Top Links
- Introducing the New Flutter AI AssistView Widget (Vijayakumar Mariappan)
 - Back to Basics: Using the Parallel Library to Massively Boost Loop Performance (Rick Strahl)
 - Leadership Lessons from Satya Nadella (JD Meier)
 - Aaron Powell: .NET Aspire Community Toolkit – Azure & DevOps Podcast Episode #330 (Jeffrey Palermo)
 - 2024 was a big year for Windows on Arm (Tom Warren)
 - Using the AI Dev Gallery to Create a Windows Application with AI (Nick Randolph)
 
Web & Cloud Development
- Develop and Display RDLC Reports in Microsoft Blazor (Michael Washington)
 - Pulumi WASM/Rust devlog #1 (Andrzej Ressel)
 - Meet Jetpack: Fueling Your WordPress.com Website (Amanda Coopersmith)
 - Astro v5 Blog starter (jldec)
 - Get TenantId for any Azure Subscription (Gregor Suttie)
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Angular Application Security (Piyali Das)
 - Kubernetes 1.32 Released with Dynamic Resource Allocation and Graceful Shutdown of Windows Nodes (Mostafa Radwan)
 - Docker install for WSL2 (Stanislav Berkov)
 - Transforming Your Application into Micro Frontends with Native Federation for Angular — Part 2 (Erick Zanetti)
 - Efficient Data Handling in Angular 16 Using RxJS Observables (Vishal Joshi)
 - Passkeys Authentication Across Platforms and Devices using Entra ID (Farooque)
 - Let’s Encrypt to end OCSP support in 2025 (Scott Helme)
 - OAuth 2.0: A Standard in Name Only? (Shon Urbas)
 
Visual Studio & .NET
- PETree – A hex editor that knows about the PE file and .NET metadata format (Kirill Osenkov)
 - TX Text Control Linux Preview: Font Handling and Merging Self-Calculating Business Objects with TX Text Control MailMerge in C# (Bjoern Meyer)
 - Vogen: A semi-opinionated library – a source generator and a code analyzer (Steve Dunn)
 - .NET Development Essentials on macOS with VS Code (Nahid Chowdhury)
 - Basic Concepts | Docfx (Docfx Docs)
 - Solving Common Dapper Challenges with Advanced Techniques in C# and .NET (Anderson Godoy)
 - FSharp.MongoDB – Add support for F# types to .net MongoDB.Driver (Pierre Chalamet)
 - TUnit – A modern, fast and flexible .NET testing framework (Tom Longhurst)
 - In C++, failure to meet the requirements does not always mean that you fail if you don’t meet the requirements (Raymond Chen)
 - Boost Your .NET Projects: Unleashing the Power of Spargine’s EncryptionHelper (David McCarter)
 
AI
- The AI Powered Leader: Unleashing Leadership Potential in the Age of Intelligence (JD Meier)
 - Make your own private ChatGPT (sourabhkv)
 
Design, Methodology & Testing
- Best way of implementing Domain-driven design, Clean Architecture and CQRS (Tural Suleymani)
 - Leaning into Weakness (Aaron Stannard)
 - Building High-Performance Teams with Clear Expectations and What Makes a Great Leader? and How To Lead with Empathy and Impact and The Art of Servant Leadership and The Leader’s Edge: Balancing Vision and Execution and How To Become a Great Leader and How To Lead with Impact: From Planning to Execution (JD Meier)
 - Developer Tools: What’s Ahead in 2025? (David Eastman)
 - What Happens to Relicensed Open Source Projects and Their Forks? (Dawn Foster)
 - The quickest way to become a senior software engineer (Fiodar Sazanavets)
 - What Rewriting a 40-Year-Old Project Taught Me About Software Development (Milan Jovanović)
 - Double-check user actions: All about warning message UI (Shalitha Suranga)
 
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- Flutter 3.27 Promotes New Rendering Engine Impeller, Improves iOS and Material Widgets, and More (Sergio De Simone)
 - Google Previews VR Platform and SDK (Kay Ewbank)
 - Running a production-ready Raspberry Pi Kubernetes cluster at home (Gerald Venzl)
 
Screencasts & Videos
- IoT Coffee Talk: Episode 241: 2024 The Year of Logarithmic Hype! (IoT Coffee Talk Crew)
 - Random.Code() – Advent of Code 2024 Playthrough – Part 1 and Random.Code() – Advent of Code 2024 Playthrough – Part 3 and Random.Code() – Advent of Code 2024 Playthrough – Part 4 and Random.Code() – Advent of Code 2024 Playthrough – Part 5 and Random.Code() – Advent of Code 2024 Playthrough – Part 6 (Jason Bock)
 - 12 days of OpenAI in 90 seconds. (Frank LaVigne)
 - What I Use, 2024 (Brad Sams)
 
Podcasts
- InfoQ Podcast: Key Trends from 2024: Cell-based Architecture, DORA & SPACE, LLM & SLM, Cloud Databases and Portals (Daniel Bryant, Thomas Betts, Shane Hastie, Srini Penchikala & Renato Losio)
 - Merge Conflict #443: If 2024 was the year of AI, what is coming in 2025? (James Montemagno & Frank Kreuger)
 - Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – The Challenges of Trying Too Hard in an Agile Transformation | Robert Finan (Vasco Duarte)
 - Simplifying DevOps – Adventures in DevOps #229 (Jillian Rowe & Will Button)
 - Meta Cast – Why Your Current Strategy Won’t Scale (Bob Galen & Josh Anderson)
 - Revolutionizing API Syntax and Schema Management with Jazz Framework – JavaScript Jabber #663 (AJ O’Neal, Charles Max Wood & Anselm Eickhoff)
 - Inside Trader Joe’s Podcast – Trader Joe’s Wine Club: Champagne for NYE and Beyond (Trader Joe’s Team)
 - Grammar Girl Podcast – 2024 words of the year, with John Kelly (Mignon Fogarty)
 - Lenny’s Podcast – Why great AI products are all about the data | Shaun Clowes (CPO Confluent, ex-Salesforce, Atlassian) (Lenny Rachitsky)
 - The Happy Engineer Podcast Episode #201 – The Worst Advice Coming in 2025 and Why You Must Avoid It (Max Ahumada)
 - Talk Python to Me #491 – DuckDB and Python: Ducks and Snakes living together (Michael Kennedy)
 - Ignore All Previous Instructions Podcast – Pam and Tanveer Anoy talk feminism (Pam Selle)
 
Community & Events
- Biggest tech trends to expect in 2025: AI, agents, and AR, oh my! (Lance Ulanoff)
 - Language Wars 2024: Python Leads, Java Maintains, Rust Rises (Darryl K. Taft)
 - CSharpCorner Announces 2025 Industry-Leading Conference Lineup to Drive Education and Innovation in Software Development (PR Newswire)
 - Big Moments in Rust 2024 (Tim McNamara)
 - ‘International Obfuscated C Code Contest’ Will Relaunch, Celebrating 40th Anniversary (EditorDavid)
 - Zunepocalypse 2024 (Larry Clarkin)
 
Database
- Introduction to MySQL Shell and Basic Configuration Management (Part 1) (Chisom Kanu)
 - How To Write SQL Server Queries Correctly: Subqueries (Erik Darling)
 - Should You Still Learn SSIS in 2025? (Frank LaVigne)
 - Marten V7.35 Drops for a Little Post Christmas Cheer (Jeremy D. Miller)
 
PowerShell
- Automatically update PowerShell 7.4 with WSUS or SCCM (Michael Niehaus)
 - PowerShell 7.5 new features (Mike Kanakos)
 
Miscellaneous
- Is your iPhone sharing photos with Apple by default? (Wes Davis)
 - Massive VW Data Leak Exposed 800,000 EV Owners’ Movements (BeauHD)
 - Python in 2024: Faster, More Powerful, and More Popular Than Ever (EditorDavid)
 - OpenAI announces plan to transform into a for-profit company (Emma Roth)
 - Linux: How to Run VirtualBox VMs from the Command Line (Jack Wallen)
 - New Law Requiring Businesses To Report Who Owns Them Is Put on Hold Again (msmash)
 - Federal agencies must now share code with one another (Rob Beschizza)
 - Apple pulls remaining Lightning-based devices from European stores (Thomas Ricker)
 
More Link Collections
- The Year in JavaScript: Top JS News Stories of 2024 (Loraine Lawson)
 - F# Weekly #52, 2024 – Happy Holidays (Sergey Tihon)
 - Collective #892 (Manoela Ilic)
 
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