Dew Drop – August 1, 2023 (#3995)

Top Links

• Building a sliding puzzle game in .NET MAUI – Part six and Part seven (Shaun Lawrence)
• Ask like a human: Implementing semantic search on Stack Overflow (David Haney & David Gibson)
• Cloud Functions for Firebase 2nd gen goes GA and adds support for Python (Chris Gill & Jeff Huleatt)
• APIs Aren’t Just For Devs Pt. 6 – HTTP Requests (Shannon Kuehn)
• Microsoft Edge – Build PWA-driven widgets (Microsoft Learn)

Web & Cloud Development

• The Top Data Loading Techniques for Client-Side Blazor WASM Apps (Manish Gupta)
• What’s new in Svelte: August 2023 (Dani Sandoval)
• Building an Application Insights Dashboard and Azure Application Insights Log Archiving and Retention (David Giard)
• Fluent Theme Magic in Telerik UI for ASP.NET Core (Jefferson S. Motta)
• Plugin Architecture in ASP.NET Core – How To Master It (Nick Cosentino)
• Experimenting with project templates (Cameron Balahan)
• age: A simple, modern and secure file encryption tool, format, and Go library (Filippo Valsorda)
• #ThisMonthInSWA – Jul 2023 (Nitya Narasimhan)
• Postman’s guide to 5 essential API testing techniques (Pooja Mistry)
• OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP) 1.0.0 Released (Steef-Jan Wiggers)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

• Tell us about your experience with .NET MAUI (Alexandra Kolesova)
• .NET MAUI UI/UX Challenge – Planetanaka – Part 1 (Daniel Monettelli)

Visual Studio & .NET

• vcpkg 2023.06.20 and 2023.07.21 Releases: GitHub Dependency Graph Support, Android Tested Triplets, Xbox Triplet Improvements, and More… (Augustin Popa)
• Effective Mocking With NSubstitute in .NET (Code Maze)
• Polyfills in .NET to ease multi-targeting (Gérald Barré)
• Misinterpreting the misleadingly-named STATUS_STACK_BUFFER_OVERRUN (Raymond Chen)

Design, Methodology, AI & Testing

• Bottlenecks of Scaleups: Cost Efficiency (Martin Fowler)
• Generative AI in a Nutshell – Mindmap (Abhijit Jana)
• Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Legal Document Management Software (Bjoern Meyer)
• Introduction to Bicep – The Evolution of ARM Templates (Claudio Bernasconi)
• Test-driving the pyramid’s top (Mark Seemann)
• TeamCity Cloud 2023.07: Major Cloud Profile Improvements, Enhanced Space Integration, and More (Olga Bedrina)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• The Internet of Robotics Things (IoRT) –   The Fusion of IoT and Robotics for Industry 5.0 Smart Automation and Intelligent Manufacturing (Abhijit Jana)
• Try the K2 compiler in your Android projects (Marton Braun)

Screencasts & Videos

• Taking a look at the logged-in features in ‘Next Tech Event’  | Part 24 | Coding After Work (Jimmy Engstrom & Jessica Engstrom)
• Meta LLama 2 Foundational Model with Prompt Flow | The AI Show (Microsoft Developer)
• Copilot in Microsoft Cost Management (Microsoft Mechanics)

Podcasts

• Revision Path – Kristina Turner (Maurice Cherry)
• The Breakpoint Episode 001 – Blazor United & HTMX (Khalid Abuhakmeh, Maarten Balliauw & Chris Woodruff)
• Syntax Podcast Episode 647 – Rust for JavaScript Developers – Node vs Rust Concepts (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinksy)
• The PowerShell Podcast – Björn Sundling. From PowerShell Developer to MVP: An Unfiltered Journey (James Petty)
• Google Cloud Security Podcast Episode 132 – Chaos Engineering for Security: How to Improve Software Resilience with Kelly Shortridge (Anton Chuvakin)
• Meta Cast 260 – The Road to Entrepreneurship: Part 1 – Starting Strong (Bob Galen & Josh Anderson)
• The Changelog News Podcast – Stack Underflow, LLM Attacks, web DRM by Google, unlocking Python & no one wants to talk to your chatbot (Jerod Santo)
• The Stack Overflow Podcast Episode 595 – From startup to Google and back again (Eira May)
• Dennis van der Stelt: Microservices and Distributed Systems – Azure DevOps Podcast Episode 256 (Jeffrey Palermo)
• The Happy Engineer Podcast 117: Leadership Dilemma – When Do You Fire an Employee? (Kae Lynne Sapino)

Community & Events

• Where Have I Been? (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Thank You for 30 Years with Windows Server (Janine Patrick)

Database

• Running Queries Across Many SQL Server Databases (Edward Pollack)
• MySQL – Identifying and Optimizing the Busiest Tables (Pinal Dave)
• Turn Your SQLite Database Into A Server (Nikos Vaggalis)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams

• July 2023 updates for AI Builder (Gwenael Bego)
• Introducing Microsoft Clipchamp: Unlock the power of video at work (Stefan Kinnestrand)

PowerShell

• Seamlessly migrate a SQL database to Azure SQL Database (offline) with Microsoft Azure PowerShell (Ganapathi Varma Chekuri)
• Add a printer driver (Emin Atac)

Miscellaneous

• Send to Kindle from Word (Chelsea Fesik)
• Bing Preview Release Notes: Dark Mode (Bing Team)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #3760 (Chris Alcock)
• Interesting links of the week 2023-31 (#83) (Michael Eaton)
• Reading Notes #566 (Frank Boucher)
• Daily Reading List – July 31, 2023 (#132) (Richard Seroter)

The Geek Shelf

 C# 11 and .NET 7 – Modern Cross-Platform Development Fundamentals: Start building websites and services with ASP.NET Core 7, Blazor, and EF Core 7, 7th Ed (Mark J. Price) – Referral Link