Top Links
- Microsoft Cloud Skills Challenge – 30 Days to Learn It (Microsoft Learn)
- .NET Rocks! – .NET for Startups with Oleg Fridman (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
- Microsoft Teams for frontline workers: What’s Live and Coming Soon (Zachary Cavanell)
- Accelerate your websites with Azure Static Web Apps enterprise-edge (Simona Cotin)
- Visual Studio Code Insiders is a PWA (insiders.vscode.dev) (diekus)
Web & Cloud Development
- Using Azure Cognitive Services in a .NET App (Alisa Duncan)
- Azure Tips & Tricks – Tip 348 – How to use Azure Defender to protect hybrid cloud workloads (Azure Team)
- Canceling API Requests Using fetch() And AbortController In JavaScript (Ben Nadel)
- How to Optimize a Vue Datagrid Application (Joel Parks)
- A New AWS Console Home Experience (Sébastien Stormacq)
- Import Logic Apps (Standard) into Azure API Management (Sravani Masapalli)
- Rethinking errors, warnings, and lints (Evan Martin)
- Publishing and consuming ECMAScript modules via packages – the big picture (Axel Rauschmayer)
- ToDo List Using NodeJS, MongoDB (Aditya Narad)
- Turning a GitHub page into a Progressive Web App (Chris Heilmann)
- API Gateway to EventBridge with Pulumi (Christian Nunciato)
- Infinite Scroll with TypeScript (Kenneth Reilly)
- The Data Your Access Token Reveals and How to Secure It (Michal Trojanowski)
- Exploring how to solve circular dependencies (Mikhail Shilkov)
- What Is Vite: The Guide to Modern and Super-Fast Project Tooling (Thomas Findlay)
- Twilio: Message Scheduling is Now in Public Beta (Shashwat Johari)
WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML
- WPF Datagrid Performance Comparison for .NET 6 (Irina Pykhova)
Visual Studio & .NET
- Do You Want a Visual Studio Dashboard of Customizable Widgets? and Visual Studio Feedback Revamp Prompts MUCH Feedback on Feedback Responsiveness (David Ramel)
- Selection Sort in C# (Code Maze)
- .NET Framework January 2022 Security and Quality Rollup Updates (Tara Overfield)
- Hot Reload In C# .NET 6 / Visual Studio 2022 and Protobuf In C# .NET – Part 1 – Getting Started and Protobuf In C# .NET – Part 2 – Serializing/Deserializing (Wade Gausden)
Design, Methodology & Testing
- Legacy Mimic: a new component that looks like an old one (Martin Fowler)
- Agile Principles: Technical Excellence Enhances Agility (Justin Etheredge)
- 7 Top Metrics for Measuring Your Technical Debt (Alex Omeyer)
- Armchair Architects: How Architecture Is Changing – Part 1 and Armchair Architects: How Architecture Is Changing – Part 2 (Ben Brauer)
- When NOT to write an Abstraction Layer (Derek Comartin)
- Writing Effective Behaviour-Driven Test Cases (Kateryna Gandzeichuk)
- Our 14 favorite gadgets and hacks for working at home (Verge Staff)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- Code a Full Stack Instagram Clone with Flutter and Firebase (Beau Carnes)
- Flutter bloc for beginners (Ana Polo)
- 5 tips to Learn Flutter Like a Pro [from a Flutter course creator] (Nick Manning)
- New free resources for young people to create 3D worlds with code in Unity (Janina Ander)
- 4 Ways to Make Mobile Apps More Accessible (Suzanne Scacca)
- How we ship GitHub Mobile every week (Taehun Kim)
Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos
- Syntax Podcast – Potluck (Wes Bos)
- AzureFunBytes Episode 64 – Building SOC Efficiency with @Azure Sentinel with @rodtrent (Jay Gordon)
- Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – How to start an Agile transformation without having to “push” teams | Samet Ulutas (Vasco Duarte)
- Microsoft Mechanics – Microsoft Teams for frontline workers: What’s Live and Coming Soon (Jeremy Chapman & Kristina Behr)
- The Stack Overflow Podcast 406: Making Agile work for data science (Ryan Donovan)
- Design Details 424: The Art of Unsolicited Redesigns (Brian Lovin & Marshall Bock)
- The Happy Engineer Podcast 029: Hypnosis for Happy Careers and Huge Results with Leslie Thornton (Kae Lynne Sapino)
Community & Events
Database
- Database projects with SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT) (Kamil Nowinski)
- The Curious Case of… tracking page compression success rates (Paul S. Randal)
- Azure SQL News Update: January 2022 (Anna Hoffman)
- The Next Evolution of the Database Sharding Architecture (Juan Pan)
SharePoint & MS Teams
- Empowering 2 billion global frontline workers (Jared Spataro)
PowerShell
- PowerShell Script: Compare DOC and PDF Files (Zac Ferraresi)
Miscellaneous
- The National Archives has launched a new GitHub repository for Electronic Records Accessioning Support Tools (U.S. National Archives)
- My conversation with a global health researcher about COVID-19 (Bill Gates)
- OneDrive: Inside the new Files On-Demand Experience on macOS (Ankita Kirti)
- Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22533 (Brandon LeBlanc)
- Windows 11 Build 22533 ISOs are available for Dev Channel insiders (Kunal Chowdhury)
- White House to launch COVID test-ordering site ‘by this weekend,’ reports say (Makena Kelly)
- Stardock Releases Start11 v1.1 (Paul Thurrott)
- Microsoft has discontinued all Xbox One consoles (Tom Warren)
More Link Collections
- The Morning Brew #3388 (Chris Alcock)
- Today’s Readings (Aaron T. Grogg)
- The Wolf Report – January 13th, 2022 (Michael Wolfenden)
The Geek Shelf
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