Dew Drop – March 10, 2022 (#3639)

Top Links

• A Proposal For Type Syntax in JavaScript (Daniel Rosenwasser)
• Automate code metrics and class diagrams with GitHub Actions (David Pine)
• Improving DevTools together: Announcing the new Edge DevTools feedback repository (Patrick Brosset)
• Angular Extended Diagnostics (Doug Parker)
• Embedded Software Development in Visual Studio Code (Marc Goodner)
• .NET Rocks! – Flutter for Windows with Chris Sells (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)

Web & Cloud Development

• First look: adding type annotations to JavaScript (Axel Rauschmayer)
• Microsoft Proposes Big JavaScript Change: ‘We Do Expect Skepticism’ (David Ramel)
• 5 Simple Steps to Create a Blazor Component (Gowrimathi S)
• .NET 4.x app running in a container using Docker (Gregor Suttie)
• Top 5 React Lazy-Loading Libraries for 2022 (Isuri Devindi)
• Bringing WebContainers to all Browsers: a call to action for COEP Credentialless (Alexander Berger)
• Splunk UI and the Dashboard Framework: More Visual Control Than Ever (Ryan O’Connor)
• Go from the beginning – applying boolean logic (Chris Noring)
• #30DaysOfPWA #24 – Best Practices for PWA: Distribution (Judah Himango)
• Which is better: A single Kafka cluster to rule them all, or many? (Bilgin Ibryam)
• Want to improve Developer Tools in Microsoft Edge? File an issue on Github (Chris Heilmann)
• Rewriting Bash scripts in Go using black box testing (Daniel Orner)
• When and How to Use JSON Serialization in Postman (Ian Douglas)
• Python script to generate a new Jekyll post with front matter (Kris van der Mast)
• Upgrade Strategies: An Introduction for IaC (Laura Santamaria)
• Building Password Purgatory with Cloudflare Pages and Workers (Troy Hunt)
• Node v17.7.0 (Current) (Stewart X. Addison)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

• A Dialog Service for WinUI 3 (Diederik Krols)
• Retrieve a window handle (HWND) – Windows apps (Steven White)

Visual Studio & .NET

• Migrating VB6 Code to .NET 6? Here’s a Tool (David Ramel)
• Array Slicing in C# (Code Maze)
• Using embedded files in dotnet core (Josef Ottosson)
• Optimizing code to darken a bitmap, part 3 (Raymond Chen)
• Microsoft Visual Studio 2022: 12 New Features You Can’t Afford To Miss (Kunal Chowdhury)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• Developing a successful DevOps strategy (GitLab)
• How to get out of the tech debt bottleneck (Martin Fowler)
• How to write user-friendly error messages (Sketch Team)
• 3 DevSecOps Practices to Minimize Impact of the Next Log4Shell (Ajay Gandhi)
• Domain Logic: Where does it go? (Derek Comartin)
• How to Install UXP Plugins Using Command Line Tools (Erin Finnegan)
• The Architecture of Remote Execution With Test Studio (Peter Vogel)
• How to Develop a Design System in Adobe XD (Stefan Ivanov)
• Extract greater efficiency from your CI pipelines (Vlad Budica)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• Only a few days left to submit for the Flutter Puzzle Hack + announcing the judges (Kelvin Boateng)
• Substack launches an iOS app for reading newsletters (Mia Sato)
• Xamarin vs React Native: Which One Wins The Race? (Riley Tony)
• #ESP32CAM – Taking photos in the #Arduino board (Bruno Capuano)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• Syntax Podcast – Part 2 of Wes and Scott React to the State of JS (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
• Working Code Podcast – Episode 65: TDD In The Trenches With Scott Stroz (Ben Nadel)
• Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – How to NOT adopt Agile/SAFe and what to do instead, a real-life story | Nick Nielsen and Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Creating a success dashboard for yourself as a Scrum Master | Nick Nielsen (Vasco Duarte)
• To Reconfig or Not to Reconfig? – Adventures in DevOps 107 (Jillian Rowe, Jonathan Hall & Will Button)
• Happening now! #TheAndroidShow: Tablets, Jetpack Compose & Android 13 (Florina Muntenescu & Huyen Tue Dao)
• What are some best practices for gaming accessibility? | One Dev Question (Kaitlyn Jones)
• The Happy Engineer Podcast 037: Multiply Your Impact by Owning Your Career with Lauren Herring (Kae Lynne Sapino)

Community & Events

• Q&A: Univ. of Washington STEM leader on her Presidential Award and supporting women faculty (Charlotte Schubert)
• Faces of Unity – Carol Carpenter (Unity Community Team)
• Chantal Delfeld: Engineer (Spotify Engineering)

Database

• The Curious Case of… random failing log shipping restores (Paul S. Randal)
• Debugging PL/SQL with Visual Studio Code (and more) (Christian Shay)
• SQL – A Complete Guide for Beginners (Sankar R C P)

PowerShell

• Why Can’t PowerShell Session Access My Network Volumes? (Brien Posey)
• How to remove a HTTP module using PowerShell in IIS (Trevor Chamblee)

Miscellaneous

• 2024 Volkswagen ID Buzz electric microbus revealed: less flower, more power (Andrew J. Hawkins)
• Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22572 (Brandon LeBlanc)
• Writing Secret 6: Help Your Reader Feel Smart (Johanna Rothman)
• paint.net 4.3.10 is now available (Rick Brewster)
• Microsoft is adding tabs to File Explorer in Windows 11 (Tom Warren)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #3427 (Chris Alcock)
• The Wolf Report – March 10th, 2022 (Michael Wolfenden)

The Geek Shelf

 Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies and Design Complete Study Guide: Exams AZ-303 and AZ-304 (William Panek & Benjamin Perkins) – Referral Link