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Dew Drop – November 28, 2023 (#4077)

Posted on November 28, 2023 | by Alvin A.

Top Links

Announcing ML.NET 3.0 (Jeff Handley)
Embedding a minimal ASP.NET Web Server into a Desktop Application (Rick Strahl)
Merge Conflict #386: .NET Conf 2023 Recap (James Montemagno & Frank Kreuger)
Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights (The White House)
Artificial Intelligence for Beginners – A Curriculum – 12 Weeks, 24 Lessons, AI for All! (Microsoft)

Web & Cloud Development

Astro 4.0 Beta Release (Matthew Phillips)
Detecting Tablet Mode in JavaScript… Slightly Incorrectly (Alan Mendelevich)
Announcing general availability of the AWS SDK for Rust (Zelda Hessler)
Amazon’s new $195 thin client looks just like a Fire TV Cube (Sarah Perez)
How to Embed a YouTube Video in GitHub ReadMe Markdown (Steve Smith)

Visual Studio & .NET

Primary constructors has caused concerns for C# developers (David Grace)
C# Tip: Use TestCase to run similar unit tests with NUnit (Davide Bellone)
Tell Us What You Want in Marten and Wolverine! (Jeremy D. Miller)
What’s New in the vcpkg 2023.11.20 Release (Augustin Popa)
How to Use the Automated Machine Learning API With ML.NET (Ivan Matec)

Design, Methodology, AI & Testing

Synchronizing concurrent teams (Mark Seemann)
GPT-4’s potential in shaping the future of radiology (Brenda Potts)
How to Identify Copilot Bullsh*t (Loryan Strant)
How to become a prompt engineer (Mahesh Chand)
A simple re-framing of the Kano Model to prioritize AI-powered features. (Michael O’Sullivan)
Refactoring Legacy Code – What You Need To Be Effective (Nick Cosentino)
KPIs for software development: A comprehensive review (Tyler Hakes)
Announcing the Build Server for Gradle Open-Source Repository (Nick Zhu)
Can Unlocking Joy Unlock Developer Productivity? (Rajeev Rajan)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Learning to Program for the Apple Vision Pro (James Ashley)
UI Toolkit: New and updated demos for programmers and artists (Thomas Krogh-Jacobsen, Eduardo Oriz & Shanti Zachariah)
Announcing general availability of the AWS SDK for Kotlin (Aaron Todd)

Screencasts & Videos

Integrating OpenAI into your Azure Landing Zone | Azure Enablement Show (Harshitha Putta & Freddy Ayala)
Technology & Friends – Ashton and Ryan Clark on TicketFalcon (David Giard)
TitletownTech x TechSpark | Creating Opportunities (Microsoft Developer)

Podcasts

Revision Path – Phillip J. Clayton (Part 2 of 2) (Maurice Cherry)
Until the Ice Cream Truck Podcast – An Interview with Janna Bastow (Howard Dierking & Glenn Block)
The .NET on AWS Show featuring Christian Buckley! (Brandon Minnick & Francois Bouteruche)
Meta Cast – Growing Agile Leaders (Bob Galen & Josh Anderson)
The PowerShell Podcast – PowerShell Summit & More: A Chat with James Petty (James Petty)
Google Cloud Security Podcast Episode 150 – Taming the AI Beast: Threat Modeling for Modern AI Systems with Gary McGraw (Anton Chuvakin)
The Changelog News Podcast – Was Jamstack a zero interest rate phenomenon? (Jerod Santo)
Design Details 464: AI Grab Bag (Brian Lovin & Marshall Bock)
The Stack Overflow Podcast – Are remote workers more productive? That’s the wrong question. (Eira May)
Maarten Balliauw: Developer Tools – Azure DevOps Podcast Episode 273 (Jeffrey Palermo)
Inside Trader Joe’s Episode 68: It’s a Holly Jolly Trader Joe’s Holiday Shopping List (Trader Joe’s Team)
Women in Technology Podcast – Uncover Your Core Genius (WiT Team)

Community & Events

Tech Conference Collapses After Organizer Admits To Making Fake ‘Auto-Generated’ Female Speaker (BeauHD)
Mass layoffs reportedly hit Marvel Snap publisher Nuverse (Jess Weatherbed)
Broadcom to cut 184 Broomfield jobs days after $61B VMWare acquisition (Lucas High)

Database

Optimizing Common Table Expression Queries In SQL Server (Erik Darling)
What are Kusto Query Language (KQL) databases in Microsoft Fabric? (Koen Verbeeck)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams

SharePoint Add-In retirement in Microsoft 365 (Bert Jansen)
Azure ACS retirement in Microsoft 365 (Bert Jansen)
Introducing Viva Learning Circles (Sonya Bedi)
Accessibility tips for inclusive Microsoft Teams meetings and live events (Microsoft Support)

Miscellaneous

In Windows 3.1 and Windows 95, what is a “grabber”? (Raymond Chen)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #3833 (Chris Alcock)
Interesting links of the week 2023-48 (#100) (Michael Eaton)
Sands of MAUI: Issue #125 (Sam Basu)
Daily Reading List – November 27, 2023 (#211) (Richard Seroter)
Reading Notes #581 (Frank Boucher)

The Geek Shelf

Refactoring with C#: Safely improve .NET applications and pay down technical debt with Visual Studio, .NET 8, and C# 12 (Matt Eland) – Referral Link

Dew Drop – December 2, 2020 (#3330)

Posted on December 2, 2020 | by Alvin A.

Top Links

Linux + .NET 5 + VS Code XAML Preview + Hot Reload Running on Embedded Linux? (a sneak peek) (Matheus Castello)
v7.1.0 Release of PowerShell (Travis Plunk)
CodeSandbox: Showcase Your Sandboxes with All New Profile Pages (Ives van Hoorne)
C# 9 Cheat Sheet with code example and pros and cons (Bassam Alugili)
Optimum Developer Productivity – GitHub + Visual Studio Code + Azure (Isaac Levin & Abel Wang)

Web & Cloud Development

What’s new in Svelte: December 2020 (Daniel Sandoval)
ASP.NET Core docs: What’s new for November 1, 2020 – November 30, 2020 (Scott Addie)
Getting started with Playwright with Jest and TypeScript (Carl Rippon)
ASP.NET Core Improvements in .NET 5 (Antonio Liccardi)
VMware Tanzu and Amazon EKS Distro Help Customers Make Best Use of Kubernetes (Craig McLuckie)
New for AWS Lambda – Functions with Up to 10 GB of Memory and 6 vCPUs (Danilo Poccia)
New for AWS Lambda – Container Image Support (Danilo Poccia)
The Docker Developer Guide to AWS re:Invent (Matt Carter)
Massive updates with version 11 of Angular (Mike Hartington)
Running Container Images in AWS Lambda (Mikhail Shilkov)
Docker and AWS Resources for Developers (Peter McKee)
Data Entry Made Easy with Blazor Multicolumn AutoComplete (Saravanan G)
npm uses GitHub Flavored Markdown (GitHub)
Github Releases Catalyst to Ease the Development of Web Components in Complex Applications (Bruno Couriol)
Getting Started with Amazon EKS Distro & Pulumi (Lee Briggs)
Pulumi container images now available on Amazon ECR Public (Paul Stack)
Achieving a Seamless User Experience with Refresh Token Inactivity Lifetimes (Randy Nasson)

Visual Studio & .NET

.NET Framework November 2020 Cumulative Update Preview for Windows 10 2004 and Windows Server, version 2004 (Tara Overfield)
Avoid Wrapping DbContext in Using (and other gotchas) (Steve Smith)
.NET 5 Runtime Improvements: From Functional to Performant Implementations (Eran Stiller)
Code Smell – Primitive Obsession and Refactoring Recipes (Patrick Smacchia)

Design, Methodology & Testing

State of DevOps Report (Janet Swift)
New- Amazon DevOps Guru Helps Identify Application Errors and Fixes (Harunobu Kameda)
AzureFunBytes – DevOps on Azure with Donovan Brown (Jay Gordon)
How Team Routines Can Make You More Resilient in the Face of Uncertainty (Amy Rigby)
The Only Testing that Matters: Testing through the Eyes of the User (Peter Vogel)
Scaling Datastores at Slack with Vitess (Rafael Chacon Vivas)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Dart Extensions in Flutter (Arathi Shankri)
AGP 7.0: Next major release for the Android Gradle plugin (Murat Yener)
Announcing Android Studio Arctic Fox (2020.3.1) & Android Gradle plugin 7.0 (Jamal Eason)
Flutter Vs React Native (Mahesh Chand)
Spread the joy of learning through making (Eben Upton)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

Technology & Friends – Gaines Kergosien on ADHD (David Giard)
Developer Tea – Teaching in Public w/ Kent C. Dodds (part 2) (Jonathan Cutrell)
C# with CSharpFritz – Ep 12: Get Started with Entity Framework Core (Jeff Fritz)
What’s New in Text Analytics: Opinion Mining and Async API | AI Show (Seth Juarez & Parashar Shah)
JSJ 460: The Things Every JavaScript Developer Must Know, Part 2 (AJ O’Neal, Aimee Knight, Steve Edwards, Dan Shappir & Charles Max Wood)
Writing Visual Studio Extensions with Mads – Holiday Special (Mads Kristensen)
Building and deploying web apps with Static Web Apps | The DevOps Lab (Damian Brady & Aaron Powell)
RunAs Radio – From Documents to Lists with Lise Rasmussen (Richard Campbell & Greg Hughes)
FreeCodeSession – Episode 217 (Jason Bock)
Talk Python to Me #293 – Learning how to learn as a developer (Michael Kennedy)
Windows Insider Podcast – Insider Currency Done Right (Windows Insider Team)

Community & Events

The DevTalk Show (Dec 2nd) – Managing the Other Stuff: Tips for dealing with email, chat, notes and todos (Andy Schwam, Chris Gomez & Rich Ross)

Database

SQL Server Management Studio Database Diagram Support Objects Cannot be Installed (Sergey Gigoyan)
Foreword – Building Custom Tasks for SSIS 2nd Edition (Andy Leonard)
Infinite Loop – SQL in Sixty Seconds #144 (Pinal Dave)

SharePoint & MS Teams

Microsoft Teams calling devices for every user (MS Teams Team)
Microsoft Updates Teams Calling With CarPlay Support, New UI, and More (Brad Sams)

Miscellaneous

Khan Academy is an essential homeschooling resource, especially for math (Alex Hazlett)
PowerToys 0.27 comes with a bunch of improvements (Kunal Chowdhury)
Salesforce to Acquire Slack for $27.7 Billion (Paul Thurrott)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #3125 (Chris Alcock)
.NET App Developer Links – 2020-12-02 (Dan Rigby)
.NET Annotated Monthly | December 2020 (Rachel Appel)

The Geek Shelf

Building Chatbots in TypeScript with the Microsoft Bot Framework: Programming Useful Bots in the Node.JS SDK (Michael Szul) – Referral Link

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