Dew Drop – May 1, 2023 (#3933)

Top Links

• Microsoft Designer expands preview with new AI design features (Bryan Rognier)
• Unhandled Exception Podcast – We Are .NET – with Tim Cadenbach and Matthias Jost (Dan Clarke)
• Deno 1.33: Deno 2 is coming (Bartek Iwańczuk, David Sherret & Yoshiya Hinosawa)
• Microsoft Edge now allows you to simulate dark, light, high contrast mode, blurred vision and colour deficiencies right from the Device Emulation toolbar (Chris Heilmann)
• #30DaysOfAzureAI 26. Stable Diffusion on Azure ML (Vlad Iliescu)

Web & Cloud Development

• Binary Tree Traversal (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• Building micro services through Event Driven Architecture part23 : Azure Kubernetes Services (Gora Leye)
• How to Get the Remote Host IP Address in ASP.NET Core Web API (Code Maze)
• What is JWT and how to add it to ASP.NET Core (David Grace)
• WebStorm 2023.1.1 Is Now Available (David Watson)
• Why JavaScript Developers Should Use the Debugger Instead of Console.log (Emmanuel Gautier)
• How To: Implementing Alt Text in SaaS Using Azure Computer Vision and Azure Functions (Jamie Maguire)
• Insert, Replace or Remove Child Elements in JavaScript and Using async and await in JavaScript (Monty Shokeen)
• Consume the DevExpress Backend Web API from JavaScript with Svelte (Part 3. Sort and Filter) (Oliver Sturm)
• Introducing the Adobe Photoshop API SDK for Node.js Developers (Raymond Camden)
• How to Secure Your Angular App (Vyom Srivastava)
• Tips for Migrating from Web Forms to Razor Pages (Manish Gupta)
• Using modern decorators in TypeScript (Alec Brunelle)
• Record Type in TypeScript (Dmitri Pavlutin)
• A Tool for Exploring and Testing Google Workspace APIs (Chanel Greco)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

• ComponentOne WPF Easy Styling: An Alternative to Microsoft Blend (Greg Lutz)
• Uno Platform for Figma Preview 5: Enhanced Features for Designers and Developers (Almir Vuk)
• What if your XAML code was much simpler? (Matt Lacey)
• Migration of Xamarin Libraries and Apps to .NET 6.0/7.0 (Tomasz Cielecki)
• How to lock orientation at runtime on iOS 16 with .NET MAUI and Xamarin.Forms (Marco Siccardi)

Visual Studio & .NET

• How to convert audio to different formats using C# and FFmpeg (Niels Swimberghe)
• On the finer points of cancelling timers and wait objects in Windows thread pool (Raymond Chen)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• Deploy Logic App Standard with Terraform and Azure DevOps pipelines (Huidong Liu)
• Personal Development Plan Guide and Example (J.D. Meier)
• An Agile Team’s Guide to Optimizing Sprint Retrospective Length (Tyler Hakes)
• Live updates of Kubernetes objects during deployment (Yihao Wang)
• Verifying your DI Container (Steven Giesel)
• Collect Stories, Not Generalizations (Allen Pike)
• Local Testing With Pulumi (Christian Nunciato)
• AI Coding Competition Pits GPT-4 Against Bard, GitHub Co-Pilot, Bing, and Claude+ and Google Has More Powerful AI, Says Engineer Fired Over Sentience Claims (EditorDavid)
• Introducing AutoGPT – The Newest AI Agent Under the Spotlight (Liza Kosh)
• Refactoring pure function composition without breaking existing tests (Mark Seemann)
• Auto-GPT – Beyond the Hype: A New Era of AI is Here? (Rubik’s Code)
• Bing on Edge barges in on Bard (Umar Shakir)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• Set up a flutter development environment on Linux (Martin Klingenberg)
• What Exactly is 3D Animation? A Detailed Guide for You (Kunal Chowdhury)

Screencasts & Videos

• FreeCodeSession – Episode 451 (Jason Bock)
• Apache Kafka: Everything you need to know! (Women Who Code)

Podcasts

• Directions on Microsoft – Microsoft EA Negotiation Podcast Series: Project Management (Mary Jo Foley)
• This month on The ReadME Podcast: exploring the fusion of technology and progress (Martin Woodward)
• OnPodcast Ep. 111: CMA blocks Activision deal, no more Windows 10 features, quarterly earnings (Podcast OnMSFT Team)
• Merge Conflict 356: Sunsetting software, libraries, & APIs (James Montemagno & Frank Kreuger)
• CppCast – AI Infrastructure (Timur Doumler & Phil Nash)
• JS Party Podcast – CSS Color Party (Adam Argyle, Nick Nisi & Amelia Wattenberger)
• InfoQ Podcast: Building Trust and Safety in Remote Teams at Shopify (Jesse McGinnis)
• Building Zeet with Johnny Dallas –  Adventures in DevOps 160 (Jonathan Hall & Will Button)
• Azure Podcast Episode 458 – Integration Patterns (Cynthia Kreng, Kendall Roden, Cale Teeter, Evan Basalik, Russell Young & Sujit D’Mello)
• React Native Radio 265 – Chain React is Back!! (Mazen Chami, Robin Heinze, Gant Laborde & Justin Huskey)
• Coding Blocks Podcast – Supporting Your Code, README vs Wiki and Test Coverage (Allen Underwood, Michael Outlaw & Joe Zack)
• AWS Developers Podcast Episode 081 – Announcing GA of Amazon CodeCatalyst with Harry Mower and Doug Clauson (David Isbitski)
• Tabs and Spaces Podcast #305 – Gotta Go Faster (Zac Braddy, Jamie Taylor & James Studdart)

Community & Events

• Thank you ElektroStudio for helping spread the VB love (Matt Lacey)
• GeekWire Awards: This CEO’s empathy expertise is the backbone of a Seattle startup (Taylor Soper)
• “For any group of people who might feel like they are not mainstream, it’s a relief when you can just be yourself.” and “I’ve heard people say, ‘Choose a specific path and go all in on that path.’ But I don’t give that advice because you never know where your opportunity will come from.” and “All of these different experiences are bricks that have built the foundation of who I am and how I show up to work every single day.” and Data-Driven Dreams and “I credit my childhood experiences for teaching me that managing change and embracing differences are essential to growth and success.” (Will Curry)
• Stepping Down From Hachyderm (Kris Nova)
• Red Hat’s 30th Anniversary: How a Microsoft Competitor Rose from an Apartment-Based Startup (EditorDavid)
• Bluesky is starting to feel like Twitter (Jay Peters)
• Microsoft Signs Yet Another 10-Year Xbox Agreement (Paul Thurrott)
• Philly Tech Calendar (Joe Woods)

Database

• SQL Server vs Oracle: Active Session Queries (Pablo Echeverria)
• Achieving SQL server high availability in a multi-platform environment (Dave Bermingham)
• Fight for every byte it takes: Optimizing the encoding process (Oren Eini)
• SQL WHERE LIKE to Construct More Efficient Queries (Aubrey Love)
• Publishing read model changes from Marten (Oskar Dudycz)

Miscellaneous

• Bing Preview Release Notes: Travel and Recipe Grounding Improvements (Bing Team)
• Google’s New Two-Factor Authentication Isn’t End-to-End Encrypted, Tests Show (Thomas Germain)
• Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 25352 (Brandon LeBlanc)
• Russian Forces Suffer Radiation Sickness After Digging Trenches and Fishing in Chernobyl (EditorDavid)
• Kids’ coding languages (Marc Scott)
• Microsoft is Rewriting Parts of the Windows Kernel in Rust (Paul Thurrott)

More Link Collections

• C# Digest Issue #452 – May 01, 2023 (Jakub Chodounsky)
• F# Weekly #17, 2023 – Vide and F# Mentorship (Sergey Tihon)
• Code Maze Weekly #170 (Vladimir Pecanac)
• Collective #762 (Manoela Ilic)
• Daily Wrap Up – April 28, 2023 (#078) (Richard Seroter)
• The Overflow #175: The coding school that bought a university (Ryan Donovan & Cassidy Williams)

The Geek Shelf

 C# 11 and .NET 7 – Modern Cross-Platform Development Fundamentals: Start building websites and services with ASP.NET Core 7, Blazor, and EF Core 7, 7th Ed (Mark J. Price) – Referral Link