Top Links
- TWC9: Windows Terminal 1.6 Preview, Python in VS Code, Pulumi, and more! | This Week On Channel 9 (Christina Warren)
- Transactions in Azure Cosmos DB with the .NET SDK (Leonard Lobel)
- How to achieve style inheritance with Blazor CSS isolation (Dave Brock)
- WinUI 3.0 Misconceptions (Nick Randolph)
- Porting your UWP libraries to Uno Platform (James Croft)
Web & Cloud Development
- A Purpose in a Token (Paul Hammant)
- Barebones CSS for Fluid Images (Zach Leatherman)
- Docker Engine 20.10 Released: Supports cgroups v2 and Dual Logging (Aditya Kulkarni)
- Converting HTML Placeholders to Merge Fields (Bjoern Meyer)
- Implement app roles authorization with Azure AD and ASP.NET Core (Damien Bowden)
- What is ASP.NET Core and Why Should I Use It? (David Grace)
- Things You Can Do With CSS Today (Andy Bell)
- ASP.NET, Serilog and Application Insights (Johnny Reilly)
- Understanding Rendering in React ♻ ⚛️ (Mateo Garcia)
- Creating a Running Game in VueJS – Part 2 – Components (Paul Michaels)
- Event sourcing with serverless AWS (Sam Williams)
- Building a social media platform without going bankrupt: Part V–Handling the timeline (Oren Eini)
- ESLint v7.19.0 released (ESLint Team)
- Getting Started with Deno (Diogo Souza)
- GoLand 2021.1 Early Access Program Begins! (Ekaterina Zharova)
- Dynamic Static Typing In TypeScript (Stefan Baumgartner)
- How to Add a Twitter Social Connection in Auth0 (James Quick)
- Go (golang) Channels – Moving Data Between Concurrent Processes (Jeremy Clark)
- Making GitHub’s new homepage fast and performant (Tobias Ahlin)
XAML, UWP & Xamarin
- Beautiful Custom RadioButton with Xamarin.Forms 5 (James Montemagno)
- Handling the new UIDatePicker in Xamarin.Forms (Steven Thewissen)
Visual Studio & .NET
- Code with Fire! Top VS Code Tips (David Ramel)
- ICYMI C# 8 New Features: Write Less Code with Using Declarations (Jason Roberts)
- Visual Studio Code: How Microsoft’s ‘any OS, any programming language, any software’ plan is paying off (Liam Tung)
- Llama Rust SDK preview 0.1.3 (Eric Sink)
- Tracing IO in .NET Core (Jonathan Channon)
- Autoscrolling on drag, part 5: Adding wiggle-to-scroll to escape velocity (Raymond Chen)
Design, Methodology & Testing
- AoAD2 Practice: Task Planning (James Shore)
- The Agile Manifesto: A new mindset (Ben Linders)
- Don’t write unit tests for their own sake (George Stocker)
- Automation Tools for DevOps: Every Tool You Need in 2021 and Ideal Days vs. Story Points: Which Is Better and Why? and Should Time Tracking Be Optional for Development Teams? (Tyler Hakes)
- Helm 3 – CI/CD with Azure DevOps using Azure Container Registry (ACR) and Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) (Utkarsh Shigihalli)
- Creating workers with the Tentacle Docker image (Shawn Sesna)
- Coaching sessions: here’s what I talk about with junior developers (Dominique St-Amand)
- How To Clean Up And Reinvigorate A Trello Board That’s Gotten Out Of Hand (Emily Whitten)
- Improvement Sprints (Stephen Roughley)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- How to blink an LED with Raspberry Pi Pico in C (Alasdair Allan)
- Flutter: Just another mobile UI framework? (Benedict Quinn)
Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos
- Developer Tea – Series kickoff – Post-Pandemic: Work and Life as an Engineer (Jonathan Cutrell)
- OnPodcast Episode 19: Chat with Microsoft’s James Gwertzman about gaming cloud, MSFT earnings & more (Arif Bacchus & Kareem Anderson)
- Everything and Nothing #Podcast Episode 10 – Electric Planes Competing with Traditional Combustion Engine Companies (Rob Tiffany)
- Merge Conflict 239: Planning an App Release (James Montemagno & Frank Kreuger)
- The Changelog – Breaking down the State of CSS/JS (Kevin Ball, Nick Nisi & Jerod Santo)
- Zone to Zone Disaster Recovery with Azure Site Recovery (Scott Hanselman & Rob Caron)
- Add a Loading with StateViews from the Xamarin Community Toolkit (David Ortinau)
- InfoQ Podcast: Renee Troughton on Deep Introspection, Integrated Organisations and Looking Beyond Agile (Renee Troughton)
- 100 Hours of Computer Science Videos (Nikos Vaggalis)
- PPP 315 | The Voice in Your Head, Why It Matters, and How to Harness It, with author Ethan Kross (Andy Kaufman)
- Ladybug Podcast – Web Security (Sidney Buckner, Kelly Vaughn, Ali Spittel & Emma Bostian)
- The Changelog – Open source civilization (Adam Stacoviak & Jerod Santo)
- Coding Blocks Podcast – Game Jam Lessons Learned (Allen Underwood, Michael Outlaw & Joe Zack)
- The Amp Hour #528 – New Year, New Gear (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
- FreeCodeSession – Episode 234 (Jason Bock)
- James Avery on Optimizing the Engineering Team Structure with James Avery – Azure DevOps Podcast Episode 126 (Jeffrey Palermo)
- The Changelog – Roadmaps to becoming a web developer in 2021 (Jerod Santo)
- No Dogma Podcast #150 – Luke Hoban, Pulumi – Infrastructure as Software (Bryan Hogan)
- YouTube Creator Award LIVE UNBOXING – 100k Subscribers, yay! (Scott Hanselman)
- Software Engineering Radio Episode 444: Tug Grall on Redis (Akshay)
- OSS Power-Ups: FluentValidation – Webinar recording (Matthias Koch)
Community & Events
- Amazon’s diversity and inclusion leader, Elizabeth Nieto, leaving for job at Spotify in New York (Todd Bishop)
- What’s On & Online in Greater Philadelphia, Feb. 1-7 (Visit Philly)
Database
- ODBC Driver 17.7 for SQL Server Released and Microsoft Drivers 5.9.0 for PHP for SQL Server Released (David Engel)
- SQL SERVER – CHECK CONSTRAINT to Allow Only Digits in Column (Pinal Dave)
SharePoint & MS Teams
Miscellaneous
- New Feature Roadmap now up on the What’s Next page of the Microsoft Edge Insider site (Elliot Kirk)
- Installing Scikit-Learn on an Apple M1 (Jim Bennett)
- Microsoft’s new Edge ‘what’s next’ page is a good roadmap starting point (Mary Jo Foley)
- CLI for Microsoft 365 v3.5 (Microsoft 365 PnP Team)
- The Transition to Apple Silicon (Nafiul Islam)
- Catching and dealing with naughty devices on my home network – V2 (Scott Helme)
More Link Collections
- The Morning Brew #3160 (Chris Alcock)
- .NET App Developer Links – 2021-02-01 (Dan Rigby)
- The .NET Stacks #34: Visual Studio gets an update, and you get a rant (Dave Brock)
- C# Digest Issue #348 (Jakub Chodounsky)
- F# Weekly #5, 2021 – F#-friendly NuGet.org (Sergey Tihon)
- Top Stories from the Microsoft DevOps Community – 2021.01.29 (Steven Murawski)
- Code Maze Weekly #62 (Vladimir Pecanac)
- Weekly Xamarin – Issue 294 – 1st Feb 2021 (Kym Phillpotts)
- Reading List 270 (Bruce Lawson)
- Friday Five: MVP Over The Years, ML.NET Predictions (Jeffrey Raymond Kitt)
- The Overflow #58: The ecological cost of #cryptoart (Medi Madelen Gwosdz & Cassidy Williams)
The Geek Shelf
Learning Angular: A no-nonsense beginner’s guide to building web applications with Angular 10 and TypeScript (3rd Ed) (Aristeidis Bampakos & Pablo Deeleman)
