Dew Drop – July 25, 2023 (#3990)

Top Links

• The future of business is here: How industries are unlocking AI innovation and greater value with the Microsoft Cloud (Judson Althoff)
• How to use the Android emulator on a macOS host for debugging in a virtual machine with Windows (Marco Siccardi)
• Learn Rust With Entirely Too Many Linked Lists (Rust Unofficial)
• GitHub Repository Rules are now generally available (Patrick Knight)
• A Few DOM Reminders (Rob Eisenberg)
• TechBash 2023 – Full list of Workshops & Sessions (TechBash Team)

Web & Cloud Development

• Stacks in JavaScript (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• Public preview: Azure Application Gateway for Containers (Azure Team)
• ASP.NET Repeater: A Comprehensive Guide for Efficient Data Binding (Anoop Kumar)
• How to Create an Angular Repository: A Step-by-Step Guide (Charlie Greenman)
• Blazor – New Wait Indicator and Loading Panel (v23.1) (Elena Khamliuk)
• Azure OpenAI Landing Zone reference architecture (Freddy Ayala)
• Introducing Llama 2 on Azure (Swati Gharse)
• Astro 2.9: View Transitions (experimental) (Matthew Phillips)
• Jane Austen, Tailwind and modern full-stack development (Bruce Lawson)

Visual Studio & .NET

• C# Timer: Mastering Efficient Time-Based Events (Anoop Kumar)
• Translating Exceptions into Problem Details Responses (Tim Deschryver)
• Unleashing the Power of .NET Source Code Generators (Bnaya Eshet)
• Analyzer to validate the parameters of structured log messages (Gérald Barré)
• Xml Deserialization in C# (Code Maze)
• Why does IAsyncAction or IAsyncOperation.GetResults() produce a E_ILLEGAL_METHOD_CALL exception? (Raymond Chen)
• Visual Studio Code – Oldschool Theme (Ericson Willians)

Design, Methodology, AI & Testing

• Production postmortem: The dog ate my request (Oren Eini)
• Supercharging AI/ML Development with JupyterLab and Docker (Masahito Zembutsu)
• How to Make Technical Button Actions More Predictable and Why You Should Display Your Tooltips in Dark Mode (Anthony)
• What Is Clean Code? (Fabrice Bellingard)
• Performance testing vs. load testing vs. stress testing (Nikki Siapno)
• End-to-end testing with self-hosted runners in GitHub Actions (Jianzhu Zhang, Andrew Kiselev & Daniel Kostecki)
• New OpenAI Resources including Repos, available for ISVs on GitHub! (Justin Royal)
• Semantic Kernel Planners: ActionPlanner (Nilesh Acharya)

Screencasts & Videos

• Change Control Appearance Using No Code with Property Triggers – .NET MAUI 101 (Gerald Versluis)
• Doing minor fixes and moving things around in ‘Next Tech Event’  | Part 23 | Coding After Work (Jimmy Engstrom & Jessica Engstrom)

Podcasts

• Revision Path – Ashley Fletcher (Maurice Cherry)
• React Native Radio 272 – Real Life React Native: Nick Alekhine at NTWRK (Nick Alekhin & Jamon Holmgren)
• The PowerShell Podcast – Culture, Mentoring, and Tech: A Talk with Glen Sarti (James Petty)
• Google Cloud Security Podcast Episode 131 – A Deep Dive into Google’s Assured OSS: How Google Secures the Software You Use (Anton A. Chuvakin)
• The Changelog News Podcast – Supabase quietly went public, Twitter is now X, GitHub’s Copilot Chat now in public preview & Oxide has homelab plans (in 2050) (Jerod Santo)
• Design Details 461: Config and WWDC 2023 (Brian Lovin & Marshall Bock)
• The Stack Overflow Podcast Episode 593 – How the Python team is adapting the language for an AI future (Eira May)
• Talk Python to Me #423: Solving 10 different simulation problems with Python (Michael Kennedy)
• Made by Google Podcast – Folding in Your Questions (Rachid Finge)
• Syntax Podcast Episode 644 – User Feedback UI – Toasts, Flash, Validation (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinsky)

Community & Events

• 40 Years of Computing (Part 2: 20 Years of Blogging) (Roland Weigelt)
• Contributor Stories: Samson Amaugo (Kiran Chandratrey)

Database

• What is Microsoft Fabric? (Koen Verbeeck)

PowerShell

• 10 Popular PowerShell Tips and Tricks in 2023 (Henry Chapman)
• How To Filter Objects in PowerShell (Brien Posey)

Miscellaneous

• How Would Steve Jobs Fare as a Software Engineer? (Michael Shpilt)
• Systemd hardening is frustrating and depressing (Karl Seguin)
• All eyes on AI as Microsoft prepares for pivotal earnings report (Todd Bishop)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #3755 (Chris Alcock)
• Interesting links of the week 2023-30 (#82) (Michael Eaton)
• Sands of MAUI: Issue #111 (Sam Basu)
• Daily Reading List – July 24, 2023 (#128) (Richard Seroter)
• Reading Notes #565 (Frank Boucher)

The Geek Shelf

 Web Development with Blazor: A practical guide to start building interactive UIs with C# 11 and .NET 7, 2nd Ed. (Jimmy Engstrom) – Referral Link