Top Links
- Enhancing #help in F# Interactive (David Schaefer)
- The Definitive Guide to Building and Deploying Avalonia Applications for macOS (Mike James)
- .NET MAUI – Screen size without bars (Ed Schimmel)
- Boosting Blazor DataGrid Performance with Virtualization Techniques (Maithiliy K.)
- .NET Rocks! – Getting into Containers using Aspire with Jiachen Jiang (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
- What’s new with GitHub Copilot: July 2024 (Elle Shwer)
Web & Cloud Development
- What’s new in Svelte: August 2024 (Dani Sandoval)
- What’s new in Astro – July 2024 (Sarah Rainsberger)
- Release Notes for Safari Technology Preview 200 (Jon Davis)
- Selection Sort: A Step-by-Step Guide (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
- 5 JavaScript Security Best Practices for 2024 (Alexander T. Williams)
- Blazor Basics: Uploading Files in Blazor Server Web Applications (Claudio Bernasconi)
- CSS Functions and Mixins Module Notes (Geoff Graham)
WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML
- How to Import and Export Excel XLSX Using WPF (Mackenzie Albitz)
- Chart of the Week: Create .NET MAUI Multi-Category Bar Charts to Compare the Use of Generative AI for Creating Media vs. Obtaining Information (Ezhilarasan Elangovan)
- Easily Synchronize Outlook Calendar Events in .NET MAUI Scheduler (Jeyasri Murugan)
Visual Studio & .NET
- Copilot in Visual Studio Will Get Access to Org Knowledge Bases (David Ramel)
- How to compress out interior padding in a std::pair and why you don’t want to (Raymond Chen)
- DevExpress AI — Sneak Peek of New Smart Functions Coming Soon to Blazor, DevExtreme, WinForms, and WPF UI Components (Ray Navasarkian)
Design, Methodology, AI & Testing
- If agile is the answer, what is the question? (Dave Ogle)
- OpenAI’s GPT-4o mini Now Available in API with Vision Capabilities on Azure AI (Sydnee Mayers, Andy Beatman, Kenji Kanazawa, Chris Hoder & Long Chen)
- SemanticKernel.Connectors.Oracle – Semantic Kernel memory built on top of Oracle 23ai (Giorgi Dalakishvili)
- Pushing the Frontier (Allen Pike)
- Meta Releases Llama 3.1 405B, Largest Open-Source Model to Date (Andrew Hoblitzell)
- Using the Terraform ‘merge’ Function (Chris Pietschmann)
- Accessibility by design: Building interfaces for everyone at Stack Overflow (Dan Cormier)
- How to Become a Project Manager in 2024 (Fiona Jackson)
- New Microsoft whitepaper shares how to prepare your data for secure AI adoption (Herain Oberoi)
- Unified Grid: How We Re-Architected Slack for Our Largest Customers (Ian Hoffman)
- Using Smart AI Components with OpenAI API and MS Word Document as Context (Jefferson S. Motta)
- AI for Developers (Matt Graven)
- What’s new in Copilot | July 2024 (Seth Patton)
Screencasts & Videos
- IoT Coffee Talk: Episode 220 – The Blame Game: CrowdStrike (IoT Coffee Talk Crew)
- A Conversation with Windows Package Manager Expert Demitrius Nelon (Ale Thomas)
Podcasts
- Syntax Podcast #802: Tree Shaking × useMemo vs useCallback × JavaScript Event Loop – STUMP’d (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
- The Changelog Podcast #602 – Open is the way (Joseph Jacks, Adam Stacoviak & Jerod Santo)
- Practical AI Podcast #280 – Broccoli AI at its best (Bengsoon Chuah & Daniel Whitenack)
- Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Helping a DevOps Team Regain Focus, and More Control of Their Work | Karina Margole (Vasco Duarte)
- Software Engineering Radio 627: Chuck Weindorf on Leaders and Software Engineers (Jeff Doolittle)
Community & Events
- The rise and fall of Stack Overflow (Nick Hodges)
- Bungie is laying off 220 employees and moving others to PlayStation (Ash Parrish)
- CfP List Updated 2024-07-31 (Dave Aronson)
- KotlinConf 2025 Tickets Are Now on Sale! (Ksenia Shneyveys)
Database
- How To Get Only Letters Or Numbers From A String For Free In SQL Server (Erik Darling)
- Transforming Fleet Operations with vCore-based Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB Geospatial Capabilities (Sudhanshu Vishodia)
SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams
- SharePoint roadmap pitstop: July 2024 (Mark Kashman)
- What’s New in Microsoft Teams | July 2024 (Pete Daderko)
PowerShell
- Portable, Side-by-Side PowerShell Universal Instances (Adam Driscoll)
Miscellaneous
- Commute to more places with Bing Maps on Android (Bing Team)
- How we’re addressing explicit fake content in Search (Emma Higham)
- Microsoft is removing ads from Skype (Tom Warren)
- Google Maps is getting even more like Waze (Umar Shakir)
More Link Collections
- The Morning Brew #3994 (Chris Alcock)
- Daily Reading List – July 31, 2024 (#367) (Richard Seroter)