Dew Drop – January 3, 2025 (#4334)

Top Links

• Quickstart: Install SQL Server and create a database on Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL 2) | Microsoft Learn (Randolph West)
• Think Beyond Synchronous: The Ultimate Guide to Tasks in C# (Chris Woodruff)
• Celebrating .NET Conf 2024: A Tale of Innovation from China to Taiwan (Christina Liang)
• Helping Joe Finney make XAML more maintainable (Matt Lacey)
• Functional C#: Make Dictionaries Functional (Simon Painter)
• Use text embeddings within Semantic Kernel and Ollama (Bart Wullems)

Web & Cloud Development

• JavaScript scroll snap events for scroll-triggered animations (Abiola Farounbi)
• Let’s experiment: Web Components with Angular 19, Linked Signals and Zoneless Setup (Yulia Galiulina)
• How to Optimize Next.js Web Apps for Better Performance (Ayantunji Timilehin)
• RxSignals: The most powerful synergy in the history of Angular (Vyacheslav Borodin)
• CORS Finally Explained — Simply (Oleks Gorpynich)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

• Transform JSON into Stunning Charts: Auto-Generate Visuals with Syncfusion .NET MAUI Toolkit (Saravanan Madheswaran)

Visual Studio & .NET

• Random Forest Regression and Bagging Regression Using C# (James McCaffrey)
• Could I be getting ERROR_KEY_DELETED for HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software when the user logs off? (Raymond Chen)
• Creating ZUGFeRD 2.3 (XRechnung, Factur-X) Documents with .NET C# and Visualize and Preview XRechnung, ZUGFeRD, and Factur-X Documents in .NET C# (Bjoern Meyer)
• Moq Unit Testing in .NET Core with xUnit (Jaimin Shethiya)

AI

• CPU vs GPU: Which Wins for Running LLMs Locally? (Bruno Capuano)
• How To Avoid Pseudo-Insightful Writing with ChatGPT and Unlocking ChatGPT’s Potential with “Scope It, Shape It, Size It” (JD Meier)
• LLaMA-Mesh: NVIDIA’s Breakthrough in Unifying 3D Mesh Generation and Language Models (Robert Krzaczyński)
• How to create AI-generated personas for enhanced product design (Kayode Adeniyi)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• The guide to Git I never had. (Jake Page)
• Why Secure Development Environments Are Essential for Modern Software Teams (Melissa Sussmann)
• How to Go from Copy and Paste Deployments to Full GitOps (Ben Linders)
• The top employee experience (EX) trends for 2025 (Cinthiya)
• Vertical Slice Architecture isn’t technical (Derek Comartin)
• Part 2: A Survey of Analytics Engineering Work at Netflix (Yimeng Tang, Claire Willeck & Sagar Palao)
• OKRs vs KPIs: A Comprehensive Guide to Measuring Performance (Peter Smulovics)
• Being Functionless: How to Develop a Serverless Mindset to Write Less Code! (Sheen Brisals)
• How to Make Learning to Code Easier by Focusing on the Fundamentals (Spruce Emmanuel)
• 10X Thinking: Unlocking Exponential Growth and Innovation (JD Meier)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• Improving Threads’ iOS Performance at Meta (Sergio De Simone)
• Ready to remix? Favorite projects to tinker with (Pete Bell)

Screencasts & Videos

• How To Add ChatGPT Search to Google Chrome – Tutorial (Frank LaVigne)
• Tour the Editor in SQL database in Microsoft Fabric | Data Exposed (Anna Hoffman & Yo-Lei Chen)

Podcasts

• InfoQ Podcast: Building Safe and Usable Medical Device Software: A Conversation with Neeraj Mainkar (Neeraj Mainkar)
• Software Engineering Radio #649 – Lukas Gentele on Kubernetes vClusters (Robert Blumen)
• Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Promoting Agile Team Growth Through Experiments And Small Focused Changes | Robert Finan (Vasco Duarte)
• Lenny’s Podcast – Inside Gong: How teams work with design partners, their pod structure, autonomy, trust, and more | Eilon Reshef (co-founder and CPO) (Lenny Rachitsky)
• Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy Episode #585 – Philip Gelatt, writer of The Europa Report and The Spine of Night (David Barr Kirtley)
• The Stack Overflow Podcast – How AI apps are like Google Search (Eira May)
• UX Podcast Episode #329 – Dark mode (James Royal-Lawson & Per Axbom)
• Software Defined Talk Episode #500 – 2024 Year in Review (Brandon Whichard, Coté & Matt Ray)

Community & Events

• Meta appoints new Trump-friendly policy chief (Emma Roth)
• Getting Back to my Roots (Sarah Dutkiewicz)
• On the ground from Amazon HQ in Seattle: Small businesses ‘excited’ as 5-day policy kicks in (Kurt Schlosser)

Database

• How To Write SQL Server Queries Correctly: EXISTS and NOT EXISTS (Erik Darling)
• Oracle Architecture Overview (Kellyn Pot’Vin-Gorman)
• Decision Guide for Selecting an Analytical Data Store in Microsoft Fabric (Slava Trofimov)
• DuckDB + Webassembly = WhatTheDuck (Nikos Vaggalis)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams

• SharePoint Roadmap Pitstop December 2024 (Mark Kashman)

Miscellaneous

• Was Rust Worth It? From JavaScript to Rust, three years in. (Jarrod Overson)
• Announcing Files Preview v3.8.11 (Files Team)
• 7 calendar hacks to optimize your day in Outlook or Google Calendar (Parth Shah)
• Microsoft has a new ergonomic keyboard, but it’s expensive and made by Incase (Emma Roth)
• Xbox Series X|S – Every Console Option Available Now (Joe Skrebels)
• Net neutrality eviscerated by appeals court ruling (Lauren Feiner)
• Microsoft’s mini AI PCs are on the way (Tom Warren) – But none of them are from Microsoft

The Geek Shelf

 “Looks Good To Me”: Constructive code reviews (Adrienne Braganza) – Referral Link