2020-06-22 Monday - Product Improvement Suggestions for Microsoft Teams

Today I've shared the following product improvement suggestions with Aya Tange (Product Marketing Manager | Microsoft Teams at Microsoft),

1) Ability to drag-and-drop contacts from one Contact Group - to another.   

2) When in a Team Meeting - the ability to dock and hide that annoying navigation bar across the lower portion of the screen.  

3) A configuration option to include all calls in Activity view (for a consolidated and single view of my history)   

4) An option within a Meeting Chat - to be able to export the chat history to: Word, PDF - or, perhaps copy to OneNote.  

5) A way to configure the default screen background - and eliminate the need to set it again, and again, and again - for every call.

6) A way to view all recent chat history (including chat from within calls) 

7) Add option in Settings > General to be able to change the font size used

2020-06-21 Sunday - Manning Publications - 2020 Books of Interest

There are many excellent new titles (and some updated 2nd editions) - coming later this year, that may be of interest  (and benefit) to you (or, members of your organization) - from Manning Publications Co. , and I look forward to hopefully having a chance to review many of them.

Check them out here (in publication date order):  
https://www.manning.com/catalog/sort/sort-by-date

For example:

• GraphQL in Action
• Kubernetes in Action, Second Edition
• Blockchain in Action
• Machine Learning with TensorFlow, Second Edition
• Microservices Security in Action
• API Security in Action
• Graph Databases in Action
• Grokking Deep Reinforcement Learning
• Rust in Action
• Serverless Architectures on AWS, Second Edition
• Bootstrapping Microservices with Docker, Kubernetes, and Terraform  
• Kafka in Action
• Math for Programmers
• Modern Fortran
• Terraform in Action 
• React Hooks in Action
• Deep Learning with Python, Second Edition
• Grokking Machine Learning
• Microservices in .NET Core, Second Edition
• Quantum Computing for Developers
• Core Kubernetes
• Exploring Data with R
• Functional Programming in Kotlin
• Getting Started with Natural Language Processing
• GitOps and Kubernetes
• Istio in Action
• R in Action, Third Edition
• PySpark in Action
• Spring Security in Action
• Getting Started with Kubernetes
• Spring in Action, Sixth Edition  

2020-06-20 Saturday - Development Tooling Updates

Photo by Alex Kondratiev on Unsplash

I've spent some time this evening updating a few of my development tools:

 go (1.14.4)

• https://golang.org/dl/
• https://golang.org/doc/devel/release.html#go1.14
• https://golang.org/doc/go1.14 

R (4.0.1)

• http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/R/CRAN/
• http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/R/CRAN/bin/windows/ 
• http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/R/CRAN/bin/windows/base/
• http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/R/CRAN/bin/windows/base/NEWS.R-4.0.1.html  
• http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/R/CRAN/manuals.html

Node.js (14.4.0)

• https://nodejs.org/en/
• https://github.com/nodejs/node/blob/master/doc/changelogs/CHANGELOG_V14.md#14.4.0

Java, OpenJDK (14.0.1)

• https://jdk.java.net/14/ 

Python (3.8.3)

• https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-383/
• https://docs.python.org/3.8/whatsnew/3.8.html 

Visual Studio Code (1.46.1)

• https://code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_46

Visual Studio 2019 (16.6.2)

• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/releases/2019/release-notes
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/releases/2019/release-notes#16.6.2

Eclipse (2020-06, 4.16)

• https://www.eclipse.org/eclipseide/2020-06/

Sparx Enterprise Architect (15.1, Build 1529)

• https://sparxsystems.com/products/ea/15.1/index.html

LibreOffice (6.4.4)

• https://www.libreoffice.org/download/download/?lang=en-US&version=6.4.4
• https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/6.4

Windows 10, Version 2004

• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/whats-new/whats-new-windows-10-version-2004
• Note:
• https://www.zdnet.com/article/windows-10-chrome-and-edge-slash-ram-use-thanks-to-this-microsoft-backend-change/  
• "Early internal testing results of devices on the May 2020 Update are showing a memory-use reduction of up to 27% when browsing with Microsoft Edge," 
• "The new Microsoft Edge shares the same underlying technology as Google Chrome courtesy of Google's open-source Chromium project, which Microsoft now contributes to."
• "the improvements to memory use coming to Edge and Chrome derive from Microsoft expanding the availability of Windows segment heap memory to Win32 applications...a result of Microsoft's Project Reunion effort, announced at Build 2020, which aims to close the gap between the classic Win32 app and modern Universal Windows Platform (UWP)."