Top Links
- Announcing Flutter 1.17 (Chris Sells)
- Working with GitHub Issues in Visual Studio Code (Alex Ross)
- New from Satellite 2020: GitHub Codespaces, GitHub Discussions, securing code in private repositories, and more (Shanku Niyogi)
- Introducing Surface Go 2, Surface Book 3, Surface Headphones 2 and Surface Earbuds (Panos Panay)
Web & Cloud Development
- Building an Angular Application with an ASP.NET Core Back-End (Bjoern Meyer)
- Azure Service Bus .NET SDK Deep Dive – Runtime Information (Daniel Marbach)
- Is Asynchronous The Best Way To Go in ASP.NET Core? (David Grace)
- Updated WD of CSS Text Decoration Level 4 (fantasai)
- Facial Recognition System with JavaScript (oni stephen)
- Easiest Way to OCR Process PDF Documents in ASP.NET Core (Praveen Kumar)
- Azure Service Fabric 7.0 Sixth Refresh Release (Service Fabric Team)
- The Latest Features Added to JavaScript in ECMAScript 2020 (Thomas Findlay)
- Electron 8 Releases Introduce Caller Stack Logging, HTTP Parsing Alternative (Swanand Kadam)
- First Public Working Draft: Image Resource (Xueyuan Jia)
XAML, UWP & Xamarin
- Contact Sharing in Xamarin Forms (Charlin Agramonte)
- Exposure Notification API Support for Xamarin Apps (Jon Dick)
- Simple Steps to Design a Temperature Monitor Using WPF Radial Gauge (Sheik Syed)
- Fixing small text on iOS WKWebView’s in Xamarin.Forms (Matt Crombie)
Visual Studio & .NET
- Data Clustering with K-Means++ Using C# (James McCaffrey)
- Rider 2020.1.2 and ReSharper Ultimate 2020.1.2 Bugfixes Are Available! (Alexander Kurakin)
- Creating A Fluent API In C#.NET (Munib Butt)
- Configuring Azure Services and emulators using Visual Studio (Angelos Petropoulos)
- Using ML.NET for deep learning on images in Azure (Luis Quintanilla)
- Visual Studio Code – Creating Your First Extension (VS Code Team)
- Presenting Colorful Gradient Background for WinForms DataGrid (Neelakandan Kannan)
- .NET Portability Analyzer (Derek Comartin)
Design, Methodology & Testing
- Branching Patterns: Release Branch (Martin Fowler)
- A Small Case Study in Test Automation (and other things) (Jeremy D. Miller)
- The @MicrosoftDesign team just published four files of icons and components for their open design system, Fluent, on Android, iOS, and web. (Figma)
- Using GitHub Actions for Pull Request Staging Environments, Part 4: Automated Deploy and Teardown (Stephen Cleary)
- Observations on increasing merge request rate (David O’Regan)
- Reducing Design Risk (Eric Olive)
- Gatsby’s long road to incremental builds (Jerod Santo)
- GitLab.com is moving to 13.0, with narrow breaking changes (Joshua Lambert)
- Introducing Collections on Stack Overflow for Teams (Lori Colston)
- Capture the Flag 4—CodeQL and chill (Xavier René-Corail)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- Android 11: Beta Plans (Dave Burke)
- Keyboard improvements for Ionic Apps (Liam DeBeasi)
- Minecraft Earth and Azure Cosmos DB part 1: Extending Minecraft into our real world and Minecraft Earth and Azure Cosmos DB part 2: Delivering turnkey geographic distribution (Parul Matah)
- Announcing Dart 2.8 (Michael Thomsen)
Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos
- Syntax Podcast – Bootcamps, Getting a Job, and Income Share Agreements with Heather Payne (Wes Bos)
- .NET Rocks! – AFWerx Challenge with Heather Wilde (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
- Flutter 1.17 Released | Top 15 Major Improvements (MTechViral)
- Software Engineering Daily – Advanced Redis with Alvin Richards (Jeff Meyerson)
- Xamarin: .NET Community Standup – May 7th 2020 – Xamarin.Forms 4.6 Launch (Xamarin Developers)
- ID10T Podcast – Vivica A. Fox (Chris Hardwick)
- PPP 290 | Cracking the Leadership Code for Project Managers, with author Alain Hunkins (Andy Kaufman)
- SQL Data Partners Podcast Episode 199: Technical Debt (Carlos L. Chacon)
- The CSS Podcast 009: Layout (Una Kravets & Adam Argyle)
- Talk Python to Me #263 – SEO for developers (Michael Kennedy)
- Surface Book 3 Review & Design Specs and Surface Dock 2 Review & Design Specs and Surface Go 2 Review & Design Specs (Microsoft Mechanics)
- SchwammyStreams – Coding and Testing (Andy Schwam)
- Working From Home – Tips, Tricks and Strategies for the Tech World with Jason Taylor (SSW TV)
Community & Events
- Microsoft celebrates nurses and midwives around the world (Claire Bonaci)
- The Dev Talk Show Recap and Resources (Kevin Griffin)
Database
- RavenDB Time Series Webinar recording (and benchmark results) (Oren Eini)
- Best Practices for migrating large databases to Azure Database for MySQL (Ryan Tam)
- Stress Testing with oStress – SQL in Sixty Seconds #087 (Pinal Dave)
- Your Views Aren’t The Problem. Your Code Is. (Brent Ozar)
- Optimizer Limitations with Filtered Indexes (Paul White)
SharePoint & MS Teams
PowerShell & Windows Terminal
- 5 tips for an awesome Windows Terminal experience (Mike Larah)
Miscellaneous
- Learn To Code with JetBrains Academy (Nikos Vaggalis)
- A Complete Guide To Mechanical Keyboards (Ben Frain)
- Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 19624 (Brandon LeBlanc)
- Now Available: Screen Recording For Training Videos and Communications with Microsoft Stream (Christina Torok)
- Behind the design: Meet Surface Book 3, Surface Go 2 & Surface Dock 2 (Frank Buchholz)
- Microsoft Surface Book 3 (13.5-inch) vs Macbook Pro (13-inch): specs, price comparison (Lee Kelly)
More Link Collections
- The Morning Brew #2989 (Chris Alcock)
- .NET Annotated | May 2020 (Rachel Appel)
The Geek Shelf
Pro Git (2nd Ed.) (Scott Chacon & Ben Straub)
Building Apps for the Universal Windows Platform: Explore Windows 10 Native, IoT, HoloLens, and Xamarin (9781484226285): Ayan Chatterjee: Books