Microsoft's Visual Studio uses GitHub user accounts now

 Once again, Microsoft is making good progress. In this post, it's regarding the sync'ing of user accounts across platforms. In this case, Visual Studio (development platform) and GitHub (code management platform).

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio/github-accounts-are-now-integrated-into-visual-studio-2019/

Microsoft's Game Development with .NET (and Unity)

This is very attractive to me. I need to try this out and see what the offerings are. 

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/game-development-with-net/

This particularly caught my attention:

".NET does not just cover building your game. You can also use it to build your game’s website with ASP.NET, your mobile app using Xamarin, and even do remote rendering with Microsoft Azure. Your skills will transfer across the entire game development pipeline."

References

• https://dotnet.microsoft.com/apps/games
• https://dotnet.microsoft.com/learn/games/unity-tutorial/intro 

Good Coding Tip: NEVER USE ELSE Statement

This author has a really good point (to NEVER USE ELSE statements) that I've never spent much time meditating on.

"We can see that without the if statement, we can't determine what this [else] is meant to be doing. Why would it return an empty string? Is this an error, or the ‘normal' behaviour? This code instead relies on us remembering, and having read, the earlier context. This doesn't matter much when the statements are small, but if there's complicated logic within the

if { … }

block or we are scanning quickly, then the separation of context from code can hurt readability massively. It hurts even more when if/else statements are nested, or there are multiple of them in one function (which if statement is this else for?)."

Read the full article here:

https://dev.to/dglsparsons/write-better-code-and-be-a-better-programmer-by-never-using-else-statements-4dbl