Dew Drop – August 28, 2023 (#4013)

Top Links

• TechBash 2023: Our Schedule Is Now Available (TechBash Team)
• Technology & Friends – J. Tower on Migrating Legacy ASP.NET Applications (David Giard) – Catch J. Tower at TechBash in November
• Until the Ice Cream Truck Podcast – What is a Minimally Viable Product? (Howard Dierking & Glenn Block)
• Teams Toolkit for Visual Studio: Automated Lifecycles and Integrated Bot Debugging (Almir Vuk)
• Run My Code! (code injection on Windows) (Tim Misiak)

Web & Cloud Development

• Visualizing Recursion with the Sierpinski Triangle (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• Kubernetes 1.28: A New (alpha) Mechanism For Safer Cluster Upgrades (Richa Banker)
• Azure MLOps Challenge: Part 4 (Ben Roberts)
• Audio Notes: Using Azure AI Speech to Perform Speech-to-Text Conversion (Jamie Maguire)
• What are forms in Angular? (Jaydeep Patil)
• Deploy Pre-Configured WordPress Sites with Jetpack and InstaWP (Jen Swisher)
• Angular Basics: Date Pipe Formats 101 with Examples (John Au-Yeung)
• Scaling workloads on Microsoft Azure with Kubernetes Event-Driven Autoscaling (Tom Kerkhove)
• ESLint v8.48.0 released (Milos Djermanovic)
• Does Workload Identity on AKS work across tenants? (Paul Yu)
• Concurrency in Go: A Practical Guide with Hands-On Examples (Kittipat.po)
• API Integration: GraphQL vs gRPC vs REST: Which API is Right for You? (Vineet Prasad)
• Traffic 101: Packets Mostly Flow (Radha Kumari)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

• Xamarin.Forms to .NET MAUI (Divikiran)
• DependencyService for all (Peter Foot)

Visual Studio & .NET

• The “Weak Event” Pattern in C# (Steven Giesel)
• Marten Linq Provider Improvements (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Apply Digital Signatures to PDF Signature Fields Imported from MS Word in C# (Bjoern Meyer)
• How to Use Mutex in C# and Readonly Modifier in C# (Code Maze)
• On writing loops in continuation-passing style, part 4 (Raymond Chen)
• Working with Data Types in C# (Nicholas Rini)
• Generate ASCII Art – A Simple How To in C# (Nick Cosentino)
• EFCorePowerTools – 2.5.1595 + CLI x.0.0-rc.10 (August 25, 2023) Release Notes (Erik Ejlskov Jensen)

Design, Methodology, AI & Testing

• Docker-based Jenkins quick start examples (Ashutosh Saxena)
• Meta launches own AI code-writing tool: Code Llama (Emilia David)
• Shippable Innovation: How one Hack Week produced five ready-to-launch features (John Rector)
• Prototyping, an underestimated design skill (Oskar Dudycz)
• Increasing Developer Velocity (David Giard)
• Hemingway is now Hemingw-AI! My favourite writing tool just got an AI upgrade and it’s great. (Chris Heilmann)
• Embrace the Trifecta of Transformation: Innovation, Leadership, and Entrepreneurship and Unleashing the Power of Coaching: A Path to Personal and Professional Growth and What is Coaching? How To Be a More Effective Coach (JD Meier)
• Meet the ThemeBuilder Figma Import (Kathryn Grayson Nanz)
• MNW #052: Orchestration vs Choreography (Milan Jovanović)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• Cordova Android 12.0.1 Released! (Bryan Ellis)
• Tutorial: Integrating GraphQL with Flutter (yatendra2001)
• Epic Gives Devs 100% Revenue (Lucy Black)

Screencasts & Videos

• IoT Coffee Talk: Episode 171 – Edge Cloud Silliness (Live from VMware Explore 2023) (IoT Coffee Talk Crew)
• Building a Private ChatGPT with Azure OpenAI | The Azure Enablement Show (Harshitha Putta & Shane Baldacchino)
• Refactoring with C# and Visual Studio (Matt Eland)
• FreeCodeSession – Episode 482 (Jason Bock)
• The Download: Python Support in Excel, Dependabot Updates, New Coding Fonts and more (Christina Warren)

Podcasts

• 5 best tech podcasts for developers in 2023 (Aaikansh Agrawal)
• The Modern .NET Show – Season 6 Teaser (Jamie Taylor)
• Developer Tea – One Big Step Versus A Small Random Step (Jonathan Cutrell)
• InfoQ Podcast: Developer Enablement at Spotify with Pia Nilsson (Pia Nilsson)
• Testing and Development in the Data Domain with Pete Hunt – Adventures in DevOps 170 (Jillian Rowe, Jonathan Hall & Will Button)
• Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – BONUS: From journalism to Scrum Mastery, collected lessons on working with teams by Ian McGrady (Vasco Duarte)
• ONPOD EP.126: THE FUTURE OF XBOX, MICROSOFT VIVA UPDATES, BUSINESS EDGE, FUTURE TEAMS, AND MORE (Podcast OnMSFT Team)
• The CSS Podcast 70: Why is my image distorted? (Una Kravets & Adam Argyle)
• PPP 390 | From Brain Tumor Survivor to Leadership Expert: The Inspiring Journey of Jen Dary (Andy Kaufman)
• Does College Matter in Software Engineering? – Adventures in Angular 388 (Subrat Mishra & Lucas Paganini)
• AWS Developer Podcast Episode 094 – Better Developer Productivity in the Cloud Using Winglang with Elad Ben-Israel (David Isbitski)
• The Happy Engineer Podcast 123: Are You on the Road to Burnout? | The Unspoken Pandemic (Max Ahumada)

Community & Events

• Advice and Admissions From Creator of C++ (Sue Gee)
• Microsoft Inspire 2023 Hero Announcements (Lara Bems)
• Women in IT: Overcoming Adversity, Mentoring Others (Nathan Eddy)
• User’s Experience in Microsoft Power Apps an interview with Ilya Fainberg, Microsoft (Rachel Irabor)

Database

• Impact of Offline SQL Server Index Rebuilds (Jared Westover)
• Yet Another Reason to Not Use sp_ in your SQL Server Object Names (Louis Davidson)
• Working with Hierarchies in SQL Server – A Comprehensive Course (Pinal Dave)
• Fine-Tuning Improves the Performance of Meta’s Code Llama on SQL Code Generation (Justin Langseth, Rajhans Samdani & Ashwin Devaraj)
• Benefits of Using Vector Databases (Pankaj Pandey)
• Ditching Databases for Apache Kafka as System of Record (Andreas Evers)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams

• CLI for Microsoft 365 extension (Adam It)

PowerShell & Terminal

• PowerShell: Turn Your Custom Objects into CSV Files (and vice versa) with a Snap of Your Fingers (Emanuele Bartolesi)
• Improve Git CLI Efficiency with Oh My Zsh (Sean Kegel)

Miscellaneous

• Created a Markdown Desktop App with Tauri (Alex Ma)
• Bing Preview Release Notes: More Ways to Access Bing Chat (Bing Team)
• Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 23531 (Dev Channel) and Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 25936 (Canary Channel) (Brandon LeBlanc)
• Why Do Cats Love Tuna So Much? Scientists May Finally Know and Can You Run Linux On a Commodore 64? and CERN’s Large Hadron Collider Makes Its First Observations of Neutrinos (EditorDavid)
• How do we fix the “Too Many Newsletters” problem? (Om Malik)

More Link Collections

• F# Weekly #34, 2023 –.NET 8.0 GC feature called DATAS (Sergey Tihon)
• Daily Reading List – August 25, 2023 (#151) (Richard Seroter)
• The Overflow #192: Ask your data better questions (Ryan Donovan & Cassidy Williams)
• Collective #779 (Manoela Ilic)
• C# Digest #469 – August 28, 2023 (Jakub Chodounsky)

The Geek Shelf

 Learning Blazor: Build Single-Page Apps with WebAssembly and C# (David Pine) – Referral Link