Dew Drop – January 20, 2022 (#3603)

Top Links

• Announcing .NET MAUI Preview 12 (David Ortinau)
• How to build your own Flutter slide puzzle (Very Good Ventures Team)
• Optimizing CPU-Bound and Memory-Bound .NET Applications: 11 Best Practices (Michael Shpilt)
• Secure messages to Teams with Azure Logic App (Tobias Almen)
• .NET Rocks! – Prism and Other Client Technologies with Brian Lagunas (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)

Web & Cloud Development

• Use Tailwind’s new JIT mode when developing Blazor applications (Jon Hilton)
• Looking back at Microsoft Edge for developers in 2021 (Patrick Brosset)
• Azure Tips & Tricks – Tip 349 – How to translate text with the Azure Cognitive Services Translator Service (Azure Team)
• Using the Document Viewer with ASP.NET Core and .NET 6 and DocumentViewer Mobile-Friendly View Released (Bjoern Meyer)
• Creating an experiment in Azure ML using SDK (Luis Valencia)
• Svelte All The Things (Mikhail Karan)
• Blazor: Using JavaScript in a More Structured Way by Using Extension Methods (Scott Ward)
• Powering Adobe MAX with App Builder and I/O Runtime (Honwai Wong)
• How to Schedule a Text Message (Twilio)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

• Happy New R1 2022: What We Shipped for .NET MAUI! (Bianka Banova)
• MAUI: Hello World (Bogusław Błoński)
• Deep Introduction to .NET MAUI Handlers Architecture (Doumer)
• What’s New in Telerik WinUI 1.0 (Kalin Todorov)
• Syncfusion .NET MAUI Products: Frequently Asked Questions (Selva Ganapathy Kathiresan)
• WPF UI – A simple way to make your application written in WPF keep up with modern design trends (Pomian)

Visual Studio & .NET

• Convert DateTime to ISO 8601 String in C# (Code Maze)
• How to send recurring emails in C# .NET using SendGrid and Quartz.NET (Niels Swimberghe)
• Awesome LINQ Improvements In .NET 6.0 (Sumit Singh Sisodia)
• Building an Event Driven .NET Application: Integration Testing (Paul DeVito)
• .NET 6 for Mac with Apple Silicon Developers (Rafael Veronezi)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• Critical Aggregator (Martin Fowler)
• What will DevOps do for your team in 2022? (Valerie Silverthorne)
• My Thoughts on Code “Modernization” (Jeremy D. Miller)
• New in Sketch: A better way to view Components in the web app, faster font embedding and more (Sketch Team)
• The Magic of Dark Mode Color Tinting (Anthony)
• Growth Mindset: Effort (Dave Prior)
• Securing Sensitive Data in an Event Driven Architecture (Derek Comartin)
• Reducing security risk in open source software with GitHub Actions and OpenSSF Scorecards V4 (Jose Palafox)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• Technology & Friends – Chris DeMars on Accessibility (David Giard)
• WebWednesday – WebWednesday Voice Assistant and WebXRin Web Apps with Ayşegül Yönet (Christopher Harrison)
• Working Code Podcast – Episode 58: Do 10x Developers Exist? (Ben Nadel)
• Get started with Apps in Microsoft Teams and How to create, assign, and manage Tasks in Microsoft Teams (Microsoft Teams)
• Web Rush Episode 167: Anvil with Meredydd Luff (John Papa, Ward Bell, Dan Wahlin & Craig Shoemaker)
• The Happy Engineer Podcast 030: Win Big Promotions by Communicating Your Value with Julie Schaller (Kae Lynne Sapino)
• Software Engineering Radio Episode 495: Vaughn Vernon on Strategic Monoliths and Microservices (Akshay Manchale)

Community & Events

• An Interview with Sarah Sta: How Splunk Cultivates your Career (Alicja Nelka)
• Here’s how Stack Overflow users responded to Log4Shell, the Log4j vulnerability affecting almost everyone (David Gibson)
• Surfacing women in science with the Smithsonian (Effie Kapsalis)
• Plugin Developers Appreciation Day (Jakub Chrzanowski)
• Reconnect Series: Justin Lau (Jeffrey Raymond Kitt)

Database

• Azure DB for MySQL – Single server vs Flexible (Arun Sirpal)
• Creating a new User-Defined Data Type–#SQLNewBlogger (Steve Jones)

PowerShell & Terminal

• Creating PowerShell Cmdlets in VSCode (Daniel R. Przybylski)
• A PowerShell script to find an run a scheduled task based on the task argument (Steve Fenton)
• Using tree data structures to implement terminal split panes – more fun than it sounds (Kevin Yang)

Miscellaneous

• Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22538 (Brandon LeBlanc)
• Emerging Technology Your Developer Audience Cares About (DeveloperMedia)
• Power Automate Security (Liam Cleary)
• Microsoft’s giant bet on Activision Blizzard is its ticket to the metaverse (Michael Gariffo)
• UX Writing Lessons for Technical Writers (Steliana Vassileva)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #3393 (Chris Alcock)
• Today’s Readings (Aaron T. Grogg)
• The Wolf Report – January 20th, 2022 (Michael Wolfenden)

The Geek Shelf

 Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies and Design Complete Study Guide: Exams AZ-303 and AZ-304 (William Panek & Benjamin Perkins) – Referral Link