Top Links
- We made Windows Server Core container images >40% smaller (Rich Lander)
 - Get started with Collections in Microsoft Edge (MS Edge Team)
 - Vue.js CLI 4 Released (Swanand Kadam)
 - Azure Functions 3.0 go-live release is now available (Azure Functions Team)
 - Building your own version of WPF – Live edition (Morten Nielsen)
 
Web & Cloud Development
- How to Customize Your Angular Build With Webpack (Holger Schmitz)
 - Change Feed support for Azure Cosmos DB’s Cassandra API (Theo van Kraay)
 - Building a Wikipedia App Using React Hooks and Auth0 (Akash Joshi)
 - Building REST API with Python, Flask and Azure SQL (Davide Mauri)
 - Unit Testing Overview with ASP.NET Core, XUnit, and Moq (Matthew Jones)
 - ASP.NET Core 3 – Things I Learned / Pro Tips / Migration to ASP.NET Core 3 (David Yardy)
 - Sending Bulk Emails 3 Ways With Twilio SendGrid And Node.js (Tilde A. Thurium)
 - Improve cyber supply chain risk management with Microsoft Azure (Todd VanderArk)
 - Searching in ASP.NET Core Web API (Vladimir Pecanac)
 - Connect to a JupyterHub from Visual Studio Code (Yuvi Panda)
 - A Blazor Image File Manager (Michael Washington)
 - Selenium Scripts Running Load on a Web Browser (Stella Murugesan)
 - A Handy Sass-Powered Tool for Making Balanced Color Palettes (Stephanie Eckles)
 - Kubernetes 1.17: Stability (Kubernetes Release Team)
 - Creating a JAMstack Site with Open Authoring Using Netlify CMS (Brian Rinaldi)
 - Creating Bespoke Input Components for Blazor from Scratch (Chris Sainty)
 - Auth0 Explorer Gives Developers Greater Control, Deeper Insight into Authentication Architecture (Jeana Tahnk)
 - Fun with URL Encodings (Phil Haack)
 
XAML, UWP & Xamarin
- FCM implementation in Xamarin Forms – Part II (Anbu Mani)
 - Santa Talk: An Intelligent Serverless Xamarin App (Matthew Soucoup)
 
Visual Studio & .NET
- Localization Becomes easier with the Localization Manager in ReSharper 2019.3 (Maarten Balliauw)
 - .NET Core, Docker, and Cultures – Solving a culture issue porting a .NET Core app from Windows to Linux (Andrew Lock)
 - C++ coroutines: Getting started with awaitable objects (Raymond Chen)
 - Find anomalies with spike detection and ML.NET (Thomas Ardal)
 - Bye Bye Coded UI (Troy Walsh)
 - Document Accessibility with Aspose.PDF for .NET (Ben Hall)
 - Do things right in VSCode (Jessica Kerr)
 
Design, Methodology & Testing
- Is Pair Programming + TDD worth it? (George Stocker)
 - The Dos and Don’ts of Scaling Agile (Jessica Seitz)
 - Azure DevOps : Setting up and pushing nuget package (Sacha Barber)
 - Modeling Before Infrastructure — Reasons Data Science Projects Fail (Luke Posey)
 - Improve Windows Enterprise Application Deployment Reliability and Security using MSIX (Russell Smith)
 - How To Learn As A Developer? (Adhithi Ravichandran)
 - TeamCity 2019.2 is here with new clean-up rules, EC2 launch templates, a build chain DSL, and more (Alexander Rassokhin)
 - Bad Assumptions Make Bad Code (Alishah Novin)
 - The Need for Automated Accessibility Testing (Blanca Mendizábal Perelló)
 - Project Petridish: Efficient forward neural architecture search (Erin Juntunen)
 - Designing a build system for .NET solutions with Cake – 1: The build submodule & Versioning dependencies (Matthew Abbott)
 
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- Using React Native for iOS and Android App Development at Walmart (Sergio De Simone)
 - Blending Realities with the ARCore Depth API (Shahram Izadi)
 - AI for Oceans – Kids Use Computer Science For Good (Nikos Vaggalis)
 - Using Azure Notification Hubs in Apache Cordova and Ionic Apps (John Wargo)
 
Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos
- Syntax Podcast – Hasty Treat – What Are Github Actions? (Wes Bos)
 - Software Engineering Daily – Remote Work with Philip Thomas (Jeff Meyerson)
 - Deploying an ASP.NET Core Application to IIS (When You’re Used to the IIS World) (Michael Szul)
 - ASP.NET Monsters #142: Customizing Application Insights using Telemetry Initializers (Simon Timms, David Paquette & James Chambers)
 - JSJ 411: Unit Testing Jest with Daniel Caldas (Aimee Knight, AJ O’Neal & Charles Max Wood)
 - The 6 Figure Developer Episode 121 – JavaScript Pit of Success w/ Aimee Knight (John Callaway)
 - Coding After Work Podcast Episode 49 – Blazor, .Net Core 3.1 and spelling reforms with Daniel Roth (Jessica Engström & Jimmy Engström)
 - FreeCodeSession – Episode 117 (Jason Bock)
 - Microsoft 365 Dev Podcast – Makers meet Developers with Power Apps and Power Automate with Chris O’Brien (Jeremy Thake & Paul Schaeflein)
 - Querying Data from Big Data Cluster Data Pool | Data Exposed (Jeroen ter Heerdt)
 - IoT is Fun for Everyone! (Ugly Sweater Edition) | Internet of Things Show (Olivier Bloch, Jim Bennett & MAAllen)
 
Community & Events
- 5 Useful Channels to Find Hackathons (Carrie Lo)
 - ‘Tis the Season for Hats! Join Us for Winter Bash 2019 (Cesar Manara)
 - The 2020 Succinctly Readers Awards Are Coming! (Jacqueline Bieringer)
 - Using the web to help young people find work (Paul Kinlan)
 - Celebrate the Raspberry Pi’s 8th birthday at a Raspberry Jam (Philip Colligan)
 - Announcing the Docs.rs Team (The Rustdoc Team)
 
Database
- SQL SERVER – List Number Queries Waiting for Memory Grant Pending (Pinal Dave)
 - Azure SQL Database – Automatic Tuning – Have you enabled it? (Arun Sirpal)
 - Copy data from Azure Blob to Azure Database for MySQL using Azure Data Factory (Ramky Chan)
 
SharePoint & MS Teams
- Soar into 2020 with 12 new Microsoft Teams for Education updates (Justin Chando)
 
PowerShell
- Improvements in Windows PowerShell Container Images (Joey Aiello)
 
Miscellaneous
- Minecraft: Bedrock Is Coming to PS4 (Kelsey Howard)
 - How To Prepare for a Conference Talk — A Subjective Guide (Alan Mendelevich)
 - Windows 10 Tip: New Manage notifications button at the top of the Action Center (Athima Chansanchai)
 - ‘Big fan’ Bill Gates makes appearance in ‘Silicon Valley’ series finale as HBO comedy logs off (Kurt Schlosser)
 - Microsoft Store empowers students with free Computer Science Education Week workshops (Shy Averett)
 - It’s Time to Upgrade to Python 3 – Time Is Running Out! (Team Anaconda)
 
More Link Collections
- The Morning Brew #2892 (Chris Alcock)
 - .NET App Developer Links – 2019-12-10 (Dan Rigby)
 - Up & Running Weekly – Building large K8s clusters, fixing CPU limits in the cloud, serverless at scale & more (Denis from Jexia)
 - Build5Nines Weekly: December 9, 2019 (Chris Pietschmann)
 - The Top 2019 LinkedIn Engineering Blogs (Jaren Anderson)
 
The Geek Shelf
 React Quickly: Painless web apps with React, JSX, Redux, and GraphQL (Azat Mardan) – Referral Link