Top Links
- Security updates to Azure publishing from Visual Studio and Connect securely to your Azure resources (Brady Gaster)
- Top .NET Blogs Posts of 2024 (James Montemagno)
- Generate text embeddings with Semantic Kernel and Ollama (Bart Wullems)
- C# Advent Calendar 2024 – Uno Platform on Mac with JetBrains Rider (Aaron LaBeau)
- Announcing the Office Add-ins Development Kit GA (Mingjia Liu)
- My Mac Mini M4 Pro Developer Setup – .NET, macOS, iOS, Android, Windows, & More (James Montemagno)
Web & Cloud Development
- CSS wants to be a system (Dave Rupert)
- Alpine.Js Polling ASP.NET Core APIs For Updates (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
- A CSS Wishlist for 2025 (Juan Diego Rodríguez)
- Why Alt Text Matters: Boost Accessibility and SEO with Every Image (Katie Koteen)
- Web Development Trends in 2024: A Shift Back to Simplicity (Richard MacManus)
Visual Studio & .NET
- A common proposed solution to certain categories of IFNDR: Getting the linker to verify identical functions (Raymond Chen)
- Group code by area not type (spottedmahn)
- Integrate Kafka into .NET Core Applications – A Step-by-Step Guide (Deepti)
AI
- The Model Context Protocol: Simplifying Building AI apps with Anthropic Claude Desktop and Docker (Jim Clark)
- Gemini 2.0: Level Up Your Apps with Real-Time Multimodal Interactions (Ivan Solovyev)
- Anthropic Publishes Model Context Protocol Specification for LLM App Integration (Anthony Alford)
- Phi-4: Microsoft’s New Small Language Model Outperforms Giants in AI Reasoning (Chris Pietschmann)
- OpenAI Recap: o3 Model Wraps 12 Days of Announcements (Megan Crouse)
Design, Methodology & Testing
- Announcing CodeQL Community Packs (Alvaro Munoz)
- Understanding SOLID Principles (Leomaris Reyes)
- Developers Are Key to Stopping Rising API Security Threat (Loraine Lawson)
- How to Cover Auth0’s Login Form with Tests (Ramona Schwering)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- Flutter Analytics Service using Facade Design Pattern (Abdur Rafay Saleem)
Screencasts & Videos
- How to use WaitFor in .NET Aspire with SQL Server, Web API and Blazor (Authorised Territory)
- AI-Powered Development: Exploring the Latest GitHub Copilot Features Dec. 2024 (GitHub Team)
Podcasts
- React Ecosystem: Libraries, Tools, and Third-Party Integrations – React Round Up #279 (Lucas & Peter)
- PPP 441 | Mastering the Human Side of Project Management, with Michaela Flick (Andy Kaufman)
- Practical Applications of RxJS in Angular Development – Adventures in Angular #436 (Jason Akbar & Lucas)
- Navigating Salesforce DevOps Challenges and AI Innovations – Adventures in DevOps #228 (Will Button & Jillian Rowe)
- Google Cloud Security Podcast Episode #204 – Beyond PCAST: Phil Venables on the Future of Resilience and Leading Indicators (Anton Chuvakin)
- Getting into Source Generators in .NET – Adventures in .NET #210 (Shawn Clabough & Stefan Schranz)
- Fragmented, The Software Podcast #254 – 8× faster 5× memory savings with Dan Rusu’s Immutable Arrays (Dan Rusu & Kaushik Gopal)
- The Amp Hour #685 – Data Provenance in the Home, Server, and Fab (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
- From Real Servers to Clouds: Understanding the Virtualization Shift in Technology – JavaScript Jabber #662 (Avishai Ish-Shalom, Charles Max Wood, Dan Shappir & AJ O’Neal)
- Python Bytes Podcast #415 – Just put the fries in the bag bro (Michael Kennedy & Brian Okken)
- Syntax Podcast #863 – 2024: A Year in Review (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
- Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Breaking Down the Wall Between Product and Engineering | Vasco Duarte (Vasco Duarte)
Community & Events
- Major freeCodeCamp Curriculum Updates Going Live in Time for Christmas (Quincy Larson)
- Early Microsoft leaders go all in on AI with Seattle-area startup Total Neural Enterprises (Taylor Soper)
Database
- A Little About Parameter Sensitive Plan Optimizations In SQL Server 2022 and A Little About LOCK_TIMEOUT In SQL Server (Erik Darling)
- Isn’t it ironic: Money isn’t transactional (Oren Eini)
SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams
- M365 Developers Update | December 2024 Edition (Justin Royal)
PowerShell & Terminal
Miscellaneous
- ExpressVPN vs NordVPN: Which VPN is best for you? (Kennedy Otieno)
- A design flaw in the Windows 3D Pipes screen saver pointed out by a customer (Raymond Chen)
- Trump announces new tech policy picks for his second term (Wes Davis)
More Link Collections
- Interesting links of the week 2024-52 (Michael Eaton)
The Geek Shelf
From Zero to Hero: Clean Architecture in .NET | Dometrain Bundle (Amichai Mantinband) – Referral Link
