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Friday Links #363

Programming

• String Interpolation and the Conditional Operators - Bill Wagner
• WPF Controls - Window - Ownership
• Even better ES5 code for Angular 2
• First Look: GitHub Desktop
• RTM Announcement Page
• Development With A Dot - Farewell, ASP.NET Web Forms, We Hardly Knew Ye
• cola.js: Constraint-based Layout in the Browser
• Chromium Blog: Revving up JavaScript performance with TurboFan
• Visual Studio Time Saver–Enhanced Scroll bar - MSDN Blogs
• Everything you need to know about Microsoft Nano Server
• RiotJS Example
• Get Started Building Your Blog with Parse.js - Tuts+ Code Tutorial

• [You Might Not Need Underscore

  Reindex](https://www.reindex.io/blog/you-might-not-need-underscore/)

• Layzr.js
• Turn off the Attach Security Warning Dialog in Visual Studio – Wintellect DevCenter

Applications

• [Edit PDF Files For Free In Your Browser

  Gizmo’s Freeware](http://www.techsupportalert.com/content/edit-pdf-files-free-your-browser.htm)

Science and Technology

• Everything You Need To Know About AC Routers

• [Walt Mossberg’s Guide to the Amazon Echo

  Re/code](https://recode.net/2015/07/07/the-amazon-echo-everything-you-might-not-know/)

• [Huge, Alien-Hunting Telescope Could Become Hubble’s Successor

  Popular Science](http://www.popsci.com/are-we-alone-universe-next-next-generation-telescope-could-tell-us)

• Bubble Wrap will soon lose its pop - SlashGear

On the Web

• What’s New in Good Old Gmail? 5 Features You Should Check Out

Stuff I Just Like

• [Drill-Powered Walking Beast Is A Slow-Moving Cyberpunk Nightmare

  Popular Science](http://www.popsci.com/drill-powered-walking-beast-slow-moving-cyberpunk-nightmare)

• Back to the Future is the most perfect blockbuster ever made. I will not hear otherwise. - Vox
• How To Cook A Brisket, Which Is Totally Worth The Effort, I Swear
• Where did the word OK come from and what does it actually mean?
• Walk-in cocktail creates a boozy atmosphere