Dew Drop – July 28, 2023 (#3993)

Top Links

• Windows App SDK Version 1.4 Preview 1 Release Notes (Microsoft Learn)
• Chat memory with OpenAI functions (Craig Dunn)
• Chart of the Week: Creating a .NET MAUI Pyramid Chart of Global Wealth Distribution (Saiyathalifathimabee Moidhinabdhulkathar)
• 30 years of Windows Server (Jeff Woolsey)
• New syntax for string interpolation in F# (Adam Boniecki)
• Windows Dev Home Fails to Impress (Matthew MacDonald)
• Announcing OverflowAI (Prashanth Chandrasekar)

Web & Cloud Development

• How to Use TypeScript Generics with Functional React Components (Olasunkanmi Balogun)
• Speeding up V8 heap snapshots (Jose Dapena Paz)
• TLS 1.2, Server Name Indication (SNI) and SOAP via CXF (Keith W. Boone)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

• Head First C# 5th Edition – .NET MAUI Projects (Andrew Stellman)
• Microsoft.WindowsAppSDK v1.3.230724000 Released (NuGet)
• Introducing Avalonia XPF Trials and the Startup License (Mike James)

Visual Studio & .NET

• Visual Studio Code Theme – Fluent UI for VSCode (Leandro Rodrigues)
• Adding a User Login to a .NET App With Auth0 (Code Maze)
• Introducing Predictive Debugging: A Game-Changing Look into the Future (Matthias Koch)
• Perfect forwarding forwards objects, not braced things that are trying to become objects (Raymond Chen)
• .NET Lambda Annotations Framework Now Generally Available (Robert Krzaczyński)

Design, Methodology, AI & Testing

• How TDD Seems To Go Against Agility (JB Rainsberger)
• Exploring Gen AI – Three versions of a median (Martin Fowler)
• Worst agile advice you’ve ever heard? (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Implementing the 5 Key Principles for Creating Effective UIs—Part 2 (Peter Vogel)
• Boost Your Computing Power with the Travis CI New GPU Support (Travis CI Team)
• Speaking robot: Our new AI model translates vision and language into robotic actions (Vincent Vanhoucke)
• Advanced Installer 20.9 (Advanced Installer Team)
• Offering free AI training for everyone in the UK (Debbie Weinstein)
• Benefits of working with Symbols in Sketch (Gabrielle van Welie)
• 3 emerging practices for responsible generative AI (Jen Gennai)
• Scaling merge-ort across GitHub (Matt Cooper)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• Credential Manager beta: easy & secure authentication with passkeys on Android (Diego Zavala & Niharika Arora)
• Creating shimmer animations using flutter (Flutter Tanzania)
• Welcome to Megacity: Our competitive-action multiplayer sample (Andrew Parsons)
• Roblox is now available to try on Meta Quest VR headsets (Jay Peters)

Screencasts & Videos

• Boost Your .NET MAUI Productivity with C# UI Hot Reload (James Montemagno)
• Happy 30th Birthday Windows Server! (ITOpsTalk Crew)
• Am I too late to become “AI ready”? | One Dev Question (John Maeda)
• Query Store: How It Started…How It’s Going | Data Exposed (Anna Hoffman)
• What I Wish I Knew… about finding the right internship (Elvis Adorkor)
• Rules to better ChatGPT & using the best API ever | SSW TV (Adam Cogan)

Podcasts

• InfoQ Podcast: Four Pillars of Digital Transformation (Asif Iqbal)
• Directions on Microsoft – Microsoft EA Negotiation Podcast Series-Analysis (Mary Jo Foley)
• The Hanselminutes Podcast – AI and the 2023 Hollywood Strike with Franchesca Ramsey (Scott Hanselman)
• The CSS Universe with Austin Gil – JavaScript Jabber 592 (Dan Shappir)
• Web Rush Episode 244: Angular 16 and ngConf (John Papa, Ward Bell, Craig Shoemaker & Dan Wahlin)
• Kubernetes Podcast from Google – The State of Kubernetes Cost Optimization, with Fernando Rubbo and Kent Hua (Abdel Sghiouar & Kaslin Fields)
• Talking Alzheimer’s, comedy, and marijuana with the Rogens (Bill Gates)
• The Stack Overflow Podcast Episode 594 – Behind the scenes with the folks building OverflowAI (Ben Popper)
• Rocket 448: Hey Barbie (Christina Warren, Brianna Wu & Simone De Rochefort)
• Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy Podcast 546 – John Romero, co-creator of Doom, Quake, and Wolfenstein 3D (David Barr Kirtley & John Joseph Adams)
• The Happy Engineer Podcast 116: How our Struggles Lead to Happiness with Ryan Roper (Max Ahumada)
• Talk Python to Me #424: Shiny for Python (Michael Kennedy)
• Software Engineering Radio 574: Chad Michel on Software as an Engineering Discipline (Jeff Doolittle)
• Software Defined Talk Episode 425: Michael Kennedy on Python (Brandon Whichard, Cote & Matt Ray)

Community & Events

• Black Women’s Equal Pay Day (‘Tine Zekis)
• Women in Tech: Preethika Kalyanasundaram on Leading with Empathy in Tech (Preethika S. Kalyanasundaram)

Database

• SQL SERVER – The Two Doors, Two Guards Puzzle (Pinal Dave)
• Exporting data from a MySQL database using SELECT…INTO OUTFILE (Robert Sheldon)
• Well-architected framework performance in the Azure SQL Managed Instance (Niko Neugebauer)
• Using your Database as a Queue? (Derek Comartin)
• Getting Started with Xata: A Scalable Serverless Database (Ifeoma Imoh)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams

• Create a SharePoint List Item using Power Automate (Sandeep Mishra)

Miscellaneous

• Homebrew 4.1.0 (Mike McQuaid)
• Verizon and AT&T are charging a new fee to customers on older unlimited plans (Allison Johnson)
• Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 25915 and Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 23511 (Brandon LeBlanc)
• Custom Feeds (Bluesky Team)
• Weekly Rust Trivia: How to share state between threads (Thorsten Hans)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #3758 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily Reading List – July 27, 2023 (#131) (Richard Seroter)
• Reading List 307 (Bruce Lawson)
• Collective #775 (Manoela Ilic)

The Geek Shelf

 Learn WinUI 3 (Alvin Ashcraft)