Top Links
- The Microsoft Learn Cloud Skills Challenge – Microsoft Ignite Edition (Microsoft Learn)
- Understanding Styes in XAML based Applications and Implicit and Explicit Styles in XAML and Fixing Broken DefaultButtonStyle in Windows UI (WinUI) / WinAppSdk (Nick Randolph)
- 5 Ways to Personalize Visual Studio | Visual Studio Toolbox (Leslie Richardson & Robert Green)
- By Reference in C# (Peter Ritchie)
- .NET Rocks! – Developing .NET on AWS with Isaac Levin (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
Web & Cloud Development
- Using XML Documentation With ASP.NET Core Minimal API Apps and OpenAPI (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
- CSS Flexbox Cheat Sheet (Anshul Soni)
- Getting the Power of Vim in WebStorm and Other JetBrains IDEs (David Watson)
- Building a Kanban board with Node.js, React and Websockets ✨ (Nevo David)
- Postman Essentials: Exploring the Collection Format (Gbadebo Bello)
- Web apps on Windows are getting closer to their native counterparts (Monica Chin)
- Timestone: Netflix’s High-Throughput, Low-Latency Priority Queueing System with Built-in Support… (Kostas Christidis)
- Node v18.10.0 (Current) (Rafael Gonzaga)
- Announcing the New Adobe Document Services REST APIs (Raymond Camden)
- Attention Developers: The Cloud-Scale Data for Spring Developers Quick Start Guide is Finally Here! (Ricky Diep)
Visual Studio & .NET
- .NET: Learn LINQ as you never have before (Anthony Giretti)
- Microsoft Teams’ Infrastructure and Azure Communication Services’ Journey to .NET 6 (Siavash Fathi)
- 6 Productivity Shortcuts on Windows 10 & 11 I wish I knew as a Junior Software Developer (Michael Shpilt)
- Dotfuscator Professional Edition, Version 6.5.1- Release Date September 22, 2022 (Brij Mohan)
- Using system package manager dependencies with vcpkg (Daniel Shaw)
- Why does COM express GUIDs in a mix of big-endian and little-endian? Why can’t it just pick a side and stick with it? (Raymond Chen)
Design, Methodology & Testing
- Top Benefits of Automating Exploratory Testing Scenarios (Amy Reichert)
- What Figma plans to do inside Adobe (Casey Newton)
- How to Delete a Local or Remote Branch on Git and GitHub (Christopher Tozzi)
- Best practices on rolling out code scanning at enterprise scale (Kevin Alwell)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- Optimize for Android Go : Lessons from Google apps Part 2 (Niharika Arora)
- Alexa is getting some much-needed smart home upgrades (Jon Porter)
- Integrate React Native and Spring Boot Securely (Matt Raible)
- Listen to our major Text to Speech upgrades for 64 bit devices. (Rakesh Iyer & Leland Rechis)
- MagSafe your HoloLens (Joost van Schaik)
- Minecraft services build on Mariner (Olivia Al Joundi)
Screencasts & Videos
- AWS for the .NET Developer – Amazon EC2 and Lightsail and Coffee and Open Source Conversation – Ricardo Sueiras (Isaac Levin)
- What is the TechSpark program and how does TitletownTech fit into that strategy? | One Dev Question (Matt Adamczyk)
- Breaking Changes: Taki Hasegawa, The Trevor Project (Postman Team)
Podcasts
- Kubernetes Podcast from Google – VMware Tanzu, with Betty Junod (Craig Box & Adam Glick)
- Working Code Podcast – Episode 94: Disagree And Commit (Ben Nadel)
- Complete Developer Podcast – Database Indexing Mistakes (BJ Burns & Will Gant)
- Talk Python to Me #383: Textinator and Building macOS Apps with Python (Michael Kennedy)
Community & Events
- Diversity and inclusion program update for Kubernetes Community Days 2022 (Audra Montenegro)
- Search On 2022 (Google Keyword Team)
- The 11 biggest announcements at Amazon’s hardware launch event (Emma Roth)
- Satya Nadella addresses the next generation of UK game makers at Xbox Academy (Microsoft News)
Database
- Checklist for troubleshooting and improving MySQL database performance (Bashar)
- Public preview: Azure AD authentication with Azure Database for MySQL – Flexible Server (Azure Team)
- Partition Key Best Practices in Cosmos DB (Rahul Mehta)
- Developer Caveats for Database as a Service (Loraine Lawson)
- Improve your SQL Managed Instance performance with new TempDB configurations (Nevena Nikolic)
- Intro and Short Tutorial on Data Annotation with Label Studios (Exxact Team)
PowerShell & Command Line
- A Little Shell Rabbit Hole (Ian Miell)
Miscellaneous
- Microsoft’s discontinuing SwiftKey on iOS next week (Emma Roth)
- Amazon’s Kindle Scribe is an E Ink tablet for reading and writing (David Pierce)
- How to Use Brand Awareness to Reduce Developer Fear and Anxiety (DeveloperMedia)
- Microsoft takes another step toward launching the new unified Outlook (Mary Jo Foley)
More Link Collections
- The Morning Brew #3553 (Chris Alcock)
- Bits and Bytes – 2022-10 (Joe Brinkman)
- #ThisMonthInSWA – Sep 2022 Roundup! (Nitya Narasimhan, Ph.D)
The Geek Shelf
The DevOps Handbook: How to Create World-Class Agility, Reliability, and Security in Technology Organizations (Gene Kim & Patrick Debois) – Referral Link
