John Cohn & Tim Hahn discuss the convergence of IoT and Blockchain http://ibm.biz/blockchainan... John Cohn & Tim Hahn discuss how IoT is taking advantage of blockchain technology's promise to build trust, reduce costs, and accelerate transactions. Developers must innovate constantly to reap the benefits of the disruptive blockchain technology. ......

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It Takes an Ecosystem to Build a Production Application - Wild Card Track Docker has made containerizing applications easy. This ease of use has given birth to a vibrant ecosystem of innovation. As more workloads become containerized and more tooling emerges from this ecosystem it is becoming harder to define the best dev/test/prod environment for your ......

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According to CodeChannels, Microsoft just released is a new version of the Microsoft Azure Storage Explorer, which is now available for Windows, Mac and Linux. http://codechannels.com/res... It is a standalone tool to easily work with your Azure Storage Accounts. This ......

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Keynote: Visual Studio 2015 – Any app, Any developer Microsoft release Visual Studio 2015 this year. Its release keynote has received 558,107 views. The video provides a great overview packed with demos for you to get started with Visual Studio 2015, .NET 4.6 and Visual Studio Online. (Visual Studio Online was later rebranded as “Visual Studio Team ......

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A year ago Connect(); started the journey for a new Microsoft for developers, unveiling the future of an open source .NET on Linux and Mac, and a free Visual Studio for targeting any device and any OS. Join us this year to hear directly from Scott Guthrie, Brian Harry, and Scott Hanselman on what’s next in this exciting journey. Get deeper insights ......

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The code sample demonstrates a standard calculator app in Windows 10 Universal Windows Platform. Its functionality is almost identical to the built-in Standard Calculator app in Windows 10. Live Demo: https://www.microsoft.com/e... Code Sample Download: http://scottge.net/product/... ......

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Here is the new Windows 10 Nav Pane App Template for Visual Studio 2015. https://visualstudiogallery... A navigation pane (or just "nav" pane) is a pattern that allows for many top-level navigation items while conserving screen real estate. The nav pane is widely used for mobile apps, but ......

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From Microsoft, Oracle, to IBM, Amazon, from SQL to NoSQL, here is a complete list of major data platform conferences from August to October: http://scottge.net/2015/08/... ......

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ASP.NET 5 has a number of architectural changes that make the core web framework much leaner and more modular. ASP.NET 5 is no longer based on System.Web.dll, but is instead based on a set of granular and well factored NuGet packages allowing you to optimize your app to have just what you need. This leaner architecture brings lots of benefits to your ......

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Here comes the a huge list of Azure tools, following the Web Development Tool list and the Windows Development Tool list. Management & Monitoring Tools Azure CLI (by Microsoft) - provides a set of open source, cross-platform commands for working with the Azure Platform. The Azure CLI provides much of the same functionality found in the Azure Management ......

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