Dew Drop – April 21, 2023 (#3927)

Top Links

• Part 1 – Announcing Babylon.js 6.0 (Thomas Lucchini and Jason Carter)
• Does OpenAI on Android dream of electronic sheep (Parker Schroeder & Kristen Halper)
• 10 Days of Game Development with Uno Platform, WebAssembly, and C# (Uno Platform Team)
• What’s new in the Microsoft Fluent UI library for Blazor version 2.2 (Vincent Baaij)
• How to deploy .NET WPF applications using MSI installer (Renato Ivanescu)
• The Windows Community Toolkit 2023 Update (Michael Hawker)

Web & Cloud Development

• Top Free Tools for .NET Web API Load Testing and Benchmarking (Steve Smith)
• Server-Side Blazor Component Rendering (‘Blazor United’) Comes to .NET 8 (David Ramel)
• Kubernetes 1.27: Query Node Logs Using The Kubelet API (Aravindh Puthiyaparambil)
• How to Lazy and Dynamically Load a Component in Angular (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Building And Dockerizing A Node.js App With Stateless Architecture With Help From Kinsta (Tejas Kumar)
• How to Create Interactive Guided Tours of Web Applications Using React Joyride (Ifeoma Imoh)
• Advanced AWS Networking, Part 2 (Jose Juhala)
• How to Use Aqua Web Inspector for ASP.NET Core Development in Rider (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
• Working with Sass in an ASP.NET Core application (Mike Brind)
• Building Integrations for a First-Party Data World: Connecting Twilio SendGrid with Twilio Segment (Alvin Lee)
• Cache SQL Server Data in a .NET Web Application (Pablo Echeverria)

Visual Studio & .NET

• Static Methods vs. Non-Static Methods in C# (Matjaz Prtenjak)
• Protecting a broker from a failing event handler (Raymond Chen)
• ChatGPT for .NET (Marco Minerva)

Design, Methodology, AI & Testing

• Scaling a Monolith with 5 Different Patterns (Derek Comartin)
• Google DeepMind: Bringing together two world-class AI teams (Sundar Pichai)
• Vendor Obligation to Provide Source Code for OSS Software (Anna Maltceva)
• Announcing GitHub Actions Deployment Protection Rules, now in public beta (Brian Randell)
• ML experiment: Summarize merge request changes (Kai Armstrong)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• Automatic Update Prompts for Crashing Apps (Kurt Williams)
• Delivering an immersive sound experience with Spatial Audio (Nevin Mital)
• 6 ways ScriptableObjects can benefit your team and your code (Thomas Krogh-Jacobsen)

Screencasts & Videos

• IoT Coffee Talk: Episode 152 – The Best of Both Worlds (Digital & Real) (Iot Coffee Talk Crew)
• Don’t let change pass you by! Get started with Change Tracking in your SQL Database | Data Exposed (Anna Hoffman)

Podcasts

• The Hanselminutes Podcast – Bing’s move to .NET 7 with Principal Engineer Ben Watson (Scott Hanselman)
• Complete Developer Podcast – Basics of Git (BJ Burns & Will Gant)
• Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy Podcast #541 – Philip Plait, author of Under Alien Skies: A Sightseer’s Guide to the Universe (David Barr Kirtley & John Joseph Adams)
• The Stack Overflow Podcast Episode 563 – When setting up monitoring, less data is better (Eira May)
• React Native Radio 264 – RN testing with Detox with Josh Justice and Jason Grosz (Jason Grosz, Josh Justice & Jamon Holmgren)
• The Happy Engineer Podcast 097: Why Happy People are More Productive with Thanh Pham | CEO at Asian Efficiency (Kae Lynne Sapino)

Community & Events

• Clean Architecture and DDD Presentation at the 2023 Nebraska Code Conference (Kevin Logan)
• Earth Day 2023: Evolving Surface design (Harshitha Murthy)
• Shop at 100+ Vendors & Taste South Philly’s Finest at Flavors on the Avenue (Visit Philly)
• On Earth Day, What is ‘Enough’? (Nicola Acutt)

Database

• What Does Setting the SQL Server Compatibility Level Do? (Brent Ozar)
• Aggregate and Summarize Totals with SQL SUM (John Miner)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams

• Celebrate success using Together Emojis in Microsoft Teams (Sam Cundall)
• Introducing Copilot in Microsoft Viva—A new way to boost employee engagement and performance (Kirk Koenigsbauer)
• Announcing Copilot in Viva Topics (Tehzeeb Versey-Patel)

PowerShell

• New Azure AD app name for Microsoft Graph PowerShell SDK and CLI (Jonathan Witz)
• Automating Tasks with PowerShell Scripts (Kunal Chowdhury)

Miscellaneous

• Twitter says LeBron James and other celebs are paying for verification even though they aren’t (Alex Heath)
• Epic, Microsoft bring GPT-4 to EHRs (Brock E.W. Turner)
• Surprise! There’s a third Diablo IV beta coming (Ash Parrish)
• Atari Acquires the Rights To Over 100 PC and Console Classics (BeauHD)
• Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22621.1616 and 22624.1616 (Brandon LeBlanc)
• Is Windows 11 better than MacOS? This ‘MakeUseOf’ report says so and Report: Workers confess using ChatGPT to secretly manage multiple full-time jobs (Priya Walia)
• Announcing Rust 1.69.0 (Rust Release Team)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #3691 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily Wrap Up – April 20, 2023 (#072) (Richard Seroter)

The Geek Shelf

 Web Development with Blazor, 2nd Edition (Jimmy Engstrom) – Referral Link