Top Links
- New IDE features in Visual Studio v17.11 (Mads Kristensen)
- TechBash 2024 standard rates and Kalahari room discounts end at 11:59pm on Aug 31st (TechBash Team)
- Using SQL Database Components in .NET Aspire (Fiodar Sazanavets)
- Boost your AI with Azure’s new Phi model, streamlined RAG, and custom generative AI models (Eric Boyd)
- .NET Observability with OpenTelemetry – Part 3: Distributed Tracing using AWS X-Ray (David Kilzer & Ashish Bhatia)
- CoreWCF: New configuration API for NetTcp (Matt Connew)
- Group Rates Available for TechBash 2024 and Accessibility Testing, Public Speaking Workshops at TechBash (Jason Gaylord)
Web & Cloud Development
- Generating Unique Random Numbers in JavaScript Using Sets (Amejimaobari Ollornwi)
- Enhance Inventory and Billing Management with React Data Grid (Maithiliy K.)
- Running Apache Kafka on Windows (Bryan Hogan)
- Switching Themes for Mermaid (Scott Galloway)
- Aug 2024: A look at the latest Microsoft Entra key feature releases, announcements, and updates (Adam Matthews)
- How to Use Fiddler Everywhere with MessagePack (Rick Hellwege)
WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML
Visual Studio & .NET
- Add IncomingMessageProperty injection support and Kafka transport enhancements in CoreWCF and Add ‘Keyed by Service type’ ServiceBehavior support in CoreWCF (Guillaume Delahaye)
- A List Zipper in C# (Mark Seemann)
- Working With DTO Auto Translators — Mapster (Peter Ritchie)
AI
- GitHub Copilot Tops Research Report on AI Code Assistants (David Ramel)
- How to Fix ESLint Violations with AI Assistance (Docker Labs Team)
- Architecting secure Gen AI applications: Preventing Indirect Prompt Injection Attacks (Roee Oz)
Design, Methodology & Testing
- What I mean when I use the term ‘agile’. (George Stocker)
- Autoscaling Octopus workers using Kubernetes (Trent Mohay)
- What Steps Do API Producers Have in Their GitHub Actions Pipelines (Kin Lane)
- Testing Basics: Data-Driven Tests (Gil Zilberfeld)
- Beginner’s guide to GitHub: Merging a pull request (Kedasha Kerr)
- Thoughts on finding the essential elements of a set (Raymond Chen)
Screencasts & Videos
- Inspect Variables Like a Pro in Visual Studio Debugger (Visual Studio Team)
- What’s your favorite unknown feature of Microsoft Copilot? | One Dev Question (Dona Sarkar)
- Windows App: what’s new and what’s next | Windows in the Cloud (Christiaan Brinkhoff & Joydeep Mukherjee)
Podcasts
- Merge Conflict #425: The NEW .NET MAUI Binding System (James Montemagno & Frank Kreuger)
- Syntax Podcast #813: CSS: Scroll Driven Animations (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
- Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – When Empathy Becomes a Double-Edged Sword And Why Scrum Masters Need to Learn Coaching | Pooja Gupta (Vasco Duarte)
- Inside Trader Joe’s Podcast Episode 77: Trader Joe’s Goes Back to School with Chocolate and Mustard (Trader Joe’s Team)
- The PowerShell Podcast – Be the Community: Insights and Event Log Automation with Phil Bossman (James Petty)
- CloudChat Episode #12 – Words Mean Things (Carl Schweitzer & Brandon Martinez)
- The Changelog News Podcast #109 – What good programmers worry about (Jerod Santo)
- Google Cloud Security Podcast Episode #187 – Conquering SOC Challenges: Leadership, Burnout, and the SIEM Evolution (Anton A. Chuvakin)
- Meta Cast – Reimagining Demotion: A Strategic Leadership Approach (Bob Galen & Josh Anderson)
- Henry Quillin: What it’s Like as a Computer Science Student – Azure DevOps Podcast Episode #312 (Jeffrey Palermo)
- The Happy Engineer Podcast #183: These 5 Common Thieves Are Stealing Your Productivity (Max Ahumada)
- Python Bytes Podcast #398 – Open source makes you rich? (and other myths) (Michael Kennedy)
- Azure Cloud Talk Podcast 24/8/26 – AI and The Future With Michelle Welcks (Alec Harrison)
Community & Events
- It’s Glowtime: Apple’s iPhone 16 Event Date Officially Announced (Oliver Haslam)
- JetBrains JavaScript Day 2024 Registration Is Now Open (Aleksandra Aganezova)
- What to expect from Meta Connect 2024: Affordable Quest 3, AR glasses, and more (Artie Beaty)
- How a Student Grew as a Community Leader, Inspired by MVP (Rie Moriguchi)
Database
- Adding a Comment System Part 1 – Setting up the Database (Scott Galloway)
- Where does Postgres fit in a world of GenAI and vector databases? (Ben Popper)
SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams
- See what’s possible with Copilot in Excel (part 2) (Microsoft Excel Team)
PowerShell
- Automating Disk Cleanup in Azure Using PowerShell, Azure Resource Graph and LastOwnershipUpdateTime (Werner Rall)
Miscellaneous
- You Should Blog (Steve Smith)
- Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22635.4082 (Beta Channel) (Amanda Langowski)
- Apple announces Chief Financial Officer transition (Apple Newsroom)
- 10 Books Turning 50 in 2024 (Lorna Wallace)
More Link Collections
- Interesting links of the week 2024-35 (Michael Eaton)
- Sands of MAUI: Issue #156 (Sam Basu)
- Daily Reading List – August 26, 2024 (#384) (Richard Seroter)
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