Top Links
- Docker Desktop 4.38: New AI Agent, Multi-Node Kubernetes, and Bake in GA (Yiwen Xu)
- Using Gemini 2.0 Flash in GitHub Copilot (GitHub Docs)
- .NET Rocks! – AI Extensions for .NET with Steve Sanderson (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
- Announcing: Windows MIDI Services Customer Preview 1 (Pete Brown)
- Windows Terminal Preview 1.23 Release (Christopher Nguyen)
- On exactly when XAML bindings are evaluated if an element is not yet loaded (Raymond Chen)
- Microsoft.UI.Xaml v2.8.7 Release Notes (Ranjesh J.) – Includes a .NET 9 projection DLL which allows it to be consumed by UWP apps that are running on the latest .NET runtime
Web & Cloud Development
- Control your installed web application title | Microsoft Edge (Diego Gonzalez)
- Effortless Form Creation with Auto-Generated Fields in Blazor Data Form (Saravanan G.)
- Docker Bake is Now Generally Available in Docker Desktop 4.38! (Colin Hemmings)
- AWS CodeBuild for macOS adds support for Fastlane (Sébastien Stormacq)
- Okta Universal Logout Integration Now Supported in Auth0 (Aaron Smalser)
- Mastering JavaScript Proxies and Reflect for Real-World Use (Zziwa Raymond Ian)
- Let’s Encrypt Is Ending Expiration Notice Emails (BeauHD)
- Go 1.23.6-1 and 1.22.12-1 Microsoft builds now available (Davis Goodin)
WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML
- Display America’s Top 10 Sports with .NET MAUI Toolkit 3D Column Chart (Harsha Midadhala)
- WinUI (Microsoft.UI.Xaml) 2.8.7 Released (NuGet)
- Elevate Your .NET MAUI Apps: Theming Support Now Available! (Viktoria Grozdancheva)
Visual Studio & .NET
- Entity Framework Core 9 provider for Firebird is ready (Jiří {x2} Činčura)
- Many-to-Many Made Easy: Mastering Relationships in EF Core (Chris Woodruff)
- Organizing Azure Blob Storage with Virtual Directories in C# (Chris Pietschmann)
AI
- GenAI Patterns: Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) and GenAI Patterns: RAG Limitations and Hybrid Retriever (Martin Fowler)
- JetBrains AI Assistant Now Supports Claude Models via Amazon Bedrock (Valerie Kuzmina)
- Build AI Solutions with Azure AI Foundry (Carlotta Caste)
- Why the DeepSeek R1 Model is good news for all of us (Bart Wullems)
- Introducing the GPT-4o-Mini Audio Models: Adding More Choice to Audio-Enhanced AI Interaction (Allan Carranza)
- Introducing the Beta Launch of Docker’s AI Agent, Transforming Development Experiences (Jean-Laurent de Morlhon)
- From Foundry to Fine-Tuning: Topics you Need to Know in Azure AI Services (Savita Mittal)
- Azure OpenAI stored completions & distillation (preview) (Microsoft Learn)
- A Simple Way GitHub Copilot @vision Helped Me Be More Productive (Den Delimarsky)
- Here’s how developers have been using Gemini 2.0 | The Keyword (Google)
- Gemini 2.0: Flash, Flash-Lite and Pro (Shrestha Basu Mallick & Logan Kilpatrick)
- Introducing data residency in Europe (OpenAI Team)
- Advances to low-bit quantization enable LLMs on edge devices (Brenda Potts)
- Gemini 2.0 is now available to everyone (Koray Kavukcuoglu)
- Top Strategies for Building Scalable and Secure AI Applications (Malith Jayasinghe)
- Launching GenAI Productivity Tools: Insights and Lessons (Mandy Gu)
- Researchers created an open rival to OpenAI’s o1 ‘reasoning’ model for under $50 (Maxwell Zeff)
- Access the latest 2.0 experimental models in the Gemini app. (Patrick Kane)
- DeepSeek Database Leaking Sensitive Information Highlights AI Security Risks (Sergio De Simone)
- Let your Copilot Declarative Agent think deep with DeepSeek-R1 (Sophia Lagerkrans-Pandey & Mahmoud Hassan)
- Clustering in Python – A Machine Learning Engineering Handbook (Tatev Aslanyan)
Design, Methodology & Testing
- What is DevOps Automation? Best Practices & Benefits (Mattias Fjellström)
- Use Azure Cosmos DB as a Docker container in CI/CD pipelines (Abhishek Gupta)
- A new way to search in Jenkins 2.492.1 (Jan Faracik)
- Persistence Ignorance is Overrated (Derek Comartin)
- Why Observability 2.0 Is Such a Gamechanger (Erwin van der Koogh)
- How to Set Up Documentation as Code with Docusaurus and GitHub Actions (Ezinne Anne Emilia)
- A pragmatic approach to solution architecture (Frank Hessen)
- What Is DAST? A Guide to Dynamic Application Security Testing (Olga Bedrina)
Screencasts & Videos
- What is my favorite VS Code feature for .NET MAUI development? | One Dev Question (James Montemagno)
- Handling MassTransit errors with the Particular Service Platform (Chris Patterson)
- Microsoft AI Tour, New York City | Keynote (Microsoft Developer Team)
Podcasts
- Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – From Tasks to Outcomes, An Agile Cultural Transformation Story | Chrissy Fleming (Vasco Duarte)
- Exploring the Role of AI in DevOps with Michael Dawson and Alex Kearns – Adventures in DevOps #232 (Will Button, Jillian Rowe & Warren Parad)
- The Changelog Podcast #627 – Build software that lasts! (Bert Hubert, Adam Stacoviak & Jerod Santo)
- TanStack: A Deep Dive into Server Functions and Routing with Tanner Linsley – JavaScript Jabber #667 (AJ O’Neal, Dan Shappir & Steve Edwards)
- Python Bytes Podcast #419 – Is your back end popular? (Michael Kennedy & Brian Okken)
- Syntax Podcast #874 – Fast Apps – Easy Perf Wins (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
Community & Events
- Copilot Engineering in the Cloud with Azure and GitHub (David Ramel)
- Join the Windows and Devices MVP community (Christiaan Brinkhoff)
- Reddit tells communities threatening Elon Musk and DOGE workers to cool down (Jay Peters)
- Sonos lays off 200 employees as its struggles continue (Chris Welch)
- Tech Moves: Microsoft poaches 3 AI experts from Google DeepMind; Rover names COO; and more (Lisa Stiffler)
- Vanishing Culture: What Early Internet Era GIFs Show Us About Preserving Digital Culture (JD Shadel)
- Google tells employees why it’s ending DEI hiring goals (Alex Heath)
Database
- SQL Server Migration Using a Distributed Availability Group (David Fowler)
- Analyzing Kusto Query Performance In Fabric (Dennes Torres)
- Indexing SQL Server Queries For Performance: Index Sorting (Erik Darling)
- Picking a Starting Table in Test Data Manager (Steve Jones)
SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams
- Enhancing Teams video quality with Super Resolution (Naba Kumar)
- Introducing Editorial Card web part for SharePoint (Tina Chen)
- OneDrive: The Enhanced “Edit in Grid” Experience for Document Libraries (Rob Nunez)
- Microsoft Lists forms: What’s New (sahilbaid)
PowerShell
News
- Arm Holdings Withdraws Qualcomm Complaint (Paul Thurrott)
- Mobile Ban In Schools Not Improving Grades or Behavior, Study Suggests (BeauHD)
- China Weighs Probe Into Apple’s App Store Fees, Practices and Temperatures at North Pole 20C Above Average and Beyond Ice Melting Point (msmash)
- Your packages are about to get slower and more expensive (Dominic Preston)
- This DOGE Engineer Has Access to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Tim Marchman & Matt Giles)
Miscellaneous
- Announcing General Availability of Files v3.9.1 (Files Team)
- Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 27788 (Canary Channel) (Amanda Langowski)
- How to Responsibly Dispose of Your Electronics (2025) (Simon Hill)
More Link Collections
- Daily Reading List – February 5, 2025 (#487) (Richard Seroter)
The Geek Shelf
Unity 2022 by Example: A project-based guide to building 2D and 3D games, enhanced for AR, VR, and MR experiences (Scott H. Cameron) – Referral Link
