Top Links
- TechBash Schedule Updates! Get the App and Build Your Schedule (TechBash Team)
 - Trying out MongoDB with EF Core using Testcontainers (Arthur Vickers)
 - My new book, Learn WinUI 3, 2nd Edition is now available (Alvin Ashcraft)
 - A new F# compiler feature: graph-based type-checking (Florian Verdonck)
 - Announcing public preview for Microsoft Adaptive Card Previewer (Junjie Li)
 - The Modern .NET Podcast – Navigating the .NETverse: From Assembler to Open Source Marvel with Scott Hunter (Jamie Taylor)
 
Web & Cloud Development
- Parsing nginx logs with GoAccess and creating a HTML report in a cron job (Alexander Zeitler)
 - Don’t Bet Against the Cloud (Kendall Miller)
 - Can Kubernetes Solve WebAssembly’s Component Challenges? (B. Cameron Gain)
 - Top 7 Ways to Write CSS in Your React or Next.js App (Prasad Lakshan)
 - Add Application Insights to a Web Site using the Open Telemetry Client (Paul Michaels)
 - A Schema-Driven Address API Negotiation (Kin Lane)
 - Our Take on Verifiable Credentials (Vittorio Bertocci & Damian Schenkelman)
 - A new way to bring garbage collected programming languages efficiently to WebAssembly (Alon Zakai)
 - What is caching? (Allen Helton)
 - Dynamically Generating Document Samples with Acrobat Services (Raymond Camden)
 - Universal Login A/B Testing (Sam Yapkowitz)
 - A Guide to Creating a Copy of an API Management Instance (Srini Padala, Andre Dewes, bjg & Bappaditya Banerjee)
 
WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML
- .NET MAUI – 3 ComboBox Dropdown Alternatives for User-Friendly Item Selection within a Mobile App (Anthony Sameishchev)
 - Chart of the Week: Creating a .NET MAUI Tornado Chart for Comparing Petrol and Diesel Prices in the UK (Sowndharya Selladurai)
 - Uno Platform 5.0: C# Is Now All You Need (David Ramel)
 - Uno Platform 5.0 Release: C# Markup and Productivity Improvements (Almir Vuk)
 
Visual Studio & .NET
- Pick Your Enumerator & Me.Understand Yield and IEnumerable (VB) (Mike-MadBadger)
 - How come my custom exception message is lost when it is thrown from a IAsyncAction^? (Raymond Chen)
 - Collection expressions brings the spread operator to C# 12 (David Grace)
 - How to Force Run .NET Application as Administrator (Code Maze)
 - Beginner’s CSharp Switch Statement Tutorial: How To Properly Use A Switch Statement (Nick Cosentino)
 
Design, Methodology, AI & Testing
- Building AI Applications with LangChain and Node.js (Julián Duque)
 - New study validates the business value and opportunity of AI (Alysa Taylor)
 - The False Dichotomy of Monolith vs. Microservices (Ashley Davis)
 - The AI Engineer Foundation: Open Source for the Future of AI (Jennifer Riggins)
 - The Experience AI Challenge: Make your own AI project (Dan Fisher)
 - Brave responds to Bing and ChatGPT with a new ‘anonymous and secure’ AI chatbot (Jess Weatherbed)
 - AutoGen Agents Meet Semantic Kernel (John Maeda)
 - Internet Archive Submits Comments on Copyright and Artificial Intelligence (Lila Bailey)
 - ChatGPT and Beyond: Exploring the language model to build an intelligent search (Pablo Lopes)
 - How to Get Past Professional Failures and Mistakes (Suzanne Scacca)
 
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
Screencasts & Videos
- The Download: GitHub Universe, OpenSauced, Payload, and more! (Christina Warren)
 - How does TitletownTech fit into the TechSpark program? (Microsoft Developer)
 - What I Wish I Knew … about creativity in tech (Leslie Richardson)
 - Track middle tier applications with SQL Audit | Data Exposed (Anna Hoffman)
 
Podcasts
- The Hanselminutes Podcast – Sustainable open source with Oqtane’s Shaun Walker (Scott Hanselman)
 - InfoQ Podcast: Crisis Management, Black Swans and Resilience (Sharon Robson)
 - Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Crafting a Culture of Love for Work, The Real Challenge for Real Agile Leaders | Chris Garvey (Vasco Duarte)
 - Made by Google Podcast – Pixel Watch: Keeping You Safe and Sound (Rachid Finge)
 - Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy Podcast 553 – David Cronenberg Movies: Scanners, Videodrome, The Fly, Existenz, Crimes of the Future (David Barr Kirtley & John Joseph Adams)
 - The Changelog – Observing the power of APIs (Jean Yang, Adam Stacoviak & Jerod Santo)
 - Rocket 462: The Scary Fast Episode (Christina Warren, Brianna Wu & Simone De Rochefort)
 - The Stack Overflow Podcast – Tomasz Tunguz: From Java engineer to investor in eight unicorns (Eira May)
 - Web Rush Episode 258: Where Does AI Fit In Your Solution? (John Papa, Ward Bell, Craig Shoemaker & Dan Wahlin)
 - Controlling Your Narrative | Multithreaded Income Episode 13 (Kevin Griffin)
 - The Happy Engineer Podcast #137: Create Balance – A Journey of Ease and Dignity with Rebecca Whitman | The Magnetic Abundance Mentor (Max Ahumada)
 - Python Bytes Podcast #359 – gil–; (Michael Kennedy)
 - Software Defined Talk Episode 439: You’re always going to be mad (Brandon Whichard & Matt Ray)
 
Community & Events
- ‘Seattle, you will always have a piece of my heart’: Jeff Bezos leaving Amazon’s hometown for Miami (Kurt Schlosser) – I guess some people at Amazon can work remotely…
 - Tips for starting your own makerspace (Ashley Whittaker)
 - LinkedIn Reaches 1 Billion Members, Expands AI Features On Site (Ana Faguy)
 - Leveraging AI to empower all developers at GitHub Universe 2023 (Ed Summers)
 - Celebrating the first round of GitHub Accelerator and what’s next (Stormy Peters)
 - Microsoft Visual C++ at CppCon 2023 Trip Report (Sinem Akinci)
 - Hello Progress Champions (Sam Basu)
 
Database
- How To Use Temp Tables To Fix Parameter Sniffing Problems In SQL Server (Erik Darling)
 - Entra Authentication for Replication in Arc-enabled SQL Server 2022 CU 6 in Public Preview (Tameika Lawrence)
 - New features for Azure Synapse Link for Azure Cosmos DB (Rodrigo Souza)
 - Couchbase Capella: Advantages in Speed, Functionality, and TCO Over Redis (Matthew Groves)
 
PowerShell
- Ironman Engineering: PowerShell Universal Docker Testing (Adam Driscoll)
 
Miscellaneous
- A new world of security: Microsoft’s Secure Future Initiative (Brad Smith)
 - Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22635.2700 (Beta Channel) (Brandon LeBlanc)
 - In Memoriam of Python 2 (Brenton)
 - The Positive Environmental Impacts of Electronic Signatures (Shirley Rangini Graceya)
 - Microsoft employees aren’t happy that they’re losing free Xbox Game Pass Ultimate (Tom Warren)
 
More Link Collections
- Daily Reading List – November 2, 2023 (#196) (Richard Seroter)
 
The Geek Shelf
 Parallel Programming and Concurrency with C# 10 and .NET 6: A modern approach to building faster, more responsive, and asynchronous .NET applications using C# (Alvin Ashcraft) – Referral Link


