Coding without a Keyboard, Facebook vs Fake News, and More…

Fully in the swing of things for 2018, this week’s dev digest includes a little something for every type of developer. Open source, Java, .NET, Javascript, containers, and devops are all included this week. And, of course, we have the top tech news as well.

News & Opinion

• As of July 2018, Chrome will mark regular HTTP as “unsecure”
• A developer suffering from a repeated stress injury found himself in pain every time he wrote code. So, he figured out how to speak code with the help of speech-to-text software. Could this be the future of programming?
• While only loosely related to software development, WIRED’s cover story on how Facebook is handling news is a really interesting and important read
• Scammers using AI to fake speech from people you know
• Microsoft is adding progressive web apps to the its software offerings on Windows 10

Open Source

• Open source is growing, especially in enterprise adoption
• What companies really contribute to open source? New methodologies using GitHub data challenge the traditional thinking of which companies are open source friendly.

Soft Skills

• Developers are good at writing code, but often bad at helping others learn to write good code. Here’s pointers on how to coach a junior dev.
• Here are the top skills devops professionals need to have

Code Corner

• Microsoft .NET experts demonstrate new features coming in .NET 2.1
• Software design at the beginning of a project is perhaps the most important step in any software project
• Scott Hanselman answers “Why should I care about containers?”
• Here are the top trends in Javascript for 2018
• Quartz: Everyone claims agile, but few are actually doing it
• There’s a poll to rename Java EE. Oracle won’t let Eclipse Foundation call it Java anymore.
• Microsoft is ending the co-evolution of Visual Basic and C#. According to InfoWorld, Visual Basic will fall behind.

Top Tips from Intertech

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• In March, we’re running a training in the fundamentals of agile/scrum. Don’t miss your chance to sign up!

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Originally published at www.intertech.com on February 15, 2018.