I know that I must have mentioned Markdown in passing in some of my past fun link posts, but today I wanted to focus on it a bit more with some tools specifically focused on Markdown.
For those not familiar with Markdown, I will try to reserve judgement and say that it is a simple text markup format with the goal of being easy and natural to read in its unprocessed form.
So if you are reading this, you have come across my new home on the web. You may wonder how it can be new and contain some 50+ posts (as of this writing). Well I have taken the liberty of seeding some content which dates back to 2011.
This content comes in the form of Fun Links posts which I have been creating for my work colleagues for the past number of years.
Today my links are for various image/document services each of which fills slightly different needs.
I’ve been dealing with a lot of DNS recently, and so I figured I’d put together a DNS flavoured set of links this week. If you own a domain name (or perhaps a collection of them), then you need DNS as well. DNS allows your handsome domain name to resolve into IP addresses that then are used to send requests where they need to go.
A lot of DNS providers want to charge a fair bit for their services.
Another themed group of links, this time, Reactive Programming libraries for JavaScript. As the reactive programming paradigm catches on, there are libraries popping up in many languages and JavaScript is no different. Sometimes referred to as Functional Reactive Programming (FRP), the idea is that streams of events or dynamic values represent the data within your application. You can then transform, combine, filter and perform a host of other operations on these streams. Each library has slightly different syntax and names for certain things, but conceptually they are all trying to do the same thing.
Today is my microservices edition. I’m not going to debate or extol the merits of microservices as part of this, as, like anything else, it is a matter of choosing the right tool for the job. They aren’t a silver bullet that will solve all of your problems. In this case, I’m linking to some providers of microservices as a service. That’s right, we’ve come full circle.
These microservices do have their place, like if you have a static site that needs a small bit of custom server-side processing.
In the interest of giving people something they want to hear, I’m going to focus on some interesting NuGet packages for .NET today. Again, like always, I post these links as being potentially interesting, and not as an endorsement or anything like that.
Hangfire
http://hangfire.io
Hangfire is a background task manager for .NET applications. Backed by persistent storage, you can use it from any type of .NET app. Supports delayed and recurring tasks as well.
This week I’m doing something a bit different, this week my links are all to videos outlining some new features and functionality surrounding Visual Studio 2015 and C# 6.
Most of the people reading this use Visual Studio on a day to day basis, so it felt like a good subject for some fun links that are hopefully also educational.
SQL tools, build tools and a little something functional for my fans of that genre. Please enjoy.
A DevOps tool, an IoT kit and a transcompiled JavaScript language. I’m hoping that people will find something interesting
Kitematic
https://kitematic.com/
A Mac app to manage your Docker containers in a visual way. Works side by side with the Docker CLI app.
Particle
https://www.particle.io/
Particle is an interesting Internet of Things toolkit. They provide hardware dev kits to prototype your ideas, and they have an online IDE, which allows you to edit and deploy firmware applications written in SparkJS and their Mobile SDK.