Weekly development links #13

For developers using AngularJS, Angular Material is both a UI Component framework and a reference implementation of Google's Material Design Specification. This project provides a set of reusable, well-tested, and accessible UI components based on Material Design.

A low-ambition library trying to solve a simple problem - decoupling the in-proc sending of messages from handling messages. Cross-platform, distributed as a portable class library, supporting .NET 4.0+, Silverlight 5, UAP, Windows 8, Windows Phone 8, Xamarin.Android, Xamarin.iOS, Xamarin.Unified, ASP.NET 5 and DNX Core.

Strings and the Common Language Runtime (CLR) have a special relationship. This relationship means that Strings can do things that aren’t possible in the C# code that you and I can write and they also get a helping hand from the runtime to achieve maximum performance, which makes sense when you consider how ubiquitous they are in .NET applications.

Spring-Reactive aims to bring reactive programming support to Spring based projects and this is expected to be available for the timelines of Spring 5. My intention here is to exercise some of the very basic signatures for REST endpoints with this model.