Dew Drop – March 14, 2022 (#3641)

Top Links

• The Download: Visual Studio at 25, a JavaScript Proposal, and Gaming Chairs for Babies?? (Christina Warren)
• #30DaysOfPWA #27 – Best Practices for PWA: Authentication (Nikola Metulev)
• #30DaysOfPWA #28 – Best Practices for PWA: UI/UX (Stephanie Stimac)
• A Mostly Complete Guide to C# 11’s Future Features (Matthew MacDonald)
• What is BDD? How to use SpecFlow in Visual Studio 2022 – SpecFlow Series – Part 1 (Edwin Hernandez)

Web & Cloud Development

• How ASP.NET Core logging works with ILogger and LogLevel (David Grace)
• #30DaysOfPWA #26 – Best Practices for PWA: Maintainability (Zach Teutsch)
• How to Separate Production, Test and Development Resources in Azure (John Kilmister)
• Debate in JavaScript Community Over Proposed Types Syntax (Mike Melanson)
• Build and Deploy a Microsoft .NET Core Web API application to AWS App Runner using CloudFormation (Naveen Balaraman)
• Part -1 Introduction On Microservice And SQL Database Design For Microservices [.NET 6 Microservice Series] (Naveen Bommidi)
• DateOnly in .NET 6 and ASP.NET Core 6 (Zijian)
• ESLint v8.11.0 released (Milos Djermanovic)
• StackBlitz February 2022 Update (Sylwia Vargas)
• Go from the beginning – working with loops and Go from the beginning – reading user input and Go from the beginning – functions (Chris Noring)
• Fullstack Pulumi: Deploying the MERN Stack on DigitalOcean (Christian Nunciato)
• Chatbot Choice Prompt (Michael Szul)
• Update Node Dependencies Automatically, Selectively, or Incrementally (Elijah Manor)
• Typescript Tuples, and How They Work (Johnny Simpson)
• Getting started with blogging using GitHub pages and Jekyll and Applying a theme to your GitHub pages site (Simon Jackson)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

• Playing With New .NET MAUI Views: Border, Shadow & GraphicsView (Damien Tohin Doumer Kake)
• Get Started With the StepProgressBar in Telerik UI for WPF (Maria Hadzhieva)
• Matt’s Template Studio for UWP, WPF, & WinUI (C#) (Matt Lacey)

Visual Studio & .NET

• Developing for Linux in Windows with C# (Bruno Sonnino)
• Optimizing code to darken a bitmap, part 5 (Raymond Chen)
• Convert Byte Array to File in C# and C# 10 New Features and Queue in C# (Code Maze)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• How Does One Start With Unit Tests? (J. B. Rainsberger)
• Defense in depth and the local server (Oren Eini)
• Agile Book Club: Ubiquitous Language (James Shore)
• What is a design mockup? The definitive guide (Sketch Team)
• GitHub Notification Settings and Configuration as Code for the GitHub platform (Rob Bos)
• How To Solve Fragmented Remote Work Communication (Dave Schafer)
• 10 Reasons Why Software Projects Fail (Mahesh Chand)
• Paralleling Code Coverage using Coveralls and Travis (Montana Mendy)
• Agile Principles: Adaptive Self-Organizing (Al Tenhundfeld)
• Working with PHP, Git, and Azure DevOps (Phil Hajjar)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• Cordova OSX 7.0.0 released and deprecation notice (Niklas Merz)
• A closer look at Game Backend (Dew Smith)
• Nine use cases for Unity’s Game Backend tools (Garinne Bechakjian)
• Make a 3D HoloLens app launcher appear above the launcher controls (Joost van Schaik)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• InfoQ Podcast: Recruitment, Retention, Finding The Right Job, Onboarding People in a Remote Environment (Chase Kocher & Kate Wardin)
• CodeNewbie S19:E6 – How to make learning databases fun and approachable (Joe Karlsson) (CodeNewbie Team)
• Technology & Friends – Godfrey Nolan on Drone SDKs (David Giard)
• Merge Conflict 297: The Ultra Apple Event Recap (James Montemagno & Frank Kreuger)
• Client-side vs Server-side, Front-end vs Back-end? Beginner Explanation of JavaScript on the Web (Scott Hanselman)
• How to customize messages in Teams Chat (Microsoft Teams)
• OnPodcast Episode 64: The return of Windows Sets? Windows 11’s new search box, Android 12L for Duo (Podcast OnMSFT)
• The Work Item #51 – Finding Your Engineering Passion, with Vicente Plata of 500 Startups LatAm, Shopify, and More (Den Delimarsky)
• PPP 350 | How to Hire for the Anniversary Date, Not the Start Date, with Lou Adler (Andy Kaufman)
• Coding Blocks Podcast – The Great Resignation (Allen Underwood, Michael Outlaw & Joe Zack)
• Meta Cast 217 – Charting Your Own Path (Bob Galen & Josh Anderson)
• The Changelog – ONE MORE thing every dev should know (Jessica Kerr, Adam Stacoviak & Jerod Santo)
• AWS Developers Podcast Episode 031 – CDK and Step Functions with Matthew Bonig (David Isbitski)
• The Amp Hour #581 – Real Time Operating Systems with Brian Amos (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
• FreeCodeSession – Episode 349 and Random.Code() – AutoDeconstruct and Transpire (Jason Bock)
• Serverless Chats Episode #128: Serverless-First Engineers and the Flywheel Effect with David Anderson (Jeremy Daly & Rebecca Marshburn)
• What are some tips for someone applying for an internship or job at Microsoft? | One Dev Question #Shorts (Beckylin Orooji)

Community & Events

• Imagine Cup 2022 – World Finalists Selected (Sue Gee)
• Knative Joins CNCF (Kay Ewbank)
• Introducing the Amazing Maker Awards (Dale Dougherty)
• JetBrains’ Statement on Ukraine (Maxim Shafirov)

Database

• Understanding Time Zones in SQL Server (Eric Blinn)
• Everything You Need to Get Started With MySQL (Jamie Thompson)
• The new Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB Developer Specialty Certification is here! (Nikisha Reyes-Grange)
• Released: Microsoft.Data.SqlClient 5.0 Preview 1 (David Engel)

SharePoint & MS Teams

• What’s in the first SharePoint Framework v1.15 beta? (Andrew Connell)
• Displaying selected SharePoint form fields as read-only using List Formatting (Michel Carlo)

PowerShell

• PnP PowerShell to manage list designs and create lists/libraries using list designs (Reshmee Auckloo)

Miscellaneous

• Birth of the Intel 4004 – the First Microprocessor (I Programmer Historian)
• Bill Targeting NDAs Used By Tech Companies Passes In Washington State (BeauHD)
• You can now install Windows 11 on a Surface Duo if you’re feeling brave (Tom Warren)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #3429 (Chris Alcock)
• Weekly Xamarin – Issue 342 – 12th Mar 2022 (Kym Phillpotts)
• The Wolf Report – March 14th, 2022 (Michael Wolfenden)
• F# Weekly #11, 2022 – IcedTasks & F# tool team positions in Prague (Sergey Tihon)
• C# Digest Issue #406 (Jakub Chodounsky)
• The Overflow #116: Stop aggregating away the signal in your data (Eira May & Cassidy Williams)
• Friday Five: Excel, Automation Tips, More! (Jeffrey Raymond Kitt)
• The Ultimate List of Developer Newsletters (Shiela Jorge)

The Geek Shelf

 Learn WinUI 3.0: Leverage the power of WinUI, the future of native Windows application development (Alvin Ashcraft) – Referral Link