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- Participate in the Developer Economics Survey (Windows Dev Team)
- .NET Foundation November/December 2020 Update (Claire Novotny)
- Getting Started with Windows Terminal (Kayla Cinnamon)
- Build dual-screen Cordova apps for Microsoft Surface Duo (Craig Dunn)
- No cookie for you (Nat Friedman)
Web & Cloud Development
- Debug JavaScript in Mobile Safari (iOS) in 8 easy steps (Stuart Ashworth)
- Best JavaScript Unit Testing Tools (Pam Selle)
- Use the MVVM Design Pattern in MVC Core: Part 3 (Paul D. Sheriff)
- Node v14.15.3 (LTS) (Bethany Nicolle Griggs)
- How to Compile Rust into WebAssembly and Run it in Deno (Chinedu Imoh)
- Docking Proteins to Deny Disease: Computational Considerations for Simulating Protein-Ligand Interaction (Exxact Team)
- Go on ARM and Beyond (Russ Cox)
- Accelerate and simplify Scikit-learn model inference with ONNX Runtime (Xavier Dupre & Olivier Grisel)
XAML, UWP & Xamarin
- Three ways to Fix broken Icon Font in Xamarin App (Bohdan Benetskyi)
- Going dark; easily implementing dark mode in your Xamarin.Forms app (Steven Thewissen)
- Uno Platform 2021 Roadmap Survey (Uno Platform Team)
- Control rendering order in UWP Grid using Canvas.ZIndex (Martin Zikmund)
Visual Studio & .NET
- C# 9 Covariant Return Types (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
- Efficient file uploads with dotnet (Josef Ottosson)
- F# Basics – Result (Reed Copsey)
- .NET 5 Breaking Changes for WPF/Windows Forms (Jonathan Allen)
- .NET On QA (Nikos Vaggalis)
- Rider 2020.2.5: Support for Big Sur (Asia Rudenko)
- On the ways of finding a dispatcher for the current thread in the Windows Runtime (Raymond Chen)
Design, Methodology & Testing
- Building a System Where Agile Can Thrive (LeadingAgile)
- Commits are shapshots, not diffs (Derrick Stolee)
- What is “creative” coding, anyway? (Pamela Fox)
- CLI Guidelines Aim to Help You Write Better CLI Programs (Sergio De Simone)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- #Coding4Fun – #RaspberryPi LED Christmas Tree sync with #MicrosoftTeams (1/N) Why? Why not ! (Bruno Capuano)
Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos
- Hanselminutes – Building eBay’s Web API ecosystem with Tanya Vlahovic (Scott Hanselman)
- React Podcast 123: Cassidy Williams on Dreams and Disasters in 2020 (Michael Chan)
- The Stack Overflow Podcast – Adventures in Javascriptlandia (Sara Chipps, Paul Ford & Ben Popper)
- Improved XAML Data Binding Diagnostics | The Xamarin Show (James Montemagno)
- CppCast – SerenityOS with Andreas Kling (Rob Irving)
- Rocket 311: Leadership! (Christina Warren, Simone De Rochefort & Brianna Wu)
- David Prosser from ComUnity | Source Code: Real Stories from Startup Founders (Golnaz Alibeigi, Kaitlin McKinnon, Cameron Tomisser & jorgievision)
- RunAs Radio – The Impact of the Pandemic on IT with Stephen Rose (Richard Campbell & Greg Hughes)
- UX Podcast #252 – Toxic dogmatism (James Royal-Lawson & Per Axbom)
- Software Defined Talk Episode 276: I don’t understand how that works but I want to learn more (Brandon Whichard, Coté & Matt Ray)
- Azure Podcast Episode 358 – Cloud Identity in the Cloud Era (Sujit D’Mello)
- Xamarin Podcast Episode 84: American Airlines (James Montemagno & Matt Soucoup)
Community & Events
- Our plans to relaunch verification and what’s next (Twitter)
- Catch up with 2020’s .NET community webinars (Maarten Balliauw)
Database
- VMware Tanzu SQL Relational Database-on-Demand Enhances MySQL for Developer Productivity and Enterprise Readiness (Judy Wang)
- SQL SERVER – Attach a Database with T-SQL (Pinal Dave)
- Understanding how to query arrays in Azure Cosmos DB (Tim Sander)
- SQL Tools December release recap (Drew Skwiers-Koballa)
SharePoint & MS Teams
- 4 ways to deliver better meetings with apps in Microsoft Teams (MS Teams Team)
- Cozy up in one of three Microsoft Lists sweater backgrounds for Microsoft Teams (Ben Truelove)
PowerShell
Miscellaneous
- We Downloaded 10,000,000 Jupyter Notebooks From Github – This Is What We Learned (Alena Guzharina)
- Research at Microsoft 2020: Addressing the present while looking to the future (Alexis Hagen)
- Microsoft says it identified 40+ victims of the SolarWinds hack (Catalin Cimpanu)
- The new and improved Developer Advocacy Handbook is out – Read Chapters 1 & 2 now (Chris Heilmann)
- A breakthrough year for passwordless technology (Lauren Goodwin)
More Link Collections
- The Morning Brew #3137 (Chris Alcock)
- Collective #641 (Mary Lou)
The Geek Shelf
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