Reading Notes #450

Cloud

• Announcing Az Predictor (Damien Caro) - Very nice tool to add. Why it didn't exist before?

• Cross-Platform App Authentication with Azure AD B2C And The Uno Platform (Ian Bebbington) - This is a great post that covers a lot. If you are or planning to build an app...it a must.

• Tip 294 - 5 Things you didn't know about Azure Kubernetes Service | Azure Tips and Tricks - Nice stuff as usual those tips and tricks.

Programming

• Announcing ASP.NET Core in .NET 5 (Daniel Roth) - It's definitely, exciting news that .Net 5

• Design patterns in C# - The Facade Pattern (Carmel Eve) - Pretty cool post and so interesting. I need to dig for more of those pattern explanations it's awesome.

• Introducing a UI for the Syncfusion Blazor Project Template for Visual Studio Code (Dheepa Kumar) - It definitely interesting, I'm curious to try it and also to see if it slow down vscode.

Podcasts

• Cake 1.0 with Mattias Karlsson (.NET Rocks!) - I'm a fan of Cake and of the team working on this project for a long time. Great show with our glorious Carl and Richard.

• 496: How to Generate Quick Wins, with Andy Kaufman (Coaching for Leaders) - Great conversation about how Agile should be view, and a few tips about how you could start this turn in your entourage.

• #65: James Montemagno - From Printer Software to Xamarin (The Solo Coder Podcast) - Great Interview of James. I learn a lot about in this episode. Nice show.

• #399: The Practice of Shipping Creative Work with Seth Godin (The EntreLeadership Podcast) - I knew who Seth Godin was, and read one of his books recently (Tribes). And honestly, I feel like I will read another one soon. Great mind, I like how clear is the example... Great episode.

Miscellaneous

• Run Your Legacy .NET in the Cloud with Tanzu (David Dieruf) - An interesting solution for a legacy application.

• Creating a question friendly environment (Scott Hanselman) - Does the environment are very important and we must do our best to preserve them.

~frank

Reading Notes #302

Cloud

• Azure Event Grid vs Azure IoT Hub: Which is better for IoT? (Chris Pietschmann) - This great post explains both services and then their differences. Both can do most of the time, but when it becomes serious, which one is the best for your scenario?
• Azure Virtual Machines Anatomy (Vincent-Philippe Lauzon) - This post is an excellent biopsy of a virtual machine, it explains every part one by one.
• Experiment with Azure for FREE! (Anthony D. Green) - It's time to get started; it's free, and it's the real deal.
• List all App Service web apps outbound IP addresses used in a subscription (Stéphane Lapointe) - Nice little gem.
• User accounts made easy with Azure (Andrew B Hall) - Excellent post showings how easy it is to integrate user management in our app. I wish I had that when I started my last portal...

Programming

• You Have No Excuse for Dead Code (Erik Dietrich) - This post explains why more is not always better.

Data

• Azure Data Lake Tools for Visual Studio Code (VSCode) October Updates (Jenny Jiang) - What I like about VSCode is that it is so customizable, it can still be very light and do a fantastic job for people with highly different goals.

Miscellaneous

• Use a second laptop as an extended monitor with Windows 10 wireless displays (Scott Hanselman) - Wow! How cool is that!
• Why You Shouldn't Worry About Imposter Syndrome (Jordan Scheltgen) - This post is a great piece of wisdom.