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Dew Drop – January 16, 2025 (#4343)

Dew Drop – January 3, 2025 (#4334)

Web & Cloud Development

JavaScript scroll snap events for scroll-triggered animations (Abiola Farounbi)
Let’s experiment: Web Components with Angular 19, Linked Signals and Zoneless Setup (Yulia Galiulina)
How to Optimize Next.js Web Apps for Better Performance (Ayantunji Timilehin)
RxSignals: The most powerful synergy in the history of Angular (Vyacheslav Borodin)
CORS Finally Explained — Simply (Oleks Gorpynich)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

Transform JSON into Stunning Charts: Auto-Generate Visuals with Syncfusion .NET MAUI Toolkit (Saravanan Madheswaran)

Visual Studio & .NET

Random Forest Regression and Bagging Regression Using C# (James McCaffrey)
Could I be getting ERROR_KEY_DELETED for HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software when the user logs off? (Raymond Chen)
Creating ZUGFeRD 2.3 (XRechnung, Factur-X) Documents with .NET C# and Visualize and Preview XRechnung, ZUGFeRD, and Factur-X Documents in .NET C# (Bjoern Meyer)
Moq Unit Testing in .NET Core with xUnit (Jaimin Shethiya)

AI

CPU vs GPU: Which Wins for Running LLMs Locally? (Bruno Capuano)
How To Avoid Pseudo-Insightful Writing with ChatGPT and Unlocking ChatGPT’s Potential with “Scope It, Shape It, Size It” (JD Meier)
LLaMA-Mesh: NVIDIA’s Breakthrough in Unifying 3D Mesh Generation and Language Models (Robert Krzaczyński)
How to create AI-generated personas for enhanced product design (Kayode Adeniyi)

Design, Methodology & Testing

The guide to Git I never had. (Jake Page)
Why Secure Development Environments Are Essential for Modern Software Teams (Melissa Sussmann)
How to Go from Copy and Paste Deployments to Full GitOps (Ben Linders)
The top employee experience (EX) trends for 2025 (Cinthiya)
Vertical Slice Architecture isn’t technical (Derek Comartin)
Part 2: A Survey of Analytics Engineering Work at Netflix (Yimeng Tang, Claire Willeck & Sagar Palao)
OKRs vs KPIs: A Comprehensive Guide to Measuring Performance (Peter Smulovics)
Being Functionless: How to Develop a Serverless Mindset to Write Less Code! (Sheen Brisals)
How to Make Learning to Code Easier by Focusing on the Fundamentals (Spruce Emmanuel)
10X Thinking: Unlocking Exponential Growth and Innovation (JD Meier)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Improving Threads’ iOS Performance at Meta (Sergio De Simone)
Ready to remix? Favorite projects to tinker with (Pete Bell)

Screencasts & Videos

How To Add ChatGPT Search to Google Chrome – Tutorial (Frank LaVigne)
Tour the Editor in SQL database in Microsoft Fabric | Data Exposed (Anna Hoffman & Yo-Lei Chen)

Podcasts

InfoQ Podcast: Building Safe and Usable Medical Device Software: A Conversation with Neeraj Mainkar (Neeraj Mainkar)
Software Engineering Radio #649 – Lukas Gentele on Kubernetes vClusters (Robert Blumen)
Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Promoting Agile Team Growth Through Experiments And Small Focused Changes | Robert Finan (Vasco Duarte)
Lenny’s Podcast – Inside Gong: How teams work with design partners, their pod structure, autonomy, trust, and more | Eilon Reshef (co-founder and CPO) (Lenny Rachitsky)
Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy Episode #585 – Philip Gelatt, writer of The Europa Report and The Spine of Night (David Barr Kirtley)
The Stack Overflow Podcast – How AI apps are like Google Search (Eira May)
UX Podcast Episode #329 – Dark mode (James Royal-Lawson & Per Axbom)
Software Defined Talk Episode #500 – 2024 Year in Review (Brandon Whichard, Coté & Matt Ray)

Community & Events

Meta appoints new Trump-friendly policy chief (Emma Roth)
Getting Back to my Roots (Sarah Dutkiewicz)
On the ground from Amazon HQ in Seattle: Small businesses ‘excited’ as 5-day policy kicks in (Kurt Schlosser)

Database

How To Write SQL Server Queries Correctly: EXISTS and NOT EXISTS (Erik Darling)
Oracle Architecture Overview (Kellyn Pot’Vin-Gorman)
Decision Guide for Selecting an Analytical Data Store in Microsoft Fabric (Slava Trofimov)
DuckDB + Webassembly = WhatTheDuck (Nikos Vaggalis)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams

SharePoint Roadmap Pitstop December 2024 (Mark Kashman)

Miscellaneous

Was Rust Worth It? From JavaScript to Rust, three years in. (Jarrod Overson)
Announcing Files Preview v3.8.11 (Files Team)
7 calendar hacks to optimize your day in Outlook or Google Calendar (Parth Shah)
Microsoft has a new ergonomic keyboard, but it’s expensive and made by Incase (Emma Roth)
Xbox Series X|S – Every Console Option Available Now (Joe Skrebels)
Net neutrality eviscerated by appeals court ruling (Lauren Feiner)
Microsoft’s mini AI PCs are on the way (Tom Warren) – But none of them are from Microsoft

The Geek Shelf

“Looks Good To Me”: Constructive code reviews (Adrienne Braganza) – Referral Link

Dew Drop – October 14, 2024 (#4285)

Web & Cloud Development

Animations: From Biology to JavaScript! (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
Vue Basics: Pinia State Management (Kendo UI for Vue Team)
How Microsoft Edge Is Replacing React With Web Components (Richard MacManus)
CSS Tricks That Use Only One Gradient (Temani Afif)
How to Prevent XSS Attacks (PreEmptive Team)
What is PHP? A Thorough Explanation for Absolute Beginners (WordPress Team)
Content-Blocking in Manifest v3 (Eric Lawrence)
XSS vs CSRF Attacks: How They Differ and How to Counter Them (Jen Swisher)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

AI-Powered Smart .NET MAUI Scheduler for Easy Appointment Booking (SaiGanesh Sakthivel)

Visual Studio & .NET

Crypt32 certificate revocation list (CRL) semantics (Microsoft Learn)
How can I explicitly specialize a templated C++ constructor? (Raymond Chen)
Domain Events with .NET – New Features (Ricardo Peres)
Boost Your .NET Projects: Unleashing the Power of Spargine’s DateTime Extension Methods (David McCarter)

AI

See Prompts Microsoft Engineers Use for Bleeding-Edge Multimodal RAG AI Research (David Ramel)
eShopSupport Series: Python Inference Project (Jason Haley)
Using Multimodal AI Models For Your Applications (Part 3) (Joas Pambou)
Get career-ready with Microsoft Copilot’s comprehensive student guide! (Julia Muiruri)
Unlocking next-generation AI capabilities with healthcare AI models (Matthew Lungren)
Achieving AI readiness through comprehensive modernization (Mike Hulme)
OpenAI Launches Public Beta of Realtime API for Low-Latency Speech Interactions (Robert Krzaczyński)
Make Your Private Copilots Production-ready (Thomas Maurer)
AI-Powered Customer Success with Semantic Kernel (Joji Varghese)

Design, Methodology & Testing

How to Create a Secure CI/CD Pipeline Using Okta Terraform (Nick Connelly)
Git Tricks: Get the last checked out branch (Steven Giesel)
Microsoft’s guidance to help mitigate Kerberoasting (David Weston)

Screencasts & Videos

Technology & Friends – Michelle Frost on Sociotechnical approaches to AI (David Giard)
Migrating From Docker Compose to .NET Aspire (my experience) (Milan Jovanović)
FreeCodeSession – Episode 569 (Jason Bock)

Podcasts

Syntax Podcast #833: Next Gen Fullstack React with TanStack (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinksi)
React Hook Form with Vijit Ail – React Round Up #269 (Jack Herrington & TJ VonToll)
Changelog & Friends Podcast #65 – The indispensable cog (Johnny Boursiquot, Jerod Santo & Adam Stacoviak)
The Stack Overflow Podcast – Is this the real life? Training autonomous cars with simulations (Eira May)
Is There Benefits from Working From Home with Will Gant – Adventures in Angular #428 (Brooks Forsyth)
Lenny’s Podcast – Why most public speaking advice is wrong—and how to finally overcome your speaking anxiety | Tristan de Montebello (CEO & co-founder of Ultraspeaking) (Lenny Rachitsky)
The Happy Engineer Podcast #190: Receive the Best Performance Review of Your Engineering Career with Curtis Mitchell (Max Ahumada)
Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – The Power of Storytelling in Product Ownership | Dominika Bula (Vasco Duarte)

Community & Events

Ian Stewart to Lead WordPress.com (WordPress Team)
Celebrating 29 Years of Frank’s World (Frank LaVigne)
The Google breakup is looming (David Pierce)
Order an Avatar Drawn by ReverentGeek (David Neal)
November 2024 in Philly: The 55+ Biggest Events, Fests & Exhibitions (Visit Philly)
Pure Blogger (Om Malik)

Database

Capture SQL Server Database Object Changes (Sebastiao Pereira)
SQL Server Performance Problems When Joins Have No Equality Predicate (Erik Darling)
How to query .xel log files in Azure SQL DB using T-sql (Tanayankar Chakraborty)
Querying over the current time in RavenDB (Oren Eini)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams

Creating an Agent in SharePoint that Spans Multiple Sources – Copilot Snacks (Michael Gannotti)
Work and automate simultaneously with picture-in-picture in Power Automate (Petros Feleskouras)
Improve your content using Coaching with Copilot in Word for the web (Michael Heyns)
Is Microsoft Loop a direct replacement for Microsoft OneNote? (Mohamed El-Qassas)

Miscellaneous

Patent Pledge (OpenAI Team)
Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26120.2122 (Dev Channel) and Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22635.4367 (Beta Channel) (Amanda Langowski)
Setting up Notepad++ to use with Python language indentations code-style (Mark Pahulje)
The Internet Archive is back as a read-only service after cyberattacks (Tom Warren)

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