Friday, December 18, 2015

Code Katas

Kata (programming) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Code Katas - codekatas.org

"Code Kata is a term coined by Dave Thomas, co-author of the book The Pragmatic Programmer, in a bow to the Japanese concept of kata in the martial arts. A code kata is an exercise in programming which helps a programmer hone their skills through practice and repetition. As of October 2011, Dave Thomas has published 21 different katas.

"I may drive to work every day, but I'm far from a professional driver. Similarly, programming every day may not be enough to make you a professional programmer. So what can turn someone into a professional driver or programmer? What do you do to practice?"
- Jeff Atwood


Code Kata Cast

A Code Kata Cast is a recording of a developer showing off his or her skills performing a kata."



CodeKata

newrelic/newrelic-dot-net-kata · GitHub

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Azure Storage Explorer(s)

Interesting tools for accessing Azure Storage
Azure storage has REST API and SDKs for for many platforms,
so there are many tools that are using those APIs.

azure-storage/deco · GitHub
"Project Deco: A file explorer for your Azure Blob Storage accounts, enabling you to easily work with your assets and containers from Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux. Create and delete containers, upload, download, and delete whole folders and files, preview media assets - with the free Azure Storage Explorer, you're in full control of your assets. Check out storageexplorer.com for more infos and downloads. This project is MIT Licensed. It is built upon GitHub's Electron, which incorporates Chromium."Screenshot
JavaScript based tool, wrapped in portable web browser shell (Electron).
Apparently moving from open source to free (but not open)

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C# based desktop tool:
Azure Storage Explorer - Home
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C# based web tool:
sebagomez/azurestorageexplorer · GitHub
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