Month: October 2023

Top Links

• My annual letter: Leading in a new era (Satya Nadella)
• TechBash Announces One Day Tickets (Jason Gaylord)
• DALL·E 3 is now available in ChatGPT Plus and Enterprise (OpenAI Team)
• 15th Anniversery of Small Basic (Nonki Takahashi)
• 3 reasons to delay adopting .NET 8 and 10 to do it ASAP (Uno Platform Team)
• The Prompt with Trevor Noah Episode 1: Mapping the world’s forgotten populations at the IHME (Trevor Noah)

Web & Cloud Development

• Improved DynamoDB Initialization Patterns for the AWS SDK for .NET (Alex Shovlin)
• Azure SDK Release (October 2023) (Azure SDK)
• Azure CLI: Check if Blob Exists in Azure Storage (Chris Pietschmann)
• Blazor Basics: Blazor Routing and Navigation Fundamentals (Claudio Bernasconi)
• Imagining the Ideal GraphQL Integration for Marten (Jeremy D. Miller)
• More Ways to Slim Down ‘JavaScript Heavy’ Web Development (Loraine Lawson)
• Vertical Slice Architecture in ASP.NET Core (Patrick Smacchia)
• Server-side rendering (SSR) for Blazor in .NET 8 (David Grace)
• Rust Is Surging Ahead in WebAssembly (For Now) (B. Cameron Gain)
• FHIR Starter #1 (Jeff Helman)
• Updates to the Postman proxy and Interceptor: better filters and UX (Vishal Shingala)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

• Dots 2.0 – Farewell .NET MAUI Hello Avalonia (Joachim Leonfellner)
• Chart of the Week: Creating a .NET MAUI Radial Bar Chart for the Most and Least Powerful Passports in 2023 (Nitheeshkumar Thangaraj)
• WPF vs. WinForms: Choosing the Proper Framework for Your Project (Patrick Smacchia)
• .NET MAUI — What It Is and Why It Matters (PreEmptive Team)
• Create Neat and Effective Schedules with the .NET MAUI Scheduler Component (Viktoria Grozdancheva)

Visual Studio & .NET

• How to Query JSON Data using SQL, LINQ, and ADO. NET (Kartik Sagar)
• Visual Studio 2022 version 17.8 Preview 4 Release Notes (Microsoft Learn)
• Memory alignment of doubles in C# (Kevin Gosse)
• How to Implement the Facade Pattern in C# for Simplified Code and Increased Efficiency (Nick Cosentino)
• E-Sign: Retrieving Timestamped Raw Signature Data and Document Viewer: Save the Values of Form Fields in Documents (Bjoern Meyer)
• What’s the difference between setting a page’s protection to PAGE_NOACCESS and freeing it? (Raymond Chen)
• Visual Studio Dapr Extension (Microsoft Open Source)

Design, Methodology, AI & Testing

• Forget “No Code.” Adios “Low Code.” Say hello to “Yes Code!” (Ben Popper)
• Microsoft Security Copilot Early Access Program: Harnessing generative AI to empower security teams (Vasu Jakkal)
• Premature Infrastructure is the Root of All Evil (Michael Shpilt)
• Rearchitecture is a sign of success not failure (Bart Wullems)
• What does AI mean for computing education? (Philip Colligan)
• To #BuildIntelligentApps just #AskTheExpert ! (Sherry List)
• Azure DevOps: Improved Code Coverage Tab Experience (Vinayak Joshi)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• Update to Windows Subsystem for Android™ on Windows 11 (October 2023) (Brandon LeBlanc)
• Image processing on Raspberry Pi 5: our new hardware image signal processor (Helen Lynn)

Screencasts & Videos

• Definitive Guide to Uno Platform Contributions (Martin Zikmund)
• What I Wish I Knew … about finding your passion (Microsoft Developer)
• New Azure Portal experience for Azure Database Migration Service | Data Exposed (Anna Hoffman)

Podcasts

• The Modern .NET Podcast – Unleashing the Power of Windows Development with Peter Bull (Jamie Taylor)
• The Hanselminutes Podcast – Technology Passion with Peter Ayedun (Scott Hanselman)
• CppCast – Physical Units and a System of Quantities (Timur Doumler & Phil Nash)
• Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Sustainable Agile Practice, A Success Factor For Scrum Masters | Michael Schmidt (Vasco Duarte)
• Web Rush Episode 256: FullStack JavaScript and TypeScript Apps Using Remult.js (John Papa, Ward Bell, Dan Wahlin & Craig Shoemaker)
• JS Party Podcast – Use Effect (not useEffect) (Johannes Schickling, Jerod Santo & Nick Nisi)
• Rocket 460: We are so (not) back (Christina Warren, Brianna Wu & Simone De Rochefort)
• UX Podcast – Designer accountability with Kim Goodwin (James Royal-Lawson & Per Axbom)
• Digital Etsy Store | Multithreaded Income Episode 9 (Kevin Griffin)
• The Happy Engineer Podcast 134: Be Happy and Fulfilled through Personal Development Mastery with Agi Keramidas (Max Ahumada)
• Talk Python to Me #434: Building Mobile Apps Backed with Python (Michael Kennedy)
• Software Defined Talk Episode 437: The Let it Ride Lifestyle (Brandon Whichard, Cote & Matt Ray)
• Software Engineering Radio 586: Nikhil Shetty on Virtual Private Cloud (Kanchan Shringi)
• Made by Google Podcast – Heart Rate Tracking: A Whole New Pulse (Rachid Finge)

Community & Events

• Stardock at 30 (Paul Thurrott)

Database

• Free SQL Server Training: UDF Inlining In SQL Server 2019 (Erik Darling)
• AI/ML- Death of the Database? Long Live the Database! (Kellyn Gorman)
• SQL SERVER – Best Practices for Securely Storing Passwords (Pinal Dave)
• Fast Key Optimization for Row Mode Sorts (Paul White)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams

• Microsoft Teams Premium: The smart place to work is also a smart investment (Nicole Herskowitz)
• Bring your app across Microsoft 365: Outlook extensions, meeting apps, and more (Nnamdi Onuorah)

PowerShell & Terminal

• Don’t accidentally leak secrets from your terminal (Melanie Crissey)

Miscellaneous

• What is Diátaxis and should you be using it with your documentation? (Tom Johnson)
• The Introvert’s Guide to Traveling with Others (Amanda Wowk)
• Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22635.2486 (Beta Channel) (Brandon LeBlanc)
• Jon Stewart’s Apple TV Plus show ends, reportedly over coverage of AI and China (Charles Pulliam-Moore)
• Photoshop Elements 2024 gives access to Adobe Photoshop’s AI tools without a subscription (Sofia Elizabella Wyciślik-Wilson)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #3806 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily Reading List – October 19, 2023 (#186) (Richard Seroter)

The Geek Shelf

 Badass Habits: Cultivate the Confidence, Boundaries, and Know-How to Upgrade Your Life (Jen Sincero) – Referral Link