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A Git CLI Reference for Beginners

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Hopefully, no one needs to sell you on GitHub – the world’s largest open source community. GitHub is home for most developers – a fast flexible social environment to build personal projects, support enterprises and collaborate on open source technologies.

The underpinnings of GitHub is Git – a free, open source, cross-platform and highly productive distributed version control system. GitHub conveniently wraps all of Git’s features into polished UI tools for your chosen development platform, namely:

But you are a geek. And what appeals more to your inner nerdiness than pure text on a bland terminal window. Nothing like passer-by’s not having a clue as to what you are up to! Everything you do through the GitHub UI tools, first began life as command line tools via the the Git CLI. And it is incredibly powerful.

This article doesn’t have screenshots and memes. Instead it aims to be a straight up cheat sheet of Git CLI commands. The best news is that all of the commands work the exact same way on Linux, Mac OS/OSX and Windows.

Full article over @ Telerik Developer Network.

The .NET CLI Decoded

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You have done it hipsters. Thanks to you, we’re back in the 80’s and command line tooling is cool again – even for .NET development. Guess what else is hot? ASCII art! I’m contemplating adding some ASCII artwork on top of my C# code files, before heading out for the evening in my skinny jeans. That’s savage!

 

Jokes aside – the command line is really cool and powerful. And CLI tooling provides developers with lots of flexibility to aid in development and DevOps workflows, in addition to appealing to our inner geekiness. With the new .NET Core framework, the focus is squarely on CLI tooling to lower the barrier to entry and make .NET development accessible to all.

Whether you use Windows, OSX or Linux, the command line works the same way everywhere. Let us explore some of the new cross-platform .NET CLI tooling.

Full article HERE.

10 Developer Takeaways from Xamarin Evolve

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With the Xamarin acquisition, Microsoft has democratized cross-platform mobile development for .NET developers. At the Build conference, it was announced that Xamarin Platform is now part of the Visual Studio family. It is available completely free with most versions of Visual Studio, including the Community Edition.

So what’s next for Xamarin? That was to be unveiled at the much anticipated Xamarin Evolve conference in Orlando. Fortunately, I was able to attend. Here are the highlights – from a developer’s perspective.

Full article HERE.