Dew Drop – May 16, 2023 (#3944)

Top Links

• Xamarin.Forms and Essentials now target Android 13 (in Preview) (Gerald Versluis)
• How GPT models work: for data scientists and ML engineers (Bea Stollnitz)
• Join Microsoft Build 2023 Community-Led Parties (Rie Moriguchi)
• Data Visualization with a Heat Map Using .NET MAUI Scheduler (Sasi Kumar Arumugam)
• TechBash Dev Conference 2023 (Nov 7-10) – Early bird tickets on sale May 22nd (TechBash Team)
• Get Ready for Visual Studio at Build 2023: Join Tens of Thousands Online! (Jim Harrer)

Web & Cloud Development

• Public preview: Azure Container Storage (Azure Team)
• Setting Up Real-Time Updates in a Blazor WebAssembly App Using SignalR [Webinar Show Notes] (Carter Harris)
• WebStorm 2023.2 Early Access Program Is Now Open! (David Watson)
• Pure Functions in JavaScript: A Beginner’s Guide (Dmitri Pavlutin)
• Solving Media Object Float Issues With CSS Block Formatting Contexts (Gabriel Shoyombo)
• Introducing the Postman VS Code extension (Preetham M.)
• Detecting When the User is Offline (Eric Lawrence)
• Establishing and monitoring access to different environments (part 1 of 2) (Magnus Mårtensson)
• Fiddler Everywhere as a Sandboxed Terminal Proxy (Nikolay Iliev)
• Postman: Set up workspaces and collaborate faster with workspace templates (Ramji Enamuthu)
• Important Update for Developers Using Adobe APIs (Raymond Camden)

Visual Studio & .NET

• How to Add a WinForms C# Excel XLSX Viewer to Your Desktop .NET Application (Mackenzie Albitz)
• C# Tip: Advanced Switch Expressions and Switch Statements using filters (Davide Bellone)
• What are the duck-typing requirements of C++/WinRT com_ptr? (Raymond Chen)
• ML.NET – Introduction to Machine Learning With C# (Code Maze)
• ReSharper C++ Starts the 2023.2 Early Access Program (Elvira Mustafina)
• ReSharper 2023.2 Kicks Off the Early Access Program! and Rider 2023.2 Early Access Program Is Now Open (Sasha Ivanova)
• .NET Community Toolkit 8.2 Adds Faster Generators (Kay Ewbank)
• What’s New for Makefile Tools in VS Code Version 0.7.0 – Variable Expansion and more… (Sinem Akinci)

Design, Methodology, AI & Testing

• How and why to run a scrum of scrums (David Pereira)
• Run EXE files as Administrator in Windows (Alex Marin)
• Using Pact and Quarkus to Tame Microservices Testing (Holly Cummins)
• The Industrial Hammer Complex (Rob Eisenberg)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• Introducing a smarter algorithm in Crashlytics (Alex Singer)
• Rebuilding Mobile Apps at Talk Python (Michael Kennedy)
• Capacitor SSL Pinning: The Extra Layer of Security Your Mobile App Needs (Conner Simmons)

Screencasts & Videos

• Live Coding – Uno Platform – Android Proximity Sensor (Martin Zikmund)
• Monitor Your Mobile App Health with Sentry and .NET MAUI (Gerald Versluis)
• Building “Next Tech Event” using Blazor and RavenDB, Part 17 | Coding After Work (Jimmy Engstrom & Jessica Enstrom)
• The AI Chronicles #1 (James Shore)
• What’s next for Entity Framework Core Power Tools? | Open at Microsoft (Jeremy Likness & Erik Ejlskov Jensen)

Podcasts

• Revision Path – Akeem Roberts (Maurice Cherry)
• InfoQ Podcast: From Cloud-Hosted to Cloud-Native with Rosemary Wang (Rosemary Wang)
• Kubernetes Podcast from Google – Kubernetes 1.27 Chill Vibes, with Xander Grzywinski (Abdel Sghiouar & Kaslin Fields)
• The PowerShell Podcast – PowerShell and DevOps Global Summit – Steve Judd, Poshwolf (Anthony Howell), Phil Bossman, Dan Hill, and Geoff Schram (James Petty)
• Google Cloud Security Podcast Episode 121 – What Happens Here Stays Here: Confidential City (and Space) (Anton Chuvakin)
• Meta Cast 251 – Exploring Generational Differences in AI Technology – How Do Bob and Josh View It? (Bob Galen & Josh Anderson)
• The Changelog News Podcast – Syncthing, Thunderbird, Baseline & vector databases (Jerod Santo)
• The Stack Overflow Podcast Episode 571 – Great code isn’t enough. Developers need to brag about it (Eira May)
• Talk Python to Me #415: Future of Pydantic and FastAPI (Michael Kennedy)
• PowerShell News Podcast Episode 052 – Interview with OnRamp Attendee Simrah Shaik and PowerShell News Podcast Episode 053 – Interview with Jeff Hicks (Mick Pletcher & Harjit Dhaliwal)
• Inside Trader Joe’s Podcast – ICYMI: Why is Trader Joe’s a Bricks and Mortar Store (Trader Joe’s Team)
• Women in Technology Podcast – Reach for the Stars (WiT Team)
• Syntax Podcast Episode 614 – WTF Are Signals and Why Is Everyone So Hot on Them All of a Sudden? (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinsky)
• Made by Google Podcast – Google I/O 2023: Introducing Pixel’s Newest Devices (Rachid Finge)

Community & Events

• Firebase: What’s new at Google I/O 2023 (Dmitry Lyalin)
• Building a more inclusive gaming community with GitLab (Bryan Behrenshausen)
• Rockin’ the Code World: Special Guest Carl Franklin (David McCarter)
• Red Hat’s Layoffs Included Fedora Program Manager (EditorDavid)
• Stories from our survey: Salary in the time of pandemic (Erin Yepis)
• Discover Ways to Make Open Source Contributions to Microsoft (Kiran Amin Panjwani)
• Geeks Give Back at the GeekWire Awards: Meet four inspiring organizations using tech for good (Lisa Stiffler)
• JetBrains GameDev Day 2023 – Call for Speakers (Matt Ellis)
• Announcing Postman’s projects and accepted contributors for Google Summer of Code 2023 (Vinit Shahdeo)

Database

• Changing log growth strategy in SQL Server 2022 (Aaron Bertrand)
• SQL SERVER 2022 – Parameter Sensitive Plan Optimization (PSPO) and Parameter Sensitive Plan optimization in SQL Server 2022 – SQL in Sixty Seconds #200 (Pinal Dave)
• Using Docker on Windows with Persistent SQL Server Settings and Databases (Josephine Bush)
• Azure Cosmos DB at Build 2023: Everything you need to know (Michal Toiba)
• Azure DataBricks talking to Azure SQL Database using Private Endpoints (Gregor Suttie)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams

• OneNote Webhooks API deprecation (Bea Villanueva)

PowerShell

• Scan LoL drivers with AutoRuns PowerShell Module (Emin Atac)
• Measuring script execution time (Francisco Nabas)

Miscellaneous

• Classification Using the scikit k-Nearest Neighbors Module (James McCaffrey)
• Windows 11 users can now link their iPhones and use iMessage from a PC and Microsoft’s Activision Blizzard acquisition approved by EU regulators (Tom Warren)
• Microsoft will pay to capture carbon from burning wood (Justine Calma)
• The Next Step for the Occupied App (Peter Foot)
• Trends you should look out for the rest of 2023 (Tessa Wolhuter)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #3706 (Chris Alcock)
• Awesome Uno Platform – List of resources for developers building cross-platform .NET apps with Uno Platform (Marin Zikmund)
• Interesting links of the week 2023-20 (#72) (Michael Eaton)
• .NET, Architecture, Azure, And other links #54 (davita8)
• Daily Reading List – May 15, 2023 (#089) (Richard Seroter)
• Sands of MAUI: Issue #103 (Sam Basu)
• Reading Notes #555 (Frank Boucher)

The Geek Shelf

 Learning Blazor: Build Single-Page Apps with WebAssembly and C# (David Pine) – Referral Link