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Dew Drop – June 25, 2024 (#4214)

Posted on June 25, 2024 | by Alvin A. | Leave a Comment

Top Links

Technology & Friends – Scott Hunter on NET Aspire (David Giard)
WebNN: Bringing AI Inference to the Browser (Sapna Giddegowda)
How to integrate Microsoft Entra External ID and Cerbos for authentication and authorization (Martin Gjoshevski and Alex Olivier)
Streamline your WinUI 3 / Windows App SDK development workflow with GitHub Copilot Chat (Microsoft Learn)
GitHub Copilot Extensions are all you need (Isidor Nikolic)
Let’s Learn .NET Aspire – Start your cloud-native journey live! (James Montemagno)

Web & Cloud Development

.NET Aspire ASP.NET Core HealthChecksUI sample (Damian Edwards)
The different ways to load your OpenID configuration for Angular Auth OIDC Client (Tim Deschryver)
Programmatically monitoring and reacting to resource logs in .NET Aspire (Anthony Simmon)
Boost Your Real-Time App Development with GraphQL Playground – Part 02— Real-Time Message Board Testing (Abhiman Ranaweera)
Pulumi Release Notes: Pulumi Copilot, Pulumi ESC Versioning, Pulumi ESC SDK, Docker Provider, and more! (Arun Loganathan)
Vue Basics: Deep Dive into Vue Devtools (Hassan Djirdeh)
Improve security posture in Azure service connections with AzurePipelinesCredential (Karishma Ghiya)
Catching Compromised Cookies (Ryan Slama)

Visual Studio & .NET

Bug Fixes for ReSharper 2024.1.4 and Rider 2024.1.4 Are Now Available! (Alexander Kurakin)
When to create a new .csproj? (NDepend Team)
Finding a specific value in a sequence of integers that changes by at most 1 (Raymond Chen)
A mutable priority collection (Mark Seemann)

Design, Methodology, AI & Testing

Productivity is Messing Around and Having Fun (Holly Cummins)
Beginner’s guide to GitHub repositories: How to create your first repo (Kedasha Kerr)
Using MLX Framewrok with Phi-3 (Kinfey Lo)
How to monitor AI applications built with NVIDIA NIM (Lavanya Chockalingam)
AI Detectors are Just as Broken as You Expect (Matthew MacDonald)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Introducing the New ROC and WMA Indicators in Flutter Charts (Vijayakumar Mariappan)

Screencasts & Videos

Background Media Playback & Lock Screen Controls with MediaElement (Gerald Versluis)

Podcasts

A very special 5-year-anniversary edition of the Stack Overflow podcast! (Ben Popper)
The .NET on AWS Show, featuring Lea Mladineo (Brandon Minnick & Francois Bouteruche)
Étienne Tremblay: Setting up for DevOps properly – Azure DevOps Podcast Episode 303 (Jeffrey Palermo)
Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Turning Conflict into Collaboration, An Agile Coach’s Hard-earned lesson | Avipaul Bhandari (Vasco Duarte)
The PowerShell Podcast – From NoWayShell to PowerShell: A Coding Transformation (James Petty)
Syntax Podcast #786: What Open Source license should you use? (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
Google Cloud Security Podcast Episode 178 – Meet Brandon Wood: The Human Side of Threat Intelligence: From Bad IP to Trafficking Busts (Anton Chuvakin)
The Changelog News Podcast #100 – Please let this be Peak LLM (Jerod Santo)
Gone Mobile Podcast #111: Configuration & Logging (Jonathan Dick & Allan Ritchie)
The Happy Engineer Podcast #174: Here’s Why Being Busy Blocks Engineering Success with Dr. Andy Garrett (Max Ahumada)
Python Bytes Podcast #389 – More OOP for Python? (Michael Kennedy)
Grammar Girl Podcast – What the Wicked Witch of the West has to do with grammar. Words for walking. Bottleadammit. (Mignon Fogarty & Michaela Dunn)

Database

3 ChatGPT Tricks to Tune SQL Server – SQL in Sixty Seconds 203 (Pinal Dave)
Windows Copilot vs. Google Gemini to Build SQL Queries (Rick Dobson)
Deleting Documents from a MongoDB Collection (Robert Sheldon)

PowerShell & Terminal

PowerShell String Manipulation for Dynamic Code Generation (Brien Posey)
Unlock more AI requests on Warp’s Pro plan (Melanie Crissey)

Miscellaneous

Wait, what? A new Lumia smartphone might be on the way in 2024 (Zac Bowden)
Mitigating RIDL Side-Channel Attack in Microsoft Edge on Windows (Fayez Razak)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #3967 (Chris Alcock)
Interesting links of the week 2024-26 (Michael Eaton)
Reading Notes #609 (Frank Boucher)
Daily Reading List – June 24, 2024 (#345) (Richard Seroter)

The Geek Shelf

Engineering Management for the Rest of Us (Sarah Drasner) – Referral Link

Dew Drop – November 10, 2015 (#2129)

Posted on November 10, 2015 | by Alvin A.

Top Links

ASP.NET + Spa | ASP.NET Fall Sessions (Steve Sanderson)
Team Foundation Server 2015 Management Pack is available (Brian Harry)
Bootstrapping a Business Around Open Source (Hongli Lai)
Using Async-Await With Mutable Structs (Yuval Itzchakov)

Web Development

Using ASP.NET 5 Tag Helpers and the Bing Translator API (Ricardo Peres)
How to work with Enums in ASP.NET MVC (Dhananjay Kumar)
PostCSS Deep Dive: Create Your Own Plugin (Kezz Bracey)
Getting Started With Docker – DZone Refcardz (Christopher M. Judd)
A Fresh Coat Of REST Paint On A SOAP Stack (Darrel Miller)
What Are WebSockets? A Brief Introduction (Daniel Stern)
Using ES6 and ES7 in the Browser, with Babel 6 and Webpack (James K. Nelson)
What is a WebView? (Jen Looper)
Interactive Room Display (Manoela Ilic)
Capture the Cloud with Azure (Shahed C)

XAML

MvvmLight Navigation Extension (Daniel Hindrikes)
FreshMvvm n=2 – IOC and Constructor Injection (Michael Ridland)

Miscellaneous .NET

Some of my favorite Visual Studio extensions (David Voyles)
ReSharper 10 critical issues and fix schedule (Jura Gorohovsky)
Throwing Exceptions and Keeping the Stack Trace (Ricardo Peres)
Cheating your way to VS 2015 Shortcut Cheatsheats (Greg Duncan)
Painless .NET Windows Service Creation with Topshelf (Jason Roberts)
Reference Types, Value Types, and Equality (Jeremy Clark)
Optimizing for Performance in Marten (Jeremy D. Miller)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Do I Really Have to Unit Test This Method? (Nick Chamberlain)
Role of Testers in Agile Teams (Ben Linders)
The Collaboration of Unit Testing (Joe DeMeyer)
Keeping UX simple with anticipatory design (Richard Howe)
Be careful with negative feedback too (Wes Higbee)

Other Mobile Platforms

iOS 9: An Introduction to Multitasking on iPad (Davis Allie)
Getting Started with Handoff in iOS (Krystin Stutesman)
Project Templates and More in the latest UI for iOS (Nikolay Diyanov)
Microsoft Azure IoT Suite – Connecting Your Things to the Cloud (Sam George)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

.NET Rocks! – Building Visual Studio Code with Sean McBreen (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 177 #OTP (Richard Hay)
Developer on Fire Episode 057 | Ward Cunningham – Exceeding Expectations with Joy, Curiosity, and Discovery (Dave Rael)
Tidbits of Code and Node 05 – Power Emmet (Jeremy Foster)
Talk Python to Me #33 OpenStack: Cloud computing built on Python (Michael Kennedy)
Windows 10 Mobile’s features shown off in new Microsoft video (John Callaham)

Community / Events

Women in Tech Profile: Ada Lovelace (Jennifer Wright)
An Evening With Tor Books & Dark Circle Comics @ Doylestown Bookshop, This Friday! (Eric Smith)
Thanks for a great MVP Global Summit! (MVP Award Program)

Database

Some Tricky Situations When Working with SQL Server NULLs (Sergey Gigoyan)
SQL SERVER – Understanding SQL Server Setup Support Rules for Cluster Nodes (Pinal Dave)
Book Review – Mastering Apache Spark (Ian Stirk)
Get your Application Insights data in Power BI – Faster than ever (Abhijit Jana)

PowerShell

ebook deal of the week: Windows PowerShell Step by Step (Kim Spilker)

Miscellaneous

How to get a job when you’re a self-taught developer (Callie Johnson)
Microsoft to launch its Lumia 950 flagship on November 20th (Tom Warren)

More Link Collections

Geek Reading November 9, 2015 and Geek Reading November 10, 2015 (Robert Diana)
Reading Notes #208 (Frank Boucher)
Double Shot #1581 (Mike Gunderloy)
Last Week on Channel 9: November 2nd – November 8th, 2015 (Greg Duncan)
The Morning Brew #1965 (Chris Alcock)
Reading List (Bruce Lawson)
Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for Nov 9th, 2015 (Dmitry Lyalin)

The Geek Shelf

HTML and CSS: Design and Build Websites: Jon Duckett: 8601200464207: Books

ISBN: 1118008189
ISBN-13: 9781118008188

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Dew Drop – October 15, 2015 (#2112)

Posted on October 15, 2015 | by Alvin A.

Top Links

Announcing Windows 10 Mobile Insider Preview Build 10549 (Gabe Aul)
New Visual Studio Tools for Apache Cordova Documentation Site and Beginner’s Guide (Linda Zhong)
Prism 6 for UWP, Prism 6 for WPF update + a new logo to adorn its new home (Brian Noyes)
Microsoft’s 2016 event lineup (Chris Capossela)

Web Development

What Does Google Deprecating their AJAX Crawling Policy Mean to Single Page Applications (Chris Love)
Modular HTML pages (Axel Rauschmayer)
Using PostCSS for Minification and Optimization (Kezz Bracey)
Maps and Sets in JavaScript (K. Scott Allen)
Web Performance Testing with Visual Studio Ultimate 2013 (Kevin Tuttle)
Microsoft Enables Async/Await in Edge Preview Build (David Iffland)
Microsoft Azure Roles-Based Access Control (RBAC) upgrades security options, offering fine-grained access management (Michael Morisy)
#Video Deal/Day: Responsive Web Design: Advancing Your Design to the Moder… – $37.49 (Save 50%) Use code DEAL (O’Reilly Media)
MeteorJS – Introduction and setup (Shanky Munjal)

XAML

Have a heart…rate Band UWP sample and Microsoft Band SDK – October 2015 (Now Includes Band 2!) (Greg Duncan)

Miscellaneous .NET

Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server 2015 Update 1 pre-release available and Visual Studio Online Update – Oct 8th (Brian Harry)
Casts and type parameters do not mix (Eric Lippert)
A Microsoft Project Orleans Primer (Paul Ballard)
.NET Big-O Algorithm Complexity Cheat Sheet (Muhammad Rehan Saeed)

Design / Methodology / Testing

New to Agile? Build Trust to Grow Influence and Impact (Bob Hartman)
Hurdle UX obstacles with design sprints (Chris Benstead)
Let’s Build a Metric 6: Cyclomatic Complexity Explained (Erik Dietrich)
You Aren’t Instantly Awesome, But You Can Get Better with Practice (Jeremy Clark)
Ways to find meaning in even the most mundane projects (Stacy Warden)

Other Mobile Platforms

Function Currying in Swift (Davis Allie)
Gamification – Achievement as Reward (Heidi Anspaugh)
Google Play Developer Console introduces Universal App Campaigns and User Acquisition performance reporting (Frederic Mayot)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

.NET Rocks! – Payment Systems with Craig McKeachie (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
Building Mobile Apps with Visual Studio (Session Recording) (Michael Crump)
Building Extensions Part 1 | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green)
Looking Ahead to C# 7 with Mads Torgersen and Building Apps for the Universal Windows Platform – Getting Started and Building Apps for the Universal Windows Platform – Customizing for the Device and Building Apps for the Universal Windows Platform – Store Ready (Seth Juarez)
181 JSJ The Evolution of Flux Libraries with Andrew Clark and Dan Abramov (Joe Eames, Charles Max Wood, Jamison Dance, Dave Smith & Aimee Knight)
AAWP Insight #156: Lumia 550, Band 2, app gap (Rafe Blandford)
The Nerdist Podcast – Colin Hanks Returns (Chris Hardwick)
On Building Resilient Websites with Andy Hume | WebExpo 2015 (Andy Hume)
36 ngAir – Ionic 2 (Angular Air)
Defrag: Windows 10 Tips, Recovering Recovery Partition, New Devices and more… | The Defrag Show (Greg Duncan & Larry Larsen)
On React with Robbie McCorkell | WebExpo 2015 (Robbie McCorkell)
Office Dev Show – Episode 15 – Getting Started with Office Add-ins (Sonya Koptyev & Richard diZerega)
SSP 3.5: Mike Taber, author of The Single Founder Handbook (Bob Walsh)

Community / Events

SQL SERVER – Looking Forward to Meeting you at SQLPASS 2015 (Pinal Dave)
Microsoft Ignite won’t be returning to the Windy City (Michael Morisy)
Open Source: Not That Scary (Anna Chiara Bellini)
Geek of the Week: Bizarro Author Scott Cole (Dan)
Being Almost Blind (Dirk Strauss)
Thy Geekdom Con Requests Your Presence at Their Convention (Monica Piluso)
Talk to the Office 365 team at Microsoft Ignite 2016 (Office 365 Team)
Why Developers Are Important To the Drone Industry (samzenpus)

Database

Script to Delete Data from SQL Server Tables with Foreign Key Constraints (Jeffrey Yao)
SQL Server Features I’d Like To See, Oracle Edition (Erik Darling)
Solution to “Built-in function ‘has_dbaccess’ is not supported in this version of SQL Server.” when connecting to an Azure SQL Database from Access (Jon Gallant)
Using SQL Server on high resolution monitors (Simon Sabin)
Power BI now supports full-screen dashboards and in-focus tile tool (Vanessa Ho)

PowerShell

Automate SSRS Report Generation using PowerShell (Donabel Santos)

Miscellaneous

I’m Listening! What Happens When You Challenge an Exam Question? (Liberty Munson)
In Photos: The Microsoft Lumia 950, Lumia 950 XL, and Lumia 550 (Microsoft Devices Team)
Skype for Business iOS app now available (Praveen Maloo)

More Link Collections

Geek Reading October 14, 2015 (Robert Diana)
Double Shot #1565 (Mike Gunderloy)
The Daily Six Pack: October 15, 2015 (Dirk Strauss)
The Morning Brew #1947 (Chris Alcock)
Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for Oct 14th, 2015 (Dmitry Lyalin)

The Geek Shelf

PowerShell in Depth (9781617292187): Don Jones, Jeffery Hicks, Richard Siddaway: Books

ISBN: 1617292184
ISBN-13: 9781617292187

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