Top Links
- Embedding Python into your .NET project with CSnakes (Anthony Shaw)
- Announcing Azure Cosmos DB Integration with LangChain.js! (James Codella)
- Creating a WinUI 3 Chat application with the Phi-3 model with Semantic Kernel (Bruno Sonnino)
- AI-Powered Smart .NET MAUI DataGrid for Predictive Data Integration (Farjana Parveen)
- eShopSupport Series: Aspire Projects (AppHost and ServiceDefaults) (Jason Haley)
- Introducing Nitro: A New Name, A Unified GraphQL Ecosystem (Rafael Staib)
Web & Cloud Development
- CSS View Transition At-Rule (Tyler Gaw)
- Microsoft Entra ID App-to-App security architecture (Damien Bowden)
- Introducing Stripe’s new API release process (Michael Glukhovsky & Wissam Abirached)
- Connecting to Azure Cache for Redis with Entra ID in Azure Government (John Scott)
- ESLint v9.12.0 released (Francesco Trotta)
- When to Generate Documents Server-Side Instead of Client-Side: A Focus on Data Security (Bjoern Meyer)
- What is Microsoft Entra (and why use it)? (Chris Noring)
Visual Studio & .NET
- Centralize your packages in .NET with NuGet (Steven Giesel)
- Exploring Azure Queue Storage in .NET (Bervianto Leo Pratama)
- From .NET 6 to .NET 8, my migration experience: Entity Framework Core 8 (Anthony Giretti)
- Unleashing .NET 9: Key Performance Boosts and Pitfalls Compared to .NET 8 and Harnessing Spargine: Simplifying Real-World Data Generation for .NET Benchmarking and Testing (David McCarter)
- How does the linker decide whether to call WinMain or wWinMain? (Raymond Chen)
- Domain Events with .NET (Ricardo Peres)
AI
- Microsoft’s Vision for Copilot: A New Era of AI Companionship (Vesa Nopanen)
- NotebookLM podcasts — the missing piece in the GenAI puzzle? (Tom Johnson)
- OpenAI’s Raising Concerns Policy (OpenAI Team)
- Semantic Kernel: Using Memories to Create Intelligent AI Agents (Jamie Maguire)
- OpenAI Releases Stable Version of .NET Library with GPT-4o Support and API Enhancements (Robert Krzaczyński)
Design, Methodology & Testing
- Why every UX/UI designer should attend a masterclass with Brad Frost | by Zoi (Brad Frost)
- Enhancing C++ Testing with Typemock Isolator++: No Copy Constructor Required (Alon Sapozhnikov)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- Gugusse Roller transfers analogue film to digital with Raspberry Pi (Ashley Whittaker)
- Raspberry Pi SD Cards and the Raspberry Pi Bumper: your new favourite accessories (jdb)
- New Raspberry Pi 500 all-in-one hinted at in data (Rob Beschizza)
- Get X in Flutter: the good, the bad, and the ugly (Sheeraz Ahmed Memon)
- The future of Halo is being built with Unreal Engine 5 (Tom Warren)
Screencasts & Videos
- Asp.Net Monsters #273 – GitHub and Azure Boards (James Chambers, David Paquette & Simon Timms)
- FreeCodeSession – Episode 567 and Random.Code() – Addressing Issues and Features in Rocks (Jason Bock)
- Tabs or Spaces? | One Dev Question and What is the ‘Brisket problem’? | One Dev Question (Larry Osterman)
Podcasts
- I’d Rather Be Writing Podcast – GenAI and Document360: Conversation with Saravana Kumar (Tom Johnson)
- InfoQ Podcast: AI, Rust, and Resilience: Key Software Trends Seen by the QCon San Francisco 2024 Program Committee (Erin Doyle, Hien Luu, Suhail Patel, Khawaja Shams & Thomas Betts)
- InfoQ Podcast: Great Products Need Closer Collaboration Between Product, Engineering and Design (Maria Fernandez Guajardo)
- Merge Conflict #431: Put some Python in your C# with CSnakes (James Montemagno & Frank Kreuger)
- CppCast – Parsing and Analysing C++ (Phil Nash & Timur Doumler)
- The Cloud Pod #276: New from AWS – Elastic Commute – Flex Your Way to an Empty Office (Justin Brodley, Jonathan Baker, Ryan Lucas & Matthew Kohn)
- Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – How Team Alignment Drives Product Success, A Product Owner’s Journey | Eli Goodman and Scrum Master Toolbox BONUS: Mastering Remote Work in Agile Teams | Antony Marcano (Vasco Duarte)
- Syntax Podcast #830: GitHub and Code Reviews with Sarah Vessels (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
- Coding Blocks Podcast – When to Log Out (Allen Underwood, Michael Outlaw & Joe Zack)
- The Stack Overflow Podcast – Meet the AI native developers who build software through prompt engineering (Ben Popper)
- Azure Podcast Episode 506 – Pure Storage’s Cloud Block Storage (CBS) (Cynthia Kreng, Kendall Roden, Cale Teeter, Evan Basalik, Russell Young & Sujit D’Mello)
- Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy Podcast #578 – Terminator Zero Season 1 Review (with Daniel H. Wilson, Zach Chapman) (David Barr Kirtley)
- Data Mocking with Dave Cooper – Adventures in Angular #427 (Charles Max Wood, Shai Reznik & Younes Jaaidi)
- Changelog & Friends Podcast #64 – Developer (un)happiness (Abi Noda, Jerod Santo & Adam Stacoviak)
- AGL 385: John Conafay (John Rouda)
- Talk Python to Me #479: Designing Effective Load Tests for Your Python App (Michael Kennedy)
Community & Events
- WordPress cofounder is paying employees to leave if they disagree with him (Emma Roth)
- IT Pros Weigh Salary, Flexibility, and Mental Health as Burnout Looms (Nathan Eddy)
- Free Software Foundation Celebrates 39th Anniversary (EditorDavid)
Database
- A Little About Index Union Query Plans In SQL Server (Erik Darling)
- Understanding the AUTO_DROP Option in SQL Server 2022 (Pinal Dave)
- Scale Your Database Workloads with Multishard Clusters in vCore-based Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB (Nik Larin)
SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams
- Modern Charts in Access is GA! (Linda Lu Cannon)
- Improved Accessibility ribbon in PowerPoint for Windows and Mac (Peter Wu)
- Get to know Copilot in OneDrive (Mark Kashman)
Miscellaneous
- Mozilla Thunderbird for Android is Almost Ready After 2 Years (EditorDavid)
- Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22635.4300 (Beta Channel) and Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26120.1930 (Dev Channel) (Amanda Langowski)
- Lost 1983 Programming Language Resurrected by Retro Compute YouTube Channel (David Cassel)
More Link Collections
- F# Weekly #40, 2024 – Fable 4.22 (Sergey Tihon)
- Daily Reading List – October 4, 2024 (#412) (Richard Seroter)
- Collective #869 (Manoela Ilic)
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