Dew Drop – December 30, 2021 (#3589)

Top Links

• .NET Rocks! – Space Geek Out 2021 (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Power Automate – Ending 2021 with the release of twenty-seven new and updated connectors (Priya Talreja)
• How to use Notion API from Typescript Azure Function (Michał Żołnieruk)
• The State of Sustainable Architecture Practices in 2022 (Jennifer Riggins)

Web & Cloud Development

• Reclaim Tons of Disk Space by Compacting Your Docker Desktop WSL 2 VM (Nick Janetakis)
• Create Azure Function – Cosmos Trigger in Azure Portal (Alagunila Meganathan)
• Folder Structure Of ASP.NET Core MVC 6.0 Project (Chittaranjan Swain)
• On Yak Shaving and md-block, a new HTML element for Markdown (Chris Coyier)
• WebStorm 2021.3.1 Is Available (Ekaterina Ryabukha)
• Stream Adds New SDKs for Angular, SwiftUI, and Unreal Engine (Kevin Sundstrom)
• First Explorations of Twitter Verification API (Den Delimarsky)
• Prediction Framework, a time saver for Data Science prediction projects (Álvaro Lamas, Héctor Parra, Jaime Martínez, Julia Hernández, Miguel Fernandes & Pablo Gil)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

• Calling the Microsoft Graph API from WinUI (Alvin Ashcraft)
• Upgrading Xamarin.Forms projects to .NET MAUI with upgrade assistant (András Tóth)

Visual Studio & .NET

• Difference Between Asynchronous Programming and Multithreading (Code Maze)
• Using a Video Device with getUserMedia in WebView2 in a Kiosk Scenario (Update) (Roland Weigelt)
• You can’t copy code with memcpy; code is more complicated than that (Raymond Chen)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• How I Learned to Boost My Confidence with the Right Focus and Words (J.D. Meier)
• A year or monitoring production (Oren Eini)
• The UX of Maps in Web Design (Razvan Popescu)
• Problem-driven design (Rinat Abdullin)
• Careers Are Not Marathons Or Sprints (Den Delimarsky)
• Deep Conversations Make Us Happier, Lead to Stronger Bonds (Gabe Allen)
• How To Price Projects And Manage Scope Screep (Paul Boag)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• Android 11 could finally come to the original Surface Duo in January 2022 (Arif Bacchus)
• Why The Metaverse Is Laughable (Mike James)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• Syntax Podcast – 2021 In Review (Wes Bos)
• Developer Tea – Your Only Challenge Is To Focus (Jonathan Cutrell)
• Early Access PyCharm Podcast: PyCharm and the 2021.3 release (Roberto Pesce)
• Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Scaling up an Agile transformation through practical actions by Scrum Masters | Kathryn Tancos (Vasco Duarte)
• Working Code Podcast – Episode 55: Sales Fails (Ben Nadel)
• The Happy Engineer Podcast 027: From Ballet to Blockchain: Find Your Ideal Career Path with Matt Sevey (Kae Lynne Sapino)

Community & Events

• Partner Program Application SUBMITTED! (‘Tine Zekis (she/her))
• Advent of Learning 2021 (Phil Pursglove)

Database

• Create Index for Full Text Search using Azure Cognitive Service and Azure SQL Database (Rajendra Gupta)
• DataGrip 2021.3.3 (Alisa Lukonina)

PowerShell

• Create Azure Batch Pool with PowerShell (Mo Shi)

Miscellaneous

• How Computer Vision Can Help Fight Climate Change (Exxact Team)
• Getting Started With Cross-Platform Heterogeneous Computing (Lindsay Smith)
• What’s new in Windows 11, part 2 (Michael Niehaus)
• A rejected attempt to inject pseudo-physics into Windows 8 toast notifications (Raymond Chen)

More Link Collections

• Top Blogs of 2021 – Part 2 (Isheeta Lad)
• The Wolf Report – December 30th, 2021 (Michael Wolfenden)

The Geek Shelf

 The Art of Immutable Architecture: Theory and Practice of Data Management in Distributed Systems (Michael L. Perry) – Referral Link