Top Links
- Modernizing Visual Studio Extension Compatibility: Effortless Migration for Extension Developers and Users (Tina Schrepfer)
- Introducing ChatGPT Atlas, the browser with ChatGPT built in (OpenAI Team)
- Cooking Up Smarter Dev Docs, on Mr. Maeda’s Cozy AI Kitchen (John Maeda)
- Merge Rows and Columns in React Data Grid to Enhance Data Clarity (Mohammed Farook J.)
- Model Context Protocol Demystified (Sam Basu)
- Visual Studio 2022 Version 17.14.18 Release Notes and Visual Studio 2026 Version 11116.177 Insiders Release Notes (Microsoft Learn)
- Two weeks to go! Check out the TechBash 2025 daily highlights. (TechBash Team)
Web Development
- TypeScript Tops Rust in ‘Promise Index’ of JetBrains Survey (David Ramel)
- [Web dev for beginners] CSS layout: flexbox, grid, media queries and container queries (Axel Rauschmayer)
- .NET Aspire 6: Deployment Using Azure Container Apps (Dave Brock)
- React Foundation Leader on What’s Next for the Framework (Loraine Lawson)
- Goodbye, useState? Smarter state modeling for modern React apps (Oscar Jite-Orimiono)
- Jetpack Stats vs. Google Analytics (GA4): Key Differences Explained (Jen Swisher)
- Behind the Streams: Real-Time Recommendations for Live Events Part 3 (Kris Range, Ankush Gulati, Jim Isaacs, Jennifer Shin, Jeremy Kelly & Jason Tu)
- How to Export React Pivot Tables to Excel Using ASP.NET Core (Manikandan Murugesan)
- .NET Aspire 6: Deployment Using Azure Container Apps (Dave Brock)
- Deno 2.5 Brings Support for Permission Sets and Test API Hooks (Daniel Curtis)
- Should You Go All-In on Vite? A Risk vs. Reward Analysis (Alexander T. Williams)
.NET and Visual Studio
- Practical OOP : Composition Over Inheritance, Records, and Pattern Matching in Modern C# (Sudhir Mangla)
- Book Review: Deep C# – Threading,Tasks and Locking (Mike James)
- Running .NET Applications that Communicate Over a Network Using Docker Compose (Bryan Hogan)
- Validating PDF/UA Documents in .NET C# (Bjoern Meyer)
- Introducing Isolator – a framework for running isolated code for .NET (Ricardo Peres)
- Using profiler function hooks in .NET with Silhouette (Kevin Gosse)
- Postgres as a Distributed Cache Unlocks Speed and Simplicity for Modern .NET Workloads (Jared Meade)
- Uno Platform 6.3 Adds .NET 10 Preview Support and VS 2026 Readiness (Edin Kapić)
AI
- The Signals Loop: Fine-tuning for world-class AI apps and agents (Asha Sharma & Rolf Harms)
- Building Secure AI Chat Systems: Part 2 – Securing Your Architecture from Storage to Network (Abdulhamid Onawole)
- How spec-driven development improves AI coding quality (Rich Naszcyniec)
- Github Copilot on the command line (Bart Wullems)
- 7 Must-Know Agentic AI Design Patterns (Bala Priya C.)
- Build Long-Running AI Agents on Azure App Service with Microsoft Agent Framework (Jordan Selig)
- Serverless MCP Agent with LangChain.js v1 — Burgers, Tools, and Traces 🍔 (Yohan Lasorsa)
- As Vibe Coding Fades, Woz Offers Production-Ready Alternative (Darryl K. Taft)
- How to update community health files with AI (Alexandra Lietzke)
- Start learning all things AI on the new Google Skills (Karen Dahut)
- Security Copilot Agents: The New Era of AI, Driven Cyber Defense (Jacques GuibertDeBruet)
- Debugging with Chrome DevTools MCP: Giving AI eyes in the browser (Emmanuel John)
- Supercharge your OCR Pipelines with Open Models (merve, Aritra Roy Gosthipaty, Daniel van Strien, Hynek Kydlicek, Andres Marafioti, Vaibhav Srivastav & Pedro Cuenca)
- A statement from Dario Amodei on Anthropic’s commitment to American AI leadership (Dario Amodei)
- Tell me when: Building agents that can wait, monitor, and act (Hussein Mozannar, Matheus Kunzler Maldaner, Maya Murad, Jingya Chen, Gagan Bansal, Rafah Hosn & Adam Fourney)
Design, DevOps and Methodology
- GitLab 18.5: Intelligence that moves software development forward (Bill Staples)
- Introducing a Richer ”docker model run” Experience (Eric Curtin)
- Social or Enterprise: Which Connection is Right? (Alisha Tingle)
- The Rise of Passkeys (Shiva Pati)
- Fragments and Links (Martin Fowler)
- DevOps: Enhanced Release Automation with GitHub’s AI-Powered Release Notes (AJ Bajada)
- Out of Control: A Design Guide for Alarm Management (Teon Beijl)
- Partner Skilling in the Age of AI: Potential Impact on Partner Success & Growth (Jill Armour)
- Mobile CI/CD in a Day: GitHub Actions + Fastlane + App Center (Sudhir Mangla)
Mobile and Game Development
- Did Microsoft just tease that the next Xbox is a PC and console? (Tom Warren)
- Name your own price for this Humble Bundle of Raspberry Pi Press books (Brian Jepson)
Screencasts and Videos
- Mastering Copilot Governance with Copilot Studio + Power Platform – Session 2 and Deep Dive into Microsoft 365 Copilot Included Agents Webinar Recording and Resources (Microsoft Healthcare & Life Team)
- Coffee and Open Source Conversation – Mark Techson (Isaac Levin)
- Nvidia DGX Spark Live Unboxing! (Frank La Vigne)
- The Joy of Developer Education with @codetv-dev | Episode 2 | The GitHub Podcast (Jason Lengstorf, Abigail Cabunoc Mayes, Kedasha Kerr & Cassidy Williams)
- Bot Updates, Front Page Prep | Fritz’s Tech Tips and Chatter (Jeff Fritz)
- From Geek of the Year to Educator of the Year 🎉 What’s Next? | Coding After Work (Jimmy Engstrom)
- Official Xbox Podcast: The Outer Worlds 2 – Fanatical Factions and Reactive Radios (Joe Skrebels)
- The Secret to Mastering Queue, Stack and Dictionary in C#! (Michael Jolley)
Dometrain Course
Podcasts
- RunAs Radio Show #1007 – Becoming a Cybersecurity Expert with Paula Januszkiewicz (Richard Campbell)
- The Vergecast – The new Xbox is not an Xbox (David Pierce)
- The AI Fix Episode #73 – Google Gemini is a gambling addict, and how to poison an AI (Graham Cluley & Mark Stockley)
- Software Engineering Radio Episode #691 – Kacper Łukawski on Qdrant Vector Database (Gregory M. Kapfhammer)
- When Toxic Leadership Creates Teams That Self-Destruct | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Alex Sloley)
- Beyond the Hype: Is Agile now a dirty word? (Oliver Cronk)
- Getting Black Women Paid Podcast – The Audacity to Lead Without Another Credential (with Annie Pelissier) (‘Tine Zekis)
- Future Knowledge Podcast Episode #12 – Wayback Machine at 1 Trillion (Internet Archive & Authors Alliance)
- Boagworld Podcast Episode #27 – Freelancing for Small Businesses: Real World Budget Constraints and High Stakes (Paul Boag)
Community
- Celebrating MVP-Led Events Across Europe: Summer & Late Summer 2025 Highlights (Alice Piras)
- Microspeak: The hockey stick on wheels (Raymond Chen)
- Satya Nadella’s pay tops $96M as Microsoft stock soars; Walmart CFO set to join board (Todd Bishop)
- Celebrating Women in Tech Week at Redgate (Bronwyn Boyle)
Database
- Simple Way to Calculate Running Totals in SQL Server (Jared Westover)
- Create a SQL Server 2025 SSIS Catalog Using SSMS v22 (Andy Leonard)
- A Little About ROW_NUMBER Filtering Performance in SQL Server (Erik Darling)
- Couchbase 8.0: Unified Data Platform for Hyperscale AI Applications (Jeff Morris)
- SQL Server Reporting Services Failed Subscriptions Monitoring and Notifications (Svetlana Golovko)
- Lessons Learned #537: Copilot Prompts for Troubleshooting on Azure SQL Database (Jose Manuel Jurado)
- TempDB Filling Up? Try Resource Governor. (Brent Ozar)
Sharepoint, Teams and Microsoft 365
- Announcing the retirement for Office Online Server (Tim Davenport)
Tools
- Tips and Tricks for Medium Writers (Medium Staff)
- Live Blog Writer | Visual Studio Marketplace (Alvin Ashcraft)
General
- Releasing Windows 11 Builds 26100.7015 and 26200.7015 to the Release Preview Channel (Amanda Langowski)
- Amazon hopes to replace 600,000 US workers with robots, according to leaked documents (Jess Weatherbed)
- Inside the Trump Adminstration’s Bluesky Invasion (Makena Kelly)
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