Top Links
- Coding and learning with VS Code on Chromebooks (Alessandro Segala)
- Hanselminutes – Succeeding from Anywhere: The Remote Work Revolution with Tsedal Neeley (Scott Hanselman)
- A Free JavaScript Beginner Book! (Matthew MacDonald)
- Understand The .NET 5 Runtime Environment (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
Web & Cloud Development
- Dockershim Deprecation FAQ (Kubernetes Team)
- Use the Okta CLI to Quickly Build Secure Angular Apps (Matt Raible)
- JavaScript Turns 25: a Brief History of JavaScript and a 50% WebStorm Discount (Aleksandra Aganezova)
- What developers need to know about Docker, Docker Engine, and Kubernetes v1.20 (Dieu Cao)
- AWS Cloud Monitoring: Best Practices and Top-Notch Tools (Harry Stone)
- How to Pass Arguments to Your onclick Functions in Blazor (Jon Hilton)
- 8 Must-Know NuGet Packages for an ASP.NET Core Application (Michael Shpilt)
- How to configure a secured custom domain on a Azure Function or website (Frank Boucher)
- Something Else To Be Thankful For: Splunk Security Essentials 3.2.2 (Johan Bjerke)
- Flying the Nest: WebThings Gateway 1.0 (Ben Francis)
- Aurora Serverless v2: The Good, the Better, and the Possibly Amazing (Jeremy Daly)
XAML, UWP & Xamarin
- Don’t Put Android in Your Namespace in Xamarin Projects (James Montemagno)
Visual Studio & .NET
- Create a Nuget package with .Net 5 to wrap a dll (Kevin Logan)
- C# 8 – Switch Expressions (Claudio Bernasconi)
- VISCA camera control in C# (Jon Skeet)
- Using The Proxy Pattern In C# (Munib Butt)
- .NET Core 2.1, 3.1, and .NET 5.0 updates are coming to Microsoft Update (Jamshed Damkewala)
- .NET 5 Is Officially Released and Now Supported by JustMock (Mihail Vladov)
Design, Methodology & Testing
- Data Mesh Principles and Logical Architecture (Martin Fowler)
- AoAD2 Practice: Purpose and AoAD2 Practice: Context and AoAD2 Practice: Alignment (James Shore)
- The evolving role of operations in DevOps (Jared Murrell)
- 12 Power-Ups To Transform Your Trello Into A Powerful Task Management Software (Amanda Alvernaz)
- Delivery Plans Public Preview Update (Dan Hellem)
- Support your work-life balance with this open source productivity tool (Johannes Millan)
- Applying DevSecOps to your software supply chain (Maya Kaczorowski)
- Tips to stay focused and finish your hobby project (Tomi Mester)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- What is edge computing, why do it, why send IoT data to the cloud? (Jim Bennett)
- New Raspberry Pi OS release — December 2020 (Simon Long)
- How We Built It: Spotify Lite, One Year Later (Erik Ghonyan, Slava Savitskiy & Tommy Tynjä)
Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos
- React Podcast 121: Tim Neutkens on Next.js 10 (Michael Chan)
- Transient Error Handling with Polly Part 1 | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green & Carl Franklin)
- Interview with Rodrigo Branas on RavenDB and Webinar recording: RavenDB & Your Operations Team (Oren Eini)
- Azure Unblogged – GitHub | IT Ops Talk (Sarah Lean & Martin Woodward)
- Getting Started with DevOps for Azure SQL | Data Exposed (Anna Hoffman & Arvind Shyamsundar)
- CppCast – Networking TS with Robert Leahy (Rob Irving)
- Customizing the Graph SDKs | On .NET (Christos Matskas & Darrel Miller)
- Rocket 309: Scooting to the Couch (Christina Warren, Simone De Rochefort & Brianna Wu)
- Microsoft Surface Duo One Dev Question video series (Guy Merin)
- RunAs Radio – Self-Service Passwords with Jan Bakker (Richard Campbell & Greg Hughes)
- FreeCodeSession – Episode 218 (Jason Bock)
- Software Defined Talk Episode 274: Can we start a Slack Channel to discuss this? (Brandon Whichard, Coté & Matt Ray)
- The Stack Overflow Podcast – Goodbye to Flash, we’ll see you in Rust (Ben Popper)
Community & Events
- VMware Pivotal Labs Joins the AWS Partner Network as a Consulting Partner (Danielle Burrow)
- Philly .NET Meetup (12/16) – GitHub in Visual Studio (Chris Gomez)
- Splunker Stories: Heidi Smith (Shreya Iyer)
- Shop Black Business Friday: Every December Friday in Philly (Kristina Jenkins)
- Join our panel with WHO at GitHub Universe 2020! (Mala Kumar)
- Join us to learn how to build Teams apps together! (Microsoft 365 Team)
- What I plan to learn at the Learn Together: Dev Apps for Teams event (Nina Sui)
Database
- SQL SERVER – sp_updatestats Performance and Disabled Nonclustered Indexes (Pinal Dave)
- Long-term backup with Azure Synapse Link for Azure Cosmos DB (Emmanuel Deletang)
- Using SDK’s With Couchbase Cloud Free Trial – Tutorial Posted (Mark Gamble)
SharePoint & MS Teams
- How to: set your status duration in Teams and Roadmap watch: latest changes to upcoming Teams meeting schedules (Vesa Nopanen)
PowerShell
- How to update credentials for an on-prem Power BI data source using PowerShell and How to consume a NuGet package in PowerShell (Ed Freeman)
Miscellaneous
- Here’s how the U.S. can lead the world on climate change innovation (Bill Gates)
- US States Plan To Sue Facebook Next Week (BeauHD)
- Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 20270 (Brandon LeBlanc)
- Windows PE startup, revisited (Michael Niehaus)
More Link Collections
- The Morning Brew #3127 (Chris Alcock)
- .NET App Developer Links – 2020-12-04 (Dan Rigby)
- Collective #638 (Mary Lou)
The Geek Shelf
Joy of UX, The: User Experience and Interactive Design for Developers (Usability) (David Platt) – Referral Link