Dew Drop – January 23, 2023 (#3863)

Top Links

• Bringing GitHub Actions to GitHub Mobile (Maximilian Sachs)
• Until the Ice Cream Truck Podcast – On Technical Debt (Howard Dierking & Glenn Block)
• PowerShell Extension for Visual Studio Code January 2023 Update (Sydney Smith)
• How I built the first PDF report for KlipTok using IronPDF (Jeff Fritz)
• Unpacking the value of open source and code collaboration (Mike Linksvayer)

Web & Cloud Development

• Just jQuery The Core UI – Function Queues (Ian Elliot)
• Feature Announcement: Enabling External PDF Renderer PDF.js in TX Text Control DocumentViewer (Bjoern Meyer)
• Basic Authentication in ASP.NET Core (Damien Bowden)
• Client-Side Filtering with the Kendo UI for Angular Data Grid (Peter Vogel)
• Docker Swarm, a User-Friendly Alternative to Kubernetes (Shaun O’Meara)
• Rotating Twisted 3D Typography with Three.js and Shaders (Yuriy Artyukh)
• The Magical Eleventy v2.0.0-beta.1 Release (Zach Leatherman)
• How to Draw an Owl, the API Edition – Part One (Kin Lane)
• Building micro services through Event Driven Architecture part21 : Monitoring and Observability (Gora Leye)
• Most Popular APIs in the Public API Network (Khushboo Goel)
• Data Conversion in Go (Manoj Debnath)
• The GoLand 2023.1 Early Access Program Is Open! (Sergey Kozlovskiy)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

• Embed WPF User Controls in WinForms Applications (Nitin Sharma)
• Introducing the New .NET MAUI PDF Viewer (Mohana Priya Raja)

Visual Studio & .NET

• Saving Christmas with Functional C# – Part Two – Indefinite Loops (Simon Painter)
• How to Randomize a List in C# and Required Members in C# (Code Maze)
• Using IHttpClientFactory in C# to avoid Port Exhaustion (Henrique Dalcin Dalmas)
• C# .NET – How to remove ASCII Control Characters fast and reduce to ASCII set and C# All valid string escape sequences (Mark Pahulje)
• Deep nesting – Why and how to avoid (Steven Giesel)
• Realistic Data Generation in .NET With Bogus (Marko Hrnčić)
• How can I call a method on a derived class from a base class, say, to get a strong reference to the containing object? (Raymond Chen)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• Azure DevOps Pipelines: Tasks, Jobs, Stages and more! (John Folberth)
• Agilean (Mark Seemann)
• An in-depth look at Prototyping in Sketch (Sketch Team)
• Guide to Projections and Read Models in Event-Driven Architecture (Oskar Dudycz)
• The Service / Repository Pattern (Paul Michaels)
• Getting Started With Software (and Business and Life) Skills – 2023 (Charles Flatt)
• Making the case for GitHub’s Secret scanning (Rob Bos)
• New Boards Hub, Sprint 216 update (Dan Hellem)
• What it takes to make legacy code bases rock solid (Dennis Doomen)
• GitHub Releases Copilot for Business Amid Ongoing Legal Controversy (Matt Campbell)
• Responsible AI in Microsoft Designer (Sarah Dutkiewicz)
• Git 2.39.1 Fixes Two Critical Remote Code Execution Vulnerabilities (Sergio De Simone)
• Can we kill the word ‘project’ please? (George Stocker)
• How to avoid the “Windows Defender SmartScreen prevented an unrecognized app from starting” warning (Alex Marin)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• Learn Flutter In 15 Days – Day One (Abhishek Singhal)
• Using React Native VisionCamera: Demo and alternatives (Gapur Kassym)
• Realistic smoke lighting with 6-way lighting in VFX Graph (Mathieu Muller, Marie Guffroy, Orson Favrel, Julien Fryer, Gabriel de la Cruz & Ludovic Theobald)

Screencasts & Videos

• Testing Blazor Applications with Playwright | .NET Conf 2022 (Debbie O’Brien & Max Schmidt)
• Flutter 100 Launch | More Announcements (Codepur)
• FreeCodeSession – Episode 432 (Jason Bock)
• .NET Architects Panel | .NET Conf 2022 (Damian Edwards, David Fowler & Mikayla Hutchinson)

Podcasts

• OnPodcast Ep.99: Massive layoffs, Insider program rebranding, new Windows 11 builds, and more (Podcast OnMSFT Team)
• Merge Conflict 342: Democratizing AI… and GPT-3 (James Montemagno & Frank Kreuger)
• InfoQ Podcast: Empowering Women in STEM & Building Inclusive Teams through Cooking (Kimberly Fox)
• Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Involving the Agile team in Product Owner decisions, the why and how! | Gert Brits (Vasco Duarte)
• The Amp Hour #616 – Open Source Tapeout with Matthew Venn (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
• The Stack Overflow Podcast Episode 529 – How to build a universal computation machine with Tetris (Eira May)
• Coding Blocks Podcast – Designing Data-Intensive Applications – Transactions (Allen Underwood, Michael Outlaw & Joe Zack)
• AWS Developers Podcast Episode 068 – RDS Optimized Writes with Prasad Pandit (David Isbitski)
• JS Party Podcast – How do you define joy? (Jerod Santo, Nick Nisi, Kevin Ball & Christopher Hiller)
• The Changelog – Just Postgres (Craig Kerstiens, Adam Stacoviak & Jerod Santo)
• PPP 374 | Building a Strong Personal Brand Without Being a Self-Promoting Jerk (Andy Kaufman)
• AGL 295: Remote Development with Alex Svinov (John Rouda)

Community & Events

• Microsoft Kills Off AltspaceVR Amid Major Layoffs (BeauHD)
• Microsoft news recap: 10,000 job cuts over next 3 months, 250K Xbox Series X|S sold in Japan last year, and more (Jack Wilkinson)
• Google cuts 12,000 jobs in latest round of big tech layoffs (James Vincent)
• Linux Foundation’s New ‘Open Metaverse Foundation’ Launches (EditorDavid)
• Cloud Native Ambassadors 2.0 (Cloud Native Computing Foundation Team)
• The third-party apps Twitter just killed made the site what it is today (Mitchell Clark)
• CodeMash 2023 Recap (Sarah Dutkiewicz)
• Hacking #FHIR for the benefit of the FHIR community (John Moehrke)

Database

• Evaluating SQL Server Filtered Indexes in a Multi Table SQL Join (Jared Westover)
• Improving your WordPress workload performance on Azure Database for MySQL (Mollee Jain)
• Storing and querying your geospatial data in Azure (Clemens Schotte)
• Released: General Availability of Microsoft.Data.SqlClient 5.1 (David Engel)

PowerShell

• PowerShell App Deployment Toolkit 3.9.1 Released (Sean Lillis)

Miscellaneous

• Pioneering Apple Lisa Goes ‘Open Source’ Thanks To Computer History Museum and TikTok Confirms That Its Own Employees Can Decide What Goes Viral (BeauHD)
• OpenAI CEO Sam Altman on GPT-4 Hype: ‘People are Begging to be Disappointed and They Will Be’ (EditorDavid)
• Google is freaking out about ChatGPT (James Vincent)
• C++ programming language and safety: Here’s where it goes next (Liam Tung)
• Smithsonian Open Access (Mark Downie)
• paint.net 5.0.1 is now available (Rick Brewster)
• Microsoft has copied the best Windows audio app (Tom Warren)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew # 3629 (Chris Alcock)
• F# Weekly #3, 2023 – F# eXchange, ChatGPT as a service (Sergey Tihon)
• Code Maze Weekly #157 (Vladimir Pecanac)
• Daily Wrap Up – January 20, 2023 (#013) (Richard Seroter)
• Build5Nines Weekly – January 22, 2023 (Chris Pietschmann)
• C# Digest Issue #438 – January 23, 2023 (Jakub Chodounsky)
• The Overflow #161: Git isn’t the only game in town (Ryan Donovan & Cassidy Williams)

The Geek Shelf

 Apps and Services with .NET 7: Build practical projects with Blazor, .NET MAUI, gRPC, GraphQL, and other enterprise technologies (Mark J. Price) – Referral Link