Tag: hackathons

Top Links

• Black Friday Sale – Get 50% OFF Pluralsight Individual Skills Plans from 11/21-12/5 (Pluralsight) – Referral Link
• Announcing .NET Chiseled Containers (Richard Lander)
• The Dev Home Azure extension is here! Get it from the Microsoft Store to add Azure DevOps integration to Dev Home with ADO widgets and repositories (Kayla Cinnamon)
• Tech Books for Fun and Little Profit | Multithreaded Income Episode 18 with Alvin Ashcraft (Kevin Griffin)
• Why BoldSign is a better Alternative to DocuSign (Meikanda Nayanar)
• WinGet community repository frequently asked questions (FAQs) | Open at Microsoft (Kaleb Luedtke & Demitrius Nelon)
• What is the Windows App? + GPU support coming to Windows 365 (Zachary Cavanell)
• Visual Studio 2022 version 17.8.1 Release Notes (Microsoft Learn)

Web & Cloud Development

• ASP.NET Core PDF Previews and Downloads (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
• Uploading Files with Telerik UI for Blazor (Jefferson S. Motta)
• How to Improve WordPress Site Speed on Mobile & Desktop (Jen Swisher)
• Checking Vue 3 Slots for Emptiness (Marina Mosti)
• PhpStorm Now Supports PHP 8.3 (Tania Goral)
• Azure Hybrid, Edge, Adaptive Cloud News from Microsoft Ignite (Thomas Maurer)
• Easily Create Interactive Digital Logic Circuits in Angular (Vivisa Ganesan)
• The Tension and Future of Jamstack (Zach Leatherman)
• How Postman uses Postman: E2E testing, feedback loops, and collaboration (Melinda Gutermuth)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

• Chart of the Week: Creating a WPF Fast Line Chart for Cryptocurrency Trade Analysis (Vimala Thirumalai Kumar)
• Displaying HTML in a .NET MAUI Label (Leomaris Reyes)

Visual Studio & .NET

• Async Lambda Statements (Bryan Hogan)
• A failed experiment with interceptors in C# 12 and .NET 8 (Andrew Lock)
• Test-Driving Windows 11 Dev Drive for .NET (Maarten Balliauw)
• .NET 8 and C# 12–Overview (Bart Wullems)
• How to Delete All Section Breaks in a DOCX Document using C# (Bjoern Meyer)
• Microsoft .NET Code Analysis: Simplify LINQ Expressions and Microsoft .NET Code Analysis: Utilize the Pattern Matching ‘not’ Operator (David McCarter)
• Syncfusion Visual Studio Extensions Are Compatible with .NET 8.0 (Jose Seeron Anthony Pitchai)
• Migrate your database with Entity Framework Core using a separate application (Josef Ottosson)
• Visual Studio 2022 v17.8 Brings Increased Productivity, Further Unreal Engine Integration, and Cross-Platform Enhancements to C++ (Sinem Akinci)
• Validating JSON Against a Schema (Paul Michaels)
• The Differences Between Quartz.NET and Hangfire (Code Maze)
• Iterating Maps in C++ (j2inet)

Design, Methodology, AI & Testing

• New Boards Hub, Fall Update (Dan Hellem)
• OpenAI drops a big new ChatGPT feature with a joke about its CEO drama (Emma Roth)
• Enhance your embedded document sending experience with BoldSign’s eSignature API (Gopinath Kannusamy)
• Introducing the Space Git Subtree (Ilia Afanasiev)
• Going Beyond With Advanced Infrastructure as Code Use Cases (Joe Duffy)
• Fake It Til You Make It…To Production (Martin Taillefer)
• Maybe you’re a Tester (Melissa Holland)
• What Is Refactoring And Understanding Why You Need It (Nick Cosentino)
• Microspeak revisited: Line of sight (Raymond Chen)
• Decoding AI: Part 6, Creating boundary conditions in generative AI (Siddhartha Chaturvedi)
• OpenAI rival Anthropic makes its Claude chatbot even more useful (Wes Davis)
• Introducing frequentist inference in Firebase A/B Testing (Stephanie Madison & Jon Mensing)
• Microsoft’s Generative AI for Beginners (Nikos Vaggalis)
• Gratitude in Action (‘Tine Zekis)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• Low-cost volcanic activity detection with Raspberry Pi cameras (Ashley Whittaker)
• Superapps for Employers (Jacklin Altman)
• Evolving our online courses to help more people be computing educators (Sway Grantham)

Screencasts & Videos

• FreeCodeSession – Episode 498 (Jason Bock)
• A Winner’s Guide to Hackathons: From Prep to Prototype (Women Who Code)

Podcasts

• CodeNewbie S26:E4 – The Ins and Outs of LinkedIn (Laura Thorson) (CodeNewbie Team)
• RunAs Radio – Azure Operator Nexus with Jennelle Crothers (Richard Campbell)
• Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Short-Term Thinking, Long-Term Consequences, How Agile Teams Create Their Own Problems | Annu Paganus (Vasco Duarte)
• The Stack Overflow Podcast – Cloudflare Workers have a new skill: AI inference-as-a-service (Eira May)
• Coffee and Open Source Podcast – James Jackson-South (Isaac Levin)
• Python Bytes Podcast #361 – Proper way to comment your code! (Michael Kennedy)

Community & Events

• Sam Altman to return as CEO of OpenAI (Alex Heath)
• Partner Blog | Microsoft Ignite 2023 highlights for partners (Julie Sandford)
• For Good First Issue: Introducing a new way to contribute (Sidney Espinosa)
• 27 Things To Do in Philadelphia With Kids During the 2023 Holidays (Visit Philly)

Database

• How To Fix Performance Problems With Optional Parameters In SQL Server Stored Procedures Part 2 (Erik Darling)
• SQL Puzzle – Retrieve the Unique Evens Under 10 (Pinal Dave)
• Microsoft Fabric: Data mirroring and Copilot updates (Zachary Cavanell)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams

• November 2023 update of Power Automate for desktop (Yiannis Mavridis)
• Link unfurling and Search-based message extensions in Outlook now generally available (Namrata Khubchandani)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #3829 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily Reading List – November 21, 2023 (#209) (Richard Seroter)
• Collective #792 (Manoela Ilic)

The Geek Shelf

 Parallel Programming and Concurrency with C# 10 and .NET 6 (Alvin Ashcraft) – Still relevant with C# 12 and .NET 8!