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The GitHub event announced a great new feature - GitHub Sponsors. GitHub Sponsors is a new way to financially support the developers who build the open source software you use every day. See the full announcement blog post for more information. Recognizing Contributors Recently, Brian Clark introduced me to all-contributors (https://github.com/all-contributors/all-contributors) an awesome way to recognize contributors to your project. The installation is super easy. Enable the bot on your repository, and you're ready to go. Good practice is to have a CONTRIBUTING.md in your repo not only to encourage good practices but to also set expectations and standards. Adding contributors There are a few ways in which our contributors get added to the table...

Recently John and I took some time away to discuss how to get an Angular 2 application deployed to Azure. There were some challenges here and there with configuration, discussions about "just wanting to code" and more; it was a lot of fun. Here is the result of that conversation. Check out the Play by Play on Pluralsight, and the All code samples can be found at github. In this course, John Papa and Shayne Boyer walk through how to build and deploy an Angular 2 app to Azure. You'll learn valuable tips on how to think about cloud deployment, how to mirror production environments locally using Gulp and Express, and how to use tools like Gulp, Github, and npm...