Dew Drop – August 17, 2023 (#4006)

Top Links

• Publish your PWA to the Microsoft Store on Windows for FREE (Gleb Khmyznikov)
• Creating a .NET MAUI Hospital Appointment Booking App (Jeyasri Murugan)
• Integrating ImageSharp with Windows and Uno Platform Applications (Nick Randolph)
• Working with the LinkedIn API with C# (Joseph Guadagno)
• What’s new in Flutter 3.13 (Kevin Chisholm)
• Dev Home Preview 0.4 Release (Kayla Cinnamon)

Web & Cloud Development

• All the Possible Ways to Debug Node.js (Michael Shpilt)
• If I’m already using React, why should I rewrite my app with Web Components? (Dave Rupert)
• Kubernetes 1.28: Non-Graceful Node Shutdown Moves to GA (Xing Yang & Ashutosh Kumar)
• Using Microsoft Project Files with Syncfusion JavaScript Gantt Chart: A Beginner’s Guide (Alan Sangeeth)
• ASP.NET Core in .NET 8 Preview 7: Blazor, Native AOT, Antiforgery and More (Almir Vuk)
• ASP.NET Core Basics: Globalizing a Web Application (Assis Zang)
• Azure SDK Release (August 2023) (Azure SDK Team)
• Vue.js Best Practices: Tips and Tricks for Optimizing Your Code (Ezekiel Lawson)
• What is the Easiest & Best Way to Back Up a WordPress Site? (Jen Swisher)
• How To Debug Docker and Docker Compose Solutions with JetBrains Rider (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
• Reduce Lambda cold start times: migrate to AWS SDK for JavaScript v3 (Trivikram Kamat)
• Publish your PWA to the Microsoft Store on Windows for free with PWABuilder (Microsoft Edge Team)
• Towards HTTPS by default (Joe DiBlasio)
• Curbing Connection Churn in Zuul (Arthur Gonigberg & Argha C.)
• API testing interview questions (Postman Team)

Visual Studio & .NET

• Prevent SQL Injection With EF Core, Dapper, and ADO.NET (Code Maze)
• Unleashing the Power of Visual Studio 2022 for C++ Game Development (David Li)
• Convert Word Documents to Markdown and Vice Versa in C# (Mohanaselvam Jothi)
• Enum.TryParse unexpected behavior (Steven Giesel)
• Inside STL: The shared_ptr constructor and enable_shared_from_this (Raymond Chen)
• Tales from the .NET Migration Trenches – Intro (Jimmy Bogard)

Design, Methodology, AI & Testing

• Strategic directions: minimizing risk and being data driven (Martin Fowler)
• Talking Unit Testing (Jesse Liberty)
• The 3 Things You Need to Do Agile Right (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Mastering the Art of Managing Up: A Developer’s Guide to Career Advancement (Steve Smith)
• Don’t Ever Stop Building Your Brand (DeveloperMedia Team)
• 3 Tools for Deep Purpose to Change Your Game in Business and Life (JD Meier)
• Create a Chatbot Trained on Your Own Data via the OpenAI API (Matt Nikonorov)
• How to Make Your Own Search Engine: Semantic Search With LLM Embeddings by William Booth-Clibborn (William Booth-Clibborn)
• Semantic Kernel and Weaviate: Orchestrating interactions around LLMs with long-term memory (Zain Hasan)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• AdDuplex Post-Mortem. Part 3: Startup Sauna and Silicon Valley (Alan Mendelevich)
• Privacy Sandbox Developer Preview 9: Custom Audience Delegation (Jon Markoff)
• Dart 3.1 & a retrospective on functional style programming in Dart 3 (Marya Belanger)

Screencasts & Videos

• iOS Study Circle: Asynchronous Programming with SwiftUI – Session 16 – Project 2 Discussion (Women Who Code)
• IoT Coffee Talk: Episode 170 – BEAD & Connected Equity (IoT Coffee Talk Crew)
• Video: Taking Your Line of Business Apps to the Next Level with OpenAI and GPT Models, Communication and Organizational Data (Dan Wahlin)
• What programming languages does GitHub Copilot support? | One Dev Question (Damian Brady)
• What I Wish I Knew… about how much your job can change (Leslie Richardson)

Podcasts

• .NET Rocks! – Chocolatey in 2023 with Gary Ewan Park (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• CodeNewbie S25:E1 – Pivoting to Tech from Biomedical Science (Marley Anthony) (CodeNewbie Team)
• Working Code Podcast – Episode 140: Fraud, What Is It Good For? (Ben Nadel)
• Syntax Podcast Episode 654 – 6 or so New Approved and Proposed JavaScript APIs (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinksy)
• Code, Write, Play – The Perfect Drums (For Me and Probably Nobody Else) (Todd Mitchell)
• The CSS Podcast 69: Why is it overflowing? (Una Kravets & Adam Argyle)
• Web Rush Episode 247: Ecosystem CI Katerina Skroumpeloution (John Papa, Ward Bell, Craig Shoemaker & Dan Wahlin)

Community & Events

• SponsorLink: feedback and moving forward (Daniel Cazzulino)
• What’s my job in my new role as Director of DevRel at WeAreDevelopers? (Chris Heilmann)

Database

• SQL SERVER – Unique Indexes on Nullable Columns (Pinal Dave)
• Public Preview: Azure Active Directory integration with Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL (Azure Team)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams

• Microsoft Teams is now part of the Xbox Game Bar so you can stream gameplay to friends (Tom Warren)

PowerShell

• Azure PowerShell Functions – connect SFTP and Storage Account (Mengyang Chen)
• PSResourceGet Preview 24 is Now Available (Sydney Smith)

Miscellaneous

• This $70 device can spoof an Apple device and trick you into sharing your password (Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai)
• Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 25931 (Canary Channel) (Brandon LeBlanc)
• OpenAI bought the makers of a Minecraft clone (Jay Peters)
• Microsoft will let you uninstall more built-in Windows 11 apps soon for less bloat (Tom Warren)

More Link Collections

• Daily Reading List – August 16, 2023 (#144) (Richard Seroter)

The Geek Shelf

 Parallel Programming and Concurrency with C# 10 and .NET 6 (Alvin Ashcraft)