Morning Dew by Alvin Ashcraft

Top Links

• The year ahead for SQL Server: Ground to cloud to fabric (Bob Ward)
• Documenting and explaining legacy code with GitHub Copilot: Tips and examples (Christopher Harrison)
• Building Multi-Agent Systems with Multi-Models in Semantic Kernel – Part 1 (Sophia Lagerkrans-Pandey & Arafat Tehsin)
• PowerSchool data breach victims say hackers stole ‘all’ historical student and teacher data (Carly Page)
• Software Engineering Radio #651 – Paul Frazee on Bluesky and the AT Protocol (Jeremy Jung)
• Copilot for all: Introducing Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat (Jared Spataro)

Web & Cloud Development

• A checklist for your tsconfig.json (Axel Rauschmayer)
• Deploying ASP.NET Core Applications with Docker—Part 1 (Assis Zang)
• Azure Storage—A look back and a look forward (Aung Oo & Maneesh Sah)
• Top 5 React PDF Viewers for Smooth Document Handling (Parthipan R.)
• Build a Stunning RCS Reminder App With Node SDK and Vonage (Chuck Reeves)
• Componentization with Telerik (Jefferson S. Motta)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

• Windows App SDK 1.6.4 (1.6.250108002) and Windows App SDK 1.5.9 (1.5.241114003) (Roy MacLachlan)

Visual Studio & .NET

• Mixing Raw SQL and Fluent Statements with Entity Framework (Bryan Hogan)
• Gradient Boosting Regression Using C# (James McCaffrey)
• From C# to Rust: A Journey Through Code and Concepts and Managing Client Sessions: Tracking and Personalizing Connections (Chris Woodruff)
• The Transition of .NET FluentAssertions to Paid Software (Tomasz Sobczak)
• Monitoring Email Delivery/Open Rates in .NET Using Twilio SendGrid Webhooks (Eman Hassan)
• How does Get­User­Default­Geo­Name choose between ISO 3166-1 and UN M.49 codes? (Raymond Chen)
• .NET 8/9 – Testing different Build/Deployment modes – Part 4 and .NET 8/9 – Testing different Build/Deployment modes – Part 5 (Mark Pelf)

AI

• Simplify AI Development with the Model Context Protocol and Docker (Docker Labs)
• Google Workspace business customers now get the latest in generative AI | The Keyword (Google)
• GitHub Copilot– Calling the outside world (Bart Wullems)
• An open call for the next Google.org Accelerator: Generative AI (Maggie Johnson)
• Innovating in line with the European Union’s AI Act (Natasha Crampton)
• Adding an AI agent to your data infrastructure in 2025 (Noa Shavit)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• 16 DevOps Metrics You Should Be Tracking [DORA & Other] (Ioannis Moustakis)
• Fixing Common Pitfalls of Codemods (Martin Fowler)
• Why Software Developers Need to Build Their Personal Brand (Ben Linders)
• Setting Up xUnit with Dependency Injection (Micheal)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• Water Consumption Forecasting with AI-Powered Smart Flutter Spline Chart (Hariharasudhan Kanagaraj)
• Lens Studio Cube Bouncer for the confused Unity developer: set up, create box, create a grid of boxes (Joost van Schaik)

Screencasts & Videos

• Random.Code() – Advent of Code 2024 Playthrough – Part 19 (Jason Bock)

Podcasts

• Syntax Podcast #868 – The State of JavaScript (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
• Working Code Podcast – Episode 201: LLM’s vs Stack Overflow (Ben Nadel)
• The Changelog Podcast – The world of embedded systems (Elecia White, Adam Stacoviak & Jerod Santo)
• The Cloud Pod #287 – The Cloud Pod Rebrands to The Cloud AI So We Can Get A 1B Valuation (Justin Brodley, Jonathan Baker, Ryan Lucas & Matthew Kohn)
• Lenny’s Podcast – How to break out of autopilot and create the life you want | Graham Weaver (Stanford GSB professor, founder of Alpine Investors) (Lenny Rachitsky)
• .NET Rocks! – Viper.NET with Rob Conery (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Boagworld Podcast – Harness the Power of AI: Transform Your UX Workflow (Paul Boag)
• Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – CTO Series: Mastering the CTPO Role, Katrina Clokie’s Guide to Tech and Product Leadership (Vasco Duarte)

Community & Events

• I’m Helping with Layoffs, But It’s Breaking Me (Danielle Meinert)
• Syncfusion 2024 Recap: Key Achievements and Highlights (Rajeshwari P.)
• Software Development Trends and Predictions 2025 From Industry Insiders (Rick Dagley)
• Bluesky is getting its own photo-sharing app, Flashes (Sarah Perez)

Database

• How To Write SQL Server Queries Correctly: Joins With OR Clauses Part 1 (Erik Darling)
• SQL Server Essentials: Core SQL Server Data Types (Michael Otey)
• Accidental complexity: A tale of two GUIDs (Oren Eini)
• Overview of Azure Options for SQL Server (Rajendra Gupta)
• Does Separating Data and Log Files Make Your Server Faster? (Brent Ozar)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams

• The Great Microsoft 365 Copilot Journey: Empower Your Team with Copilot (Kristin Ginn)

Miscellaneous

• Meta Says It Isn’t Ending Fact-Checks Outside US ‘At This Time’ (BeauHD)
• Introduction to Rust Programming Language (The New Stack Staff)
• TikTok reportedly plans ‘immediate’ Sunday shutdown in the US if it’s banned (Wes Davis)

More Link Collections

• dotInsights | January 2025 (Rachel Appel)
• Daily Reading List – January 15, 2025 (#473) (Richard Seroter)

The Geek Shelf

 Learn WinUI 3, Second Edition (Alvin Ashcraft)