Month: October 2023

Top Links

• Public preview launch of Dapr extension for Azure Functions (Ramya Oruganti)
• F# Advent Calendar in English 2023 (Sergey Tihon)
• Announcing “Refactoring with C#” (Matt Eland)
• More efficient embeddings (Craig Dunn)
• Simple and secure sign-in on Android with Credential Manager and passkeys (Diego Zavala)
• Flowing State in Blazor 8 (Rocky Lhotka)

Web & Cloud Development

• Cloud-native journey – introduction (Dina Berry)
• Angular Component Library Part 2: How to Theme and Publish Your Library to npm (Dany Paredes)
• Why Arrow Function Cannot be Used to Create an Object in JavaScript (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Node.js Environment Variables: How to Set Them Properly and An Introduction to Working with SVGs in React and A Guide to Using MSSQL with Node.js (Dianne Pena)
• A Practical Guide for Beginners: Azure OpenAI with JavaScript and TypeScript (Part 03) (Glaucia Lemos)
• Kubernetes And Kernel Panics (Kyle Anderson)
• The Squirminal Web Component (Zach Leatherman)
• Assigning a Default Role to Users on Sign-Up with Auth0 Actions (Carla Urrea Stabile)
• Building Production Grade Microservices with Go and gRPC – A Step-by-Step Developer Guide with Example (Nik L.)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

• .NET MAUI in .NET 8 RC2: Enhanced Performance, Fixed UI & Control Issues (Almir Vuk)

Visual Studio & .NET

• Understanding Migrations, Snapshots, and Synchronization in Entity Framework Core (Steve Smith)
• How to support a COM interface conditionally in WRL (Raymond Chen)
• Managing Directories With Directory and DirectoryInfo in C# (Code Maze)
• Generative AI for .NET – Part 5 Streaming (Aaron Powell)
• Exploring Object Layouts (Jeroen Vannevel)
• Functional Error Handling in .NET With the Result Pattern (Milan Jovanović)
• How to Use Enums in CSharp – Understanding the Basics (Nick Cosentino)

Design, Methodology, AI & Testing

• Why Infrastructure as Code Is Vital for Modern DevOps (Mandi Walls)
• So you’ve been publicly accessibility-shamed (Dave Rupert)
• What Is Open Source’s Role in Platform Engineering? (Pete Lilley)
• How to Get the Current Branch Name with git (David Walsh)
• Biden releases AI executive order directing agencies to develop safety guidelines (Emilia David)
• Demystifying LLMs: How they can do things they weren’t trained to do (Jeimy Ruiz)
• Let’s Talk: Conversational Software Development (Jon Udell)
• Unlocking the Benefits of LangChain AI for Dev, Sec and Ops (Kat Morgan)
• Developers are the first group to adopt AI at work. Here’s why that matters. (Kyle Daigle)
• AI: from an exciting concept to practical applications (Microsoft in Business Team)
• Embracing the Strangler Fig pattern for legacy modernization [Part two] (Premanand Chandrasekaran)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• AndroidX moving to minSdkVersion 19 (Aurimas Liutikas)
• Meta built threads in only 5 months using Jetpack Compose (Yasmine Evjen & Florina Muntenescu)
• WhatsApp Flows 101: An Introduction (Fariha Rehman)
• Porting Unity to CoreCLR (Josh Peterson)

Screencasts & Videos

• IoT Coffee Talk: Episode 180 – In Search of the Next Big Thing (IoT Coffee Talk Crew)
• FreeCodeSession – Episode 491 (Jason Bock)
• Technology & Friends – Cameron Turner on Predictive and Generative AI (David Giard)
• What I Wish I Knew… about how to network (Tenay Barker)

Podcasts

• freeCodeCamp Podcast: Overcoming 3 Layoffs with Senior Dev Kevin Miller (Quincy Larson)
• ASP.NET API Versioning with Chris Martinez – Adventures in .NET 162 (Caleb Wells, Shawn Clabough & Wai Liu)
• ONPOD EP.134: WINDOWS ON ARM GETS HELP, BYE METAVERSE, FY24Q1 EARNINGS, NEW START BUTTON, AND MORE (Podcast OnMSFT Team)
• InfoQ Podcast: Teams, Teamwork and Generative AI as a Team Member (Jeremiah Stone)
• The Changelog – ANTHOLOGY — The way of open source (Matthew Sanabria, Nithya Ruffnithyaruff, Jordan Harband, Adam Stacoviak & Jerod Santo)
• Changelog & Friends Podcast – Protecting screen time (Jared Henderson, Jerod Santo & Adam Stacoviak)
• Unhandled Exception Podcast – Dometrain – with Nick Chapsas (Dan Clarke)
• Syntax Podcast Episode 685: Jason Lengstorf on Live Streaming, Creating Content, and Building a Studio Space (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
• Coding Blocks Podcast – Open Telemetry – Instrumentation and Metrics (Allen Underwood, Michael Outlaw & Joe Zack)
• Google Cloud Security Podcast Episode 149 – Cloud Security: Shared Responsibility, Shared Fate, Shared Faith? (Anton A. Chuvakin)
• The CSS Podcast #75: Why isn’t my custom property the value I expect? (Una Kravets & Adam Argyle)
• AGL 336: Kyle Kiser (John Rouda)

Community & Events

• It Took Seven Years But Over-40s Fired By HP Win $18 Million Settlement (BeauHD)
• Upcoming Android Events (Anirudh Dewani)
• 79% of Developers are At Least Considering a New Job, Survey Finds (EditorDavid)
• What I Wish I Knew About Working In Development Right Out Of School (Victoria Johnson)
• Hackable Halloween games MMXXIII (Lee Reilly)
• Webinar: Protect Unity Games From Piracy and Fraud With TeamCity and Appdome, Nov 7, 2023 (Olga Bedrina)
• MVP’s Favorite Content: New Series to Elevate Your Skills (Rie Moriguchi)

Database

• Data Formulator: A concept-driven, AI-powered approach to data visualization (Alyssa Hughes)

Miscellaneous

• IndexNow – Celebrating two years of growth! (Bing Team)
• Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 23575 (Dev Channel) (Brandon LeBlanc)
• Microsoft is still paying for its mobile mistakes 10 years later (Ed Bott)
• Curl up with a spooky Halloween story with Google Books (Nikki Savickas)
• Editing tip…Read Your Writing Aloud (Simple Talk Team)
• Windows 11 now lets you write anywhere you can type (Tom Warren)
• Tips, ideas, and recommendations on your technical blog (William Assaf)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #3812 (Chris Alcock)
• Code Maze Weekly #191 (Vladimir Pecanac)
• F# Weekly #43, 2023 – 11 year of F# Weekly and #FsAdvent 2023 (Sergey Tihon)
• Daily Reading List – October 27, 2023 (#192) (Richard Seroter)
• C# Digest Issue #478 – October 30, 2023 (Jakub Chodounsky)

The Geek Shelf

 Learn WinUI 3: Leverage WinUI and the Windows App SDK to create modern Windows applications with C# and XAML (Alvin Ashcraft) – Pre-order today, get it on release day (tomorrow)!