Dew Drop – February 28, 2025 (#4372)

Top Links

• The Hanselminutes Podcast – Reimagining the Windows Terminal with Warp’s Zach Lloyd (Scott Hanselman)
• Edit markdown like a pro with Visual Studio (Mads Kristensen)
• Introducing GPT-4.5 (OpenAI)
• Building the NDC London Mobile App Live! with .NET MAUI – NDC London 2025 (Gerald Versluis)
• RavenDB 7.0 Released: AI & Vector Search (Oren Eini)
• Visual Studio: Catch issues before you commit to Git (Jessie Houghton)

Web & Cloud Development

• What is TypeScript? An overview for JavaScript programmers (Axel Rauschmayer)
• Maintenance release: Blazorise 1.7.5 (Michael Washington)
• Develop Your ASP.NET .NET And Nuxt Web Application using HTTPS (Alexandre Nédélec)
• Azure Functions – Part 1 (Jesse Liberty)
• Coding Azure 4: Securing a Web Service in an App Service to Access an Azure SQL Database (Peter Vogel)
• Dartblaze – Write Firebase Cloud Functions in Dart (Dartblaze)
• Astro 5.4 (Matt Kane)
• Duende BFF Security Framework V3 Release Candidate 1 (Erwin van der Valk, Maarten Balliauw & Khalid Abuhakmeh)
• Dapr v1.15 is now available (Dapr Team)
• Cut Cloud Costs with Terraform: Automate, Optimize, and Save Money (Chris Woodruff)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

• Uno Platform ToDo Sample Updated (Material 3 Design Sample) | GitHub (Uno Platform Team)

Visual Studio & .NET

• Microsoft Launches Visual Studio 2022 v17.13 with AI-Powered Enhancements and Improved Debugging (Robert Krzaczyński)
• Another Set of Bug-Fix Updates for ReSharper and Rider 2024.3 Is Here (Sasha Ivanova)
• C# 14 – New Features and Updates (Vijay Kumari)
• C++/WinRT implementation inheritance: Notes on winrt::implements, part 7 (Raymond Chen)
• Metalama Status Update, February 2025 (Gael Fraiteur)
• What’s New in vcpkg (February 2025): Package installation performance, new tested triplet, and more (Augustin Popa)
• Measuring the Performance of JSON Alternatives in .NET (Ricardo Peres)

AI

• OpenAI GPT-4.5 System Card (OpenAI)
• Microsoft Copilot gets a macOS app (Lauren Forristal)
• GitHub Copilot – Code reviews (Bart Wullems)
• The Trump administration can avoid a strategic misstep in the AI global race (Brad Smith)
• Meta’s AI chatbot will soon have a standalone app (Emma Roth)
• OpenAI’s Sora is now available in the EU, UK (Ivan Mehta)
• Disrupting a global cybercrime network abusing generative AI (Steven Masada)
• Microsoft pushes ahead with AI in gaming and Microsoft releases a Copilot app for Mac (Tom Warren)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• Prioritizing Mental Health in IT: Combating Burnout in a High-Stress Industry (Khari Bodrick)
• CI/CD and Serverless Computing: Best Practices for Microservices (Olga Bedrina)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• Amazon CEO says ‘beautiful’ new Alexa hardware is coming this fall (Emma Roth)
• Introducing: Raspberry Pi Official Magazine (Rob Zwetsloot)
• EA Releases Source Code For Old Command and Conquer Games (BeauHD)

Screencasts & Videos

• IoT Coffee Talk: Episode 250 – 5 More Years! (Live from Edge AI Foundation Austin 2025) (IoT Coffee Talk Crew)
• C# and Open Source Web (Jeff Fritz)
• Promoting a Windows Server 2025 Member to Domain Controller requires WS 2016 domain functional level | ITOpsTalk (Orin Thomas)
• Understanding Fabric: A guide to effective resource management for SQL in Fabric | Data Exposed (Anna Hoffman & Amar Digamber)

Podcasts

• InfoQ Podcast: Resilience, Observability and Unintended Consequences of Automation (Courtney Nash)
• Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – How To Be A Data-Driven Scrum Master Or Agile Coach | Season Hughes (Vasco Duarte)
• Understanding AI’s Overhyped Potential in Modern Technology – Adventures in DevOps #234 (Will Button & Warren Parad)
• The Changelog Podcast #630 – Building for application developers (Anurag Goel & Adam Stacoviak)
• Grammar Girl Podcast – From ‘Parasite’ to ‘Emilia Pérez’: How movies shape language, with Andrew Cheng (Mignon Fogarty)
• UX Podcast Episode #333 – Fail early (James Royal-Lawson & Per Axbom)
• The Stack Overflow Podcast – “Translation is the tip of the iceberg”: A deep dive into specialty models (Eira May)
• Lenny’s Podcast – An inside look at X’s Community Notes | Keith Coleman (VP of Product) and Jay Baxter (ML Lead) (Lenny Rachitsky)
• Boagworld Podcast Episode #014 – The Metrics Trap: Are You Measuring the Wrong Things? (Paul Boag)
• SE Radio 657: Hong Minhee on ActivityPub and the Fediverse (Jeremy Jung)
• Software Defined Talk Episode #508: Software Defined Interviews Crossover: PaaS and Career Advice with Brian Gracely (Coté)

Community & Events

• Learn about Azure AI during the Global AI Bootcamp 2025 (Hank Boelman)
• 2025 TechCrunch Events Calendar (TechCrunch Events)
• Microsoft 365 Community Conference Event Guide (Heather Cook)
• Meta is firing about 20 employees for leaking (Alex Heath)
• Starbucks layoffs impact more than 600 workers in Washington state (Kurt Schlosser)
• MVPs Drive Success at Microsoft AI Tour Events Worldwide (Melanie McKenna)
• Stack Overflow: Our next phase – Q&A was just the beginning (Prashanth Chandrasekar & Philippe Beaudette)
• Microsoft Learn Contributor Stories: Deepanshu Katara (Priyanka Rudramaina)

Database

• MySQL Shell Basic Configuration Management (Part 3 – Disk I/O and Storage Optimization) (Chisom Kanu)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams

• Upcoming feature: Copilot Interpreter Agent in Teams Meetings (Vesa Nopanen)
• What’s new in Microsoft Planner – February 2025 (Nancy)
• Address oversharing concerns in Microsoft 365 Copilot deployment blueprint (Mandi Ohlinger)

PowerShell & Terminal

• Microsoft Update changes for PowerShell 7 (Steven Bucher)
• Warp on Windows – Launch week giveaway (Warp Team)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft is reportedly killing Skype after 14 years of neglect (Zac Bowden)
• The DOGE Takeover Is Worse Than You Think (Brian Barrett)
• Behind DOGE’s Many Conflicts of Interest and Elon Musk’s Weekend Email Chaos (Katie Drummond & Brian Barrett)
• Trump’s tariffs on China, Canada, and Mexico will take effect March 4th (Lauren Feiner)

More Link Collections

• Oracle Database Monthly News – February 2025 – Quick Links (Sinan Petrus Toma & Ulrike Schwinn)
• Windows news you can use: February 2025 (Thomas Trombley)
• Daily Reading List – February 27, 2025 (#501) (Richard Seroter)
• Sands of MAUI: Issue #176 (Sam Basu)

The Geek Shelf

 Refactoring with C#: Safely improve .NET applications and pay down technical debt with Visual Studio, .NET 8, and C# 12 (Matt Eland) – Referral Link