Dew Drop – August 16, 2023 (#4005)

Top Links

• My favorite features in Visual Studio 17.7 (Mads Kristensen)
• Announcing GitHub Sponsorship Matching for Uno Platform Contributors and Employees (Uno Platform Team)
• RunAs Radio – PowerShellGet in 2023 with Sydney Smith (Richard Campbell)
• Introducing Weasel for Database Development (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Getting Started with Blazor REPL (Ed Charbeneau)

Web & Cloud Development

• Kubernetes v1.28: Planternetes (Kubernetes Release Team)
• pkgs.k8s.io: Introducing Kubernetes Community-Owned Package Repositories (Marko Mudrinić)
• A Guide to Optimizing JavaScript Files (Blessing Ene Anyebe)
• A Beginner’s Guide to SvelteKit (Erik Kückelheim & Simon Holthausen)
• Map Physical Paths with an HttpContext.MapPath() Extension Method in ASP.NET (Rick Strahl)
• Why are AWS Batch jobs stuck in the RUNNABLE status, even after an increase in MaxvCpus? (Ralph Willgoss)
• Sisk – An Alternative .NET HTTP Server (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
• Keyed service dependency injection container support: Exploring the .NET 8 preview – Part 6 (Andrew Lock)
• On-Scroll Column & Row Animations (Manoela Ilic)

Visual Studio & .NET

• Kernel Ridge Regression Using C# (James McCaffrey)
• How to Detect and Extract Table Data as JSON from PDF Documents in C# (Bjoern Meyer)
• Inside STL: The shared_ptr constructor vs make_shared (Raymond Chen)
• How to Generate a Stream From a String? (Januarius Njoku)

Design, Methodology, AI & Testing

• 6 Patterns for Platform Engineering Success (Jennifer Riggins)
• Controlling Azure DevOps Pipelines through Teams Integration and Manual Intervention Steps (John Kilmister)
• Adaptive Change Management: A Comprehensive Guide for Leaders (Daniel Lock)
• Developers Share How They Build with Google Tools and Bard (Lyanne Alfaro)
• How To Differentiate Yourself in the Market (JD Meier)
• Hardening repositories against credential theft (Matthew Masarik)
• Semantic Kernel Planners: Stepwise Planner (Nilesh Acharya)
• Strengthen Your Application Security beyond Authentication (Ryan Friess)
• Streamlining API management with the power of GitOps (Vamsi Ravula & Hugo Guerrero)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• Cross-platform HDR display support in Unity 2023 (Damian Nachman & Jannah Mekhaemar)

Screencasts & Videos

• Live Coding – Title bar customization in Uno Platform (Martin Zikmund)
• Coffee and Open Source Conversation – Ramiro Berrelleza (Isaac Levin)
• FreeCodeSession – Episode 479 (Jason Bock)
• Why is this new kind of AI everywhere? | One Dev Question (John Maeda)
• What I Wish I Knew… about finding your place in tech (Eleanor Lewis)
• Fluent UI Insights: Accessible by default (Fluent UI Team)
• Signing Container Images with Notary Project | Open at Microsoft (Jeremy Rickard & Toddy Mladenov)
• Bits & Pieces – Episode 1: Getting started with your subscription (Visual Studio Team)

Podcasts

• Azure for Executives Podcast – Azure Clouds for Industry with Madhan Arumugam Ramakrishnan (David Starr)
• Python Bytes Podcast #348 – JavaScript in Your Python (Michael Kennedy)
• The Stack Overflow Podcast – Making event-driven development predictable with Discover (Ryan Donovan)

Community & Events

• Is it Time to Panic? Suddenly, Everyone Seems to Need a Job (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Build for today, transform for tomorrow at GitHub Universe 2023 (Jeimy Ruiz)

Database

• Improve SQL Server Query Performance when Clustered Index Seek Operation is Slow (Mehdi Ghapanvari)
• SQL Declare Variable to Define and Use Variables in SQL Server code (Rajendra Gupta)
• The Pigeonhole Principle: Bridging Mathematics and SQL (Pinal Dave)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams

• Copilot in Teams: August 2023 Updates (Jennie Cady)

Miscellaneous

• TweetDeck is officially becoming a paid service (Jay Peters)
• An Iowa school district is using ChatGPT to decide which books to ban (Mia Sato)

More Link Collections

• Daily Links – 15 Aug 2023 (Malcolm Jack)
• Daily Reading List – August 15, 2023 (#143) (Richard Seroter)

The Geek Shelf

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