Top Links
- Announcing the General Availability (GA) of Microsoft Entra External ID extension for Visual Studio Code (Sameeksha Raina)
- Announcing Swift 6 (Holly Borla)
- What is Microsoft Entra ID? (Poorna Theekshana)
- New Function Calling Model Available in .NET for Semantic Kernel (Sergey Menshykh)
- Building a GraphQL Client in .NET with JetBrains Rider and StrawberryShake (Maarten Balliauw)
- Enhancing the GitHub Copilot ecosystem with Copilot Extensions, now in public beta (Shuyin Zhao)
Web & Cloud Development
- Sign the letter: Oracle, it’s time to free JavaScript. (javascript.tm)
- Simple Search Using HTMX & EF Core for ASP.NET Core and Using Grafana and Prometheus to Monitor ASP.NET Core Applications (Scott Galloway)
- State Management in Angular Applications Using NgRx Signals Store (Christian Nwamba)
- New DevExpress AI-Powered Blazor Chat Component — Early Access Preview (v24.2) (Dmitry Tokmachev)
- What is PHP Object Injection? An In-Depth Guide with Examples (Jen Swisher)
- Open Enrollment at WordPress.com: Free Websites for Students (Jeremy Anderberg)
- Effortlessly Visualize and Manage Data with Blazor TreeView (Keerthana Rajendran)
- .NET on Azure Functions – September 2024 roadmap update (Matthew Henderson)
- AWS Transfers OpenSearch to the Linux Foundation (Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols)
- Docker for Web Developers: Getting Started with the Basics (Todd R. Weiss)
- Astro 5.0 Beta Release (Erika)
- Node v22.9.0 (Current) (Rafael Gonzaga)
- Starlight 0.28 (Chris Swithinbank & HiDeoo)
- Take Microsoft’s Python Web Apps Course For Free (Nikos Vaggalis)
- FHIRlink connector and Epic on FHIR for Power Platform development (Jim Novak)
- Pushing Pulumi ESC Secrets into External Platforms (Komal Ali)
- Auth0 Forms Is Now Generally Available! (Ramona Schwering)
- What’s in an (Alias) Name? (Robert Griesemer)
WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML
- .NET MAUI 8.0.90 (Service Release 9) (David Ortinau)
Visual Studio & .NET
- Prototype Pattern: Cloning Objects in C# (Uday Dodiya)
- Akka.NET Actors’ Hidden Super Power: Behavior Switching (Aaron Stannard)
- It rather involved being on the other side of this airtight hatchway: Posting completions to somebody else’s I/O completion port (Raymond Chen)
AI
- 17 Best AI-Powered Coding Assistant Tools in 2024 (Mariusz Michalowski)
- Running a fully local AI Code Assistant with Continue–Part 1–Introduction (Bart Wullems)
- Create your own Visual Studio Code Chat Copilot Agent with Phi-3.5 by GitHub Models (Kinfey Lo)
- Markdown is 15% more token efficient than JSON – Prompting – OpenAI Developer Forum (Ashlynn)
- Apple Open-Sources Multimodal AI Model 4M-21 (Anthony Alford)
- Using AI for requirements analysis: A case study (Birgitta Böckeler & Adhavan KP)
- Eureka: Evaluating and understanding progress in AI (Brenda Potts)
- Responsible AI: from principles to practice – New Blog Series (Carlotta Caste)
- DevExpress AI-Powered Extensions — Extending Text Editors with AI Capabilities — Early Access Preview (v24.2) (Dmitry Tokmachev)
- Work Smarter: Copilot Productivity Tips for Secure Insights (Gabe Ho)
- Legacy Modernization meets GenAI (Martin Fowler)
- Defining Open Source AI Will Solve a Million Headaches (Mark Surman)
- Observability in Semantic Kernel (Tao Chen)
- Preparing for AI (Mike Loukides)
Design, Methodology & Testing
- Davide’s Code and Architecture Notes – Practical creation of C4 Model diagrams with Structurizr (Davide Bellone)
- Fixing MAX_PATH issues in GitLab (Andrew Lock)
- GitHub Education is offering verified students the GitHub Foundations certification exam for free! Explore the new GitHub Foundations Certification Experience to find the video presentation, study guides, and more resources to help you pass the exam. (GitHub Education Team)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- Announcing General Availability of the AWS SDK for Swift (Josh Elkins)
- Boost Your Pico Projects with the new Pico VS Code Extension (Paul Oberosler)
Screencasts & Videos
- Technology & Friends – Dean Schuster on UX Design (David Giard)
- 3 Overlooked Find in Files Options in Visual Studio (Leah Tran)
- Mr. Maeda’s Cozy AI Kitchen – Low Code Multi-agents, with Jingya Chen (John Maeda)
- This Month in Copilot Studio: September Updates and Announcements (Dona Sarkar & Kendra Springer)
- Mastering WPF TreeView: Recursive Design of ItemsControl and Cupertino Style Implementation ✨ (Jaewung Lee)
- How Microsoft 365 Copilot works (Microsoft Mechanics)
Podcasts
- Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Rebuilding Bridges Between an Agile Team and Their Manager | Anita Kalmane-Boot (Vasco Duarte)
- PPP 436 | Breaking the PMO Failure Cycle: Strategies to Thrive, with Laura Barnard (Andy Kaufman)
- React Native Radio #307 – React Universe Recap (Mazen Chami, Jamon Holmgren & Derek Greenberg)
- Kubernetes Podcast from Google – Dagger, with Solomon Hykes (Abdel Sghiouar & Kaslin Fields)
- Meta Tech Podcast Episode 66 – Inside Bento: Jupyter Notebooks at Meta (Pascal Hartig & Steve D.)
- Practical AI Podcast #287 – Pausing to think about scikit-learn & OpenAI o1 (Chris Benson & Daniel Whitenack)
- Python Bytes Podcast #401 – We must replace uWSGI with something else (Michael Kennedy)
- RunAs Radio Episode #950 – Asymmetric Encryption with Eli Holderness (Richard Campbell)
Community & Events
- Open Source Needs to be Financially Symbiotic (Zach Leatherman)
- StackBlitz is joining the OSS Pledge (Matias Capeletto)
- Join us for OneDrive Office Hours | September 2024 (Rob Nunez)
- JetBrains Introduces Free Online Clubs for School Students (Alena Gupaisova)
- Kelsey Hightower on What’s Next for Developers After GenAI (Joe Fay)
- CfP List Updated 2024-09-17 (Dave Aronson)
- Boston Code Camp 37 is Saturday, Nov 23, 2024 – Session Submissions are open until Friday, October 11 (Robert Hurlbut)
Database
- Troubleshooting Security Cache Growth In SQL Server (USERSTORE_TOKENPERM And TokenAndPermUserStore) (Erik Darling)
- Azure Database for MySQL – August 2024 updates and latest feature roadmap (Shreya Aithal)
- New Goodies in Marten 7.28 (Jeremy D. Miller)
SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams
- Using site templates for SharePoint in Microsoft 365 (Mark Kashman)
- Microsoft Copilot Academy now available to all Microsoft 365 Copilot users (John Mighell)
- Learn how Copilot agents enhance collaboration within your team on Microsoft Teams (Nikhil Kedia)
PowerShell & Terminal
- How to use macOS Terminal and what it’s useful for (David Nield)
Miscellaneous
- Windows Media Player and Silverlight Are Losing Legacy DRM Services on Windows 7 and 8 (msmash)
- New Research Finds Microplastics In the Brain’s Olfactory Bulb (BeauHD)
- Microsoft reveals the imminent release date for Windows 11 24H2 (Sofia Elizabella Wyciślik-Wilson)
More Link Collections
- Collective #864 (Manoela Ilic)
- Daily Reading List – September 17, 2024 (#399) (Richard Seroter)
The Geek Shelf
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