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Dew Drop – January 5, 2023 (#3852)

Posted on January 5, 2023 | by Alvin A. | 1 Comment

Top Links

Create Project Planning and Resource Management Calendar in .NET MAUI (Jeyasri Murugan)
PowerShell, GraphQL, and SpaceX (Liam Cleary)
New Microsoft Graph Developer Proxy preview v0.3 with support for all APIs (Waldek Mastykarz and Garry Trinder)
Machine Learning in .NET with F# and ML.NET 2.0 (Matt Eland)
Debugger Text Visualizer (Mark Downie)

Web & Cloud Development

How to Introduce a UI Theme in Your React App (Hassan Djirdeh)
First Public Working Draft: Web Locks API (Xueyuan Jia)
Amazon Releases Fortuna, an Open-Source Library for ML Model Uncertainty Quantification (Daniel Dominguez)
Self-hosting Chromium extensions (Gérald Barré)
WebAssembly: 5 Predictions for 2023 (Matt Butcher)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

Introducing the New .NET MAUI Funnel Charts (Saravanan Madheswaran)

Visual Studio & .NET

Challenge: what does this code print? (Oren Eini)
Why tuples in C# are not always a code smell (Dennis Fruhauff)
OpenTelemetry in .NET – Basic Usage With Examples (Code Maze)
Unifying Your UIs with Telerik Fluent Theme (Peter Vogel)
Using perfect (and imperfect) forwarding to simplify C++ wrapper classes (Raymond Chen)

Design, Methodology & Testing

Things I Learned #18: GitHub Actions on a Schedule (Michael Eaton)
Introduction to DevSecOps on Azure (Daniel Krzyczkowski)
Platform Engineer or Software Engineer? (Anirudh Menon)
A Guide To Getting Data Visualization Right (Sara Dholakia)
Introducing 15 Days of Postman: Test Challenge for API Testing Professionals (Joyce)
Feature Announcement: Volumes in the cloud (Lee Brandt)
Part 3: Architectural Cost Optimisation – Practical Design Steps for Architects and Developers (Shane Baldacchino)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Understanding stops property on LinearGradient in Flutter (Ansh Saini)

Screencasts & Videos

Armchair Architects: Architecture and Ambiguity (David Blank-Edelman, Uli Homann & Eric Charran)
NPM package hell – How to avoid going insane with Brook Jeynes (SSW TV)
Coffee and Open Source – Jason Lengstorf (Isaac Levin)

Podcasts

.NET Rocks! – Alice and Bob Learn App Security with Tanya Janca (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
Developer Tea – Celebrating 8 Years – Plus, What it Feels Like to Be Wrong (Jonathan Cutrell)
Working Code Podcast – Episode 108: 2022 Year In Review (Ben Nadel)
Software Engineering Radio Episode 545: John deVadoss on Design Philosophies that Drive .NET/Azure (Nikhil Krishna)
Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Learning to communicate uncertainty in Agile planning and in SAFe | Fred Deichler and Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Remember the Future Agile Retrospective, prospecting for risks to prepare for | Fred Deichler (Vasco Duarte)
Complete Developer Podcast – Predictions 2023 (BJ Burns & Will Gant)
The Happy Engineer Podcast 081: The 6 Essential Core Values of Leadership with David Valentine | Marketing Madman and $$ Billion Dollar Leader (Kae Lynne Sapino)
The Stack Overflow Podcast – Better developer experience through AI and open source (Ryan Donovan)

Community & Events

On the road: My year of conferences on Unity’s Diversity Recruiting team (Kaylynn Castleman)
Tech plays key role as Washington state launches ambitious programs to curb carbon emissions (Lisa Stiffler)
Amazon’s confirms its massive layoffs will affect 18,000 employees (Mitchell Clark)
The future of mobility is now: Five themes to watch at CES 2023 (Sanjay Ravi)
Things to Do for Martin Luther King Jr. Weekend 2023 in Greater Philadelphia (Visit Philly)

Database

Public preview: Azure Cosmos DB V2 Connector for Power BI (Azure Team)
Getting Started with Azure Data Studio (Daniel Calbimonte)
Announcing Cosmos DB to Azure Data Explorer Synapse Link (public preview) (Vincent-Philippe Lauzon)
Identify Unused Indexes across all Databases (Matthew McGiffen)
Getting your data in shape for machine learning (Tobias Kupek)

Miscellaneous

PostScript Source Code Released (Kay Ewbank)
New York City schools ban access to ChatGPT over fears of cheating and misinformation (James Vincent)
Apple Books quietly launches AI-narrated audiobooks (Jon Porter)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #3617 (Chris Alcock)
The SQL Server Posts You Read the Most in 2022 (Brent Ozar)
.NET Annotated Monthly | January 2023 (Rachel Appel)
Daily Wrap Up – January 4, 2023 (#002) (Richard Seroter)

The Geek Shelf

Dew Drop – January 9, 2017 (#2399)

Posted on January 9, 2017 | by Alvin A. | 3 Comments

Top Links

MediatR Behaviors (Derek Comartin)
Ashley Grant on Aurelia (David Giard)
Microsoft – Kids Can Code!!! (Ed Price)
How to Build & Ship an App in a Week with Xamarin.Forms (James Montemagno)

Web Development

ASP.NET Core: Globalization and Localization (Daniel Jimenez Garcia)
Provisioning Cloudant / CouchDB Databases From Auth0 For A Database-Per-User Architecture In Angular 2.4.1 and Associating Auth0 Rules With Specific Auth0 Clients In Angular 2.4.1 (Ben Nadel)
jQuery’s .fade() Method (Learning jQuery)
Optimizing App Loading Time With Angular 2 Lazy Loading (Stanimira Vlaeva)
Async HTTP API and service bus (Piotr Gankiewicz)
Managing Web Sites from Web Sites using the Azure Management Libraries for .NET (Brady Gaster)
Rapid Development of Intelligent Bot Using Azure Bot Service (Abhijit Jana)
Azure Region Pairs Explained (Chris Pietschmann)
Kanvas Announces SDK Suite for 3rd Party Creative Live Videos (Eric Carter)
Splunk and AWS: Monitoring & Metrics in a Serverless World (Kyle Champlin)
Build Callbacks With Stamplay, Twilio and Unbounce (Kyle Kelly-Yahner)

Miscellaneous .NET

Smarter build scripts with MSBuild and .NET Core (Matthew Abbott)
Here’s how to detect whether an assembly is digitally signed (using C#) (Kunal Chowdhury)
Deconstruction In C# 7.0 (Mahesh Chand)
A C# Mission Launcher For Project Malmo Minecraft (Michael Washington)
What’s New in Entity Framework Core 1.1 (Ricardo Peres)
Sorting by indices, part 2: The Schwartzian transform (Raymond Chen)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Scrum Myths: Does Velocity Equal Value? (Alex Ballarin)
VS Team Services Update – Jan 6 (Brian Harry)
How Do Individual Contributors Get Stuck? A Primer (Camille Fournier)
How To Be A Time Lord: Time Management Techniques To Try (Dennis R. Mortensen)
Does X Make You Successful? (Jeremy Clark)
Benefits Of Git Rebase (Lee Richardson)
Book Review: Continuous Integration in .NET (Nathan Gloyn)

Other Mobile Platforms

Xamarin Forms WebView Bindable Actions (Adam Pedley)
Introducing EasyLayout.Droid For Simpler Xamarin Android Layouts (Lee Richardson)
GitBit – Connecting GitHub and littleBits (Brady Gaster)
7 Tips for Mobile UI (Kratika Laalwani)
Display Cards for Alexa: A New Complementary Feature for Screen-Based Products (Ted Karczewski)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

InfoQ Podcast: Neha Batra – Pivotal Labs Pair Programming (Neha Batra)
AAWP Insight #202: a BringCast special (Steve Litchfield)
Coding Blocks.NET Episode 53 – Clean Code – Programming around Boundaries (Allen Underwood, Michael Outlaw & Joe Zack)
This Week on Windows: Countdown to Huge Savings, New Releases, and More | This Week On Windows (Camtomisser)
CodeNewbie Ep. 122 – The Ethics of Coding (Bill Sourour) (CodeNewbie Team)
Developer on Fire Episode 198 | Bryan Cantrill – Persistence and Action (Dave Rael)
The Amp Hour #330 – An Interview with Zach Fredin(Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
StarTalk Radio – Season 7 Time Capsule (Part 1) (Neil deGrasse Tyson)
Windows Weekly 499: Air In, Noise Out (Paul Thurrott)
Away From the Keyboard Episode 56: The Family That Codes Together with Kathleen Dollard (Richie Rump)
Developer Tea – Understand Your Environment (Jonathan Cutrell)

Community / Events

Around The World With MVPs: Lisbon (MVP Award Program)

Database

Miscellaneous

Mark Hamill has begun dubbing Donald Trump’s tweets as the Joker (Andrew Liptak)
All you need to know about YubiKey for Windows Hello and Windows 10 (Daniel Rubino)
More automakers choose Microsoft as their connected car partner (Gabriel Nunes)
Microsoft’s Connected Vehicle Platform is a more far-reaching approach than either Apple’s or Google’s (Kareem Anderson)
CES 2017: Intel Unveils a Credit Card-Sized Computer (Paul Thurrott)
Windows 10 Insider build 15002 leaks after being canceled this week (Zac Bowden)

More Link Collections

Xamarin App Developer Links – 2017-01-09 and Windows App Developer Links – 2017-01-09 (Dan Rigby)
The Morning Brew #2258 (Chris Alcock)
Welcome to 2017! Coming right up with the Friday Five (MVP Award Program)
Double Shot #1790 (Mike Gunderloy)
Collective #278 (Pedro Botelho)
Reading Notes #262 (Frank Boucher)
Last Week on Channel 9: January 2nd – January 8th, 2017 (Greg Duncan)
Azure Weekly: Jan 9, 2017 (Chris Pietschmann)
GameDev Newsletter – Week Ending January 6, 2017 (Brian Peek)
Weekly C# Digest Issue #136 (Jakub Chodounsky)
F# Weekly #2, 2017 (Sergey Tihon)

The Geek Shelf

Mastering Xamarin.Forms: Ed Snider: 9781785287190: Books

ISBN: 1785287192
ISBN-13: 9781785287190

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Dew Drop – January 14, 2012 (#1,242)

Posted on January 14, 2012 | by Alvin A. | 1 Comment

Top Links

10th Day of Silverlight : O/S Integration and 11th Day of Silverlight : 3D (Tony Champion)
JavaScript for C# developers: the Module pattern (part 4) – debugging (Julian M. Bucknall)
Comparing Strings in Unit Tests (Phil Haack)
Fluent Assertions 1.7.0 has been released (Dennis Doomen)

.NET / Visual Studio

Implementing IEqualityComparer (Richard Carr)
Twitter Search JSON Deserialization (Tim Murphy)
Contact Columns and other pieces of help info in Mono for Android (Wally McClure)
How to read managed function parameter values from call stack when they read in WinDBG? (Sebastian Dau)
Stylecop Suppress Message (Kazim Sardar Mehdi)
Using async / await (Bnaya Eshet)
Kinect’ing to Arduino with Visual Basic and The Kinect, Windows Azure Service Bus and SignalR together in Kinectonitor (Greg Duncan)
Comparing Transparent Lazy Loading between NHibernate and Entity Framework (Henry He)

Web Development

ASP.NET: Integrating Search and Help with Cross-Page Posting (Peter Vogel)
Multi-column combo box – NetAdvantage for jQuery (Atanas Dyulgerov)
ASP.Net MVC4 developer preview fails to build with Nuget package restore. (Kevin LaBranche)
Javascript coding style recommendation: in return and throw statements use only simple variables (Michael Freidgeim)
JavaScript Performance (Steve Souders)
WebAPI Developer Preview 6: Self Hosted Mode Example (John V. Petersen)
Troubleshooting “500 Internal Server Errors” in the Windows Azure Emulator when Working with Node.JS (Aaron Stannard)
Using Symbolic links with local storage to store large amount of data in Windows Azure Application Drive and Setting Windows Azure Blob Storage (asv) as data source directly from Portal at Hadoop on Azure (Avkash Chauhan)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Run Lokad.CQRS code natively on Windows Azure (Rinat Abdullin)
Physician, Heal Thyself–ScrumMaster, Master Thyself (Robert May)
The evolution of a task board (Dror Helper)
Huboard – Github issues made awesome (Ryan Rauh)
5 Skills for Tech Leads (Sergio Romano)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

How to hide the soft keyboard in a Windows Phone app (Windows Phone Geek)
Telerik RadDatePicker control for Windows Phone (Dhananjay Kumar)
A simple Windows Phone control for reading QR codes (Jeff Wilcox)
Your path to a WP7 app in 30 days (Kunal Chowdhury)
A Dynamic DataTemplate Generator for WPF (Matt Hamilton)
Breakdown of Windows Phone App Download Statistics (Rene Schulte)
Windows Phone and PhoneGap – Article #8 – Retreive Device Information (Senthil Kumar)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

Why work at Microsoft? International Microfilms Contest Shows Why (MS JobsBlog)
TWC9: New Team Members, Win8, C++, SQL 2012, Cloud Numerics (Dan Fernandez, Greg Duncan & Rick Barraza)
The JavaScript Show – Fluentconf, Scrollorama, Impress.JS (Peter Cooper & Jason Seifer)
Engadget Podcast 274: CES 2012 Day 4 – 01.12.2012 and Engadget Mobile Podcast 121: CES 2012 – 01.12.2012 and Engadget HD Podcast 282: CES 2012 – 01.13.2012 and The Vergecast at CES: Day Four (Trent Wolbe)
Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 37 (Richard Hay)
Adron Hall Visual Studio AWS Toolkit & SDK Presentation Video (Bobby Johnson)
Hands-on: Nokia Lumia 900, THE Windows Phone (Tim Conneally)

Community / Events

Critical Path Training SharePoint Developer Roadshow in Boston & SharePint! (Andrew Connell)
Updates to the Coding4Fun Team! (Brian Peek, Clint Rutkas, Dan Fernandez & Greg Duncan)
CES 2012: what I learned, why I’m not going back (Ed Bott)
TED2012 speaker lineup (Mark Frauenfelder)
CodeMash 2012–what an awesome event! (Paul Stack)
The Chat I Had With Stephen Elop as We Both Nearly Missed Final Ballmer-Note (Ina Fried)

Database

Miscellaneous

Microsoft’s Windows 8: What we learned this week (Mary Jo Foley)
Rake. Huh? and Rake Fundamentals: tasks with prerequisites and Rake Fundamentals: rakefiles and tasks and Rake Fundamentals: file tasks and Rake Fundamentals: directory tasks and Rake Fundamentals: FileLists (Dale Smith)
What I Use: Evernote and Microsoft Word for Writing (Paul Thurrott)
The TED imperatives (Seth Godin)
Skype to Come to Windows Phone as App First – Baked Into OS Later? (Coming Soon?) (Antonio Hernandez)

More Link Collections

Interesting Finds: January 14, 2012 (Jason Haley)
Distributed Weekly 137 – CodeMash 2012 Edition (Scott Banwart)
Interesting .NET Links – January 14 , 2012 (Senthil Kumar)
Re-blog – January 6 – January 12 (Jason Strate)
MVP Friday Five: January 13, 2012 (MVP Award Program)
Daily WP7 Development News 13 Jan 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)
End-of-week SilverlightShow Content Recap (1/13/2012) and Daily News Digest 1/13/2012 (Silverlight Show)
ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 2012-01-13 (Bob Rhubart)
Pie in the Sky (January 13, 2012) (Brian Swan)
Windows Dev News for January 13, 2011 – #0027 (Dave Campbell)
Retrospective 67 – PMI, Agile Emails, and Agile Country (Peter Saddington)

The Geek Shelf

jQuery: Novice to Ninja by Earle Castledine

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