Dead Firefox Plugins, Difficult Conversations, & More…

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Top Stories

• Ahead of Microsoft’s Build conference, WIRED reviews the current state of Windows, Office, Azure, and the company’s future
• Firefox had a rough weekend when a certificate bug disabled all add-ons for the browser — here are the deets on the bug and the hotfix from Mozilla

Dev Corner

• Azure Machine Learning makes it possible to create and test machine learning models without writing code with a drag-and-drop interface
• Java is known for boilerplate and verbose, ceremonial syntax — a new JDK proposal seeks to address that
• Using Docker containers for deployment is fairly mainstream, but have you ever considered running a database in Docker?
• Pushing public changes from a private repo while squashing the intermediate commits with git commit-tree tricks
• Even though Java 12 is out, most developers are still using Java 8 — here’s how to plan for and take advantage of the new releases

Professional Advice

• Have a greater impact at work by doing less, not more
• If you’re working on hard, interesting problems, you’ll need to ask for help. Michael Hyatt shares how to ask for help in the best way
• The road to success is full of uncomfortable conversations — money, relationships, health. Learning how to have difficult conversations is key to getting ahead

Tips from Intertech

• Already a ScrumMaster but looking to further impact your organization with advanced ScrumMaster skills and behaviors? Check out Intertech’s new Advanced Certified ScrumMaster training.

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