Top Links
- Level up your code with TwilioQuest (Ariel Kanter)
- Technology & Friends – Dustin Campbell on Support for WinForms to the Visual Studio Designer (David Giard)
- Web Rush Episode 117: Surviving Technical Debt (John Papa, Ward Bell, Dan Wahlin, Craig Shoemaker & Mike Ryan)
- Web Development for Beginners – A Curriculum (Azure Cloud Advocates)
Web & Cloud Development
- gRPC & ASP.NET Core 5: Add a gRPC service reference from a remote protobuf over Route-To-Code (Anthony Giretti)
- Using Bootstrap 5 with Vue.js (Carol Skelly)
- Integration Tests for ASP.NET Core Web APIs using MSTest (Changhui Xu)
- React Server Components in 5 Minutes (Cory House)
- Cars Island ASP .NET Core API – integration with Azure Service Bus Queue – part 5 (Daniel Krzyczkowski)
- JavaScript Wake Lock API (David Walsh)
- Top 7 Trends in JavaScript and Its Frameworks for 2021 and Beyond (Kotryna Kairyte)
- My Top CSS Tips As Shared on Twitter – Part 1 (Stephanie Eckles)
- Analyzing Audio and Video with Azure Media Services (David Giard)
- Building a social media platform without going bankrupt: Part I–Laying the numbers (Oren Eini)
- Installing the DS Server Local Trial Version (Bjoern Meyer)
- Personal notes on Go’s language (Brandon Villa)
- Creating a Fitbit clock face with VSCode and TypeScript (Bruno Sonnino)
- Using Pulumi with multiple accounts (Damian Hickey)
- How to connect microservices: Part 1 Types of communication (Piotr Martyniuk)
- Use YARP to host client and API server on a single origin to avoid CORS (Niels Swimberghe)
XAML, UWP & Xamarin
Visual Studio & .NET
- Python in VS Code Adds Data Viewer for Debugging (David Ramel)
- F# and Functional Programming (Dan Clarke)
- Windows ARM64 support for CMake projects in Visual Studio (Erika)
- Using ValueTask to create methods that can work as sync or async (Jon P. Smith)
- .NET 5: How to enable .NET 5 runtime on console apps instead of .NET Core 3.1 ? (Anthony Giretti)
- JsonEnvelopes .NET Standard Library (Dane Vinson)
Design, Methodology & Testing
- AoAD2 Practice: Incremental Requirements (James Shore)
- How to do GitLab merge request reviews in VS Code (Tomas Vik)
- GitHub Ships Enterprise Server 3.0 Release Candidate (David Ramel)
- 4 Easy Ways For Managers To Boost Their Team’s Morale (Deanna deBara)
- Record/Playback/Code—The Fastest Road to Efficient Test Automation (Ivaylo Todorov)
- Some opinions about effective software development after 20+ years (Roy Osherove)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- Optimizing the Aural Experience on Android Devices with xHE-AAC (Phill Williams & Vijay Gondi)
- Manage Game User Profiles with MongoDB, Phaser, and JavaScript (Nic Raboy)
- Game Development Platform – Getting Started and Soft Launch – Game Development Platform (Cody Merritt Anhorn)
Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos
- .NET Core Podcast – Xamarin Catch-Up with Luce Carter (Jamie Taylor)
- OnPodcast Episode 18: Surface Laptop 3+ or 4 rumors, Edge gets big updates, Xbox Live Gold drama (Arif Bacchus & Kareem Anderson)
- Merge Conflict 238: Island Tracker – The Final Chapter (James Montemagno & Frank Krueger)
- Meta Cast Episode 186 – Agile Buzzwords (Bob Galen & Josh Anderson)
- Agile for Humans 113: CBA – 2020 Scrum Guide Update (Ryan Ripley)
- Optimizing Cross-Platform Images to Avoid Android Errors (David Ortinau)
- Ladybug Podcast – Coding Bootcamps: What You Should Consider Before Signing Up (Sidney Buckner, Kelly Vaughn, Ali Spittel & Emma Bostian)
- The Changelog – The rise of Rocky Linux (Adam Stacoviak & Jerod Santo)
- Productive C# Podcast 15 – Leadership is Language (Andrea Angella)
- Asp.Net Monsters – Contributing to HTBox/TwoWeeksReady (James Chambers, Simon Timms & David Paquette)
- Do I Need To Be Technical To Be A Product Manager? (Den Delimarsky)
- The Amp Hour #527 – Measuring Current with Matt Liberty (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
- FreeCodeSession – Episode 232 (Jason Bock)
- Architectures for 2021 and Beyond – Azure DevOps Podcast Episode 125 (Jeffrey Palermo)
- Serverless Chats Episode #85: Serverless at IBM with Michael Behrendt (Jeremy Daly)
- Talk Python to Me #300 – Building a data science startup (panel) (Michael Kennedy)
- Webinar Recording: What’s New in TeamCity 2020.2 (Yegor Naumov)
Community & Events
- 14th Anniversary of the iPhone Launch (Steven Sinofsky)
- Java 1.0 Turns 25 (Alex Blewitt)
- Docker Captain Take 5 – Elton Stoneman (William Quiviger)
- Rockin’ The Code World with dotNetDave – Special Guest: Kendra Havens (David McCarter)
- The Story So Far (Rich Turner)
- Brad Cox, Creator of Objective-C Programming Language, Dies At 76 (BeauHD)
- After 28 Years, Tucows Finally Closes Its Downloads Site (David)
- Microsoft’s Erik Arnold merges passion for tech and philanthropy to help nonprofits gain digital success (Kurt Schlosser)
- What’s On & Online in Greater Philadelphia, Jan. 25-31 (Visit Philly)
- Transcript: Brad Smith’s remarks at an employee meeting Thursday (Microsoft)
Database
- SQL server Linux and SQLCMD (Arun Sirpal)
- What SQL Server Feature Do You Wish Would Go Away? (Brent Ozar)
- SQL SERVER – Find a Table in Execution Plan (Pinal Dave)
PowerShell
- New Training: Perform Automated Infrastructure Testing using Pester and PowerShell (Trevor Sullivan)
Miscellaneous
- 4 ways the U.S. can reassert leadership on climate change (Bill Gates)
- Intermediate representation for quantum computing (Esther Cruz Rico)
- Crypto Related GPU Shortage? Check out These AMD FirePro Alternatives! (Exxact Team)
- Gates Foundation gives millions to help persuade ultra-wealthy donors to give more of their billions (Mark Harris)
- paint.net 4.2.15 is now available (Rick Brewster)
- What the Biden administration means for tech, from the future of work to regulatory crackdowns (Todd Bishop)
More Link Collections
- The Morning Brew #3155 (Chris Alcock)
- .NET App Developer Links – 2021-01-25 (Dan Rigby)
- C# Digest Issue #347 (Jakub Chodounsky)
- Weekly Xamarin – Issue 293 – 24th Jan 2021 (Luce Carter)
- Friday Five: Azure Data Factory, Teams Tips, More! (Jeffrey Raymond Kitt)
- F# Weekly #4, 2021 – Octonav, Fantomas & Avalonia (Sergey Tihon)
- Code Maze Weekly #61 (Vladimir Pecanac)
- Reading Notes #458 (Frank Boucher)
- The Overflow #57: /dev/null on demand (Ryan Donovan & Cassidy Williams)
- Top Stories from the Microsoft DevOps Community – 2021.01.22 (Zachary Deptawa)
- The .NET Stacks #33: A blazing conversation with Steve Sanderson (Dave Brock)
The Geek Shelf
Learn PowerShell Scripting in a Month of Lunches (Don Jones & Jeffery Hicks) – Referral Link
You Don't Know JS: Up & Going: Kyle Simpson: 9781491924464: Books
Front-end Development with ASP.NET Core, Angular, and Bootstrap: Simone Chiaretta: 9781119181316: Books