Top Links
- Hardware Intrinsics in .NET 8 (Tanner Gooding)
- Clark Sell: Developer Education and Networking – Azure DevOps Podcast Episode 275 (Jeffrey Palermo)
- Visual Studio 2022 version 17.8.3 Release Notes (Microsoft Learn)
- Build an AI Powered Image App – Microsoft Learn Challenge (Renee Noble)
- Azure DevOps for Unreal Engine game development (Matthaus Niedoba)
Web & Cloud Development
- Docker whale-comes AtomicJar, maker of Testcontainers (Scott Johnston)
- Angular Christmas Calendar (Daniel Glejzner, Pawel Kubiak & Ilir Beqiri)
- Azure Event Grid releases public preview support for events from services like Microsoft Entra ID, Microsoft Outlook, and Microsoft Teams. (Azure Team)
Visual Studio & .NET
- Festive Tech Calender – Building a Word Search in C# (John Kilmister)
- Redacting sensitive data in logs with Microsoft.Extensions.Compliance.Redaction (Andrew Lock)
- Building a Critter Stack Application: Command Line Tools with Oakton (Jeremy D. Miller)
- 4 ways to create Unit Tests without Interfaces in C# (Davide Bellone)
- Generic Type Construction With Static Virtual Interface Members (Brant Burnett)
- Auth0 Templates for .NET: A New Powerful Version Released (Andrea Chiarelli)
- The mysterious second parameter to the x86 ENTER instruction (Raymond Chen)
- How to Decode JWT Tokens in .NET (Muhammad Afzal Qureshi)
Design, Methodology, AI & Testing
- Bliki: TestDrivenDevelopment (Martin Fowler)
- Build your own copilots with Azure AI Studio (Zachary Cavanell)
- Three types of AI-assisted programmers (Isaac Lyman)
- GitHub Developer Productivity at 30 Billion Messages per Day (Jennifer Riggins)
- Declarative Feature Engineering at PayPal (Marina Lyan)
Screencasts & Videos
- Azure AI Search: Generating the right answers, every time | The AI Show Live (Seth Juarez & Farzad Sunavala)
- Build your own copilots with Azure AI Studio | Microsoft Mechanics (Seth Juarez)
- Shortcut Keys on Desktop with KeyboardAccelerators – .NET MAUI 101 (Gerald Versluis)
- Armchair Architects: LLMs & Vector Databases (Part 1) (David Blank-Edelman, Uli Homann & Eric Charran)
Podcasts
- Revision Path – Jonathan Robinson (Maurice Cherry)
- Merge Conflict 388: Developer to Manager, Hybrid Success, & Capacity for Innovation (James Montemagno & Frank Kreuger)
- Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Agile Retrospectives Without Blame, The Importance of The Retrospective Prime Directive | Robert Briese (Vasco Duarte)
- Productive C# Podcast #26 – Microsoft Semantic Kernel – Integrating AI in your C# applications (Andrea Angella)
- The PowerShell Podcast – Code in Action: Embracing Hands-On Learning with Jeff Hicks (James Petty)
- Meta Cast – The Power of Labels in Agile Teams (Bob Galen & Josh Anderson)
- Syntax Podcast Episode 703: The Observer Pattern (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
- Google Cloud Security Podcast Episode 152 – Trust, Security and Google’s Annual Transparency Report (Anton Chuvakin)
- The Changelog News Podcast – Open source LLMs are catching up (Jerod Santo)
- The Amp Hour #653 – Benjamin Cabé Nose Zephyr (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
- The Stack Overflow Podcast – What Gemini means for the GenAI boom (Eira May)
- Grammar Girl Podcast – What’s the difference between Hispanic, Chicano, Latino, Latinx, and Latine? Can something ‘grow’ smaller? Musko. (Mignon Fogarty & Susan K. Herman)
- SQL Server Radio Episode 158 – Reverse Engineering Table Relations based on SQL Plans (Guy Glantser & Eitan Blumin)
Community & Events
- Beyond the Screen: The Power and Perks of In-Person Tech Conferences (David McCarter)
- 6 nonprofits shaping AI policy in Africa, the Middle East and Latin America (Doron Avni)
- This year’s Black Founders Fund recipients in Africa and Europe (Melanie Eusebe)
Database
- The Art Of The SQL Server Stored Procedure: Debugging (Erik Darling)
- Getting Started with DuckDB for Fast Analytical Query Workloads on Large Datasets (Hristo Hristov)
SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams
- Removing history versions of a file on OneDrive for Business (Gérald Barré)
Miscellaneous
- Arc for Windows (The Browser Company)
More Link Collections
- The Morning Brew #3843 (Chris Alcock)
- Interesting links of the week 2023-50 (#102) (Michael Eaton)
- Sands of MAUI: Issue #127 (Sam Basu)
- Daily Reading List – December 11, 2023 (#221) (Richard Seroter)
- Reading Notes #583 (Frank Boucher)
- .NET Annotated Monthly | December 2023 (Rachel Appel)
The Geek Shelf
Refactoring with C#: Safely improve .NET applications and pay down technical debt with Visual Studio, .NET 8, and C# 12 (Matt Eland) – Referral Link