Dew Drop – June 21, 2023 (#3969)

Top Links

• Introducing the New T4 Command-Line Tool for .NET (Mike Corsaro)
• How to use GitHub Copilot: Prompts, tips, and use cases (Rizel Scarlett)
• How to Hide Your Angular Properties – # vs private Explained (Deborah Kurata)
• Improved .NET Debugging Experience with Source Link (Patrick Smacchia)
• 7 Things about C#: Running Apps (Joe Mayo)

Web & Cloud Development

• Run OpenTelemetry on Docker (B. Cameron Gain)
• How Much Will It Hurt? The 10 Things You Need to Do to Migrate Your MVC/Web API App to ASP.NET Core (Peter Vogel)
• Node v16.20.1 (LTS) and Node v20.3.1 (Current) and Node v18.16.1 (LTS) (Rafael Gonzaga)
• Service to check if application browser tab is active or not (silfversparre)
• New W3C website deployed (Coralie Mercier)
• How to persist Postman variables (Joyce)
• Dependent Stack Updates with Pulumi Deployments (Komal Ali)
• Detecting Scene Changes in Audiovisual Content (Avneesh Saluja, Andy Yao & Hossein Taghavi)
• Exploring the Exciting New Features of TypeScript 5.0 and 5.1 (Suprotim Agarwal)
• What is an API endpoint? (Postman Team)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

• .NET MAUI + GitHub Actions + Commas in Certificate Names (Mitchel Sellers)

Visual Studio & .NET

• Integer compression: Implementing FastPFor decoding in C# (Oren Eini)
• Permutations of a String in C# (Matjaz Prtenjak)
• Using StringBuilder To Replace Values (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
• Create your own Mediator (like Mediatr) (Steven Giesel)
• Microsoft Forms Service’s Journey to .NET 6 (Ray Yao)
• Why is Windows using only even-numbered processors? (Raymond Chen)
• JetBrains Toolbox App 2.0 Beta Streamlines Installation and Improves Integrations (Victor Kropp)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• One critical skill for a Scrum Master and why? (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Top 6 AI Coding Assistants in 2023 (Fimber Elemuwa)
• Big-O Notation and Complexity Analysis (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• Cleaning up files changed by a GitHub Action that runs in a container (Rob Bos)
• To improve as an engineer, get better at requesting (and receiving) feedback (Chelsea Troy)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• Get started developing mixed reality for Meta Quest 3 with Unity (Kevin Semple)

Screencasts & Videos

• Technology & Friends – Alex Mattoni on Cycle.io (David Giard)
• FreeCodeSession – Episode 463 (Jason Bock)
• What I Wish I Knew… about interviewing for jobs (Leslie Richardson)

Podcasts

• CodeNewbie S24:E7 – Navigating Layoffs with Intention (Natalie Davis) (CodeNewbie Team)
• The Rework Podcast – Buckets of Time (Jason Fried & David Heinemeier Hansson)
• What It Takes To Be A Web Developer: Part 2 – JavaScript Jabber 587 (AJ O’Neal & Dan Shappir)
• Python Bytes Podcast #341 – Shhh – For Secrets and Shells (Michael Kennedy)
• Tools and Weapons Podcast – First Vice President Nadia Calviño: Architecting Spain’s AI future (Brad Smith)
• RunAs Radio – Windows Update for Business with Aria Carley (Richard Campbell)
• Defense Unicorns, A Podcast – Learning from Your Peers with Tracy Gregorio (Rob Slaughter)

Community & Events

• Juneteenth Conference Comes to Chicago (David Giard)
• Celebrating Tech Trailblazers for Juneteenth (Daniel Ikem)
• Stack Overflow’s 2023 developer survey: Are developers using AI? (Esther Shein)
• What Does Gen Z Want at Work? The Same Things You Wanted Once Upon a Time (Katie Bartlet)
• Meet the Skilling Champion Priyesh Wagh (Rie Moriguchi)
• Things to Do in Philadelphia This Week & Weekend (Visit Philly)
• The Next Phase of Eleventy: Return of the Side Project (Zach Leatherman)

Database

• SQL SERVER – Resolving Deadlock by Accessing Objects in the Same Order (Pinal Dave)
• The Right Tools for Optimizing Azure SQL Managed Instance Performance (Rie Merritt)
• Latest features in Azure Managed Instance for Apache Cassandra (Theo van Kraay)
• T-SQL Tuesday #163 – Career Advice I received (Tracy Boggiano)

Miscellaneous

• Electronic Signatures: 2023 Legal Aspects (Bjoern Meyer)
• Releasing Windows 11 Build 22621.1926 to the Release Preview Channel (Brandon LeBlanc)
• Windows 11 Moment 3 Heads to the Release Preview Channel (Paul Thurrott)
• Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and many Xbox executives are set to defend its FTC case (Tom Warren)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #3731 (Chris Alcock)
• Sands of MAUI: Issue #108 (Sam Basu)
• Daily Reading List – June 20, 2023 (#107) (Richard Seroter)

The Geek Shelf

 Learn WinUI 3 (Alvin Ashcraft)