • Easy Markdown formatting with keyboard shortcuts
  • Spell check
  • Use your own CSS
  • HTML and PDF Export
Website: http://markdownpad.com/


Denote
Denote is a Markdown text editor for Android that provides effortless syncing with Dropbox. Files created with Denote are saved as text (.txt) files.
  • Live preview for Markdown and HTML
  • Cloud based: Denote stores all its data in a subfolder on your personal Dropbox account so you can access it via your Mobile devices, Mac or PC
  • Offline support: changes are synced with Dropbox next time you're connected
  • Email files created in Denote
  • Customize font size and type face used for notes
Website: http://www.2storks.com/denote


Atom
This great text editor from GitHub has a nice Markdown Preview package, that will convert the markdow in HTML.
Atom Website: https://atom.io/
Markdown Preview package: https://github.com/atom/markdown-preview


Sublime Text
Sublime text is a well knowed text editor in the developer community and many different packages are also available.
Sublime Text Website: https://atom.io/
Markdown Preview package: https://github.com/revolunet/sublimetext-markdown-preview

In conclusion

I hope this post will motivate you to give it a try. Thanks for reading. Any comments, suggestions and/or questions are welcome.


~Frank Boucher


Reading Notes #47

Balance_cloud

Cloud


Programming

  • An Introduction to NuGet - Nice post that explain quickly what is NuGet and witch tools are available.
  • Why I Hate Unit Testing - What a nightmare! I'm not sure that this post will help the undecided to join the unit testing but this JusMock tool deserved a look.
"This is easy to do with Telerik JustMock. I wrote about using JustMock to get you started in From Legacy to Dependency Injection.
Steve Forte and Joel Semeniuk have a great presentation on this called The Agile Buffet Table."


Miscellaneous

  • A Super-Efficient Email Process (Peter) - Explain a simple method to be more productive and efficient with e-mail management.
  • the Continuous Client (Joshua Topolsky) - So true, I'm looking for a continuous Twitter client for a long time now. I don't understand why this isn't in all application. Congratulation to Kindle for this! You can start reading on one device and continue to another one without effort.
  • 9 Steps to Take When You Loathe Your Own Blog (Guest Blogger) - Having a blog is a lot work. Here are 9 tips to keep you inspired and proliferates.
  • 5 Things to Ask Your Cloud Backup Services Provider - I'm a Mozy user and really happy with it. Of course this post is also a sales pitch but the questions are the good one and should be considered when selecting your backup solution. When did you do your last backup?
  • 5 Steps To Choosing The Right Challenges (Brendon Burchard) - Nice post that give good tips to identify good challenges.



~Frank


News about Franky’s Notes


I decide two weeks ago that it was about time to refresh this four years old blog.

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Of course change the general look of the blog, and I update my about page. I also add a Contact page with a form to send me comments.

And finally I get a name space! So for now you can reach this blog on FrankysNotes.com!

So let's me know your impression!


~Franky