Top Links
- .NET Rocks! – Mediatr with Jimmy Bogard (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
- Elevating Debugging with Auto-decompilation and External Sources (Harshada Hole)
- Syncfusion Reviews Outreach Team: An Overview (Amy Peters)
- Reserve Your Kalahari Room with the Low TechBash Rate by Oct 6th (TechBash Team)
- Prepare your Mac to be a Xamarin/.NET MAUI build host without VS4MAC (Marco Siccardi)
- Demystifying Retrieval Augmented Generation with .NET (Stephen Toub)
Web & Cloud Development
- Exploring Blazor Changes in .NET 8 – Auto Render Mode and Blazor SSR Gets Auto Render Mode in the Latest .NET 8 Preview (Jon Hilton)
- Using Labeled Loops In JavaScript (Ben Nadel)
- Build AI-assisted calling workflows with Azure AI Speech and Azure Communication Services (Azure Team)
- Enhancing Data Visualization with a Nested Grid UI in Blazor TreeGrid (Alan Sangeeth)
- Sum an Array of Numbers with JavaScript (David Walsh)
- Update to AWS SDK for Java v2, AWS SDK for .NET v3, and AWS Tools for PowerShell when using S3 GetObjectAttributes API (John Viegas)
- Smartly Customize the Blazor Linear Gauge to Reproduce a Step Progress Bar (Hari Venkatesh E.)
- Azure Health Data and AI Templates Live in Azure Data Factory: Convert and More! (Sam Brown)
- Azure Developer CLI (azd) – September 2023 Release (Savannah Ostrowski)
- Dapr Completes 2023 Security Audit – Increasing Enterprise Confidence (Yaron Schneider)
- Announcing the Postman Interceptor extension for all browsers (Akshay Deo)
- Is It too Early to Leverage AI for WebAssembly? (B. Cameron Gain)
- Introducing the Wasm landscape (Chris Aniszczyk, Vivian Hu & Michael Yuan)
WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML
- Using Private NuGet Feeds with .NET MAUI and Azure Pipelines (Junior Saravia)
Visual Studio & .NET
- The Ultimate Guide to Network Programming in C# 12 & .NET 8 (Chris Woodruff)
- Create extension pack for Visual Studio Code (Mister Gold)
- C# Dictionary – A Primer On When And How To Use (Nick Cosentino)
- Rider 2023.2 with C# Updates, UX/UI Enhancements and AI Assistant (Robert Krzaczyński)
- Scheduled or Delayed Messages in Wolverine (Jeremy D. Miller)
- Microsoft.Identity.Client (MSAL) v4.56.0 (NuGet)
- Enabling List to store large amounts of elements (Steven Giesel)
- Tales from the .NET Migration Trenches – Empty Proxy (Jimmy Bogard)
- Optimising .NET code: Avoiding allocations using Span (Jonathan George)
- Detecting whether a tree-like data structure contains a cycle (Raymond Chen)
- Microsoft .NET Code Analysis: Properly Formatting Class Files (David McCarter)
Design, Methodology, AI & Testing
- Bring your own Data to Azure OpenAI: Step-by-Step Guide (John Aziz)
- Testing Using Testcontainers for .NET and Docker (Florian Prinz)
- Reskilling in the Age of AI – Five new paradigms for leaders—and employees (Jorge Tamayo, Leila Doumi, Sagar Goel, Orsolya Kovács-Ondrejkovic & Raffaella Sadun)
- Windows Package Manager 1.6.2482 Pre-release (WinGet Team)
- Unlock Your Potential (‘Tine Zekis)
- Frontiers of multimodal learning: A responsible AI approach (Brenda Potts)
- Improve your applications observability with custom health checks (Dennis Fruhauff)
- Technical Debts – the top 10 (Peter Smulovics)
- How to build an enterprise LLM application: Lessons from GitHub Copilot (Shuyin Zhao)
- Drop git pull for fetch and rebase (Yftach Herzog)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- Cordova iOS 7.0.1 Released! (Bryan Ellis)
- A rundown of Android Intent Selectors — You’re building intents wrong! (Jack Webb)
- Test Driven Development in Android Apps – A Practical Guide to TDD (Siamak Mahmoudi)
Screencasts & Videos
- What I Wish I Knew… about how to approach programming (Eleanor Lewis)
Podcasts
- CodeNewbie S25:E4 – Diversity Dialogues in Tech (Ale Thomas) (CodeNewbie Team)
- The Happy Engineer Podcast 125: Impactful Engineering with Jake Maxey and Steve Maxey | Podcast Hosts | Engineers Making a Difference (Max Ahumada)
- What if your JavaScript Validations Looked like Tests? – JavaScript Jabber 597 (Charles Max Wood & Dan Shappir)
- Working Code Podcast – Episode 143: Moving On, Rewriting, And Replatforming (Ben Nadel)
- The Rework Podcast – Shape Up Principle: The Betting Table (Kimberly Rhodes, Jason Fried & David Heinemeier Hansson)
- Tools and Weapons Podcast – U.S. Ambassador Meg Whitman: Leading with the right questions (Brad Smith)
- Microsoft in Uncharted Territory with Richard Campbell – Adventures in .NET 155 (Adam Furmanek, Shawn Clabough, Christian Wenz & Mark Miller)
- Practical AI Podcast – Fine-tuning vs RAG (Demetrios Brinkmann, Chris Benson & Daniel Whitenack)
- The Changelog – OpenTF for an open Terraform (Josh Padnick, Adam Stacoviak & Jerod Santo)
- Python Bytes Podcast #351 – A Python Empire (or MPIRE?) (Michael Kennedy)
- Software Engineering Radio 580: Josh Doody on Mastering Business Communication for Software Engineers (Brijesh Ammanath)
Community & Events
- The newest AWS Heroes are here – September 2023 (Taylor Jacobsen)
- What’s New in Bold Reports v5.2 [Webinar Show Notes] (Carter Harris)
- LibertyJS 2023 – Philadelphia. October 12-13 (LibertyJS Team)
- Hack Together: The Power Platform AI Global Hack (April Dunnam)
- Roku turns to layoffs (again) and removes streaming content to cut costs (Chris Welch)
- What Students Learned from Collaborating with MVP (Rie Moriguchi)
Database
- Future Proof Your SQL Server Transaction Log Files For Instant File Initialization? (Erik Darling)
- SQL SERVER – Resolving the “ps1 cannot be loaded because running scripts is disabled” Error (Pinal Dave)
- Compare SQL Server Offerings by Top Cloud Providers – Azure, AWS and Google Cloud (Jim Evans)
- Couchbase’s Jetbrains Plugin: Leveling up the developer experience (Denis Rosa)
SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams
- Outlook REST API v2.0 and beta endpoints decommissioning update (Exchange Team)
PowerShell
- How To Connect to SQL Server Database From PowerShell (Brien Posey)
Miscellaneous
- Sam Altman-Backed Mentra Aims To Match Neurodivergent Jobseekers With Ideal Jobs and The World Has Just Experienced the Hottest Summer On Record — By a Significant Margin (BeauHD)
- Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22621.2271 and 22631.2271 (Beta Channel) (Brandon LeBlanc)
- How to speed up File Explorer in Windows 11 (Sofia Elizabella Wyciślik-Wilson)
More Link Collections
- The Morning Brew #3775 (Chris Alcock)
- Daily Reading List – September 6, 2023 (#156) (Richard Seroter)
- Today’s Readings (Aaron T. Grogg)
The Geek Shelf
Web Development with Blazor: A practical guide to start building interactive UIs with C# 11 and .NET 7, 2nd Edition (Jimmy Engstrom) – Referral Link