Dew Drop – February 9, 2023 (#3876)

Top Links

• The first developer preview of Android 14 (Dave Burke)
• Microsoft Edge Behind the Scenes: How we are securing our new PDF stack (Gareth Evans)
• Azure Developer CLI (azd) – February 2023 Release (Savannah Ostrowski)
• Electron 23.0.0 (Keeley Hammond, George Xu & Erick Zhao)
• Azure Communication Services February 2023 Feature Updates (Daysha Carter)
• New in Banana Cake Pop 4 (Rafael Staib)

Web & Cloud Development

• Profile-guided optimization preview for Go (Michael Pratt)
• Extracting Form Fields from a Multi-Page PDF AWS Textract and .NET (Bryan Hogan)
• Try out CSS Nesting today (Jen Simmons)
• An example of modularizing a React application (Martin Fowler)
• Understanding Portal in Vue.js (Ezekiel Lawson)
• Instantly Update a Real-Time Chart with SignalR in Blazor Server-Side App (Gowrimathi S.)
• JavaScript String Methods for Concatenation and Substitution (James Payne)
• Top 13 Node.js Books for Beginners and Advanced Coders (Lucero del Alba)
• Create a Redux Form with Syncfusion React Components (Piramanayagam Ramakrishnan)
• Microsoft Edge and Adobe partner to improve the PDF experience (Rick Turner)
• Pwned Passwords Adds NTLM Support to the Firehose (Troy Hunt)
• Top 5 Chrome Extensions for Handling HTTP Requests (Vidura Senevirathne)
• New features make Translate more accessible for its 1 billion users (Xinxing Gu)
• Secure your application traffic with Application Gateway mTLS (Rajesh Nautiyal)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

• .NET MAUI Challenge 3: Telerik DateTimePicker (Leomaris Reyes)

Visual Studio & .NET

• Use Visual Studio dev tunnels to handle Twilio Webhooks (Niels Swimberghe)
• Today’s random F# code: Result instead of exceptions and Myths about F#: F# is for math problems only (Urs Enzler)
• Asynchronous Programming Patterns in .NET (Code Maze)
• How can I get the original target of a shortcut without applying any 32-bit adjustments? (Raymond Chen)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• Bean Machine Retrospective, part 7 (Eric Lippert)
• Azure DevOps Pipelines: If Expressions and Conditions (John Folberth)
• What’s new in the MSIX Packaging Tool: February 2023 (Naveen Nooka)
• Using ChatGTP to convert human knowledge into machine actionable formats (Kin Lane)
• 7 Machine Learning and Deep Learning Mistakes and Limitations to Avoid (Exxact Team)
• Sustainability Use Cases: Real-World Examples from Industries Leading the Charge (JD Meier)
• What Every Developer Should Know About GDPR (Kaitlyn Concilio)
• Feature Flags and How to Use Them in Software Development (Mandy Schmitz)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• Improving user privacy by requiring opt-in to send X-Requested-With header from WebView (Peter Birk Pakkenberg)
• Update Regarding Kotlin/Native Targets (Ekaterina Petrova)
• Addressables: Planning and best practices (Jeff Riesenmy)

Screencasts & Videos

• Integrating a mission-critical workload with Azure landing zones | Azure Enablement Show (David Blank-Edelman, Sebastian Bader & Martin S.)
• Introduction to Performance Troubleshooting [1 of 7] | Azure SQL for beginners (Bob Ward)
• Using Vite’s Plugin for Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) (Shawn Wildermuth)

Podcasts

• .NET Rocks! – Functional C# with Simon Painter (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• React Native & Every-Platform Embeddable UI With Taz Singh – JavaScript Jabber 568 (AJ O’Neal, Charles Max Wood & Dan Shappir)
• Working Code Podcast – Episode 113: Surviving A Layoff (Ben Nadel)
• Talk Python to Me #402: Polars: A Lightning-fast DataFrame for Python [updated audio] (Michael Kennedy)
• The Stack Overflow Podcast Episode 548 – Engineering’s hidden bottleneck: pull requests (Ryan Donovan)

Community & Events

• Disney’s laying off 7,000 as streaming boom comes to an end (Emma Roth)
• Google’s AI chatbot Bard makes factual error in first demo (James Vincent)
• GeekWire Awards nominations are now open and table sponsorships are available for the big event (Kurt Schlosser)
• Microsoft Student Summit March 2023 – Start and Accelerate Your Career in Tech (Lee Stott)
• As tech is rocked by layoffs, climate jobs and tools for landing them are on the rise (Lisa Stiffler)
• Hakana: Taking Hack Seriously (Matt Brown)
• A shared and open roadmap for MDN (Mozilla Team)

Database

• Working with SQL Server and Snowflake NULL Functions – ISNULL, COALESCE, NULLIF (Sergey Gigoyan)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams

• From zero to hero: Build a meetings app with Azure Communication Services and Microsoft Teams – Part 2 (Dan Wahlin & Acya Bas)

Miscellaneous

• Here are 5 Microsoft Edge extensions that you can use with ChatGPT right now (Dave W. Shanahan)
• #Rust – How to find a variable data type (Bruno Capuano)
• From images to videos, how AI is helping you search visually (Elizabeth Reid)
• Google AI Chatbot Bard Offers Inaccurate Information in Company Ad (msmash)
• Does Google need a new CEO? (Om Malik)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #3641 and The Morning Brew #3642 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily Wrap Up – February 8, 2023 (#026) (Richard Seroter)
• Release Radar, Festive Edition · December 2022 – January 2023 (Michelle Mannering)
• .NET Annotated Monthly | February 2023 (Rachel Appel)

The Geek Shelf

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