Reading Notes #636

Welcome back to another edition of my Reading Notes! This week, we've got some great content lined up, including insights on cloud development with Azure Developer CLI, tips for promoting your open source projects, updates on .NET, and more. Dive in to explore a wealth of knowledge and stay updated with the latest trends and developments.

Cloud

• Azure Developer CLI (azd) - February 2025 (Kristen Womack) - Nice to see the work of this very active team.

Programming

• 5 tips for promoting your open source project (Klint Finley) - Great tips to promote your OSS project.

• C# Dev Kit Updates: .NET Aspire, Hot Reload, and More! - .NET Blog (Wendy Breiding (SHE/HER)Wendy Breiding) - Great updates that really make a difference. I'm already a fan of that improved Add Aspire experience.

• Announcing Our Work on a Blazor Component for Document Editing and Viewing (Bjoern Meyer) - Looking for fancier components have a look at this new one that you can try for free.

AI

• Announcing Generative AI for Beginners – .NET - .NET Blog (Pablo Lopes) - A new set of lessons to learn AI in c#. It's free and it's all available directly from a GitHub repo. You should go fork it right now!

Miscellaneous

• 3 reasons you should tour a conference talk (Salma) - I totally agree on the value of doing a session multiple times. However, sometimes finding opportunities can be hard.

• How I created a newsletter I actually enjoy writing (Salma) - Enjoy the moment! If you like what you do, it should help doing it right and keep doing it.

Sharing my Reading Notes is a habit I started a long time ago, where I share a list of all the articles, blog posts, and books that catch my interest during the week. 

 If you have interesting content, share

~Frank

Reading Notes #408

Every Monday, I share my reading notes. Those are the articles, blog posts, podcast episodes, and books that catch my interest during the week and that I found interesting. It's a mix of the actuality and what I consumed.

Cloud

• Deploying Azure Functions With Github Actions | LINQ to Fail (Aaron Powell) - Fantastic post that shows how with only a few lines of code you can auto-deploy to Azure your serverless components.

• How to Prepare for a Successful Cloud Migration (Aaron Woods) - This post list the questions we should ask ourselves before migrating. This will definitely help to reduce the bumps of a migration.

Programming

• Future Ready Blazor Application Architecture (S.Ravi Kumar) - Great tutorial that explains how to build our own component and start to reuse code.

• How to Add Infinite Scrolling to Your React App (John Au-Yeung) - Nice react tutorial for an optimized webpage.

• Solving Sudoku with backtracking : Algorithms for the masses (Julian M Bucknall) - Interesting post to read about code patterns applied to something we all know... Sudoku.

Miscellaneous

• Mastering the all-remote environment: My top 5 challenges and solutions - A great post. That really list the challenges you can encounter as a remote worker with there solutions, or suggestions to ease them.

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