Month: January 2024

Top Links

• Introducing Windows Server 2025! (Jeff Woolsey)
• On Disinformation and the Gullibility of Humankind (James Whittaker)
• Welcome to Windows Insider flighting on Windows Server (Artem Pronichkin)
• What is an OpenAPI spec | Microsoft Learn (Waldek Mastykarz)
• Three new LINQ methods in .NET 9 (Steven Giesel)

Web & Cloud Development

• How to Add Functional Components to a React Grid Application (Andrew Peterson)
• Docker Architecture Overview – Structure & Components (James Walker)
• Azure Static Web App–API configuration (Bart Wullems)
• It’s Critter Stack “Release on Friday” Party! (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Converting HTML pages to PDFs with Playwright (Pamela Fox)
• How to Create a React App in 2024 (Reed Barger)
• Why React Icons May Be the Only Icon Library You Need (Zain Zaidi)
• Decorator Patterns In Go (Kresno Fatih Imani)
• ESLint v9.0.0-alpha.2 released (Milos Djermanovic)
• Cloudtips 24. How to create AWS accessKey, and accessID for your code (Neha Sharma)
• How TypeScript can help in modelling business workflows (Oskar Dudycz)
• HTTP at Thirty-Three (Homer Painter)
• WASI 0.2 Preview: A New Dawn for WebAssembly (Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols)
• How to deal with API rate limits (Salma Alam-Naylor)

Visual Studio & .NET

• How to Build Dependent Lists using Excel Dynamic Functions in C# .NET (Paarisha Rana)
• My NuGet Packages (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Differences Between a Virtual and an Abstract Method in C# (Aditi Saxena)
• Visual Studio GitHub Copilot Extension Introduces New Features and Enhancements (Almir Vuk)
• Streaming files to Postgres – dotnet core (Josef Ottosson)
• How to Create XML Files in C# (Matjaz Prtenjak)
• Difference Between Select and SelectMany Methods in LINQ (Michal Kaminski)
• The fastest way to create WireMock.NET mappings (Cezary Piatek)
• MassTransit–Avoid losing messages and GetHashCode() in .NET Core (Bart Wullems)
• How to Build a URL Shortener With .NET (Milan Jovanović)
• How can I expose a pre-existing block of memory as a Windows Runtime object without copying the data? (Raymond Chen)
• Collection Performance in Microsoft .NET: Returning an Array from a Property (David McCarter)

Design, Methodology, AI & Testing

• Smarter Azure Open AI Usage (Graeme Foster)
• Why Did I Create AIStoryBuilders? and The Proper Care and Feeding of LLMs (Michael Washington)
• Understanding the essentials of identity and access management (IAM) (Adam Matthews)
• New version of Publish Code Coverage Results task (Bohdan Janousek)
• New Boards Hub Update, January 2024 (Dan Hellem)
• AI Everywhere: The Increasing Integration of Artificial Intelligence in Organizations (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Informal Leadership in Software Engineering – What You Need To Progress (Nick Cosentino)
• GitHub Copilot and GenAI: Revolutionizing Software Development (Peter Smulovics)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• Use Flutter hot restart in the integration test (Mahdi Shahbazi)
• Walkthrough: Turning a Raspberry Pi into an appliance (Oren Eini)
• Mozilla says Apple’s new browser rules are ‘as painful as possible’ for Firefox and Spotify accuses Apple of ‘extortion’ with new App Store tax (Emma Roth)

Screencasts & Videos

• Technology & Friends – Brian Gorman on a Microsoft Software Training Program for US Military Veterans (David Giard)
• Build a Custom .NET MAUI Signature Pad from Scratch in Minutes! (James Montemagno)
• FreeCodeSession – Episode 514 (Jason Bock)
• Bill Gates Interviews Sam Altman about OpenAI’s Speedy Rise (David Cassel)
• Why do binary contracts matter? | One Dev Question (Larry Osterman)

Podcasts

• CppCast – Reflection for C++26 (Phil Nash & Timur Doumler)
• Generally AI Episode 1: Large Language Models (Roland Meertens & Anthony Alford)
• GeekWire Podcast: Experiments in AI, with software engineer Kevin Leneway of Pioneer Square Labs (Todd Bishop)
• Syntax Podcast #722: Next Level Web APIs. Bluetooth, File Access, Thomas Steiner – Project Fugu (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
• React Native Radio 286 – What’s New in React Native 0.73 (Mazen Chami & Robin Heinze)
• Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – The Making of a Great Product Owner, Learning, Leading, And Succeeding | Isshai Kamara (Vasco Duarte)
• Directions on Microsoft – Thinking about Data (Mary Jo Foley)
• The Changelog – Shift left, seriously. (Deepak Prabhakara, Schalk Neethling, Adam Stacoviak & Justin Garrison)
• Building A Component Library with Thomas Pink & Fabian Friedl – Adventures in Angular #403 (Alyssa Nicoll)
• AGL 349: Debbie Levitt from Delta CX (John Rouda)
• Gone Mobile Podcast #91: ListViews and CollectionViews (Jonathan Dick & Allan Ritchie)
• Talk Python to Me #446: Python in Excel (Michael Kennedy)

Community & Events

• Google Summer of Code Turns 20 In 2024 (Sue Gee)
• Public Domain Day Celebrates Creative Works from 1928 (Caralee Adams)
• MVP’s Favorite Content: CAE, Surface, M365, Semantic Kernel (Rie Moriguchi)
• Valentine’s Day 2024 in Greater Philadelphia: 22 Things to Do (Visit Philly)
• Interfacing w/ Michelle Frechette on the WWW (Work w/ Win) Livestream (Rachel Winchester)

Database

• Why Partially Fixing Key Lookups Doesn’t Work In SQL Server (Erik Darling)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams

• Upcoming updates to loading websites in Teams tabs (Loki Meyburg)

Miscellaneous

• Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26040 (Canary Channel) (Brandon LeBlanc)
• Windows Server Insider Preview 26040 is out – and so is the new name (Ned Pyle)
• The Real Problem With Spotify (Om Malik)
• Surprise! Google Chrome goes native for Windows on Arm and Microsoft explains how Russian hackers spied on its executives (Tom Warren)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #3869 (Chris Alcock)
• Sands of MAUI: Issue #131 (Sam Basu)
• Daily Reading List – January 26, 2024 (#248) (Richard Seroter)
• F# Weekly #4, 2024 – The future of Giraffe OSS (Sergey Tihon)
• C# Digest – Putting Your Cookies on a Diet (Jakub Chodounsky)
• Collective #807 (Manoela Ilic)

The Geek Shelf

 The MVVM Pattern in .NET MAUI (Pieter Nijs) – Referral Link