Top Links
- How to get the Windows 11 2023 Update (John Cable)
- Only One Week Until TechBash! (Jason Gaylord)
- Azure Boards + GitHub Integration Improvements (Dan Hellem)
- Learn WinUI 3, 2nd Edition now available (Alvin Ashcraft)
- TechBash schedule updates! Get the app, build your schedule. (TechBash Team)
- .NET 8 Performance Improvements in .NET MAUI (Jonathan Peppers)
Web & Cloud Development
- What’s new in Svelte: November 2023 (Dani Sandoval)
- Blazor Basics: Blazor Event Callbacks (Claudio Bernasconi)
- HTML Attributes, Properties, and Values (Rob Eisenberg)
- Experimenting with the Tailscale operator for Kubernetes (James E. Clarke)
- Low Ceremony Web Service Development with the Critter Stack (Jeremy D. Miller)
- How to Use React Fragments (John Au-Yeung)
- .NET 8’s Final RC Release Ties up Some Blazor Loose Ends (Jon Hilton)
- A Complete Guide to LangChain in JavaScript (Matt Nikonorov)
- Create a Simple Speech REST API with Azure AI Speech Services (Theophilus Owiti)
- Tutorial: A graceful process to develop and deploy Docker Containers to Azure with Visual Studio Code (York Zhang)
- What’s new in Astro – October 2023 (Elian Van Cutsem)
- Open Source Educational Resources on Modern APIs (Kin Lane)
- Kubernetes Blog: Gateway API v1.0: GA Release (Shane Utt, Nick Young & Rob Scott)
- A Re-Platforming Journey from Gatsby to Astro (John Kilmister)
- Exploring the world of music with the Spotify API and Postbot (Anudeep Medicharla)
- Automatically Upload Signed Documents to Dropbox with Zapier (Lakshmi Priya Soundar Rajan)
- Image Layer Animations with Clip-Path (Manoela Ilic)
Visual Studio & .NET
- How to Build a Query String for a URL in C#? (Code Maze)
- What Should I Dispose with .NET Database Connections? (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
- Introduction to resilient app development (David Pine)
- Yes you can create classes on the stack! (Steven Giesel)
- Code demos made easy with JetBrains Rider Live Templates (Poornima Nayar)
- Avoiding flaky tests with TimeProvider and ITimer: Exploring the .NET 8 preview – Part 12 (Andrew Lock)
- Testing your Polly policies (Josef Ottosson)
- What is the thread reaper? (Raymond Chen)
- Caching your WebView Environment to manage multiple WebView2 Controls (Rick Strahl)
Design, Methodology, AI & Testing
- Azure DevOps Server 2022.1 RC2 now available (Gloridel Morales)
- Infrastructure as Code in Any Programming Language (Joe Duffy)
- Generative AI for Beginners – A 12-Lesson Course (Lee Stott)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
Screencasts & Videos
- Optimizing Your SQL Database Workloads w/ Automatic Tuning on Azure SQL | Data Exposed: MVP Edition (Anna Hoffman)
- What is Blazor WebAssembly, Server, Hybrid, United & Mobile Bindings?! (Gerald Versluis)
- Coffee and Open Source Conversation – Carl Franklin (Isaac Levin)
- FreeCodeSession – Episode 492 (Jason Bock)
- What I Wish I Knew… about working at Microsoft (Divya Venkataramu)
- Introduction to Copa | Open at Microsoft (Morgan Brown & Sertac Ozercan)
Podcasts
- Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – A Tale of Two Agile Teams, A Key Lesson on The Impact of Leadership on Team Self-organization | Chris Garvey (Vasco Duarte)
- PPP 396 | Do You Tend to Be a Perfectionist? Embracing the Power of Good Enough, with author Thomas Curran (Andy Kaufman)
- Practical AI Podcast – Self-hosting & scaling models (Tuhin Srivastava, Chris Benson & Daniel Whitenack)
- How to Get Paid for Speaking | Multithreaded Income Episode 12 with James Q. Quick (Kevin Griffin)
- Grammar Girl Episode 952 – Cliches. Organic. Bully Pulpit. Fimfy. (Mignon Fogarty, Ryan Paulson & Kirk Hazen)
- RunAs Radio – Green IT with Mike Halsey (Richard Campbell)
Community & Events
- Celebrating 17 Years of SQL Authority: A Beautiful Journey of Learning and Sharing (Pinal Dave)
- Special Angular Event – Nov 6 @ 1pm EST (Angular Team)
- Introducing the GitHub transparency center (Margaret Tucker)
- Former Halo developer Bungie announces layoffs in wake of game delays (Robert Collins)
- Complete the new 30 Days to Learn It Challenge and explore the new trainings in Security (Shirleyse Haley)
- From classroom to cyberfront: Unlocking the potential of the next generation of cyber defenders (Tina Romeo)
- Winter at Dilworth Park: Center City’s Open-Air Holiday Oasis Returns for 2023/2024 and This December in Philly: The 30+ Biggest Events, Festivals & Exhibitions (Visit Philly)
- Earn Passive Income as a SaaS Affiliate with BoldSign (Meikanda Nayanar)
Database
- Resolving could not open a connection to SQL Server errors (Jugal Shah)
- Checklists to Manage SQL Server Deployments or Maintenance (Aaron Bertrand)
- SQL Server Table Design Guidelines – Data Types, Designing for Deletes and Primary Keys (Jared Westover)
- How To Use Dynamic SQL To Fix SQL Server Performance Problems Part 1 (Erik Darling)
- SQL SERVER – Understanding Minimum Server Memory (Pinal Dave)
- Azure Cosmos DB at Ignite 2023: Chatbots, autoscale, MongoDB vCore and more! (Jay Gordon)
- SQL Convert Date to YYYYMMDD (Jim Evans)
SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams
- New Updates to Microsoft Teams (free) on Windows 11 and Communities (Amit Fulay)
- Microsoft Graph APIs for Microsoft Teams meeting transcripts now generally available (Ayan Chakraborty)
- SharePoint Roadmap Pitstop: October 2023 (Mark Kashman)
- What’s New in Microsoft Teams | October 2023 (Steve Stein)
- An Evolution in Microsoft Office Accessibility (George Joeckel)
- What’s New and What’s Coming to OneNote on Windows (Greg MacEachern)
- Copilot Done Right™ (Brooke Martin)
Miscellaneous
- Introduc…ing the .ing top-level domain (Christina Yeh)
- What’s new for IT pros in Windows 11, version 23H2 (Harjit Dhaliwal)
- ⚒️️ Learn by building, and create your path to expertise! (Jill Armour)
- Atari is buying the developer behind its excellent 50th anniversary retro compilation (Jon Porter)
- How to Generate Endless Ideas for Programming Projects (Nick Cosentino)
- Windows 11, version 23H2 security baseline (Rick Munck)
More Link Collections
- The Morning Brew #3814 (Chris Alcock)
- Daily Reading List – October 31, 2023 (#194) (Richard Seroter)
The Geek Shelf
Learn WinUI 3: Leverage WinUI and the Windows App SDK to create modern Windows applications with C# and XAML (Alvin Ashcraft)