Dew Drop – March 2, 2022 (#3633)

Top Links

• Build your own simple browser with WebView2 (Mark Heath)
• Mastering SignalR – Adventures in .NET 109 (Caleb Wells, Shawn Clabough & Wai Liu)
• Using the .NET JIT to reduce abstraction overhead (Oren Eini)
• App Center Analytics & Diagnostics Data Retention (Jihye Eom)
• .NET Frontend Days 2022 recordings (Daniel Hindrikes)

Web & Cloud Development

• What’s new in Svelte: March 2022 (Daniel Sandoval)
• Testing Emotion Styles (Carl Rippon)
• Easily Deploy a Blazor WebAssembly App to Cloudflare (Alan Sangeeth)
• Discontinuing authorization support for the Google Sign-In JavaScript Platform Library (Brian Daugherty)
• New CSS Features In 2022 (Michelle Barker)
• You can establish reliable Kubernetes clusters without losing sleep (Kendall Miller)
• Building Serverless Web Apps With Blazor Chart—Part 5: Google Cloud Functions API (Jim McGowan)
• Introduction to the Node.js reference architecture, Part 7: Code coverage (Lucas Holmquist)
• Build a Doctor Appointment Bot with Azure Bot Service, Language Understanding, and Twilio SMS (Yan Sun)
• Updates to Meta Certification offerings for Developers (Samantha Roberts)
• gRPC performance benchmarks on GKE (Paulo Castello da Costa & Jan Tattermusch)
• Towards a Unified Theory of Web Performance (Alex Russell)

Visual Studio & .NET

• Image Style Transfer With C#, ONNX, and ImageSharp (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
• Execution and Static Analysis Support for MSVC on Compiler Explorer (Sy Brand)
• Difference Between Task.Run and Task.Factory.StartNew (Code Maze)
• Apply a Filter to a Video File in C# (Zac Ferraresi)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• Improving Organizations Effect (Kevin Logan)
• Secrets in GitHub Actions (Andrew Corrigan)
• How To Use Trello And Confluence Together For Optimized Project Management (Daniel Kenitz)
• What Is PlatformOps? (Kin Lane)
• Microsoft shares 4 challenges of protecting sensitive data and how to overcome them (Lauren Goodwin)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• Raspberry Pi At 10 (Harry Fairhead)
• Why Flutter is the most popular cross-platform mobile SDK (Theodoros Karasavvas)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• Kubernetes Podcast from Google – Kubernetes: The Documentary, with Josiah McGarvie (Craig Box & Adam Glick)
• Introducing NerdOut@Spotify: a new podcast for developers (and the nerd inside all of us) (Dave Zolotusky)
• AzureFunBytes Episode 69 – What’s New In @AzureStaticApps with @simona_cotin and @nthonyChu (Jay Gordon)
• RunAs Radio – Windows Virtual Desktop Becomes Azure Virtual Desktop with Jen Sheerin (Richard Campbell)
• Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Unlearning old habits and dynamically re-teaming a Scrum team | Lorna Mason & Jon Lawrence and Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Two stories about scaling Agile, two lessons for Scrum Masters in growing organizations | Lorna Mason & Jon Lawrence (Vasco Duarte)
• Diagnosing .NET 6 issues from sidecar containers using dotnet-monitor (James Montemagno & Mike Rousos)
• Microsoft Cloud Show Episode 448 | Our Take on the State of Microsoft Azure (Andrew Connell & Chris Johnson)
• ReWork Podcast – Start at the Epicenter (Jason Fried & David Heinemeier Hansson)
• The Changelog – Securing the open source supply chain (Feross Aboukhadijeh, Adam Stacoviak & Jerod Santo)
• FreeCodeSession – Episode 346 (Jason Bock)
• Software Engineering Radio Episode 501: Bob Ducharme on Creating Technical Documentation for Software Projects (Nikhil Krishna)
• OAuth Explained – JavaScript Jabber 523 (AJ O’Neal, Charles Max Wood & Steve Edwards)
• Mailin’ It! – The Official USPS Podcast Episode 12 – The U.S. Postal Inspection Service Fights Consumer Fraud (Yasmine Di Giulio & Dale Parsan)

Community & Events

• Pi day is coming to the Microsoft Reactor (Jim Bennett)
• I’m with Ukraine and I’m no longer Microsoft MVP (Szymon Kulec)
• Watch the Women of Jamstack prototype get built and deployed in under 7 minutes (Salma Alam-Naylor)
• Inspiring students to build a more peaceful world with Minecraft (Helen Chiang)

Database

• Execute SQL statements using the new ‘Script’ activity in Azure Data Factory and Synapse Pipelines (Abhishek Narain)
• Stay on top of database threats with Microsoft Defender for Azure Cosmos DB (Inbal Argov)
• Data Types in PostgreSQL: Learning PostgreSQL with Grant (Grant Fritchey)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams

• Learn from the community: Low-code Q&A bot for Microsoft Teams helps communities provide better onboarding process (Ayca Bas)
• Unleash the power of your small business with Microsoft 365 (Jared Spataro)
• New Release: v5.1 of SharePointDsc is out! (Yorick Kuijs)

Miscellaneous

• #Windows11 – Live Captions, an amazing feature! (Bruno Capuano)
• Disney Plus is getting the Marvel Netflix shows on March 16th (Charles Pulliam-Moore)
• How to make sure you aren’t spreading misinformation online (Kristina Bravo)
• 5 Tips on Learning Python From Zero (Mike Driscoll)
• How does Windows decide what instructions to provide for unlocking the PC? (Raymond Chen)
• Bungie rejects Steam Deck’s Linux, threatens to ban Destiny 2 players there (Sean Hollister)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #3421 (Chris Alcock)
• The Wolf Report – March 2nd, 2022 (Michael Wolfenden)
• .NET Annotated Monthly | March 2022 (Rachel Appel)

The Geek Shelf

 The Game Console 2.0: A Photographic History from Atari to Xbox (Evan Amos) – Referral Link