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Dew Drop – December 18, 2020 (#3342)

The Geek Shelf

Grilled Cheese & Beer: Recipes for the Finer Things in Life (Kevin VanBlarcum & James Edward Davis) – Referral Link

Dew Drop – December 11, 2020 (#3337)

Web & Cloud Development

Kubernetes 1.20: Kubernetes Volume Snapshot Moves to GA (Xing Yang & Xiangqian Yu)
JavaScript Inherits The Earth (Ian Elliot)
The top Kubernetes APIs for cloud-native observability, part 3: the Kubernetes Events API and API Watchers (Caleb Hailey)
Understanding the JavaScript Destructuring Syntax (Marina Mosti)
JavaScript’s Object-Oriented Identity Crisis (Matthew MacDonald)
Docker Desktop 3.0.0: Smaller, Faster Releases (Stephen Turner)
Monitoring Azure Service Bus Topic subscriptions (Tom Kerkhove)
First-class TypeScript support in modular AWS SDK for JavaScript (Trivikram Kamat)
Introducing the Okta CLI (Micah Silverman)
Boosting Website Performance with Adobe Experience Platform Web SDK and Edge Network (Jaemi Bremner)
The semantic future of the web (James Turner)
Supporting content decision makers with machine learning (Melody Dye, Chaitanya Ekanadham, Avneesh Saluja & Ashish Rastogi)
Expanding Docker’s Developer Preview Program (William Quiviger)

Visual Studio & .NET

Visual Studio Code November 2020 (VS Code Team)
No recompile, no redeploy, managing features flags in .NET Core, locally and with Azure (Chris Noring)
Complex log processing with PostSharp and NXLog (Petr Hudecek & NXLog)
Convert Word Documents to PDF in .NET Applications (Prabhat Sharma)
Parsing ETL traces yourself, part 2: The EventLogReader (Raymond Chen)

Design, Methodology & Testing

TDD (Test Driven Development) Using MSTest (Nagaraj M)
Bridging the DevOps/Development Observability Chasm to Boost DevOps KPIs (Rami Honig)
Create a DevOps culture with open source principles (Will Kelly)
I need manual approvers for GitHub Actions!!!! And I got them now 🙂 (Abel Wang)
Navigating the Awkward: A Framework for Design Conversations (Ksenia Cheinman)
The Top Characteristics Of Solution-Oriented Leaders (Deanna deBara)
The basics of CI: How to run jobs sequentially, in parallel, or out of order (Itzik Gan-Baruch)
JetBrains Space Is Here (Valerie Andrianova)
What Is a Full Stack Developer (Mahesh Chand)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

5 Ways to Extract Text from PDF Documents in Flutter (Chinnu Muniyappan)
Dual-screen library update with Jetpack Window Manager (Andrei Cirja)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

Hanselminutes – Shipping the Sandman Doppler with Palo Alto Innovation’s Alex Tramiel (Scott Hanselman)
React Podcast 122: TJ VanToll on Online Events that Work (Michael Chan)
Create .NET Core Projects with the Command Line | Visual Studio Toolbox and Use an Existing .NET Core Project Template | Visual Studio Toolbox (Leslie Richardson & Sayed Hashimi)
Demo – Working on Home Automation with Xamarin, Uno Platform, IoT and Azure IoT central (Allan Pead)
Tips & Tricks to improve your .NET Build Setup with MSBuild – Webinar recording (Maarten Balliauw)
Rocket 310: AirBra Max (Christina Warren, Simone De Rochefort & Brianna Wu)
Unhandled Exception Podcast – WSL2 with Stuart Leeks (Dan Clarke)
RunAs Radio – Modern Work using Teams with Karoliina Kettukari (Richard Campbell & Greg Hughes)
Software Defined Talk Episode 275: Your competition should not be your community (Brandon Whichard, Coté & Matt Ray)
The Stack Overflow Podcast – Cleaning up build systems and gathering computer history with Adam Gordon Bell (Sara Chipps, Paul Ford & Ben Popper)
Xamarin Podcast Episode 83: Wrapping up 2020 by looking ahead to 2021! (James Montemagno & Matt Soucoup)

Community & Events

Everything Announced by Disney During Investor Day 2020 (Nicole Drum) – New content coming from Disney, Pixar, Star Wars, Marvel & more
Microsoft Imagine Cup competitor spotlight: Janae Chan and Tremor Vision (MS Student Developer Team)
Introducing the New (and Improved!) Campus Experts Program (Elise Hollowed)

Database

Azure SQL Database Connectivity (Arun Sirpal)
Slow Running Query – SQL in Sixty Seconds #146 (Pinal Dave)

PowerShell

Get into Ops/DevOps with this PowerShell LEARN module (Chris Noring)

Miscellaneous

The Microsoft Learn Java learning path (Lee Stott)
Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 21277 and Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 20277 (Steve Clarke)

The Geek Shelf

Head First C#: A Learner’s Guide to Real-World Programming with C# and .NET Core (4th Ed) (Andrew Stellman & Jennifer Greene) – Referral Link

Dew Drop – November 25, 2020 (#3326)

Web & Cloud Development

Blazor JavaScript Isolation, Modules, and Dynamic C# (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
ASP.NET Core Pitfalls – Dependency Injection Lifetime Validation (Ricardo Peres)
Forwarding React Refs with TypeScript (Carl Rippon)
Applying the MVC design pattern to Razor Pages (Andrew Lock)
Four Useful Tips When Using ASP.NET Core’s TestServer in xUnit: TestServer – Part 2 (David Grace)
Angular Directives in 5 minutes (Apoh Eldrige)
The top Kubernetes APIs for cloud-native observability, part 2: the Kubernetes Pod and Downward APIs (Caleb Hailey)
WASM Performance Improvement in Syncfusion Blazor Tree Grid (Maithiliy K)
Custom Validation in Blazor WebAssembly (Marinko Spasojevic)
Creating a JavaScript promise from scratch, Part 5: Promise.race() and Promise.any() (Nicholas C. Zakas)
Blazor WASM and Server in a Single Project running on a Single Site. (Shaun C. Curtis)
Use a Submit Button Outside of a Form! (David Walsh)
Implementing a Custom TypeConverter In Razor Pages (Mike Brind)
Node v12.20.0 (LTS) (Myles Borins)
Use Cases for Cloud-Native Apps with Project Firefly (Sarah Xu)
Node v15.3.0 (Current) (Shelley Vohr)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

Simplifying Bindable Properties with Type Converters in Xamarin Forms (Charlin Agramonte)
Build Digital Logic Circuits Easily with Our WPF Diagram Control (Sarathkumar V)

Visual Studio & .NET

4 Easy Steps to Export Excel Files to JSON Using C# (Johnson Manohar)
Interfaces and Inversion of Control (Ricardo Peres)
Upgrading ConfigurationManager for .Net 5 (Eric Potter)
Upgrading to .NET Core 5.0 (Rick Strahl)

Design, Methodology & Testing

AntiPatterns (Ilyana Smith)
.Net 5 is PERFECT for DevOps (Davide Benvegnù)
Naming NuGet, A Lesson In Distributed Decision Making (Phil Haack)
Little’s Law (Steve Smith)
Managing Third-Party Assets Security Risks in Your Web Apps (Andrea Chiarelli)
Bringing UI Test Automation Into CI/CD (Asya Ivanova)
Chaos Engineering on CI/CD Pipelines (Emrah Samdan)
Preventing Developer Burnout in the Age of Rapid Software Delivery (James Brotsos)
Get Git Part 3 (Jesse Liberty)
Keep track of multiple Git remote repositories (Peter Portante)
Our Favorite Figma Plugins (Spencer Hansen)
What is Continuous Integration? (Thomas Moore)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Personal Raspberry Pi music streamer (Ashley Whittaker)
IoT Unravelled Part 3: Security (Troy Hunt)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

Software Engineering Daily – React Native at Airbnb with Gabriel Peal Holiday Repeat (Jeff Meyerson)
Developer Tea – Building Products w/ Keith Pitt (part 2) (Jonathan Cutrell)
Asp.Net Monsters #192: C# 9 Top Level Statements (James Chambers, Simon Timms & David Paquette)
Get Started with Individual Dev/Test | The DevOps Lab (Abel Wang & James Tramel)
The Work Item S01E18 – Megan Risdal on Building a Career at the Intersection of Data Science and Product Management (Den Delimarsky)
Microsoft Cloud Show Episode 386 | Microsoft 365, Microsoft Graph and More Cloud News (Andrew Connell & Chris Johnson)
RunAs Radio – Exchange vNext with Gareth Gudger (Richard Campbell & Greg Hughes)
FreeCodeSession – Episode 215 (Jason Bock)
Effective Remote Teaching with intention and creativity – Computer Stuff They Didn’t Teach You #16 (Scott Hanselman)
Agile Coffee 74 – Thankful for Lean Coffee with Friends (Vic Bonacci)

Community & Events

PyTorch Developer Day Updates (Alex Denham)
The Road Ahead after 25 years (Bill Gates)
Help us shape our new approach to verification (Twitter)

Database

How to Execute SSIS Packages from SQL Server Agent (Ray Barley)
How to Insert Rows and Get Their Identity Values with the OUTPUT Clause (Brent Ozar)
SQL Server REPLACE (Garry Bargsley)
SQL SERVER – JOIN Elimination for Not Selected Column (Pinal Dave)
AWS and SSIS (Andy Leonard)
CockroachDB Adds PostGIS Spatial Data Support (I Programmer)

SharePoint & MS Teams

How to easily use new Teams Power Automate application to increase personal and team productivity (aka creating flows without having to know how) (Vesa Nopanen)

Miscellaneous

Binary Classification Using PyTorch: Model Accuracy (James McCaffrey)
Vivaldi Launches Mail, Calendar, and Feed Reader (Paul Thurrott)

The Geek Shelf

Thinking in Systems: A Primer (Donella H. Meadows & Diana Wright) – Referral Link

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