Top Links
- The Hanselminutes Podcast – What is AI’s UI? with Maggie Appleton (Scott Hanselman)
- My Top Stories of 2024: A Mountain of Words in a Momentous Year (Paul Thurrott)
- Navigating the Complexity of Legacy Code with Generative AI (Sid Misra)
- AWS Developers Podcast Episode #145 – Retro coding – Commodore 64 and Amazon Q for developers (Sébastien Stormacq)
- Microsoft 365 Copilot Year In Review | 2024 (Seth Patton)
- Critical: .NET Install links are changing (Richard Lander)
Web & Cloud Development
- Styling HTML and with modern CSS (Rob O’Leary)
- What is a One Time Password (OTP) (Fernando Martin)
- Vanilla Astro, No Framework Needed (Jonathan Gamble)
- Discover the Exciting New Features in .NET Aspire 9 (Rijwan Ansari)
Visual Studio & .NET
- Change the line ending of a file in VS Code (Bart Wullems)
- Boost Your C# Skills: Top 25 Mind-Blowing Tips and Tricks (Dmitry Stadub)
- .NET Community Toolkit 8.4: New MVVM Features, Enhanced Analyzers and Bug Fixes (Almir Vuk)
- Liskov Substitution Principle (LSP) in .NET 8: A Complete and Advanced Guide (Anderson Godoy)
- Single Platform, Multi-Purpose Couchbase: Vector Search, Geospatial, SQL++, and More (Matthew Groves)
- Beyond Boundaries – Networking Programming with C# 12 and .NET 8 | LeanPub (Chris Woodruff)
- Logging in .NET: Best Practices and Why You Should Love It (Marius Schröder)
- Why are Win32 resources strings bundled at all? And why bundles of 16? (Raymond Chen)
- Fast build and high security in .NET with Package Source Mapping (Tomasz Sobczak)
AI
- AI, Hardware and Open Models: Headed in the Linux Direction (Agam Shah)
- Buyer beware: OpenAI’s o1 large language model is an entirely different beast (Anthony Diamond)
Design, Methodology & Testing
- Kubernetes Is Taking Over: Deploy Smarter With 4 New Techniques (Anne Fernandez)
- 3 Lessons from the Smartest Developers I’ve Worked With (Brian Jenney)
- Dive Deep into Merge Requests with GitLab Duo Chat (Aditya Kulkarni)
- How Innovation Coaching Can Transform Your Business and What Makes a Good Innovation Coach? (JD Meier)
- Infrastructure as Code in 2024: Why It’s Still So Terrible (Joab Jackson)
- A Guide to SaaS Application Security (PreEmptive Team)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- Reverse Engineering The Stream Deck Plus (Den Delimarsky)
Screencasts & Videos
- Welcome to Visual Studio subscriptions: Your guided tour (Visual Studio Team)
- Fallback Mechanism for UI Automation in Power Automate for Desktop | Microsoft Community Learning (Manish Solanki)
- Random.Code() – Advent of Code Playthrough – Part 1 (Jason Bock)
Podcasts
- InfoQ Podcast: Leveraging AI Platforms to Improve Developer Experience – From Personal Hackathon to AI at Scale (Olalekan Elesin)
- The Stack Overflow Podcast – Balancing business and open source in 2024 (Eira May)
- The Cloud Pod Episode #285 – 6 years of cloud news… and we’re still talking about FPGAs and PowerPC (Justin Brodley, Jonathan Baker, Ryan Lucas & Matthew Kohn)
- AGL 397: The Art of Influence with Jennifer Gardner (John Rouda)
- Software Defined Talk Episode #499 – Star, Archive, or Spam? (Brandon Whichard & Brian Gracely)
- Software Engineering Radio #648 – Matthew Adams on AI Threat Modeling and Stride GPT (Priyanka Raghavan)
- Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast Xmas Special – Investing in Software: Alternatives To Project Management For Software Businesses With Vasco Duarte (Vasco Duarte)
Community & Events
- Bluesky adds Trending topics to its arsenal (Barbara Krasnoff)
- Celebrate the Public Domain with the Internet Archive (Chris Freeland)
Database
- Remove unwanted partition data in Azure Synapse (SQL DW) (ayush9892)
- Tis the Season for SSIS: Celebrating a Data Engineering Classic (Frank La Vigne)
- Two Of My Favorite NOLOCK Demos from Paul White and Aaron Bertrand (Erik Darling)
SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams
- Install SharePoint Subscription (Mohamed El-Qassas)
Miscellaneous
- Elon Musk’s jets made 355 trips in 2024, including 31 to or from the Mar-a-Lago area (Margaux MacColl)
- Hertz is asking EV renters if they want to keep it, permanently (Umar Shakir)
The Geek Shelf
From Zero to Hero: REST APIs in .NET | Dometrain (Nick Chapsas) – Referral Link
