Today will be the last Dew Drop until October 30th or 31st. I’m taking a few days off to unplug. I haven’t seen Chris Alcock posting links recently, but you can check out Richard Seroter’s Daily Reading List or Sam Basu’s weekly Sands of MAUI links on the Progress Telerik blog.
Top Links
- Creating an ASP.NET Core application with External ID using Visual Studio (Arbaaz Abdulwahid)
- ChatGPT has a Windows app now (Emma Roth)
- The 7-Minute Guide to Understanding Artificial Intelligence | Ctrl+Alt+AI (Michael Jolley)
- Enhanced Breakpoint Expressions for C++ Debugging in Visual Studio (Mryam Girmay)
- Exploring the Power of Codespaces for Student Developers (Raiyan Bin Sarwar)
- What’s New for .NET MAUI in .NET 9: HybridWebView (Naveenkumar Sanjeevirayan)
Web & Cloud Development
- Develop a Library Web API: Integrating Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB with ASP.NET Core (Brian Kemboi)
- Microsoft’s Strategic Shift: From Angular to React in Applications like Teams (Rashan Gavandi)
- Debugging a managed identity connection to Azure SQL in Azure App Service using containers (Dominique St-Amand)
- Build a File Manager App with .NET, Azure Blob Containers and Twilio SendGrid (Eman Hassan)
- CSS min() All The Things (Victor Ayomipo)
- Implementing an OAuth client credentials flow with ADFS–Part 4–Understanding and fixing returned error codes (Bart Wullems)
- Announcing Deno 2 (Deno Team)
- How Accessify Was Built: An Adobe Express Add-On That Ensures Your Content Is Accessible (Colene Chow)
- Pulumi EKS Provider Version 3.0.0 (Florian Stadler)
- Microsoft Introduces Drasi: Open-Source System for Real-Time Event Processing and Automation (Robert Krzaczyński)
- An Overview of Cloud Development (Tyler Mitchell)
WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML
- Using Biometric Identification in .NET MAUI (Leomaris Reyes)
Visual Studio & .NET
- How to Build a C# .NET TreeGrid Control (Kartik Dua)
- Create PDF File with .NET C# (Bjoern Meyer)
- Evaluating tail call elimination in the face of return address protection, part 1 (Raymond Chen)
AI
- The AI opportunity: Updates to our Gemini and Knowledge & Information teams (Sundar Pichai)
- Compare Mode in Google AI Studio: Your Companion for Choosing the Right Gemini Model (Kat Kampf)
- Microsoft Releases Preview of AI Integration Libraries for .NET (Almir Vuk)
- Disability Data: Improving Representation to Drive AI Innovation (Jenny Lay-Flurrie)
- Embracing AI to defend against cyberthreats (Microsoft in Business Team)
- Benchmarking LLM for business workloads (Rinat Abdullin)
- New in NotebookLM: Customizing your Audio Overviews and introducing NotebookLM Business (Oliver King)
Design, Methodology & Testing
- How to Force Intune to Run App Installations in a 64-bit Context (Horatiu Vladasel)
- How to Create a Culture of Security at Work (Ben Nettleton)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- Chrome on Android to support third-party autofill services natively (Eiji Kitamura)
- Easily Draw Custom Shapes in Flutter Cartesian Charts (Hariharasudhan Kanagaraj)
- Introducing picamzero: Simplifying Raspberry Pi Camera projects for beginners (Laura Sach)
- Keys in Flutter (Saurabh Pant)
- Code a Sonic Infinite Runner Game in JavaScript (Beau Carnes)
- Get started with Raspberry Pi Pico-series and VS Code (Nate Contino)
- CameraX update makes dual concurrent camera even easier (Donovan McMurray)
Screencasts & Videos
- Copilot for Azure SQL Fall 2024 Update | Data Exposed (Anna Hoffman & Kendal Van Dyke)
- MassTransit v8.3.0 – RabbitMQ ReplyTo Support (Chris Patterson)
- Fine Tuning LLM Models – Generative AI Course and A Hacker’s Guide to Language Models: A Code-First Approach (Frank La Vigne)
Podcasts
- InfoQ Podcast: Mastering Observability: Unlocking Customer Insights (Gojko Adzic)
- Developer Tea – The Highest Leverage Work You Do – Footing the Ladder (Jonathan Cutrell)
- Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – How Team Satisfaction and Value Delivery Define Scrum Master Success | Jelena Vucinic (Vasco Duarte)
- JS Party Podcast #343 – Digging through Jerod Santo’s tool box (Kevin Ball & Jerod Santo)
- PPP 439 | The Win-Win of Volunteering: How Giving Back Benefits Your Career, with Yasmina Khelifi and Mayte Mata Sivera (Andy Kaufman)
- Microservices Security in Action with Prabath Siriwardena – Adventures in .NET #201 (Shawn Clabough & Joel Schaubert)
- Is Working at a Large or Small Company Better for Your Career? – React Round Up #270 (Jack Herrington, Paige Niedringhaus & TJ VanToll)
- The Stack Overflow Podcast – How API security is evolving for the GenAI era (Eira May)
- Lenny’s Podcast – Becoming more strategic, navigating difficult colleagues, harnessing founder mode, and more | Anneka Gupta (Chief Product Officer at Rubrik) (Lenny Rachitsky)
- Talk Python to Me #481: Python Opinions and Zeitgeist with Hynek (Michael Kennedy)
- Defense Unicorns, A Podcast – From Code to Combat: The Tech Transforming the DoD (Robert Slaughter, Michaela Flatau, Rebecca Lively & Luke Shabro)
- Software Defined Talk Episode 489: Whitney Lee: From Wedding Photographer to Cloud-Native DevRel (Coté)
- Software Engineering Radio #638: Nick Tune and Jean-Georges Perrin on Architecture Modernization (Giovanni Asproni)
Community & Events
- Automattic offered employees another chance to quit over WordPress drama (Emma Roth)
- How Genzeon Became a UiPath Healthcare Industry Partner in Hyperautomation (Vinit Singhal)
- Career growth, learning, and fun, oh my! Your guide to GitHub Universe 2024 (Jeimy Ruiz)
- Mercedes-Benz makes job cuts at cloud-focused R&D office in Seattle (Kurt Schlosser)
- GitHub for Nonprofits: Drive social impact one commit at a time (Sidney Espinosa)
- Tech Moves: OpenAI nabs top Microsoft AI researcher; Lime taps Amazon VP as CTO (Taylor Soper)
- AI Dreams: Microsoft @ 50, Chapter 1 (Todd Bishop)
Database
- More Annoyances With Local Variables And Optimize For Unknown Hints In SQL Server (Erik Darling)
- Consistency and Concurrency in NewSQL Database Systems (Chisom Kanu)
- Migrate to Azure PostgreSQL Flexible Server (Josephine Bush)
- Minimize Downtime with SQL MI Disaster Recovery (Arun Sirpal)
SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams
PowerShell & Terminal
- The World of Warp (Kyle Ribant, Kim Pham & Alisha Mowder)
Miscellaneous
- Approaching the college personal essay: Tips as a parent helping your student write a compelling essay (Tom Johnson)
- Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 27729 (Canary Channel) (Amanda Langowski)
- Qualcomm Halts Snapdragon Dev Kit (msmash)
- Latest Windows Insider Canary Build Adds Copilot Key Configuration (Paul Thurrott)
- paint.net 5.1 beta (build 9056) (Rick Brewster)
- Announcing Rust 1.82.0 (Rust Release Team)
- My 2024 MacBook Setup for Software Development (Anthony Gordon)
More Link Collections
- Top 20 blog posts from Oracle ACEs – September 2024 (Oana Bonu)
- Daily Reading List – October 17, 2024 (#421) (Richard Seroter)
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