Dew Drop – January 24, 2022 (#3605)

Top Links

• Announcing TypeScript 4.6 Beta (Daniel Rosenwasser)
• Proposed .NET 7 Breaking Changes (Richard Lander)
• Fundamentals of Garbage Collection (Leonardo Maldonado)
• Postman Now Supports gRPC (Joshua Wise)
• .NET MAUI Podcast Episode 105: Not One But Two .NET MAUI Previews! (James Montemagno, Matt Soucoup & David Ortinau)

Web & Cloud Development

• CSS-only External Link Favicons (Zach Leatherman)
• Build a Web Site With React 18 That Shows the Most Polluted Cities in the United States (Peter Kellner)
• Blazor Web Assembly (WASM) Theming (Graeme Grant)
• Reading and Parsing Inbound Emails with SendGrid and Azure Logic Apps (John Kilmister)
• Azure Container Apps: dapr, devcontainer, debug and deploy (John Reilly)
• Send Scheduled SMS with Node.js and Twilio (Miguel Grinberg)
• Part-2 Blazor Server Cookie Authentication and Part-3 Blazor Server Cookie Authentication and Part-4 Blazor Server Cookie Authentication (Naveen Bommidi)
• Discovering the Halo Infinite API (Den Delimarsky)
• Amazon Announces AWS Lambda Powertools TypeScript (Renato Losio)
• Microsoft Azure Data Fundamentals Cheat Sheet (Rishita Shaw)
• Microsoft Feature Management – Feature Flags in ASP.NET Core C# – Detailed Guide (Sanjay)
• ECMAScript proposal: grouping Arrays via .groupBy() and .groupByToMap() (Axel Rauschmayer)
• New Release: PreEmptive JSDefender (Alexander Goodwin)
• Storing Documents on the Blockchain (Bjoern Meyer)
• Adding Protocol Schemes to Chromium (Eric Lawrence)
• The 8-Point API Lifecycle Blueprint (Kin Lane)
• 5 Tips for a Game-Changing API Design Review (Matthew Reinbold)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

• Calculating distance between your device and a location with .NET MAUI (Andreas Nesheim)
• Easily Schedule Recurring Events in WinUI Scheduler (Jeyasri Murugan)
• Organize your .NET MAUI MauiProgram / Startup file (Luis Matos)

Visual Studio & .NET

• 20. Structs Improvements and Record Structs in C# 10 (Andrea Angella)
• Parse and TryParse in C# and Top-Level Statements in C# (Code Maze)
• Back to the Future With C++/WinRT (Peter Freeman Foot)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• Scrum Rant (Ron Jeffries)
• The 5 Biggest Hurdles To Managing Remote Teams (And How To Overcome Them) (Vivian Lopez)
• Home-Job Balance: How I “End” My Job Day (Charles Flatt)
• Medium Writers: Reject Your Imposter Syndrome (‘Tine Zekis)
• UI vs UX in 2022: The Human Factor Against the Product Factor (Katie Mikova)
• Beautiful technical debt (Rinat Abdullin)
• Balance Principle of Design and Movement Principle of Design (Shirish Shikhrakar)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• What’s new in the latest version of React Native v0.6x (Sachit Wadhawan)
• Blender 3.0 Released With More New Features and Improvements (EditorDavid)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• .NET Core Podcast – [ENDING ONLY] Clean Architecure with Matthew Jeorrett (Jamie Taylor)
• Technology & Friends – Arthur Doler on Giving and Receiving Feedback (David Giard)
• Developer Tea – Some of My Productivity Mechanisms (Jonathan Cutrell)
• Merge Conflict 290: The .NET MAUI Episode (James Montemagno & Frank Kreuger)
• The AI Show Ep 47 | High-performance serving with Triton Inference Server in AzureML (Seth Juarez & Shivani Santosh Sambare)
• AWS Developer Podcast Episode 026 – AWS AppSync with Brice Pelle (David Isbitski)
• Overcoming Common Upgrade Issues – Xamarin.Forms 3.0 to 5.0 and Clearing Selection of CollectionView in Xamarin.Forms (David Ortinau)
• InfoQ Podcast: DevOps in No-Code and Low-Code Environments (Kevin Boyle)
• Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Navigating the product predictably, and inviting criticism enables great product conversations | Linda van Sinten (Vasco Duarte)
• Oracle Groundbreakers Podcast – Program Update: The Move to Java! (Bob Rhubart)
• JS Party – What Cloudflare is up to (Jon Kuperman, Amal Hussein & Jerod Santo)
• The Amp Hour #574 – Bubblegum Tap Shoes (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
• FreeCodeSession – Episode 335 and FreeCodeSession – Special Episode 5 (Jason Bock)
• UI Breakfast Episode 231: Organizing Meetups with Jon Setzen (Jane Portman)
• The Download: Microsoft Buys Activision, DevToys app, Ventoy and More (Christina Warren)
• Talk Python to Me #349: Meet Beanie: A MongoDB ODM + Pydantic (Michael Kennedy)

Community & Events

• Docker Captain Take 5 – Thomas Shaw (Eva Bojorges)
• Azure AI For Everyone (Jeffrey Raymond Kitt)
• University of Washington joins $40M campaign to enlist more software engineers for research (Alan Boyle)
• Celebrating 20 Years of Trustworthy Computing (Lauren Goodwin)
• Release Radar · December 2021 Edition (Michelle Mannering)
• Hot off the Press: The .NET OSS Maintainer Support Survey! (Sean Killeen)
• Staff engineer communities (Tanya Reilly)

Database

• Introduction to Couchbase for Oracle Developers and Experts: Part 1- Architecture (Keshav Murthy)
• Automating DB maintenance for all SQL Databases in a single server using Azure Data Factory pipeline (Hiten Bhavsar)
• Using JSON in MariaDB (Rob Hedgpeth)
• DAX table functions for paginated reports: Part 1 (Adam Aspin)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams

• What’s new with Yammer – January 2022 (Yammer Team)

Miscellaneous

• How to Read Your iOS 15 App Privacy Report (Lily Hay Newman)
• Leak reveals Microsoft’s canceled Windows OS for dual-screen devices (Tom Warren)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #3395 (Chris Alcock)
• What I’m using to stay up to date on Azure news (Jason Haley)
• Friday Five: Static Web Apps, SQL Server, More! (Jeffrey Raymond Kitt)
• Weekly Xamarin – Issue 335 – 24th Jan 2022 (Kym Phillpotts)
• C# Digest Issue #399 (Jakub Chodounsky)
• F# Weekly #4, 2022 – F# to Rust & F# Compiler Community Session (Sergey Tihon)
• The Wolf Report – January 24th, 2022 (Michael Wolfenden)
• Reading List 285 (Bruce Lawson)
• The Overflow #109: Developers and the Great Resignation (Eira May & Cassidy Williams)

The Geek Shelf

 Learn WinUI 3.0: Leverage the power of WinUI, the future of native Windows application development (Alvin Ashcraft)