Tag: design patterns

Next week, I’ll probably only publish a couple of Dew Drops. I will be at VSLIve in Redmond for the week. Back to normal service on Monday, Aug 12th.

Top Links

• Visual Studio Code July 2024 (Visual Studio Code Team)
• Building Apps with Visual Studio in the Cloud with Dev Box | Visual Studio Toolbox (Leslie Richardson & Isaac Levin)
• Introducing Agents in Semantic Kernel (Chris Rickman)
• Windows Dev Chat – August 15, 2024 (Windows Developer Team)
• Windows 365 GPU-enabled Cloud PCs now generally available (Seneca Friend, Femi Adebayo & Ron Martinsen)
• Introducing GitHub Models: A new generation of AI engineers building on GitHub (Thomas Dohmke)

Web & Cloud Development

• .NET Aspire : Supercharge your .NET DX (Divyesh Bhandari)
• Eleventy v3.0.0-beta.1 is now available! (Zach Leatherman)
• Windows 365 management capabilities now on N-able Cloud Commander (Ivaylo Ivanov)
• Astro 4.13 (Erika)
• How to Resize JavaScript DataGrid Columns Using Your Keyboard (Chris Bannon)
• Adding Serilog to ASP.NET Core: a practical guide (Metalama Team)
• How To Build A Multilingual Website With Nuxt.js (Tim Benniks)
• The Evolution of Web Development: From HTML5 to JavaScript and Beyond (Janus Atienza)
• AI-driven insights reduce TCO for Windows 365 Cloud PCs (Ben Murphy)
• How to Harden WordPress: An 18-Step Guide with Essential Tools (Jen Swisher)
• HTML Web Components Make Progressive Enhancement and CSS Encapsulation Easier! (Kev Bonett)
• ASP.NET Core 8 using DataTables.net – Part 9 – Advanced Filters (Mark Pelf)
• How Astro and Its Server Islands Compare To React Frameworks (Richard MacManus)
• Reduce allocations and comparison performance with the new unique package in Go 1.23 (Joseph Woodward)
• ESLint adoption guide: Overview, examples, and alternatives (Sebastian Weber)

Visual Studio & .NET

• The Singleton Pattern in C# Today Is Not Your Dad’s One! (Metalama Team)
• What’s the difference between Data­Package­View.Get­Uri­Async and Data­Package­View.Get­Web­Link­Async? (Raymond Chen)
• What’s New in vcpkg (July 2024) (Augustin Popa)
• The Worst .NET Bug I’ve Ever Fixed (Aaron Stannard)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• How to Integrate Test Driven Development With CI/CD (Boemo Wame Mmopelwa)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• VirtualBox for Windows IoT development (Paul Guerin)

Screencasts & Videos

• What are GitHub Copilot Extensions? | One Dev Question (Damian Brady)
• ICYMI: Video Series on TCP/IP Application Protocol Design (Stephen Cleary)
• Connect your Minecraft Game with MongoDB. (MongoDB Team)
• Aspireify.. its a thing we do (Jeff Fritz)
• GitHub Models DEMO | AI models for developers on GitHub (GitHub Team)

Podcasts

• InfoQ Podcast: Founding and Growing an Engineering Company with Dr. Olga Kubassova (Olga Kubassova)
• Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – The True Purpose of Scrum Ceremonies, and How They Help to Grow Self-organizing Agile Teams | Karina Margole (Vasco Duarte)
• JS Party Podcast #333 – A Nick-level emergency (Jerod Santo, Kevin Ball & Nick Nisi)
• The CSS Podcast 085: Linear easing function fun (Una Kravets & Adam Argyle)
• Azure Podcast – Cobalt 100 Processor (Cynthia Kreng, Kendall Roden, Cale Teeter, Evan Basalik, Russell Young & Sujit D’Mello)
• UI Breakfast Episode 285: Designing for Real-world Experiences with Dave Waddell (Jane Portman)
• The Stack Overflow Podcast – How developer experience can escape the spreadsheet (Eira May)
• Software Defined Talk Episode 478: Beware of the Llama (Brandon Whichard & Matt Ray)

Community & Events

• Intel is laying off over 15,000 employees and will cut $10 billion in costs (Sean Hollister)
• Bungie CEO Faces Backlash After Announcing 220 Employees Will Be Laid Off (BeauHD)

Database

• JDBC Driver 12.8 for SQL Server Released and ODBC Driver 18.4 for SQL Server Released (David Engel)
• A T-SQL Query To Get The Text Between Two Delimiters In SQL Server (Erik Darling)
• Cumulative Update #28 for SQL Server 2019 RTM (Srinivas Kandibanda)
• Azure SQL free database: Azure Data Studio, PowerApps, GitHub copilot, Power BI, and Generative AI (Marisa Mathews)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams

• Up to speed with Copilot and Teams (Vesa Nopanen)
• Built for today, designed for the future – The new Outlook for Windows is ready when you are (Margie Clinton)
• New Windows 365 features help provide a more secure workspace (Lavanya Kasarabada)
• Windows 365 at three years: Customer-centric solutions for security, management and productivity (Scott Manchester)

Miscellaneous

• Apple reports third quarter results (Apple)
• Browsers, cookies and surfing the web: The quirky history of internet lingo (Erica Brozovsky)
• Windows App general availability coming soon (Hilary Braun)
• Microsoft Now Lists OpenAI as a Competitor in AI and Search (msmash)
• Arm Revenue Jumps 39 Percent to $939 Million and Qualcomm Revenues Up 11 Percent to $9.4 Billion (Paul Thurrott)
• Amazon sales miss expectations, profits nearly double (Todd Bishop)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #3995 (Chris Alcock)
• Today’s Readings (Aaron T. Grogg)
• dotInsights | August 2024 (Rachel Appel)
• Daily Reading List – August 1, 2024 (#368) (Richard Seroter)

The Geek Shelf (Referral)