Dew Drop – January 13, 2022 (#3599)

Top Links

• Microsoft Cloud Skills Challenge – 30 Days to Learn It (Microsoft Learn)
• .NET Rocks! – .NET for Startups with Oleg Fridman (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Microsoft Teams for frontline workers: What’s Live and Coming Soon (Zachary Cavanell)
• Accelerate your websites with Azure Static Web Apps enterprise-edge (Simona Cotin)
• Visual Studio Code Insiders is a PWA (insiders.vscode.dev) (diekus)

Web & Cloud Development

• Using Azure Cognitive Services in a .NET App (Alisa Duncan)
• Azure Tips & Tricks – Tip 348 – How to use Azure Defender to protect hybrid cloud workloads (Azure Team)
• Canceling API Requests Using fetch() And AbortController In JavaScript (Ben Nadel)
• How to Optimize a Vue Datagrid Application (Joel Parks)
• A New AWS Console Home Experience (Sébastien Stormacq)
• Import Logic Apps (Standard) into Azure API Management (Sravani Masapalli)
• Rethinking errors, warnings, and lints (Evan Martin)
• Publishing and consuming ECMAScript modules via packages – the big picture (Axel Rauschmayer)
• ToDo List Using NodeJS, MongoDB (Aditya Narad)
• Turning a GitHub page into a Progressive Web App (Chris Heilmann)
• API Gateway to EventBridge with Pulumi (Christian Nunciato)
• Infinite Scroll with TypeScript (Kenneth Reilly)
• The Data Your Access Token Reveals and How to Secure It (Michal Trojanowski)
• Exploring how to solve circular dependencies (Mikhail Shilkov)
• What Is Vite: The Guide to Modern and Super-Fast Project Tooling (Thomas Findlay)
• Twilio: Message Scheduling is Now in Public Beta (Shashwat Johari)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

• WPF Datagrid Performance Comparison for .NET 6 (Irina Pykhova)

Visual Studio & .NET

• Do You Want a Visual Studio Dashboard of Customizable Widgets? and Visual Studio Feedback Revamp Prompts MUCH Feedback on Feedback Responsiveness (David Ramel)
• Selection Sort in C# (Code Maze)
• .NET Framework January 2022 Security and Quality Rollup Updates (Tara Overfield)
• Hot Reload In C# .NET 6 / Visual Studio 2022 and Protobuf In C# .NET – Part 1 – Getting Started and Protobuf In C# .NET – Part 2 – Serializing/Deserializing (Wade Gausden)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• Legacy Mimic: a new component that looks like an old one (Martin Fowler)
• Agile Principles: Technical Excellence Enhances Agility (Justin Etheredge)
• 7 Top Metrics for Measuring Your Technical Debt (Alex Omeyer)
• Armchair Architects: How Architecture Is Changing – Part 1 and Armchair Architects: How Architecture Is Changing – Part 2 (Ben Brauer)
• When NOT to write an Abstraction Layer (Derek Comartin)
• Writing Effective Behaviour-Driven Test Cases (Kateryna Gandzeichuk)
• Our 14 favorite gadgets and hacks for working at home (Verge Staff)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• Code a Full Stack Instagram Clone with Flutter and Firebase (Beau Carnes)
• Flutter bloc for beginners (Ana Polo)
• 5 tips to Learn Flutter Like a Pro [from a Flutter course creator] (Nick Manning)
• New free resources for young people to create 3D worlds with code in Unity (Janina Ander)
• 4 Ways to Make Mobile Apps More Accessible (Suzanne Scacca)
• How we ship GitHub Mobile every week (Taehun Kim)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• Syntax Podcast – Potluck (Wes Bos)
• AzureFunBytes Episode 64 – Building SOC Efficiency with @Azure Sentinel with @rodtrent (Jay Gordon)
• Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – How to start an Agile transformation without having to “push” teams  | Samet Ulutas (Vasco Duarte)
• Microsoft Mechanics – Microsoft Teams for frontline workers: What’s Live and Coming Soon (Jeremy Chapman & Kristina Behr)
• The Stack Overflow Podcast 406: Making Agile work for data science (Ryan Donovan)
• Design Details 424: The Art of Unsolicited Redesigns (Brian Lovin & Marshall Bock)
• The Happy Engineer Podcast 029: Hypnosis for Happy Careers and Huge Results with Leslie Thornton (Kae Lynne Sapino)

Community & Events

• The Open Source Software Security Summit: securing the world’s code together (Mike Hanley)

Database

• Database projects with SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT) (Kamil Nowinski)
• The Curious Case of… tracking page compression success rates (Paul S. Randal)
• Azure SQL News Update: January 2022 (Anna Hoffman)
• The Next Evolution of the Database Sharding Architecture (Juan Pan)

SharePoint & MS Teams

• Empowering 2 billion global frontline workers (Jared Spataro)

PowerShell

• PowerShell Script: Compare DOC and PDF Files (Zac Ferraresi)

Miscellaneous

• The National Archives has launched a new GitHub repository for Electronic Records Accessioning Support Tools (U.S. National Archives)
• My conversation with a global health researcher about COVID-19 (Bill Gates)
• OneDrive: Inside the new Files On-Demand Experience on macOS (Ankita Kirti)
• Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22533 (Brandon LeBlanc)
• Windows 11 Build 22533 ISOs are available for Dev Channel insiders (Kunal Chowdhury)
• White House to launch COVID test-ordering site ‘by this weekend,’ reports say (Makena Kelly)
• Stardock Releases Start11 v1.1 (Paul Thurrott)
• Microsoft has discontinued all Xbox One consoles (Tom Warren)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #3388 (Chris Alcock)
• Today’s Readings (Aaron T. Grogg)
• The Wolf Report – January 13th, 2022 (Michael Wolfenden)

The Geek Shelf

 Righting Software (Juval Löwy) – Referral Link