Top Links
- My annual letter: Leading in a new era (Satya Nadella)
- TechBash Announces One Day Tickets (Jason Gaylord)
- DALL·E 3 is now available in ChatGPT Plus and Enterprise (OpenAI Team)
- 15th Anniversery of Small Basic (Nonki Takahashi)
- 3 reasons to delay adopting .NET 8 and 10 to do it ASAP (Uno Platform Team)
- The Prompt with Trevor Noah Episode 1: Mapping the world’s forgotten populations at the IHME (Trevor Noah)
Web & Cloud Development
- Improved DynamoDB Initialization Patterns for the AWS SDK for .NET (Alex Shovlin)
- Azure SDK Release (October 2023) (Azure SDK)
- Azure CLI: Check if Blob Exists in Azure Storage (Chris Pietschmann)
- Blazor Basics: Blazor Routing and Navigation Fundamentals (Claudio Bernasconi)
- Imagining the Ideal GraphQL Integration for Marten (Jeremy D. Miller)
- More Ways to Slim Down ‘JavaScript Heavy’ Web Development (Loraine Lawson)
- Vertical Slice Architecture in ASP.NET Core (Patrick Smacchia)
- Server-side rendering (SSR) for Blazor in .NET 8 (David Grace)
- Rust Is Surging Ahead in WebAssembly (For Now) (B. Cameron Gain)
- FHIR Starter #1 (Jeff Helman)
- Updates to the Postman proxy and Interceptor: better filters and UX (Vishal Shingala)
WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML
- Dots 2.0 – Farewell .NET MAUI Hello Avalonia (Joachim Leonfellner)
- Chart of the Week: Creating a .NET MAUI Radial Bar Chart for the Most and Least Powerful Passports in 2023 (Nitheeshkumar Thangaraj)
- WPF vs. WinForms: Choosing the Proper Framework for Your Project (Patrick Smacchia)
- .NET MAUI — What It Is and Why It Matters (PreEmptive Team)
- Create Neat and Effective Schedules with the .NET MAUI Scheduler Component (Viktoria Grozdancheva)
Visual Studio & .NET
- How to Query JSON Data using SQL, LINQ, and ADO. NET (Kartik Sagar)
- Visual Studio 2022 version 17.8 Preview 4 Release Notes (Microsoft Learn)
- Memory alignment of doubles in C# (Kevin Gosse)
- How to Implement the Facade Pattern in C# for Simplified Code and Increased Efficiency (Nick Cosentino)
- E-Sign: Retrieving Timestamped Raw Signature Data and Document Viewer: Save the Values of Form Fields in Documents (Bjoern Meyer)
- What’s the difference between setting a page’s protection to PAGE_NOACCESS and freeing it? (Raymond Chen)
- Visual Studio Dapr Extension (Microsoft Open Source)
Design, Methodology, AI & Testing
- Forget “No Code.” Adios “Low Code.” Say hello to “Yes Code!” (Ben Popper)
- Microsoft Security Copilot Early Access Program: Harnessing generative AI to empower security teams (Vasu Jakkal)
- Premature Infrastructure is the Root of All Evil (Michael Shpilt)
- Rearchitecture is a sign of success not failure (Bart Wullems)
- What does AI mean for computing education? (Philip Colligan)
- To #BuildIntelligentApps just #AskTheExpert ! (Sherry List)
- Azure DevOps: Improved Code Coverage Tab Experience (Vinayak Joshi)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- Update to Windows Subsystem for Android™ on Windows 11 (October 2023) (Brandon LeBlanc)
- Image processing on Raspberry Pi 5: our new hardware image signal processor (Helen Lynn)
Screencasts & Videos
- Definitive Guide to Uno Platform Contributions (Martin Zikmund)
- What I Wish I Knew … about finding your passion (Microsoft Developer)
- New Azure Portal experience for Azure Database Migration Service | Data Exposed (Anna Hoffman)
Podcasts
- The Modern .NET Podcast – Unleashing the Power of Windows Development with Peter Bull (Jamie Taylor)
- The Hanselminutes Podcast – Technology Passion with Peter Ayedun (Scott Hanselman)
- CppCast – Physical Units and a System of Quantities (Timur Doumler & Phil Nash)
- Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Sustainable Agile Practice, A Success Factor For Scrum Masters | Michael Schmidt (Vasco Duarte)
- Web Rush Episode 256: FullStack JavaScript and TypeScript Apps Using Remult.js (John Papa, Ward Bell, Dan Wahlin & Craig Shoemaker)
- JS Party Podcast – Use Effect (not useEffect) (Johannes Schickling, Jerod Santo & Nick Nisi)
- Rocket 460: We are so (not) back (Christina Warren, Brianna Wu & Simone De Rochefort)
- UX Podcast – Designer accountability with Kim Goodwin (James Royal-Lawson & Per Axbom)
- Digital Etsy Store | Multithreaded Income Episode 9 (Kevin Griffin)
- The Happy Engineer Podcast 134: Be Happy and Fulfilled through Personal Development Mastery with Agi Keramidas (Max Ahumada)
- Talk Python to Me #434: Building Mobile Apps Backed with Python (Michael Kennedy)
- Software Defined Talk Episode 437: The Let it Ride Lifestyle (Brandon Whichard, Cote & Matt Ray)
- Software Engineering Radio 586: Nikhil Shetty on Virtual Private Cloud (Kanchan Shringi)
- Made by Google Podcast – Heart Rate Tracking: A Whole New Pulse (Rachid Finge)
Community & Events
- Stardock at 30 (Paul Thurrott)
Database
- Free SQL Server Training: UDF Inlining In SQL Server 2019 (Erik Darling)
- AI/ML- Death of the Database? Long Live the Database! (Kellyn Gorman)
- SQL SERVER – Best Practices for Securely Storing Passwords (Pinal Dave)
- Fast Key Optimization for Row Mode Sorts (Paul White)
SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams
- Microsoft Teams Premium: The smart place to work is also a smart investment (Nicole Herskowitz)
- Bring your app across Microsoft 365: Outlook extensions, meeting apps, and more (Nnamdi Onuorah)
PowerShell & Terminal
- Don’t accidentally leak secrets from your terminal (Melanie Crissey)
Miscellaneous
- What is Diátaxis and should you be using it with your documentation? (Tom Johnson)
- The Introvert’s Guide to Traveling with Others (Amanda Wowk)
- Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22635.2486 (Beta Channel) (Brandon LeBlanc)
- Jon Stewart’s Apple TV Plus show ends, reportedly over coverage of AI and China (Charles Pulliam-Moore)
- Photoshop Elements 2024 gives access to Adobe Photoshop’s AI tools without a subscription (Sofia Elizabella Wyciślik-Wilson)
More Link Collections
- The Morning Brew #3806 (Chris Alcock)
- Daily Reading List – October 19, 2023 (#186) (Richard Seroter)
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Badass Habits: Cultivate the Confidence, Boundaries, and Know-How to Upgrade Your Life (Jen Sincero) – Referral Link