Top Links
- Your guide to Windows at Microsoft Ignite 2024 (Harjit Dhaliwal)
- The ReSharper and the .NET Tools 2024.3 Release Candidates Are Now Available and The Rider 2024.3 Release Candidate Is Now Available (Sasha Ivanova)
- More value, less risk: How to implement generative AI across the organization securely and responsibly (Bret Arsenault)
- Get Ready for .NET Conf 2024! (Jeffrey Fritz)
- Microsoft Previews Copilot AI in SQL Server Management Studio (David Ramel)
- So what’s new with Microsoft native UX technologies (Windows Developer Team)
Web & Cloud Development
- Finding Prime Numbers Using a Sieve of Eratosthenes (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
- Kubernetes v1.32 sneak peek (Matteo Bianchi, Edith Puclla, William Rizzo, Ryota Sawada & Rashan Smith)
- Debugging a managed identity connection to Azure SQL in Azure App Service using containers (Dominique St-Amand)
- Simple approach to modern Access Control in Entra ID (Alex Sidorov)
- Bluesky’s AT Protocol: Pros and Cons for Developers (Richard MacManus)
- JSON Structured Logging for .NET Lambda Functions (Norm Johanson)
Visual Studio & .NET
- Easily Create Dynamic Charts in Excel Using C# (Kurmitha Manickhaperumal)
- Working With DTO Auto Translators — Mapperly (Peter Ritchie)
- Making a Non Blocking Synchronous Call Inside a Background Service (Bryan Hogan)
- Why do I observe reads from a memory-mapped file when writing large blocks? (Raymond Chen)
- Toggle Field Codes in TX Text Control (Bjoern Meyer)
AI
- HtmlRAG: HTML is Better Than Plain Text for Modeling Retrieved Knowledge in RAG Systems (Jiejun Tan, Zhicheng Dou, Wen Wang, Mang Wang, Weipeng Chen & Ji-Rong Wen)
- Build Your Own RAG Chatbot with JavaScript! and Learn the Foundations of Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence (Beau Carnes)
- How Did Google Build NotebookLM’s Cool Podcast Generation Features? (Jesus Rodriguez)
- Supercharging AI Coding Assistants with Gemini Models’ Context (Vishal Dharmadhikari, Paige Bailey & Beyang Liu)
- Top 5 Tips for Fine-Tuning LLMs (Exxact Team)
- The latest on AI at work: November 2024 (Colette Stallbaumer)
- AI: The New Frontier for Developers (AJ Enns)
- What is AI? and Why Every Enterprise Needs a Chief AI Officer Right Now (JD Meier)
- Using generative AI to teach computing: Insights from research (Katharine Childs)
- No code, only natural language: Q&A on prompt engineering with Professor Greg Benson (Ryan Donovan)
- Empowering Engineers with AI:Exploring generative-AI-powered development tools and the new frontier of developer experience (Srivani Bethi)
Design, Methodology & Testing
- A Modern Agile Tale: Everybody, Somebody, Anybody, and Nobody (Peter Smulovics)
- How to Set Up Automated GitHub Workflows for Your Python and React Applications (Preston Osoro)
- Embracing change requests: a mindset shift (Bart Wullems)
- What Developers Can Do to Continue to Program as They Age (Ben Linders)
- 11 Best Practices for Software Development Security (PreEmptive Team)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- FlutterFlow Vignettes Technical Dive, Part 1 (Shawn Blais)
- 5 Best Flutter UI Templates (The Flutter Way)
Screencasts & Videos
- Building a better WordPress – Episode 9 (Jeff Fritz)
- Introducing Custom Engine Agents | M365 Copilot Developer Camp (Ayca Bas & Tomomi Imura)
- Microsoft 365: Developer’s Camp (Microsoft Developer Team)
- Developer’s Guide to Building Copilot Agents | M365 Developer Camp (Rob Howard & Barnam Bora)
- Using Data API Builder to Build a Data API | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green & Jerry Nixon)
- Boost Your Productivity with Pomodoro and Windows 11 (Michael Jolley)
Podcasts
- The Modern .NET Show – The Art of Teaching Programming using Unity: An Interview with Harrison Ferrone (Jamie Taylor)
- The Hanselminutes Podcast – Putting AI into Production with Fireworks AI’s Lin Qiao (Scott Hanselman)
- InfoQ Podcast: Making Digital Accessibility More Than Just High Contrast: Building Truly Inclusive Software (Sheri Byrne-Haber)
- Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Agile for Physical Products, Insights from Dainese’s Helmet Project With Massimo Terzo (Vasco Duarte)
- JS Party Podcast #345 – How Vercel thinks about Next.js (Tom Occhino & Jerod Santo)
- UI Breakfast Podcast Episode 288: User-centered Decision-making with Jason Giles (Jane Portman)
- Integration Testing – The Why and How – Adventures in .NET 204 (Shawn Clabough & Wai Liu)
- The Stack Overflow Podcast – One of the world’s biggest web scrapers has some thoughts on data ownership (Eira May)
- The Cloud Pod #281: Happy Birthday, ECS. You’re still so much better than K8 at 10! (Justin Brodley, Jonathan Baker, Ryan Lucas & Matthew Kohn)
- Lenny’s Podcast – Breaking the rules of growth: Why Shopify bans KPIs, optimizes for churn, prioritizes intuition, and builds toward a 100-year vision | Archie Abrams (VP Product, Head of Growth at Shopify) (Lenny Rachitsky)
- Software Defined Talk Episode 492: Aran Khanna on Cloud Insurance (Brandon Whichard)
- Boagworld Podcast – Navigating the Future: AI, UX Leadership, and Content Simplification (Paul Boag)
Community & Events
- Goodbye, Twitter. (Brad Frost)
- iRobot is laying off staff for the second time this year (Emma Roth)
- Syncfusion Sponsors .NET Conf 2024 (Marissa Keller Outten)
Database
- CRUD Operations in Microsoft Fabric using GraphQL API Mutations (Koen Verbeeck)
- Analyzing Kusto Query History in Fabric (Dennes Torres)
SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams
PowerShell
- Intro to Microsoft Dialog Boxes in PowerShell (Brien Posey)
Miscellaneous
- AOL’s ‘You’ve Got Mail’ voice, Elwood Edwards, dies at age 74 (Emma Roth)
- The first release candidate for GIMP 3.0 is here! (Sofia Elizabella Wyciślik-Wilson)
- Microsoft System Center 2025 is now generally available (Taryn Anderson)
More Link Collections
- Daily Reading List – November 7, 2024 (#436) (Richard Seroter)
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