Dew Drop – December 16, 2024 (#4322)

Top Links

• Preview the GitHub Copilot extension for Teams Toolkit (Yan Jin)
• .NET MAUI 9.0.21 (Service Release 2.1) (David Ortinau)
• Webpack vs Vite: Which Bundler is Right for You? (Kavindu Gunathilake)
• Some news about .NET 10: BackgroundServices and new String Comparer (Steven Giesel)
• RAG and Access Control: Where Do You Start? (Jessica Temporal)
• The Packt 2024 End-of-Year Sale is live! (Packt Publishing) – Get my Learn WinUI 3 or .NET parallel programming eBook for just $9.99!

Web & Cloud Development

• Avoid Using C# Events in ASP.NET Core Applications (Steve Smith)
• Kubernetes v1.32 Adds A New CPU Manager Static Policy Option For Strict CPU Reservation (Jing Zhang)
• Tackle These Key Software Engineering Challenges to Boost Efficiency with Docker (Docker Team)
• What’s New in Blazor: 2024 Volume 4 (Gowrimathi S.)
• Versioning and Documenting ASP.NET Core Services (David Ramel)
• What’s New in SignalR with .NET 9 (Serkut Yıldırım)
• Angular Basics: Signals (Hassan Djirdeh)
• Angular Shares ‘Potential Ideas’ for 2025 Improvements (Loraine Lawson)
• Get the number of columns and rows for a HTML Table using Regex (Mark Pahulje)
• From Legacy to Cloud-Native: How Docker Simplifies Complexity and Boosts Developer Productivity (Yiwen Xu)
• Exploiting and Remediating Access Control Vulnerabilities and Exploiting and Remediating SSRF Vulnerabilities with Portswigger (Tae’lur Alexis)
• Implementing Localization in ASP.NET Core Web API (Geo J. Thachankary)
• ESLint v9.17.0 released (Francesco Trotta)
• How Do You Test An OAuth Process Without Having To Auth (Mark Oliver)

Visual Studio & .NET

• Deep C# – The Perils of the C# Parallel For (Mike James)
• Converting to a derived class from the future: How to cast from a base class to an incomplete derived class? (Raymond Chen)
• Announcing Oracle EF Core 9 (Alex Keh)
• FaultReport: an Theoretical Alternative to Result (Paul Blasucci)
• Fabulous.AST (Edgar Gonzalez)
• How and why to write mutation tests in C# (Daniel Ward)
• Five Effective Strategies for Managing .NET Versions (Alexandre Nédélec)
• Boost Your .NET Projects: Maximize Your .NET Performance with Spargine’s FastLogger (David McCarter)
• Comparison of Rebus, NServiceBus, and MassTransit in .NET (Michal Kaminski)

AI

• Google’s NotebookLM AI Podcast Hosts Can Now Talk To You, Too (BeauHD)
• Google Agentspace is bringing AI agents and AI-powered search to enterprises | The Keyword (Google)
• Using AI for personal optimization: biohacking and stream journaling (Tom Johnson)
• The latest on AI at work: December 2024 (Colette Stallbaumer)
• LLMs vs Advent of Code, AI is winning (Colin Eberhardt)
• Searching for the first great AI app (David Pierce)
• From SEO-Aware to AI-Aware Sites: The Next Evolution in Web Optimization (Eli Lopian)
• How To: Using the Elasticsearch Vector Store Connector with Semantic Kernel (Jamie Maguire)
• eShopSupport Series: EvaluationTests Project (Jason Haley)
• ChatGPT Projects are fancy folders for your AI chats (Jay Peters)
• How To Avoid MNPI challenges with ChatGPT (JD Meier)
• 5 Multimodal AI Models That Are Actually Open Source (Kimberley Mok)
• OpenAI cofounder Ilya Sutskever says the way AI is built is about to change (Kylie Robison)
• GenAI is Quickly Reinventing IT Operations, Leaving Many Behind (Priyanka Kharat)
• Meta Releases Llama 3.3: A Multilingual Model with Enhanced Performance and Efficiency (Robert Krzaczyński)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• Angel’s Advocate: A Fresh Perspective for Leadership and Innovation and Think360: A Better Framework for Better Thinking and Better Decision-Making (JD Meier)
• A Story About Bad Product Management (Joey Dantoni)
• Transform code quality and compliance with automated processes (Jessica Hurwitz)
• Productivity v Impact (Jessica Kerr)
• Internal vs. Public APIs in Modular Monoliths (Milan Jovanović)
• Being a Developer Is Hard: The Untold Truths Behind the Code (Peter Smulovics)
• Our Approach to Software Development (Rob Newsome)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• Selectively running Android UI tests (Segun Famisa)

Screencasts & Videos

• GCast 189: Automating Microsoft Excel with VBA and Technology & Friends – Danny Kim on Cybersecurity in Industry and Education (David Giard)
• Advent of Code 2024 Day 14: Restroom Redoubt in C# ✅✅ and Advent of Code 2024 Day 15: Warehouse Woes in C# ✅✅ (Martin Zikmund)
• IoT Coffee Talk: Episode 239 – Revolution Calling (IoT Coffee Talk Crew)
• Advent of Code: TDD in C# (Day 15) (Brad Wilson)
• Random.Code() – Fixing a Visibility Bug in Rocks and Random.Code() – Finishing the Fix With Internal Parameter Types (Jason Bock)

Podcasts

• freeCode Camp Podcast #153 – How to get a Developer Job – even in this economy – with James Q Quick (Quincy Larson)
• Syntax Podcast #860: Module Federation Microfrontends with ByteDance’s Zack Jackson (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
• Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – The Curious Strategist and The Overwhelmed Task Manager, Two Contrasting Product Owner Patterns | Sara Caldwell (Vasco Duarte)
• Changelog and Friends Podcast #73 – Kaizen! Three wise men? (Gerhard Lazu, Jerod Santo & Adam Stacoviak)
• API Design: GraphQL vs. REST, Contract Maintenance, and Integration Strategies – JavaScript Jabber #661 (Charles Max Wood & Michael Dawson)
• Ignore All Previous Instructions Podcast – Pam and Mjumbe discuss appropriate technology, cities, and participatory budgeting (Pam Selle)
• Lenny’s Podcast – Behind the product: Duolingo streaks | Jackson Shuttleworth (Group PM, Retention Team) (Lenny Rachitsky)

Community & Events

• MVP’s Favorite Content from Microsoft Azure and BizApps MVPs (Rie Moriguchi)
• Moving to Bluesky? Here’s What You Should Know About Starter Packs (Jason Dookeran)
• My Presentation and Travel Equipment (Joseph Guadagno)
• Silicon Valley’s Perks Culture is Largely Dead (msmash)

Database

• MySQL Retrospective – Certifications (Frederic Descamps)
• MySQL Shorts Revisited – SQL Commands (Scott Stroz)
• OPTIMIZE FOR UNKNOWN vs. OPTIMIZE FOR VALUES In SQL Server (Erik Darling)
• Running Oracle on Windows: An Island Unto Itself (Kellyn Pot’Vin-Gorman)
• A Guide to Data Chunking (Matthew Groves)
• Data Documents and Common Sense (Phil Factor)

Miscellaneous

• Elon Musk wanted an OpenAI for-profit (OpenAI Team)
• Do not throw away your old PCs (Rocky Lhotka)
• Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22635.4655 (Beta Channel) and Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26120.2702 (Dev Channel) (Amanda Langowski)
• Trump is probably going to kill the crash reporting rule that made Tesla look bad (Andrew J. Hawkins)
• Amazon is shipping the Kindle Colorsoft again, but it’s unclear if it’s fixed (Andrew Liszewski)
• Homebrew for MacOS Developers (Damon M. Garn)
• Microsoft is pulling the Suggested Actions feature from Windows 11 (Sofia Elizabella Wyciślik-Wilson)
• Microsoft kills off Skype credits and phone numbers in favor of subscriptions (Tom Warren)

More Link Collections

• F# Weekly #50, 2024 – F# Cognitive Load and Productivity (Sergey Tihon)
• Daily Reading List – December 13, 2024 (#460) (Richard Seroter)
• Azure Weekly #497 – 15th December 2024 (The Editor)
• Reading List 331 (Bruce Lawson)
• Collective #889 (Manoela Ilic)

The Geek Shelf

 Programming APIs with C# and .NET: Develop high-performance APIs that ensure seamless application communication and enhanced security (Jesse Liberty & Joseph Dluzen) – Referral link