Top Links
- .NET Rocks! – Blazor in .NET 9 with Dan Roth (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
 - Building AI Assistants with Microsoft Copilot Studio (Siva Saripilli)
 - Create a Flutter Semi-Doughnut Chart to Visualize Transport Emissions per Kilometer Traveled (Aswini Suresh Reddy)
 - Unreal Engine Toolbar in Visual Studio (David Li)
 - How Machine Learning Models Actually Work… the Easy Way | Ctrl+Alt+AI (Michael Jolley)
 - SQL Server (mssql) for Visual Studio Code (Visual Studio Code Marketplace) – October release includes a connection dialog, table designer, new query results pane, query plan viewing, and object explorer filtering
 
Web & Cloud Development
- Integrate data from external sources into Microsoft Entra tokens using the Authentication Events library (Abdul Hakim)
 - Azure Bicep: Parameter Files for Streamlined Infrastructure as Code (IaC) (Chris Pietschmann)
 - .NET Aspire 9.0 RC1: Simplified Setup, Azure Functions Support Added, and Other Improvements (Almir Vuk)
 - GitHub Copilot for Azure: 6 Must-Try Features (Amy Boyd)
 - State of CSS 2024 Results (Geoff Graham)
 - Never mind, Lamar is going to continue (Jeremy D. Miller)
 - jQuery UI 1.14.1 released (Michał Gołębiowski-Owczarek)
 - Configure File in Azure Static Web Apps (Ringe Chen)
 - HTMX: What’s Old is New Again (Derek Comartin)
 
Visual Studio & .NET
- .NET C# PDF Generation Techniques: Which Method is Right for Your Project? (Bjoern Meyer)
 - I have enabled “take ownership” permission, but I still cannot obtain write access (Raymond Chen)
 - Code Smarter: Spell Checker and Colorization Braces in Visual Studio 2022 (Leomaris Reyes)
 
AI
- Introducing SimpleQA (OpenAI Team)
 - Bringing AI Agents to production with Gemini API (Vishal Dharmadhikari, Paige Bailey & Adam Silverman)
 - No Tricks, All Treats: A Sneak Peek at Our New AI Theming Tool (Kathryn Grayson Nanz)
 - How AI is reshaping the University of Washington computer science school (Taylor Soper)
 - ONNX and NPU Acceleration for Speech on ARM (Yuanzhuo Hu)
 - YouTubeGPT: A Deep Dive Into Building and Running It (Zil e Huma)
 
Design, Methodology & Testing
- Designing For Gen Z: Expectations And UX Guidelines (Vitaly Friedman)
 - Smooth Parameter Replacement | TeamCity Pipelines Pulse #8 (Olga Bedrina)
 
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- Raspberry Pi product series explained (Nate Contino)
 - Announcing the Developer Preview of DynamoDB Mapper for Kotlin (Ian Botsford)
 - Easily Create a Bullet Graph with Flutter Charts (Natrayan Ramalingam)
 - Diving deeper into using the Strangler Fig with Mobile Apps (Martin Fowler)
 - File Plugin 8.1.2 Released! (Norman Breau)
 - Animatronic Singing Spooks: Building Musical Ghosts With Free Software (Evan McMahon)
 - The Amazon Echo graveyard (Andrew Liszewski)
 
Screencasts & Videos
- IoT Coffee Talk: Episode 233 – The Perpetual Pivot Cycle (IoT Coffee Talk Crew)
 - GitHub Universe 2024 Day 2 Keynote: Building 1 billion developers (Kyle Daigle & the GitHub Team)
 
Podcasts
- GeekWire Podcast: Amazon devices chief Panos Panay on the color Kindle, AI, and his first year on the job (Todd Bishop)
 - Yet Another Podcast – Mads Torgersen and C# 13 (Jesse Liberty)
 - Syntax Podcast #841: Spooky Web Dev Horror Stories – PART 2 (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
 - The Stack Overflow Podcast #751 – Life in the Fastlane: SDK tools built with developers in mind (Ben Popper)
 - The Amp Hour #681 – Compact High Speed Design with Lukas Henkel (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
 - Grammar Girl Podcast – How linguists solve crimes, with Natalie Schilling (Mignon Fogarty)
 - Software Engineering Radio #640 – Jonathan Horvath on Physical Security (Jeremy Jung)
 - Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Leading Change with Radical Candor, Building Organizational Openness | Hassan Butt (Vasco Duarte)
 
Community & Events
- Celebrating the GitHub Awards 2024 recipients (Laura Lindeman)
 - Dropbox is Laying Off 20% of Its Staff (msmash)
 
Database
- Enforce Business Rules in a SQL Server Database (Christopher Mohr)
 - What Missing Index Requests Miss In SQL Server (Erik Darling)
 - SQL Server Ledger – Are You Really Using This Feature? (Pinal Dave)
 - T-SQL Notebooks: Manage Views Source Control and more (Dennes Torres)
 
SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams
- Retirement of the SharePoint SendEmail API (SharePoint Team)
 - Engage the Copilot in Viva Engage! (Vesa Nopanen)
 
PowerShell
- Announcing Microsoft.PowerShell.PlatyPS 1.0.0-Preview1 (Jason Helmick)
 
Miscellaneous
- REPORT: Arm is sensationally canceling the license that allowed Qualcomm to make Snapdragon chips, which power everything from Microsoft’s Copilot+ PCs to Samsung’s Galaxy smartphones and tablets (Update: Qualcomm, Arm respond) (Jez Corden)
 - Apple introduces M4 Pro and M4 Max and New MacBook Pro features M4 family of chips and Apple Intelligence (Apple Newsroom)
 - Nintendo Made a Music Streaming App For Video Game Soundtracks (BeauHD)
 - Bing 2024 Elections Experience (Bing Team)
 - Microsoft’s gaming revenue keeps going up, even though hardware sales are down (Jay Peters)
 - Record Levels of Heat-Related Deaths in 2023 Due To Climate Crisis, Report Finds (msmash)
 - Microsoft Earnings Up 16 Percent in Quarter (Paul Thurrott)
 - Paint.NET 5.1 Beta (build 9070) (Rick Brewster)
 - The Washington Post’s non-endorsement led to record-breaking weeks at other news orgs (Sarah Scire)
 - Hands-on with the new Kindle Colorsoft: Is Amazon’s color e-reader worth the premium price? and Microsoft beats expectations with nearly $25B in quarterly profits, as AI revenue boosts cloud growth (Todd Bishop)
 
More Link Collections
- Daily Reading List – October 30, 2024 (#430) (Richard Seroter)
 
