Dew Drop – August 29, 2023 (#4014)

Top Links

• Merge Conflict 373: Installing the .NET 9 Alpha (James Montemagno & Frank Kreuger)
• Unleashing the Power of Navigation and Filtering with WinUI Segmented Control (Manivannan Elangovan)
• Announcing the New Foundational C# Certification with freeCodeCamp (Katie Savage)
• Introducing Bing Chat Enterprise in the Windows Copilot Preview (Brandon LeBlanc)
• Working with images just got easier in Visual Studio (Mads Kristensen)

Web & Cloud Development

• ASP.NET Core Clean Architecture Template v8 Released (Steve Smith)
• Deploying a Static Web Site Using Azure Storage (Paul Michaels)
• Centralize management with the hub-spoke network topology and Secure Azure PaaS services with Azure Private Link (Patrick van Kleef)
• Realistic CSS Animations and the linear() Timing Function! (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• JavaScript Functions and Scope – a Beginner’s Guide (Casmir Onyekani)
• Deploy ASP.NET Core Applications on Linux With Apache and How to Get a JSON Array Using IConfiguration in ASP.NET Core (Code Maze)
• PhpStorm 2023.2.1 is now available (Eugene Morozov)
• How to Create Toast Notifications with KendoReact’s Notification Component (Hassan Djirdeh)
• jQuery 3.7.1 Released: Reliable Table Row Dimensions (Timmy Willison)
• Introducing the scheduler.yield origin trial (Jeremy Wagner)
• Perfectly Reproducible, Verified Go Toolchains (Russ Cox)
• Vercel is our Official Hosting Partner (Thuy Doan & Fred Schott)
• New API doc course topic: Using AI For thematic analysis and New API doc course topic: Using AI for comparison tasks with API responses (Tom Johnson)
• How do I know if a resource needs a `crossorigin` attribute or not? (Aaron T. Grogg)
• Admin Organization Access Tokens in Pulumi Cloud (Devon Grove)
• Send Scheduled MMS and WhatsApp Messages with Go (Matthew Setter)

Visual Studio & .NET

• Find The Area Of A Rectangle – A Simple C# Program (Nick Cosentino)
• Earn a Free C# Certification from Microsoft and freeCodeCamp (Quincy Larson)
• 9 “hidden” features in Visual Studio that you may not know (Thomas Ardal)
• Writing a Debugger From Scratch – DbgRs Part 1 and Part 2 – Register State and Stepping and Part 3 – Reading Memory and Part 4 – Exports and Private Symbols (Tim Misiak)
• The Art of Randomness in .NET 8: New Methods and Techniques (Christopher Johnson)
• .NET APIs Part 3 – Dapper (Jesse Liberty)
• Just for fun: Which processors prefer sign-extended loads, and which prefer zero-extended loads? (Raymond Chen)
• What is Load Balancing in .NET and Top Load Balancing Algorithms/Techniques (DotNetOffice)

Design, Methodology, AI & Testing

• Should you build or buy generative AI? (Mary Branscombe)
• Getting Started with Semantic Kernel for LangChain users (Gopi Kumar)
• Inside Code Llama: Meta AI’s Entrance in the Code LLM Space (Jesus Rodriguez)
• 10 things you didn’t know you could do with GitHub Projects (Kedasha Kerr)
• Chat Copilot Performance improvements for chat and messaging loading (Nilesh Acharya)
• OpenAI finally introduces a business version of ChatGPT (Steven Vaughan-Nichols)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• Flutter 3.13 Improves Impeller (Kay Ewbank)
• Introducing Auth0 React Native SDK 3.0! (Poovamraj Thanganadar Thiagarajan & Joey deVilla)
• Flutter Gems turns 3 — We now have 5500+ Flutter packages neatly categorized in 175 categories! (Flutter Gems Team)
• Announcing Ionic 7.3 (Liam DeBeasi)

Screencasts & Videos

• Loosely Coupled, Reusable Events with Event Triggers – .NET MAUI 101 (Gerald Versluis)
• Recording: RavenDB and High Performance with Oren Eini (Oren Eini)
• Windows Terminal on Open at Microsoft (Christopher Nguyen)
• What I Wish I Knew… about how to interview (Microsoft Developer)

Podcasts

• Revision Path – Carmelle Kendall (Maurice Cherry)
• Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – From Fear to Empowerment, How Scrum Masters Can Thrive By Facing Their Fears | Khwezi Mputa (Vasco Duarte)
• The PowerShell Podcast – Unveiling Posh: Exploring James Brundage’s Latest Project (James Petty)
• Syntax Podcast Episode 659 – OG Image Options (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinsky)
• Google Cloud Security Podcast Episode 136 – Next 2023 Special: Building AI-powered Security Tools – How We Do It? (Anton Chuvakin)
• Meta Cast 262 – Navigating the Launch Phase of Your Business – Pricing Strategies, Contracts, and More with Josh and Robert (Bob Galen & Josh Anderson)
• The Changelog News Podcast – OpenTF sticks a fork in Terraform (Jerod Santo)
• The Amp Hour #644 – Garbage Ninjas (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
• The Stack Overflow Podcast Episode 603 – What it’s like being a professional workplace bestie (Eira May)
• Nathaniel Schutta: Thinking Architecturally – Azure DevOps Podcast Episode 260 (Jeffrey Palermo)
• Inside Trader Joe’s Podcast – ICYMI: What the Heck is a Tasting Panel (Trader Joe’s Team)

Community & Events

• The March Continues (‘Tine Zekis)

Database

• A Beginners Guide to MySQL Replication Part 5: Group Replication (Aisha Bukar)
• MySQL’s Index Condition Pushdown (ICP) Optimization (Pinal Dave)
• Microsoft Fabric: Loading On-Premises and External Data (Dennes Torres)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams

• Announcing more seamless collaboration in Microsoft Teams for multi-tenant organizations (Fredric Morgan)
• Restarting billing on Teams Chat Export APIs; new API enhancements (Srisudha Mahadevan)

PowerShell

• Convert YAML to JSON with PowerShell Core (Gérald Barré)
• PowerShell Adapter Feedback Provider (Steven Bucher)

Miscellaneous

• Google and Meta are the best-paying Big Tech companies for engineers (Alex Heath)
• Microsoft Makes Some Certification Exams Open Book (msmash)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #3768 (Chris Alcock)
• Interesting links of the week 2023-35 (#87) (Michael Eaton)
• Sands of MAUI: Issue #115 (Sam Basu)
• Daily Reading List – August 28, 2023 (#152) (Richard Seroter)
• Reading Notes #569 (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