Dew Drop – December 27, 2024 (#4330)

Top Links

• The Hanselminutes Podcast – What is AI’s UI? with Maggie Appleton (Scott Hanselman)
• My Top Stories of 2024: A Mountain of Words in a Momentous Year (Paul Thurrott)
• Navigating the Complexity of Legacy Code with Generative AI (Sid Misra)
• AWS Developers Podcast Episode #145 – Retro coding – Commodore 64 and Amazon Q for developers (Sébastien Stormacq)
• Microsoft 365 Copilot Year In Review | 2024 (Seth Patton)
• Critical: .NET Install links are changing (Richard Lander)

Web & Cloud Development

• Styling HTML and with modern CSS (Rob O’Leary)
• What is a One Time Password (OTP) (Fernando Martin)
• Vanilla Astro, No Framework Needed (Jonathan Gamble)
• Discover the Exciting New Features in .NET Aspire 9 (Rijwan Ansari)

Visual Studio & .NET

• Change the line ending of a file in VS Code (Bart Wullems)
• Boost Your C# Skills: Top 25 Mind-Blowing Tips and Tricks (Dmitry Stadub)
• .NET Community Toolkit 8.4: New MVVM Features, Enhanced Analyzers and Bug Fixes (Almir Vuk)
• Liskov Substitution Principle (LSP) in .NET 8: A Complete and Advanced Guide (Anderson Godoy)
• Single Platform, Multi-Purpose Couchbase: Vector Search, Geospatial, SQL++, and More (Matthew Groves)
• Beyond Boundaries – Networking Programming with C# 12 and .NET 8 | LeanPub (Chris Woodruff)
• Logging in .NET: Best Practices and Why You Should Love It (Marius Schröder)
• Why are Win32 resources strings bundled at all? And why bundles of 16? (Raymond Chen)
• Fast build and high security in .NET with Package Source Mapping (Tomasz Sobczak)

AI

• AI, Hardware and Open Models: Headed in the Linux Direction (Agam Shah)
• Buyer beware: OpenAI’s o1 large language model is an entirely different beast (Anthony Diamond)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• Kubernetes Is Taking Over: Deploy Smarter With 4 New Techniques (Anne Fernandez)
• 3 Lessons from the Smartest Developers I’ve Worked With (Brian Jenney)
• Dive Deep into Merge Requests with GitLab Duo Chat (Aditya Kulkarni)
• How Innovation Coaching Can Transform Your Business and What Makes a Good Innovation Coach? (JD Meier)
• Infrastructure as Code in 2024: Why It’s Still So Terrible (Joab Jackson)
• A Guide to SaaS Application Security (PreEmptive Team)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• Reverse Engineering The Stream Deck Plus (Den Delimarsky)

Screencasts & Videos

• Welcome to Visual Studio subscriptions: Your guided tour (Visual Studio Team)
• Fallback Mechanism for UI Automation in Power Automate for Desktop | Microsoft Community Learning (Manish Solanki)
• Random.Code() – Advent of Code Playthrough – Part 1 (Jason Bock)

Podcasts

• InfoQ Podcast: Leveraging AI Platforms to Improve Developer Experience – From Personal Hackathon to AI at Scale (Olalekan Elesin)
• The Stack Overflow Podcast – Balancing business and open source in 2024 (Eira May)
• The Cloud Pod Episode #285 – 6 years of cloud news… and we’re still talking about FPGAs and PowerPC (Justin Brodley, Jonathan Baker, Ryan Lucas & Matthew Kohn)
• AGL 397: The Art of Influence with Jennifer Gardner (John Rouda)
• Software Defined Talk Episode #499 – Star, Archive, or Spam? (Brandon Whichard & Brian Gracely)
• Software Engineering Radio #648 – Matthew Adams on AI Threat Modeling and Stride GPT (Priyanka Raghavan)
• Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast Xmas Special – Investing in Software: Alternatives To Project Management For Software Businesses With Vasco Duarte (Vasco Duarte)

Community & Events

• Bluesky adds Trending topics to its arsenal (Barbara Krasnoff)
• Celebrate the Public Domain with the Internet Archive (Chris Freeland)

Database

• Remove unwanted partition data in Azure Synapse (SQL DW) (ayush9892)
• Tis the Season for SSIS: Celebrating a Data Engineering Classic (Frank La Vigne)
• Two Of My Favorite NOLOCK Demos from Paul White and Aaron Bertrand (Erik Darling)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams

• Install SharePoint Subscription (Mohamed El-Qassas)

Miscellaneous

• Elon Musk’s jets made 355 trips in 2024, including 31 to or from the Mar-a-Lago area (Margaux MacColl)
• Hertz is asking EV renters if they want to keep it, permanently (Umar Shakir)

The Geek Shelf

 From Zero to Hero: REST APIs in .NET | Dometrain (Nick Chapsas) – Referral Link