In day 1 we set up our client and server-side teams; identified useful resources and frameworks for the week; and began setting up the solution and its components.

At OCC, dev camps are a way for us to experiment with new technologies, create prototype products, and bring back recommendations to the wider company regarding the new tools and techniques we've been able to evaluate.

The JavaScript development community has become quite comfortable with the new language constructs introduced with ECMAScript 2015 (aka ES6). But work on ECMAScript didn't stop there. Here are some highlights from ES7, 8, 9 and 10.

More on Blazor – Microsoft’s experimental .NET web framework using C#/Razor and HTML that runs entirely in the browser via WebAssembly. The TAB reviews the Blazor community, Razor Components and the Blazor workshop put together by the ASP .NET team. Plus tips from the coalface on building .NET Standard applications.

The TAB reviews new features in Xamarin.Forms V4.0, including the Shell framework for quickly putting together a cross-platform application, Visual for look and feel consistencies across platforms and CarouselView for a vertical or horizontal flow of “cards”. Plus the TAB’s view of Visual Studio App Center, a front end on Azure DevOps for building and deploying apps.

The TAB discusses TLS, https and W3C’s Feature Policy.

The digital environment gives businesses the opportunity to share data and content. By delivering the right information across a range of needs, it allows individuals and groups to work smarter and upskill for the benefit of increased productivity and personal achievement.

As designers, we tend to use our own abilities as a baseline and evaluate designs based on our own bias. Inclusive design is a methodology that enables everyone, regardless of their situation, to participate. Understanding what can prevent people participating, in both the physical and digital world, helps us to create better designs.

Software as a Medical Device (SaMD) is software intended to be used for one or more medical purposes without being part of a hardware medical device.

When building with Visual Studio, you sometimes need to install extensions that provide extra libraries or functionality for your apps.

DBA Julian Fletcher on the key points of good indexing practice in SQL Server.

UX Designer Leanne Dobson rounds up the pros and cons of voice technology and what you should consider when designing for voice interaction.

The SQL Server Query Store feature provides you with insight on query plan choice and performance. It simplifies performance troubleshooting by helping you quickly find performance differences caused by query plan changes.

.NET Standard isn’t a framework or library: it’s a set of APIs that a platform has to implement or a library has to constrain itself to in order to claim to be compliant with the standard.