Top Links
- .NET Rocks! – Mediatr with Jimmy Bogard (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
 - Elevating Debugging with Auto-decompilation and External Sources (Harshada Hole)
 - Syncfusion Reviews Outreach Team: An Overview (Amy Peters)
 - Reserve Your Kalahari Room with the Low TechBash Rate by Oct 6th (TechBash Team)
 - Prepare your Mac to be a Xamarin/.NET MAUI build host without VS4MAC (Marco Siccardi)
 - Demystifying Retrieval Augmented Generation with .NET (Stephen Toub)
 
Web & Cloud Development
- Exploring Blazor Changes in .NET 8 – Auto Render Mode and Blazor SSR Gets Auto Render Mode in the Latest .NET 8 Preview (Jon Hilton)
 - Using Labeled Loops In JavaScript (Ben Nadel)
 - Build AI-assisted calling workflows with Azure AI Speech and Azure Communication Services (Azure Team)
 - Enhancing Data Visualization with a Nested Grid UI in Blazor TreeGrid (Alan Sangeeth)
 - Sum an Array of Numbers with JavaScript (David Walsh)
 - Update to AWS SDK for Java v2, AWS SDK for .NET v3, and AWS Tools for PowerShell when using S3 GetObjectAttributes API (John Viegas)
 - Smartly Customize the Blazor Linear Gauge to Reproduce a Step Progress Bar (Hari Venkatesh E.)
 - Azure Health Data and AI Templates Live in Azure Data Factory: Convert and More! (Sam Brown)
 - Azure Developer CLI (azd) – September 2023 Release (Savannah Ostrowski)
 - Dapr Completes 2023 Security Audit – Increasing Enterprise Confidence (Yaron Schneider)
 - Announcing the Postman Interceptor extension for all browsers (Akshay Deo)
 - Is It too Early to Leverage AI for WebAssembly? (B. Cameron Gain)
 - Introducing the Wasm landscape (Chris Aniszczyk, Vivian Hu & Michael Yuan)
 
WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML
- Using Private NuGet Feeds with .NET MAUI and Azure Pipelines (Junior Saravia)
 
Visual Studio & .NET
- The Ultimate Guide to Network Programming in C# 12 & .NET 8 (Chris Woodruff)
 - Create extension pack for Visual Studio Code (Mister Gold)
 - C# Dictionary – A Primer On When And How To Use (Nick Cosentino)
 - Rider 2023.2 with C# Updates, UX/UI Enhancements and AI Assistant (Robert Krzaczyński)
 - Scheduled or Delayed Messages in Wolverine (Jeremy D. Miller)
 - Microsoft.Identity.Client (MSAL) v4.56.0 (NuGet)
 - Enabling List to store large amounts of elements (Steven Giesel)
 - Tales from the .NET Migration Trenches – Empty Proxy (Jimmy Bogard)
 - Optimising .NET code: Avoiding allocations using Span (Jonathan George)
 - Detecting whether a tree-like data structure contains a cycle (Raymond Chen)
 - Microsoft .NET Code Analysis: Properly Formatting Class Files (David McCarter)
 
Design, Methodology, AI & Testing
- Bring your own Data to Azure OpenAI: Step-by-Step Guide (John Aziz)
 - Testing Using Testcontainers for .NET and Docker (Florian Prinz)
 - Reskilling in the Age of AI – Five new paradigms for leaders—and employees (Jorge Tamayo, Leila Doumi, Sagar Goel, Orsolya Kovács-Ondrejkovic & Raffaella Sadun)
 - Windows Package Manager 1.6.2482 Pre-release (WinGet Team)
 - Unlock Your Potential (‘Tine Zekis)
 - Frontiers of multimodal learning: A responsible AI approach (Brenda Potts)
 - Improve your applications observability with custom health checks (Dennis Fruhauff)
 - Technical Debts – the top 10 (Peter Smulovics)
 - How to build an enterprise LLM application: Lessons from GitHub Copilot (Shuyin Zhao)
 - Drop git pull for fetch and rebase (Yftach Herzog)
 
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- Cordova iOS 7.0.1 Released! (Bryan Ellis)
 - A rundown of Android Intent Selectors — You’re building intents wrong! (Jack Webb)
 - Test Driven Development in Android Apps – A Practical Guide to TDD (Siamak Mahmoudi)
 
Screencasts & Videos
- What I Wish I Knew… about how to approach programming (Eleanor Lewis)
 
Podcasts
- CodeNewbie S25:E4 – Diversity Dialogues in Tech (Ale Thomas) (CodeNewbie Team)
 - The Happy Engineer Podcast 125: Impactful Engineering with Jake Maxey and Steve Maxey | Podcast Hosts | Engineers Making a Difference (Max Ahumada)
 - What if your JavaScript Validations Looked like Tests? – JavaScript Jabber 597 (Charles Max Wood & Dan Shappir)
 - Working Code Podcast – Episode 143: Moving On, Rewriting, And Replatforming (Ben Nadel)
 - The Rework Podcast – Shape Up Principle: The Betting Table (Kimberly Rhodes, Jason Fried & David Heinemeier Hansson)
 - Tools and Weapons Podcast – U.S. Ambassador Meg Whitman: Leading with the right questions (Brad Smith)
 - Microsoft in Uncharted Territory with Richard Campbell – Adventures in .NET 155 (Adam Furmanek, Shawn Clabough, Christian Wenz & Mark Miller)
 - Practical AI Podcast – Fine-tuning vs RAG (Demetrios Brinkmann, Chris Benson & Daniel Whitenack)
 - The Changelog – OpenTF for an open Terraform (Josh Padnick, Adam Stacoviak & Jerod Santo)
 - Python Bytes Podcast #351 – A Python Empire (or MPIRE?) (Michael Kennedy)
 - Software Engineering Radio 580: Josh Doody on Mastering Business Communication for Software Engineers (Brijesh Ammanath)
 
Community & Events
- The newest AWS Heroes are here – September 2023 (Taylor Jacobsen)
 - What’s New in Bold Reports v5.2 [Webinar Show Notes] (Carter Harris)
 - LibertyJS 2023 – Philadelphia. October 12-13 (LibertyJS Team)
 - Hack Together: The Power Platform AI Global Hack (April Dunnam)
 - Roku turns to layoffs (again) and removes streaming content to cut costs (Chris Welch)
 - What Students Learned from Collaborating with MVP (Rie Moriguchi)
 
Database
- Future Proof Your SQL Server Transaction Log Files For Instant File Initialization? (Erik Darling)
 - SQL SERVER – Resolving the “ps1 cannot be loaded because running scripts is disabled” Error (Pinal Dave)
 - Compare SQL Server Offerings by Top Cloud Providers – Azure, AWS and Google Cloud (Jim Evans)
 - Couchbase’s Jetbrains Plugin: Leveling up the developer experience (Denis Rosa)
 
SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams
- Outlook REST API v2.0 and beta endpoints decommissioning update (Exchange Team)
 
PowerShell
- How To Connect to SQL Server Database From PowerShell (Brien Posey)
 
Miscellaneous
- Sam Altman-Backed Mentra Aims To Match Neurodivergent Jobseekers With Ideal Jobs and The World Has Just Experienced the Hottest Summer On Record — By a Significant Margin (BeauHD)
 - Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22621.2271 and 22631.2271 (Beta Channel) (Brandon LeBlanc)
 - How to speed up File Explorer in Windows 11 (Sofia Elizabella Wyciślik-Wilson)
 
More Link Collections
- The Morning Brew #3775 (Chris Alcock)
 - Daily Reading List – September 6, 2023 (#156) (Richard Seroter)
 - Today’s Readings (Aaron T. Grogg)
 
The Geek Shelf
 Web Development with Blazor: A practical guide to start building interactive UIs with C# 11 and .NET 7, 2nd Edition (Jimmy Engstrom) – Referral Link
