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Video Spotlight - Creating Highly Effective Retrace Monitors, Alerts & Notifications; An Introduction to OpenTelemetry Javascript; and more!

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Hi there, here is your shiny new edition of the Developer Things newsletter! Developer Tips, Tricks & Resources Maximizing Retrace APM: Creating Highly Effective Monitors, Alerts & Notifications   Capturing and correcting app issues before impacting users is pretty much your #1 reason for using Retrace. And properly setting up key monitors, alerts and notifications is how you resolve issues efficiently and effectively.   In this Maximizing Retrace APM video spotlight , Developer Support Engineer and Retra...

Livewire: new screencasts, animating lists, abusing form objects, and other fun stuff

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Hey Livewire people, Comin' at you with another pile of updates, random thoughts, and tips. Highlights first: ​ 🚀 Just dropped new "Blade Components" screencasts → ​ ​ ✨ Livewire version 3.4.5 is out → ​ Aight, let's get to it, shall we? 🧠 Hybrid slot/props Here's a pattern I've been using lately when building some Blade components. Consider a button component that you want to be able to pass an "icon" prop for simple icons, but also a slot for custom SVGs: ​ You can actually hack Blade components to support both by adding a little conditional. Check it out: ​ That's just one of the many little patterns I cover in the new screencast series. Knowing Blade components inside and out is such a huge advantage for Livewire devs, and I'm so pumped to have a singular resource to point people to now: ​ Watch the new Blade Components series → ​ 🛵 Animating @foreach loops Here's a fun one. I recently ca...

C# Delegates: Definition, Types & Examples; A Comprehensive Guide to Server-Side Programming Languages; Try OTel Prefix today for FREE; and more!

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Hi there, here is your shiny new edition of the Developer Things newsletter! Developer Tips, Tricks & Resources C# Delegates: Definition, Types & Examples   An essential construct in the C# programming language, C# delegates are critical for effective and efficient event handling, LINQ queries, asynchronous programming and more. And, of course, you can make use of delegates to write simpler, more concise code. In our latest C# post, we'll provide a guide to this incredibly useful tool in C#, plus...