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In this episode, Soumow sits with Julia Liuson, Corporate Vice President of Visual Studio and .NET, as she talks about Visual Studio, culture, her career journey and the different challenges she faced — being a young engineer out of university, being … Continue reading Interview with Julia Liuson, Corporate Vice President of Visual Studio and .NET | GALs
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Dear Sir or Madam, you look like a dead parrot. Also, your mother certainly was a hamster, you change into a platypus, and your hovercraft has tiny feet. Now, do you feel this delightful sensation in your nipples? That is because you are now under influence of an insult — the most powerful force invented by men. And this happens to be the very same power that we decided to utilize in Oh…Sir!! The Insult Simulator. So, if the delightful sensation is still there, please stay with us and learn how Oh…Sir! came to be in the most insulting blog… Continue reading The Insulting Story Behind Oh…Sir! The Insult Simulator
Paladins is now 100% free for everyone to download and play on Xbox One! With the open beta starting today, you can download Paladins from the Xbox Store and enter the Realm right now. Don’t worry about the “beta” tag — Paladins will be free to play forever and you won’t lose any progress once we launch later this year. In even more exciting news, we’re celebrating open beta with the release of a new cinematic trailer (see above)! Watch as Ruckus chases down the magic crystal that powers his mechanized suit… and get a taste of Paladins’ lighthearted humor…. Continue reading Paladins Now Free to Play as Open Beta Begins on Xbox One
“Dentsu Aegis Network (DAN) chose Microsoft Cloud technology to build our connected, digital workplace—one that we envisioned for the future of our enterprise.” —Read the Leadership blog by Gideon Kay, group chief information officer (interim) and EMEA chief information officer at Dentsu Aegis Network.
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Welcome to The Xamarin Show Snack Pack Edition. A Snack Pack is bite sized episode that is focused on a specific topic and covered in just a few minutes. Today, we take a look at options and settings for Android applications including co… Continue reading Snack Pack 11: Understanding Android API Level Settings | The Xamarin Show
Get ready to explore the post-pandemic streets of Manhattan in Tom Clancy’s The Division for free this weekend on Xbox One, exclusively for Xbox Live Gold members. As an agent of The Division, a last-resort unit of elite soldiers that are only called in when all else fails, you’ll be able to team up with other players (or go it alone) to take on roving gangs of criminals, zealots, and mercenaries as you fight to reclaim the streets, rescue civilians, and (of course) amass rare and powerful loot. Starting at 12:01 AM PDT Thursday, May 4, Xbox Live Gold members… Continue reading Play The Division for Free This Weekend With Xbox Live Gold
You all know that much of .NET is open source. But you might also think that working on it is beyond you, that there’s no way YOU can actually contribute…
WRONG!
Rion’s great post below shows you why…
Over the past few months in the little spare time that I have, I’ve managed to submit a handful of pull requests to various .NET-related repositories (e.g. coreclr, corefx, docs, etc.) and incredibly, they were accepted.
Now, for some, this may not seem like a big deal. But it felt like a pretty big one to me so I thought I would take some time to elaborate on the process itself, share my experience, and hopefully dispel a few myths or misconceptions that you might have that may be holding you back from contributing to .NET as well.
Hopefully, you’ll find that you don’t need to be a genius or design a better sorting algorithm to make a meaningful contribution to .NET as a whole.
Dispelling Some Myths and Preconceived Notions
I’ll openly admit that before browsing through the available dotnet repositories I was seriously intimidated, but without any real justified reasons. It seemed that I had built up quite a few myths surrounding the projects that were probably holding me back from contributing, such as:
- I need to be a coding wizard and all of the open issues are out of my reach.
- All of the easy issues that I could handle are taken.
- Since this was all in the open, I will be exposed as a crap developer (see Impostor Syndrome).
- I’ve never worked on a project of this scale, I’ll probably screw it up.
These were just a few of the things that I had mentally told myself before embarking on this journey. What I quickly found out: none of these things were true.
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In Closing
My experiences with contributing to .NET have been nothing but stellar. It was great to have a chance to collaborate with members of the .NET team and the community towards improving the ecosystem, even in the smallest of ways. Simply knowing how a minor performance improvement that saves milliseconds here or there could save so much time on such a large scale is really rewarding.
I know that this experience certainly struck a chord with me, and in the weeks following my initial merged pull request, I’ve probably rattled off 10+ additional ones, and I look forward to contributing more in the future.
I hope that this post helped ease your mind if you thought that you wouldn’t have anything to contribute, or that it would simply be beyond your skill-set or talent. There’s something out there for everyone, so go out there and get that First-Time Contributor badge and help make .NET a better place.
After reading Rion’s post
