Top Links
- New Teams Toolkit for Visual Studio release with exciting features for .NET developers (Yu Zhang)
- Multi-Branch Graph Available for General Audiences (Jessie Houghton)
- Microsoft.WindowsAppSDK v1.4.230811000-preview2 (NuGet)
- Want to build a Copilot for your app? Semantic Kernel & Prompt Flow for Beginners (Matthew Anderson)
- TechBash 2023 – Announcing Three Amazing Keynotes and a Labor Day sale! (TechBash Team) – Scott Hunter, Paul Yuknewicz, Kathleen Dollard, and Mads Kristensen are presenting at TechBash this fall!
Web & Cloud Development
- Kubernetes v1.28: Retroactive Default StorageClass move to GA (Roman Bednář)
- AWS Step Functions in C# (Camilo Reyes)
- Unleash Docker Desktop 4.22: The Featherweight Heavy-Hitter for Supercharged Rapid Development (David Scott)
- How to Use the CSS gap Property (Ralph Mason)
- 10 Hot Summer Apps You Can Build with Open-Source APIs (Diana Pham)
WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML
- Chart of the Week: Creating a WinUI Spline Area Chart for Top Google Investing Searches in 2022 (Nitheeshkumar Thangaraj)
- Telerik UI for .NET MAUI Chat: The Face of Chatbot Service for Natural Human Conversation (Rossitza Fakalieva)
- Load Custom Badge UI in Your .NET MAUI App: An Overview (Selva Ganapathy Kathiresan)
- VijayAnand.MauiTemplates v4.0.0 (NuGet)
- Windows App SDK 1.4 Preview 2 Object Model Diagram Diff (Morten Nielsen) – See what classes and members are new in v1.4 Preview 2
Visual Studio & .NET
- Targeting Multiple Frameworks in a .NET Project (Code Maze)
- MNW #051: Advanced Rate Limiting Use Cases In .NET (Milan Jovanović)
- What it means when you convert between different shared_ptrs (Raymond Chen)
- Sneak Peek: Retrieving Timestamped Raw Signature Data (Bjoern Meyer)
Design, Methodology, AI & Testing
- Final parts of the cost bottleneck of scaleups and TDD with GitHub Copilot (Martin Fowler)
- The Future of Terraform, Announcing OpenTF! (Craig Dunn)
- Part two: 7 must-know object-oriented software patterns (and their pitfalls) (Panos Patros)
- Azure Cognitive Search and LangChain: A Seamless Integration for Enhanced Vector Search Capabilities (Gia Mondragon)
- Accelerating Machine Learning with TensorFlow.js: Using Pretrained Models and Docker (Harsh Manvar)
- Behaviour-Driven Design is more than tests (Oskar Dudycz)
- Microsoft Open Sources ‘ONNX Script’ for Python Machine Learning Models (David Ramel)
- Adobe’s Open Developer Platform Principles (Aubrey Cattell)
- Prompt engineering tips (Craig Dunn)
- How to Overcome Protective Hesitation So EVERYONE Gets the Feedback They Deserve to Learn and Grow (Katie Bartlet)
- Celebrating Failure? by Louise Wilson (Louise Wilson)
- mTLS: When certificate authentication is done wrong (Michael Stepankin)
- Microsoft CEO Says AI Is a Tidal Wave as Big as the Internet (msmash)
- Building Projects – Unlock Success As A Beginner Programmer (Nick Cosentino)
- Self Documenting Code (Sam Ehlers)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- Update to Windows Subsystem for Android™ on Windows 11 (August 2023) (Brandon LeBlanc)
Screencasts & Videos
- Intro to C# with GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio 2022 (Katie Savage)
- This is a crazy update | Flutter 3.13 (Codepur)
- How do I become more confident about AI? | One Dev Question (John Maeda)
- Performance Demos of SQL’s Intelligent Query Processing Feedback capabilities | Data Exposed (Anna Hoffman)
- What I Wish I Knew… about coming to Microsoft (Marc Mascarenhas)
- Developer Jumpstart: The Principles of Data Modeling for MongoDB (MongoDB Team)
Podcasts
- CppCast – Soagen (Phil Nash & Timur Doumler)
- The Changelog Podcast – 30 years of Debian (Jonathan Carter, Adam Stacoviak & Jerod Santo)
- JS Party Podcast – Refined thinking (Jim Nielsen, Jerod Santo & Nick Nisi)
- Rocket 451: Call Us, SBF! (Christina Warren, Brianna Wu & Simone De Rochefort)
- The Stack Overflow Podcast Episode 600 – Semantic search without the napalm grandma exploit (Eira May)
- Software Engineering Radio 577: Casey Muratori on Clean Code, Horrible Performance? (Giovanni Asproni)
- Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Vision, Strategy, Collaboration, The Art of a Remarkable Product Owner | Danielle Braun (Vasco Duarte)
Community & Events
- Webinar: Simplify Your Architecture with Wolverine (Jeremy D. Miller)
- Microsoft is prepping new Surface hardware for next month (Mark Hachman)
- What the Hachette v. Internet Archive Decision Means for Our Library (Chris Freeland)
- Meet the Google for Startups Accelerator: Women Founders Class of 2023 (Iran Karimian)
- Webinar – Mastering SQL Query Performance: A Deep Dive into Index Tuning and Analysis (Pinal Dave)
- Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella discloses plans for new cricket stadium in Seattle (Priya Walia)
- Microsoft to hold ‘special event’ in New York City on September 21st (Tom Warren)
- Meet Text Control at TechBash 2023 (Bjoern Meyer)
Database
- GitHub Copilot Examples to Create SQL Server Indexes and Tune Queries (Alejandro Cobar)
SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams
- Teams AI Library – Boost your Teams bots with AI (Vesa Nopanen)
Miscellaneous
- Driving Performance at Microsoft Bing (Bing Team)
- Small update for the Paint app for Windows 11 rolling out with UI changes (Brandon LeBlanc)
- The Xbox 360 Store Will Close July 2024, But You Can Keep Playing Your Favorite Games (Dave McCarthy)
- Leaked images show Lenovo’s Windows based Steam Deck competitor called the Legion Go (Devesh Beri)
More Link Collections
- Code Maze Weekly #181 (Vladimir Pecanac)
- Daily Reading List – August 17, 2023 (#145) (Richard Seroter)
The Geek Shelf
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