ml.net – Page 18 – Morning Dew by Alvin Ashcraft

Dew Drop – January 4, 2021 (#3351)

Top Links

Introduction to Python – Learn (MS Learn)
Technology & Friends – Javier Lozano on Virtual Conferences (David Giard)
Windows Packages (APPX, MSIX etc) are a Band-Aid Solution (Nick Randolph)
Machine Learning with ML.NET – Introduction (Nikola M. Zivkovic)

Web & Cloud Development

What’s new in Svelte: January 2021 (Daniel Sandoval)
Sample HTTP Endpoint For Querying Azure Analysis Services And Power BI Premium (Chris Webb)
Cars Island ASP.NET Core API secured by Azure AD B2C – part 2 (Daniel Krzyczkowski)
Building Evergreen Notes with Hugo, Markdown, and Docker (Den Delimarsky)
Using the latest version of the Azure CLI (Gregor Suttie)
Create React App with ts-loader and CRACO and Strongly typing react-querys useQueries (Johnny Reilly)
Pre-render Blazor WebAssembly at build time to optimize for search engines (Niels Swimberghe)
Azure Service Bus – Scheduled Message Delivery and Viewing Server Variables in Asp.Net Core (Paul Michaels)
AWS Introduces Location Service in Preview (Renato Losio)
Understanding WebSockets with ASP.NET Core (Sahan Serasinghe)
ESLint v7.17.0 released (ESLint Team)
Create your first serverless function with Red Hat OpenShift Serverless Functions (Naina Singh)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

Fixing Our Audio Recording with Xamarin.Essentials Permissions (Gerald Versluis)
What’s New in 2020 Volume 4: WPF (Sivakumar R)
Caliburn micro latest release candiate · Caliburn.Micro v4.0.158-rc (Nigel Sampson)

Visual Studio & .NET

NuGet Gallery | Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.NetAnalyzers 5.0.1 (Roslyn Team)
VS Code – Vertical Rulers for Prettier Code? (Brad Beggs)
Play Audio Files With .NET (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
Analyzing Code For Issues In .NET 5 (David McCarter)
Missing Files in Multi-Targeted Project (Nick Randolph)

Design, Methodology & Testing

CI/CD tips and tricks with AWS Lambda (Sam Williams)
Why Toggle Buttons Should Never Look Like Action Buttons (Anthony)
Writing useful release notes for your projects (James Croft)
Moving the Cheese (Ryan Hayes)
Tutorial: Deploying and Using WebAssembly Under Deno on the Server Side Using Travis CI (Montana Mendy)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Raspberry Pi ‘Swear Bear’ keeps your potty mouth in check (Ashley Whittaker)
Introducing My Cadence for Arduino, a DIY Cadence Display for Indoor Cycling (James Montemagno)
HandSmashService – an MRTK2 extension service to smash holograms at high speed (Joost van Schaik)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

Developer Tea – The Dangers of Measuring Side Effects (Jonathan Cutrell)
Hanselminutes – 2020 sucked – A year-end wrap-up with Scott’s Wife, Mo (Scott Hanselman)
Merge Conflict 235: Holiday Hack Success! (James Montemagno & Frank Kreuger)
Exploring Colors in Xamarin.Forms Shell and Pull to Refresh in Xamarin.Forms and Color the iOS Status Bar in Xamarin.Forms (David Ortinau)
Xamarin.Forms XAML 101 + Hello World! (James Montemagno)
Unhandled Exception Podcast – Functional Programming in C# with Simon Painter (Dan Clarke)
CppCast – Goodbye 2020 (Rob Irving)
Coding Blocks Podcast – Our Favorite Developer Tools of 2020 (Allen Underwood, Michael Outlaw & Joe Zack)
RiYL Episode 434: Erika Ender (Brian Heater)
SQL Data Partners Podcast Episode 212: 10 Things You Need to Know About Data Security (Carlos L Chacon)
The Amp Hour #524 – LEDs and EVs with Mike Harrison (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
RunAs Radio – IT in 2021 (Richard Campbell & Greg Hughes)
UX Podcast #253 – The state of accessibility with Derek Featherstone (James Royal-Lawson & Per Axbom)
UI Breakfast Episode 201: Data-Driven Insights with Helena Ronis (Jane Portman & Helena Ronis)
FreeCodeSession – Episode 226 and FreeCodeSession – Special Episode 3 (Jason Bock)
Married With Windows – Windows Weekly 705 (Paul Thurrott)
The Stack Overflow Podcast – Welcome to 2021 with special guest Joel Spolsky (Sara Chipps, Paul Ford & Ben Popper)

Community & Events

Pivoting, responding and moving ahead: Five diversity and inclusion lessons from 2020 (Katie Juran)
The Top freeCodeCamp Contributors of 2020 (Quincy Larson)
Farewell to Flash (Alex Blewitt)
Google, Alphabet employees seek to form a union (Megan Rose Dickey)
F# Foundation: Thank you, and Welcome to 2021! (Reed Copsey)
Using what I learned at Google to make New Year resolutions (Tim Sneath)

Database

SQL Update Statement with Join in SQL Server vs Oracle vs PostgreSQL (Andrea Gnemmi)
Released: SSRS and SSAS Management Packs (7.0.29.0) (Ebru Ersan)
10 SQL Server Mistakes DBAs Need to Avoid (Kevin Kline)
SQL SERVER – Find Count of Table Used in Query From Cache (Pinal Dave)
Building a SQL Database Audit System using Kafka, MongoDB and Maxwell’s Daemon (Vishal Sinha)

SharePoint & MS Teams

How to Get SharePoint Folder Permissions Using JavaScript? (Mohamed El-Qassas)
Teams Application highlight: Perfect Wiki and Roadmap Watch: what to expect for Microsoft Teams in January 2021? (Vesa Nopanen)
CLI for Microsoft 365 v3.4 (Microsoft 365 PnP Team)

PowerShell

Understanding and Manipulating Dates and Time in PowerShell (Adam Bertram)
New Year – New Official Azure Sentinel PowerShell Module! (Tiander Turpijn)

Miscellaneous

LEGO 2021 Sets Arrive Tonight: Botanical Collection, Star Wars, Harry Potter, and More (Sean Fallon)
Announcing Rust 1.49.0 (The Rust Release Team)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #3140 (Chris Alcock)
Our Top C#, .NET, Production Debugging, Visual Studio Extension, Azure, and DevOps Blog Posts of 2020 (Rami Honig)
Code Maze Weekly #58 (Vladimir Pecanac)
C# Digest Issue #344 (Jakub Chodounsky)
F# Weekly #1, 2021 – Happy New Year! (Sergey Tihon)
Friday Five: Project Bicep, PerfInsights, More! (Jeffrey Raymond Kitt)
The Overflow #54: Talking crypto (Ryan Donovan & Cassidy Williams)
Reading Notes #455 (Frank Boucher)

The Geek Shelf

The Art of Immutable Architecture: Theory and Practice of Data Management in Distributed Systems (Michael L. Perry) – Referral Link

Dew Drop – December 8, 2020 (#3334)

Top Links

Basic Home Networking 101 – Computer Stuff They Didn’t Teach You #17 (Scott Hanselman)
Bring lights in Unity into the real-world using Philips Hue (Paul Marsh)
Dart: Why nullable types? (Bob Nystrom)
Use C# 9 records and init-only properties in ReSharper and Rider 2020.3 (Rachel Appel)

Web & Cloud Development

Speed Up Your Angular Application with Code Splitting (Ashnita Bali)
Azure SDK Release (November 2020) (Azure Team)
Using multiple APIs in Angular and ASP.NET Core with Azure AD authentication (Damien Bowden)
Migrating Vue 2 to Vue 3 (John Papa)
Skeleton Screens for React Apps (Leonardo Maldonado)
Updated Candidate Recommendation: CSS Conditional Rules Module Level 3 (Xueyuan Jia)
Resize-Resilient `content-visibility` Fixes (Alex Russell)
Using action results and content negotiation with “route-to-code” APIs (Andrew Lock)

Visual Studio & .NET

Announcing PostSharp 6.8 RC: Support for .NET 5, C# 9 and improvements in logging (Lejla Rasic)
Automate a Markdown links page with Pinboard and C# (Dave Brock)
Creating your first CRUD app with Suave and F# (Diogo Souza)
The proper usages of the keyword ‘static’ in C# (Patrick Smacchia)
Predicting Die Hard fans with ML.NET and C# (Thomas Ardal)

Design, Methodology & Testing

Measuring developer productivity (Isaac Lyman)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Learn Bash by writing an interactive game (Jim Hall)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

Syntax Podcast – Hasty Treat – Why should I use React Hooks? (Wes Bos)
MS Dev Show – System.CommandLine with Jon Sequeira and Kathleen Dollard (Jason Young & Carl Schweitzer)
CodeNewbie S14:E5 – What is Typescript and when should you use it (Dan Vanderkam) (CodeNewbie Team)
The 6 Figure Developer Episode 173 – bUnit: A Blazor Testing Lib w/ Egil Hansen (John Callaway)
C# with CSharpFritz – S2 Ep 2: Introduction to ASP.NET Core MVC (Jeff Fritz)
Asp.Net Monsters #194: Single File Applications in .NET 5 (Simon Timms, David Paquette & James Chambers)
Measure and optimize app retention like a pro – Apps, Games & Insights Episode 15 (Nir Eyal & Marcus Gners)
Microsoft 365 Dev Podcast – Fluid Framework and Distributed Systems with Kurt Berglund (Jeremy Thake & Paul Schaeflein)
Talk Python to Me #294 – oso authorizes Python (Michael Kennedy)
Microsoft 365 PnP Weekly – Episode 108 (Vesa Juvonen, Waldek Mastykarz & Isabelle van Campenhoudt)
Welcome and How to Build and Scale a Local Community (Dona Sarkar)
Be a Force for Good – Microsoft Learn Student Ambassador Program (Josh N.)
The Stack Overflow Podcast – Connecting apps, data, and the cloud with Apollo GraphQL CEO Geoff Schmidt (Sara Chipps, Paul Ford & Ben Popper)
Azure Podcast Episode 357 – Verifiable Identity with Blockchain (Sujit D’Mello)
Inside Trader Joe’s Episode 31: Celebrating the Holidays with Trader Joe’s Crew – And Cookies! (Trader Joe’s Team)

Community & Events

GitHub Release Radar · December 2020 Edition (Michelle Mannering)
State of Mozilla 2019-2020: Annual Impact Report (Mozilla)
I want to learn about these six things in 2021 (Richard Seroter)

Database

Change Database and Table Collation – SQL in Sixty Seconds #145 (Pinal Dave)
Managing indexing through the Azure Portal in Azure Cosmos DB’s API for MongoDB (Tim Sander)

SharePoint & MS Teams

What’s new in Teams Phones | December 2020 (MS Teams Team)
How to: create and add a OneNote tab to your Microsoft Teams team channel using Power Automate + Graph API (Vesa Nopanen)

Miscellaneous

Is it too late to stop climate change? (Bill Gates)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #3129 (Chris Alcock)
.NET App Developer Links – 2020-12-08 (Dan Rigby)
Collective #639 (Pedro Botelho)

The Geek Shelf

An Introduction to Building Applications with Blazor: How to get started creating applications using this exciting easy to use Microsoft C# framework (Michael Washington) – Referral Link

Dew Drop – December 1, 2020 (#3329)

Top Links

What’s the correlation between .NET 5, WinUI and MAUI (Xamarin.Forms) (Nick Randolph)
Getting Started With PowerShell Core in Windows Terminal (Sean Killeen)
ML.NET Model Builder November Updates (Bri Achtman)
Alt+Enter, the shortcut for everything (Rachel Appel)

Web & Cloud Development

Using Quartz.NET with ASP.NET Core and worker services (Andrew Lock)
5 Best Practices to Write Quality JavaScript Variables (Dmitri Pavlutin)
WebStorm 2020.3: Tailwind CSS, Git Staging, and More (Ekaterina Ryabukha)
Dynamic Components with Vue’s ‘component’ (Marina Mosti)
Visually Showing Atlas Search Highlights with JavaScript and HTML (Nic Raboy)
JS – Native Communication Bridge In Flutter (tomerpacific)
Making Phone Calls from Blazor WebAssembly with Twilio Voice (Niels Swimberghe)
Deconstructing blue/green deployments in Kubernetes (Matthew Casperson)
Render as You Fetch with React Suspense (Peter Mbanugo)
Amazon AWS Invests In Rust (Mike James)
Managing bounced emails with AWS SES and Azure Functions (Thomas Ardal)
OAuth is Not User Authorization (Scott Brady)
Google Cloud Functions Supports .NET Core 3.1 (but not .NET 5) (David Ramel)
Weaving Web Accessibility With Usability (Uri Paz)
Automating your routine with Golang and a CLI (Sonia)
GraphQL versus REST (Thomas Moore)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

5 Simple Steps to Create a Marquee Control in Your Xamarin.Forms Apps (Yogeshwaran Mohan)
Build Your First for iOS & Android App with Xamarin and Visual Studio (James Montemagno)

Visual Studio & .NET

Visual Studio Integrates GitHub Accounts (Kay Ewbank)
Introduction to Partial Function Application in F# (Ian Russell)
When C# 9.0 patterns go wrong: mechanism over intent (Ian Griffiths)
Noisy logs? Improve your signal-to-noise ratio with per-request logging and sampling (Gael Fraiteur)
Introducing WaveEngine 3.1 based on .NET 5 (Javier Cantón Ferrero)
.NET 5 Breaking Changes to the Base Class Library (Jonathan Allen)

Design, Methodology & Testing

Yes Sur: Behind the scenes of Sketch’s macOS makeover and Switching Silicon: How Sketch performs on Apple’s new hardware (Sketch Team)
Using BlazeMeter to Record JMeter Tests (Ilyana Smith)
Start better stand-ups with data (Pluralsight)
Improve Accessibility with These Five Plugins for Adobe XD and Google Chrome (Aga Naplocha)
Why Very Few (If Any) People Are “10x” Developers—Or Managers (Johanna Rothman)
Modular Monolith: Domain-Centric Design (Kamil Grzybek)
The Devil’s Dictionary of Software Design (Matthew MacDonald)
Does your organization need a developer evangelist? (Medi Madelen Gwosdz & Ritika Puri)
Build a complete Web App hosting a SPA in Azure DevOps YAML (Miguel Bernard)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Controlling an LED from the cloud using a C# Azure IoT Edge module on the Raspberry Pi (Carey Payette)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

Syntax Podcast – Hasty Treat – Writing Good Commit Messages (Wes Bos)
MS Dev Show – Identity Platform with Christos Matskas and John Patrick Dandison (Jason Young & Carl Schweitzer)
CodeNewbie S14:E4 – What are the benefits of learning to code when you’re older (Allison Sheridan) (CodeNewbie Team)
Smashing Podcast Episode 30 With Chris Murphy: What Is Product Design? (Drew McLellan)
Revision Path – Bennie F. Johnson (Maurice Cherry)
InfoQ Podcast: Michelle Noorali on the Service Mesh Interface Spec and Open Service Mesh Project (Michelle Noorali)
Implement serverless APIs with Azure Functions and Azure API Management | Azure Friday (Scott Hanselman & Rob Caron)
VS Code: Remote Development with SSH, VMs, and WSL | Tabs vs Spaces (Brigit Murtaugh)
Asp.Net Monsters #193 Background Tasks: Hangfire 101 (James Chambers, David Paquette & Simon Timms)
Serverless Chats Episode #77: Serverless for Operations with Ryan Coleman (Jeremy Daly)
AGL 184: High Preforming Boards with Didier Cossin (John Rouda)
A Day in a life of a Cloud Architect | CodeStories (Sherry List & Marilag Dimatulac)
DevTalk Podcast 51: Being a mobile developer. With Hussain Abbasi (Kerry Lothrop)
Microsoft 365 PnP Weekly – Episode 107 (Vesa Juvonen, Waldek Mastykarz & Fabio Franzini)
RealEstateCore, a smart building ontology for digital twins | Internet of Things Show (Olivier Bloch)
The Stack Overflow Podcast – Why developers are increasingly demanding ethics in tech (Paul Ford, Lyel Resner & Sara Chipps)
The 6 Figure Developer Episode 172 – Rob Richardson: .NET 5, Pipelines, & Testing (John Callaway)

Community & Events

The .NET Docs Show (Dec 7th) – I AM GRUUT: Blogging .NET, C#, and Azure for fun and education (.NET Docs Team & Shahed Chowdhuri)
Meet a Splunk Veteran (Heidi Smith)
Now That’s What I Call .NET 5 on #Dev_Jams (Morgan Mitchell)

Database

SQL SERVER – Change Database and Table Collation (Pinal Dave)
SQL Server Cumulative Updates (CU) through the end of calendar year 2020 (Tom Michaels)
Lesson Learned #149: Extracting data from Azure SQL DB using different drivers (Jose Manuel Jurado)
Planned Event Store Improvements for Marten V4, Daft Punk Edition (Jeremy D. Miller)
Cost Based Optimization with Couchbase JSON database (Binh Le)

SharePoint & MS Teams

How to create Microsoft 365/O365 Group sites with Teams using Graph API. (SPDev Support)

Miscellaneous

AWS engineer puts Windows 10 on Arm on Apple’s Mac M1 – and it kills Surface Pro X (Liam Tung)
Why do we believe lies? (Bill Gates)
Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 19042.662 (20H2) and Releasing Windows Feature Experience Pack 120.2212.1070.0 to the Beta Channel (Steve Clarke)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #3124 (Chris Alcock)
.NET App Developer Links – 2020-12-01 (Dan Rigby)
Last Week in .NET #20 – Microsoft reclaiming the “Creepy Spying Company” mantle (George Stocker)
Collective #637 (Pedro Botelho)
The Overflow #49: Container orchestration explained (Ryan Donovan)

The Geek Shelf

The DevOps Handbook: How to Create World-Class Agility, Reliability, and Security in Technology Organizations (Gene Kim & Patrick Debois) – Referral Link