Top Links
- .NET MAUI 9.0.22 (Service Release 2.2) (David Ortinau)
- Effortlessly Manage Large File Uploads with Blazor File Manager (Keerthana Rajendran)
- 16GB Raspberry Pi 5 on sale now at $120 (Eben Upton)
- How to use GitHub Copilot: What it can do and real-world examples (Dylan Birtolo)
- Enhancing the security of Microsoft Edge Extensions with the new Publish API – What’s next? (Microsoft Edge Team)
- High Performance Computing in Azure – with Mark Russinovich (Microsoft Mechanics)
Web & Cloud Development
- Introduction to Azure Developer CLI: Accelerate App & Infrastructure Deployment on Microsoft Azure (Chris Pietschmann)
- How to use GitHub Copilot for Azure? (MissMN)
- Boost Angular Performance: Lazy Loading Guide (Vidura Senevirathne)
- Unlocking Efficiency with Docker for AI and Cloud-Native Development (Yiwen Xu)
- Why an Unlimited Runtime License (OEM) for TX Text Control is Perfect for Cloud Deployments (Bjoern Meyer)
WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML
- Create Stunning AI-Powered .NET MAUI Charts Using Natural Language (Saravanan Madheswaran)
Visual Studio & .NET
- 13 Visual Studio 2022 Tips & Tricks (Claudio Bernasconi)
- The Backbone of Digital Communication: Understanding the Client-Server Model (Chris Woodruff)
- Run a program when Internet Connects or Disconnects on Windows (Mark Pahulje)
- Inside STL: Waiting for a std::atomic> to change, part 1 (Raymond Chen)
- Prevent breaking changes using Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.PublicApiAnalyzers (Bart Wullems)
AI
- Top 10 GitHub Copilot Extensions, Led by Docker and PerplexityAI (David Ramel)
- What’s new for Azure AI Speech services? – Community Roundtable (Carlotta Caste)
- Phi-4 AI Model | Hugging Face (Microsoft Research)
- Learn Generative AI in 23 Hours (Beau Carnes)
- Boost processing performance by combining AI models (Olivia Shone)
- Fine-Tuning Small Language Models for Function-Calling: A Comprehensive Guide (Priya Kedia)
- Auth0 Announces Auth for GenAI (Shiven Ramji)
Design, Methodology & Testing
- How to Read Values from an INI File in Your Installer and How to Extract the Contents of MSI, MSIX, and EXE Installation Packages (Alex Marin)
- Why security teams rely on Microsoft Defender Experts for XDR for managed detection and response (Microsoft Security Experts)
- Create Digital Signature for your Windows Software Installer (Advanced Installer Team)
- Lessons Learned Over 10 Years of Bootstrapping Petabridge (Aaron Stannard)
- Rebuilding Connection and Collaboration Through Radical Candor (Brandi Neal)
- Testing Installation Packages in Windows Sandbox (EXE, MSI or MSIX) (Radu Popescu)
- A more complex codemod (Martin Fowler)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- Flutter Fork Designed To Give Developers ‘Release Valve’ (Loraine Lawson)
- SF Symbols 6 (Apple Developer Team)
- Apps built with Flutter: 8 examples to inspire your next project (ApparenceKit Team)
Screencasts & Videos
- Windows Phone WTF Episode 1: Origin Story and Windows Phone WTF Episode 9: The Final Cut (Rob Tiffany)
- Agents in Copilot and the 12 Days of Copilot Tips – Candidly Copilot Episode 7 (Michael Gannotti)
- Clipboard productivity hack for Windows Terminal users ✨ (Den Delimarsky)
Podcasts
- Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – The Dual Work of Agile, Managing Projects and Change Simultaneously | Ellen Grove (Vasco Duarte)
- Under the Radar Podcast #308 – What’s In Our Toolbox: Simulators & Source Control and Under the Radar Podcast #309 – What’s In Our Toolbox: Code Assistance (Marco Arment & David Smith)
- Defense Unicorns, A Podcast – Inside Cyber Defense: Col. Sean Kern on Building Agile, Secure Teams (Robert Slaughter, Michaela Flatau, Rebecca Lively & Luke Shabro)
- Syntax Podcast #866 – 2025 Web Development Predictions (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
- The Changelog Podcast #623 – The power of the button (Rachel Plotnick, Adam Stacoviak & Jerod Santo)
- Grammar Girl Podcast – The psychology of fandom, with Jennifer Lynn Barnes (Mignon Fogarty)
- .NET Rocks! – Architectural Intelligence with Thomas Betts (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
Community & Events
- Cordova needs you in 2025! Let’s start with a meetup (Niklas Merz)
- Mastodon CEO calls Meta’s moderation changes ‘deeply troubling,’ warns users cross-posting from Threads (Sarah Perez)
- Google AI Developers Community Spotlight Contest (Google AI Developer Relations Team)
- Applications are now open for Google for Startups Growth Academy: AI for Health | The Keyword (Google)
- 11 More of the Most Fun Things We’ve Seen at CES (Wired Gear Team)
- The fallout of Meta’s content moderation overhaul (Jess Weatherbed)
- Meta Is Ushering In a ‘World Without Facts,’ Says Nobel Peace Prize Winner (BeauHD)
- Copilot Prompt-Along-A-Thon Webinar (Michael Gannotti)
- Threads and Instagram are for politics now, says Adam Mosseri (Richard Lawler)
- Introducing the 2025 Imagine Cup Semifinals Judges (Microsoft Student Developer Team)
- Microsoft layoffs: Tech giant’s job cuts stretch into 2025, now focusing on performance (Todd Bishop)
- Microsoft teases ‘major’ Surface business announcement for January 30th (Tom Warren)
- Welcome to the Public Domain in 2025 (seand)
Database
- How To Write SQL Server Queries Correctly: Views vs Inline Table Valued Functions (Erik Darling)
- Leveraging GitHub Copilot for T-SQL Code Conversion: A Deep Dive into Code Explainability (neelball)
- Choosing the right Databricks cluster: Spot instances vs. on-demand clusters, All-Purpose Compute vs. Jobs Compute (Noa Shavit)
- Firestore Queries for SQL Minds (Jonathan Gamble)
- Deadlock and Profiler – SQL in Sixty Seconds 207 (Pinal Dave)
SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams
- Transforming content management: A look back at SharePoint innovations in 2024 (jolenetam)
- Windows 10 end of support for Teams Rooms on Windows (K. Ramachandra)
- What’s new in Teams for personal use | November 2024 and 2024 Year in Review | Teams for personal use (Miikka Oksanen)
Miscellaneous
- Calm the Chaos – Filter out inflammatory rhetoric, conflict-related content, and sensationalist coverage across your browsing experience | Chrome Web Store (Chrissy LaMaire)
- The Ministry of Empowerment (Danah Boyd)
- Apple says Siri isn’t sending your conversations to advertisers (Richard Lawler)
More Link Collections
- Daily Reading List – January 8, 2025 (#468) (Richard Seroter)
The Geek Shelf
Azure for Developers – A Deep Dive | Dometrain (Kevin Dockx) – Referral Link
