Reading Notes #594

It is time to share new reading notes. It 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.

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Cloud

• Managing your Azure Resources with Deployment Stacks (John Kilmister) - That's a very useful tool, and nicely documented.

Programming

• Extract Method Refactoring Technique in C# – What You Need To Know (Nick Cosentino) - Great post that go over one of the most powerful method that every developers will be using all along their career. Simple and so useful, it's a must!

• Dapr v1.13 is now available (Dapr project maintainers) - I really like those post that goes over the news and also named all the contributors. This is when you see how many people are involved.

• Are Containers Only for Microservices? Myth Debunked (Zubair Aslam, Jay Schmidt) - Interesting post that demystify the myth about container by in only for micro services.

• Marten 7.0 is Released! (Jeremy D. Miller) - Nice update. Version 7 already...

• How to Fix CORS Error With AnyOrigin and AllowCredentials (Code Maze) - Anyone who work or build API go that error message about CORS. Here is a nice post to learn more about it and understand who we can fix it in an API.

AI

• RAG is Dead. Long Live RAG! (David Myriel) - Nice post that explains the differences between two type of AI RAG and LLM.

Databases

• Get Started with Milvus Vector DB in .NET - .NET Blog (Luis Quintanilla) - This post starts by explaining what's a vector databases and than show a nice example with movies.

~Frank

Reading Notes #593

It is time to share new reading notes. It 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.

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Cloud

• Azure Functions Extensibility - Runtime Scaling (Tomasz Pęczek) - A well written post that goes in the details.Perfect to really understand how things works.

Programming

• 5 Powerful HTML Attributes That Don't Require JavaScript (Ashish Patel) - Wow! I didn't even known that most of those attributes existed..

• Docker Init for ASP.NET Core Compared to VS or VS Code Extensions (Julie Lerman) - awesome comparison! I've been thinking about doing it for a little while. Another great post from Julie.

• Blazor and .NET 8: How I Built a Fast and Flexible Website (Jeffrey T. Fritz) - optimisation is often a step that people forgets, but it's one that is extremely rewarding.This series seams very interesting, we will s| more of those in the notes...

• Warp, the modern terminal, is now available for Linux (Aloke Desai, David Stern) - I didn't heard of that terminal before. It looks interesting! Looking forward to try it.

• Using Visual Studio Code for .NET MAUI Development (Vijay Anand) - it's incredible the progress that was done in such little time I'm looking forward to try it.

• The FAST and the Fluent: A Blazor story - .NET Blog (Vincent Baaij) - Nice post that teach us a bit of history. I'm fan of Fluent UI and Blazor...and more recently of the Fluent UI Blazor library. I think it's a must for all Blazor developers.

• GraphQL vs. REST—Which is Better for API Design? (Hassan Djirdeh) - Pretty cool comparison of different type/design of APIs.

Miscellaneous

• Windows AI Studio : Getting Started ( Shreyan Fernandes) - Nice tools the works locally. I'm installing it, will you?

~Frank

Reading Notes #592

It is time to share new reading notes. It is a habit I started a long time ago where I share a list of all the articles, blog posts, that catch my interest during the week. This week it's definitely more code focus.

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Cloud

• Open at Microsoft - FluentUI.Blazor (Denis Voituron) - This post summarized the new series of videos about FluentUI Blazor done on Open at Microsoft, including the videos.

Programming

• An Introduction to the World of Containers with .NET 8 (James Montemagno) - A lots of information to get started with containers in this post.And the best of it is its most likely easier that you think!

• Developing Optimized GitHub Actions with .NET and Native AOT (David Pine) - There is so many good and great ideas in this post! Now I just need time to implement them.

• Using named pipes with ASP.NET Core and HttpClient (Andrew Lock) - I didn't known about these pipes, did you? Interesting tool that could simplify the communication between services.

• Introducing ASP.NET Core metrics and Grafana dashboards in .NET 8 (James Newton-King) - tons of metric and not a lot of work to get them just like we like it.

• Using dependency injection with Azure .NET SDK (Alexandre Nédélec) - Great post to learn how the Microsoft.Extensions.Azure package can really help us with our code.

• How To Use AI Assistant to Generate Test Data For .NET Applications (Khalid Abuhakmeh) - I like that! I can see myself using AI to scaffold the big part of my test and then finish them. It's like the classic 80-20. Nice post to get inspired.

~Frank

Reading Notes #591

It is time to share new reading notes. It 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.

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Suggestion of the week

• Make demo typing easy with DemoType in ZoomIt v8.0 (John Stephens) - This is such a game changer! Of course live demo are the best but losing precious secondes because of a typo is a real nightmare.

Cloud

• Planning for Resiliency with Azure OpenAI (Matthew Anderson) - Like everything else in the cloud we need to think about resiliency. This nice post get us started and explains 2 different architectures for our system.

• Azure Developer CLI (azd) - February 2024 Release (Grace Kulin) - Cool feature now supported in this new release with helm support for kubernetes and many other features.

Programming

• The Difference Between RESTful APIs and Web APIs Using ASP.NET Core (Januarius Njoku) - A very complete post about APIs their definition and differences.

• Scaling Docker Compose Up (Milas Bowman) - Interesting post that do a deep dive into docker compose file.

• Our Vision for .NET 9 - .NET Blog (.NET Team) - Inspiring plan for the future release of .Net.

• My Top 10 NEW Visual Studio Features of 2023 for .NET Developers - .NET Blog (James Montemagno) - I don't code everyday and when I do it's on all kind of device and OS so I end up more often using VS Code. But, when I can use Visual Studio it's always a treat. In this post, James shares his favorite new features part of that great IDE. Those are only the recent ones, there are so much more!

• Scaling Docker Compose Up (Milas Bowman) - Interesting post that do a deep dive into docker compose file.

• 8 ways to set the URLs for an ASP.NET Core app (Andrew Lock) - What!? So many different ways to assign the url.

~ Frank

Reading Notes #590

It is time to share new reading notes. It 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.

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Cloud

• Observability on Azure Container Apps (Abdullah Abu-Hassan) - Great post to get started. We can download all the code required to try it ourself.

• WTH is Azure Copilot? (Sam Cogan) - I believe this copilot will be extremely useful for so many people... including me.

Programming

• Solved! Visual Studio .http File Not Sending Authorization Header (Steve Smith) - The devil is in the details as they say. Great post that shares the investigation of an issues. A time saver.

• Should I put my Blazor components in the server project, or the client project? (Jon Hilton) - Short and clear explanation of the blazor structure, very helpful post.

• How to Make Your Web Sites Accessible (Beau Carnes) - Accessibility is a must and now there a course available on camp to help us making our website accessible.

• What's new for the Microsoft Fluent UI Blazor components 4.4 (Vincent Baaij) - Nice new components. Its going fast!

• Dev Tunnels: A Game Changer for Mobile Developers - .NET Blog (James Montemagno) - Dev Tunnel is definitely a incredible tool.I used it for debugging connector in Power Platform and there is no doubts it will help with mobile app...No more guesses debug with the real thing.

Miscellaneous

• Introducing Sudo for Windows! (Jordi Adoumie) - Wow! This is a really good new feature. How many time a forgot to start my terminal as admin and needed to starry over again...Looking forward to try it.

~Frank

Reading Notes #589

It is time to share new reading notes. It 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.

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Cloud

• Using Azure Load Testing to test Multi-Tenant services (Frédéric Le Coquil) - Nice post that explains in details how to test a scale and cost efficiently our API.

• WASI 0.2 Preview: A New Dawn for WebAssembly (Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols ) - Looking forward how WASI will impact our web. Nice little post to quickly understand what it is.

• How to deploy .NET Aspire apps to Azure Container Apps - .NET Blog (Jiachen Jiang) - It looks simple enough don't you think? I'm trying it today!

• Build your Web Apps faster with the Azure Cache for Redis: Quick Start Template ( Ricky Diep) - This is definitely a simple and quick way to deploy all your assets at once. There is a video with a demo.

Programming

• Understanding C# 8 default interface methods (Andrew Lock) - Very clear post about the new feature available in interfaces, with great examples that make us understand why and when it is useful and how to implement it.

Open Source

• Celebrating One Year of Open at Microsoft (Japhlet Nwamu) - It was surely a nice first year.

Podcasts

• Code Visualization with CodeSee's Shanea Leven (Hanselminutes with Scott Hanselman) - Another very interesting episode. CodeSee definitely catches my attention, I'm planning to try it with my OSS project to get started.

~Frank

Reading Notes #588

It is time to share new reading notes. It 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.

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Programming

• Developing & Working with .NET Containers on Windows ARM Devices (James Montemagno) - I'm a big fan and user of dev containers.But I didn't know it was hard for Arm device owner.Love the idea.If you never heard of Podman here a nice teaser.

• Overview over Microsoft's developer tools for Windows (Aaron Junker)) - So many great tools to make the dev experience even better on Windows.Did you see so many are oss projects.

• How to deal with API rate limits (Salma Alam-Naylor) - Perfect post to learn why rate limit exists (its easier to manage them if we understand them), and a few suggestions on how to deal with them.

• Persisting Data Volumes With .NET Aspire | LINQ to Fail (Aaron Powell) - Great tips to be more efficient with .NET Aspire preview 2

~Frank

Reading Notes #587

It is time to share new reading notes. It 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. 

 

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Cloud

• Backing up files to Azure blob storage with azcopy (Andrew Lock) - A very interesting solution to a situation we are all facing. Nice to see the OSS project (I didn't know that one) and smart way to use Azure.

Low Code

• Building your own copilot – yes, but how? (Part 1 of 2) (Carlotta Castelluccio) - This is a cool tutorial to build a Copilot codeless style.If you prefer code style watch for part two coming soon.

Programming

• Structuring a Clean Architecture Folder (Adrián Bailador Panero) - Nice quick overview of the folder structure.

• Git Lesson: How to Use .gitignore and .gitkeep? (Rita Lyczywek) - Two important files indeed when using Git.

• Cookies vs Session Storage vs Local Storage (Royal Jain) - Clear post that explains the purpose and differences between 3 useful tools.

• 14 Things To Check Before Deploying a Website 👨‍💻🔥 (Arjun Vijay Prakash) - Quick sanity check before publishing.... It is always a good idea.

• Difference between CultureInfo.Get and new CultureInfo - Gérald Barré (Gérald Barré) - Short post how performance tip with cultureInfo.

• Simpler auth for Blazor Web Apps with Auth0? (Jon Hilton) - A wonderful tutorial very well detailed that explains how to use Auth0 with Blazor server app and search some gotchas so our experience goes smoother.

Miscellaneous

• Azure Communication Services January 2024 Feature Updates (Daysha Carter) - Improved management and a new data channel, great updates to start the year with a bang!

~Frank

Reading Notes #586

It is time to share new reading notes. It 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.

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Cloud

• Serverless Architecture Patterns and Best Practices (Faith Oyama) - Nice overview of different patterns in the serverless world. Here AWS lamda are used but it's true for all serverless situation.

• Azure Static Web App - Authentication using pre-configured providers (Bart Wullems) - A quick intro to authentication and authorization for SWA, agnostics of any programmatic languages.

Programming

• FluentUI.Blazor v4.3 (Denis Voituron) - I recently migrate one of my website to use FlunentUI Blazor, and the experience is amazing. It looks great and required less code from me.

• WebAssembly: 4 Predictions for 2024 (Matt Butcher) - Nice post that review 2023 predictions and sets 2024 ones explaining why it could happened.

• Creating an ASP.NET Core Web App with Docker Support and GitHub Packages (Bjoern Meyer) - A nice quick but details tutorial with a step by step approach.

Podcasts

• Dockerfiles have versions? (DevOps and Docker Talk: Cloud Native Interviews and Tooling) - Interesting episode about a little thing that could have a big impact in our CICD and I'm sure is overlooked.

• Playing the YouTube game with Nick Chapsas (Coding After Work Podcast) - Great interview with a successful technical content creator that do things "the good way".

• Teammateship with NBA champion Shane Battier (A Bit of Optimism) - reat conversation about team work, what it really means and what to achieve it.

• How to Focus When the World Feels on Fire (Modern Mentor) - Quick thoughts and tips to stay focus. Sometimes it's harder and other times and having a fews tricks his always a good idea.

Miscellaneous

• Twitter Ruined Your Link Previews: Here's How Cloudinary Can Help (Salma Alam-Naylor) - Wow! This looks like an amazing tool.I need to look dipper into this.

• A Job at Microsoft: Getting and Passing the Interview (Rod Trent ) - Interesting post that will certainly be very helpful for many.

~Frank

Reading Notes #585

It is time to share new reading notes. It 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.

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Cloud

• Announcing the Azure Migrate application and code assessment tool for .NET - .NET Blog (Olia Gavrysh) - Neat tools that can be added via CLI (cross platform) or as Visual Studio extension.

Programming

• Using the CLI to Build and Run .NET Applications (Dusko Mirkovic) - This is a short tutorial that shows the basics functionalities of the command dotnet... Its very useful and it works on al platforms.

• Docker whale-comes AtomicJar, maker of Testcontainers (Scott Johnston) - Great news! Anythings to facilitate testing.

• Development slowness in big and legacy applications [and how to hurry it up] (Michael Shpilt) - Great post. Feels like years of experience in many different places.... Worth your time reading it for sure.

• What User Interface Framework Should You Choose for .NET Desktop Applications? (Claudio Bernasconi) - I didn't know all the frameworks, it is always good to be aware of the options we have.

• Building a Critter Stack Application: Asynchronous Processing with Wolverine (Jeremy D. Miller) - This post show a cool implementation using wolverine.

• Functional Programming With C# - Scan and FindIndex (Simon Painter) - Nice post that explains three C# function.

• Scanning Uploaded Files for Malware in C# (Vladan Petrovic) - This post shows how to use a pretty neat tools to improve security in our C# app. And there is a free version.

~Frank

Reading Notes #584

It is time to share new reading notes. It 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.

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Cloud

• Avoiding Accidental Function Name Collisions (Sam Cogan) - Making sure names or unique is a tricky things.Great post that will make us save time.

• Getting Started with Infra for Developers in Azure (Andreas Helland) - The ease of creating and managing virtual desktop is very useful in many scenario as this post shows. And Aspire looks just as amazing... What's your top favorite from the recent past events?

• How To: APIM Asynch to Synch Pattern (Jeffrey Chilberto) - Interesting challenge, and definitely interesting solution.

• Azure Durable Entities Revisited (Ken Ross) - Durable functions are a great tools in integration and long process activities.This post is a very nice introduction on the topic.

Programming

• Redacting sensitive data in logs with Microsoft.Extensions.Compliance.Redaction (Andrew Lock) - Another excellent post! Its great to be able to remove (aka redact) some information from the logs, and not lost all our hair in the process.

• Named Entity Recognition Using Azure AI (Carl Layton) - A cool little post from an advent series.

Podcasts

• Building a better internet with Cloudflare's Rita Kozlov (Hanselminutes with Scott Hanselman) - Just like Scott said: I'm a user of Cloudflare for years, but didn't gave you any money yet, is it okay? Learn if it is and why in this nice episode.

• 388: Developer to Manager, Hybrid Success, & Capacity for Innovation (Merge Conflict) - Interesting discussion between James and Heather (in replacement of Frank) to talk about management in a tech company.

• KubeCon Live with Friends 2023 (DevOps and Docker Talk: Cloud Native Interviews and Tooling) - A review of KubeCon, what's hot what's new and more.

• Maarten Balliauw: Developer Tools - Episode 273 (Azure DevOps Podcast) - I really enjoy this episode with Maarten where he talks about Riders, and their vision of this IDE, and other different tools.

• A Curious Mind with movie producer Brian Grazer (A Bit of Optimism) - Stay curious what ever says people around you, that could be an advice learn from this episode.

• 70. The future of global Azure: Sharing knowledge and growing the community - with Rik Hepworth (Betatalks the podcast) - Aaaah... I didn't know why the named change! Global Azure (aka Global Azure Boot Camp) will be in April. Are you planning to do something?

• Blogging with guest Andrew Lock (Weekly Dev TipsWeekly Dev Tips) - Why should you blog, I mean now in 2023/2024? Listen to Andrew answering to this question. He knows what he is talking about, he blog every weeks and he is an author (love the book too btw).

Miscellaneous

• It's The Holiday Season, Which Means I'm Goofing With My Site (Rob Conery) - Lovely! What ar your plan / side project you are planing to work on (if you have some time off)?

~ Frank

Reading Notes #583

It is time to share new reading notes. It 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. 

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Suggestion of the week

• Getting Started with Blazor’s New Render Modes in .NET 8 (Jon Hilton) - Amazing post that covers the four rendering mode for Blazor in .NET 8.There just enough code to understand the concept and see the trade-offs and advantages of each options.

  

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Cloud

• A Decade of Have I Been Pwned (Troy Hunt) - Congrats for this anniversary and what a journey it was.I remember reading with passion your tech blog describing the tech decision taken for the site.

• Making Azure the Best Place to Observe Your Apps with OpenTelemetry (Matthew McCleary) - Looking back, tracking, monitoring, tracing are such important action when we think about application life cycle.I'm very happy to see Azure offers a great sets of tools to do it.

• Azure Arc Setup on Windows Server (Thomas Maurer) - Nice super easy wizard experience on our Windows servers.

• How to delete an Azure storage account with an unlocked Immutability policy (Stephane Lapointe) - It's great to have those security feature and to understand how they work.This post explains very clearly one of them the option we have to remove that security, and even have script snippets.

Programming

• Podman vs Docker: What are the differences? (Alex Gamela, Rute Figueiredo) - Nice post that help understanding the differences between these two tool.

• How to Switch Between .NET SDK Versions (Lennart Pries) - Quick tips for new .NET developers .

• 🤖 Does Functional Programming Matter To You? (Rob Conery) - Interesting and intriguing post about functional programming. Wanna share your thoughts? Rob is waiting for your comments...

Miscellaneous

• Terminal Chat in Windows Terminal Canary (Christopher Nguyen) - Wait, What?

• How to Become a T-Shaped Developer and Boost Your Career (sadukie) - The lesson here is embrace who you are. Very nice post about the type of people we are.

~ Frank

Reading Notes #582

It is time to share new reading notes. It 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. 

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Cloud

• How to Write NoSQL Queries with Copilot for Azure Cosmos DB (Lee Stott) - Copilot is such a time saver.For everyone who jump from projects to projects using different languages and data sources.

• Creating Zip Files in Azure Blob Storage (Mark Heath) - Great quick post with code snippets AND a solution for some gotcha.

Data

• Getting Started with GitHub Copilot in Azure Data Studio (Japhlet Nwamu) - Data studio is the perfect tools to work your queries from any platform. With the Copilot extension it's just became even easier and faster.

Programming

• 5 Awesome C# Refactoring Tips (Milan Jovanović) - Refactoring is an important skill to have. Most code grow by patches and at some point it needs some help.

• Hot Reload for C# Dev Kit (Mark Downie) - Wow! Things are evolving so fast, we pass from syntax highlighting from hot reload so fast!

• How to Toggle Between Light and Dark Modes in Blazor (Jefferson S. Motta ) - Nice tutorial that explains how to have that great dark mode.

• Adding environment vars to .NET Aspire services (Tim Heuer) - Nice post to continue to learn about Aspire.Net.

• Validating JSON Against a Schema (Paul Michaels) - For some reason, I was expecting something more complicated.Its simple! Love it.

~Frank

Reading Notes #581

It is time to share new reading notes. It 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.

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Suggestion of the week

• ASP.NET Core Basics: Essential NuGet Packages (Part 1) (Assis Zang) - Great idea this post! Those five packages are definitely very useful, and I like that they are not just mentioned but also explained and implemented in the demo solution.

Programming

• Announcing .NET 8 - .NET Blog (Gaurav Seth) - Tons of update with as many videos. Enough to satiate everyone.

• Entity Framework Core 8 (EF8) is available today - .NET Blog (Arthur Vickers) - Of course the Entity framework update to follow .NET of course.

• Get ready for .NET Conf, Microsoft Ignite, and GitHub Universe (Matt Graven) - So many events and news packed in a single month. This post helps to do an overview so help us make an ideas.

• Connect to localhost from inside a dev container (Jim Bennett) - Interesting... I thought Dapr was the easiest but the solution presented in this post could be a easier workaround, at lease while coding/ testing it.

• Fake It Til You Make It...To Production - .NET Blog (Martin Taillefer) - This post shows 3 pretty useful fake/mock included in .NET 8: Logger, Clock, and Metric.

• Building debugging context for Copilot Chat (Mark Downie) - Cool extension for Visual Studio.

• Announcing .NET Chiseled Containers - .NET Blog (Richard Lander) - The new image are available.Yay

Databases

• Importing Flat Files into Azure SQL DB (Josephine Bush) - Omg! That makes Azure Data Studio the easiest and low friction tool to import data from a flat file into a Ms SQL database

Miscellaneous

• OpenAI drama is over. (Kim Menikh) - Well.I was curious.I didn't follow all of it.

~Frank

Reading Notes #580

It is time to share new reading notes. It 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.

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Cloud

• Azure Developer CLI (azd) - November 2023 Release (Savannah Ostrowski) - So many feature in this CLI, I really need to look into it!
  
  
  

Programming

• Unlocking Git’s Power with GitLens: A Visual Studio Code Extension Guide (Sarah Lean) - Great quick intro and nice video about GitLens. It's one of those tool that you didn't know it but once you do, you can't imagine how you could live without it before.

• Introducing v1.0.0 Beta6 for the .NET Semantic Kernel SDK (Matthew Bolanos) - Sementic Kernel is a pretty cool tool.

• Explaining Kubernetes To My Uber Driver (Jessica Wang) - Pretty cool story that explains in a comprehensible way what is Kubernetes and why it is useful.

• Where fetch data in your Blazor components (Jon Hilton) - Having a optimization strategy is important.This post is a good place to start when using Blazor.

• .NET MAUI on Linux with Visual Studio Code (Bruno Capuano) - This is pretty interesting! Instead of having a Windows vm on my Linux laptop I could run natively ...I'll need to try that!

Miscellaneous

• Announcing Microsoft Copilot Studio (Jared Spataro, C) - Copilot Studio was for sure one of the big announcement during Microsoft Ignite. Learn more about what it is, what it does, and how you can get it in this post.

~frank

Reading Notes #579

It is time to share new reading notes. It 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.

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Cloud

• Startups to access high-performance Azure infrastructure, accelerating AI breakthroughs (Charlotte Yarkoni) - Great news for startups! Planning to use cloud or/ and AI don't miss the startup program ...

Programming

• Fix missing tokens when using downstream APIs and Microsoft Identity in ASP.NET Core (Damien Bowden)- Interesting post that shared solutions (with code snipets) for this situation.

• The convenience of System.IO (Richard Lander) - An interesting exercise. I like doing these when for a project you need to determine what is the best solution to implement in your context.

• Join us for the Great .NET 8 Hack (Aaron Powell) - That looks fantastic!

DevOps

• PowerShell Extension for Visual Studio Code Fall 2023 Update - PowerShell Team (Sydney Smith) - Nice update for that extension! The experience is so great now.

Databases

• Azure Data Studio 1.47 is now available (David Levy) - Nice new update on an already very useful tool.

~Frank

Reading Notes #578

It is time to share new reading notes. It 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. 

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Cloud

• Wolverine and Serverless (Jeremy d Miller) - The secrets is in the details! Wolverine is good with persistent environment, learn how to fine-tune it so its also good in short live (aka serverless) environment.

• What Is Open Source's Role in Platform Engineering? (Pete Lilley) - This post why should we spend time learning platform engineering.

Programming

• Introduction to Git, GitHub, and Version Control​ workshop-o-matic Library () - Git is a powerful tool.This post share a bit of what it is how it works and talk about other source control.

• Creating Animated Login UI in .NET MAUI with Lottie (John Aziz) - Nice post that shows how to make good looking login screen with animation. Because with does it need to be plain?!

• Docker Desktop 4.25: Enhancements to Docker Desktop on Windows, Rosetta for Linux GA, and New Docker Scout Image Analysis Settings (Mihaela Stoica) - Woot woot! Nice performance improvement... Congrats to the team.

• How to Determine URL a Local Git Repository was Originally Cloned From (Chris Pietschmann) - Neat tips and its simple.

Podcasts

• Defining a Database with Tony Baer (Screaming in the Cloud) - I was smiling all along that episode. It's such a great question! There a so many variation of databases these days and different data sources!
• 66. Developing critical thinking skills and choosing different technologies - with Laïla Bougriâ (Betatalks the podcast) - Whatever it's a new project, the middle of it, or the refactoring of an old one, communication ans sharing the information is so important. And listening too! Nice episode.
• Failing Well with Dr. Amy Edmondson (A Bit of Optimism) - It's all about how we can change our relationship with failures and start “failing well”. I like that! She's the author of Right Kind of Wrong, a new addition to my to-read stack.
• J. Tower: Modernization Strangler Fig Pattern - Episode 263 (Azure DevOps Podcast) - Modernization could seams simple... right? But it's not! There are many traps. There many challenges that are waiting for you and you need to to the things for the right reasons. Nice episode.

Miscellaneous

• Discover What's New in PowerToys v0.75.0: Environment Variables, Peek Updates, and More (Kunal Chowdhury) - Oh wow! A lot of pretty cool updates, I need to try the environment variables editor...

~ Frank Boucher

Reading Notes #577

It is time to share new reading notes. It 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. 

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Cloud

• Enabling developer collaboration with Radius - Microsoft Open Source Blog (Will Tsai, Aaron Crawfis) - Oh wow! This new cloud native CNCF project looks amazing!

• Notary Project - the signing technology behind AKS Image Integrity (Toddy Mladenov) - Great oss project to help with security when working in CNCF solution.

Programming

• Markdown: How to Add Images to README.md on GitHub (Chris Pietschmann) - Where are you putting your images?

• A better debugger for PowerShell Universal by using VS Code and PowerShell Editor Services - Awesome! Debugging is soooo important happy to see the too long getting better.

• When a form is actually... oh it's a form (Jon Hilton) - Because simple is beautiful! Nice way to do the same in Blazor btw.

• Updates to Docker images in .NET 8: Exploring the .NET 8 preview - Part 10 (Andrew Lock) - Amazing light production containers for our .NET applications. This post share a few things to be careful of when building our final containers.

Low Code

• Quickly Add Multiple Rows to Excel Table In Power Automate (Matthew Devaney) - Its so fast! And on top of it its simple. These are the kind of solution we all like!

• Fastest Way To Read Large Excel Table In Power Automate (Matthew Devaney) - Now the read version of interacting lightening fast with Excel.Brilliant !

~Frank

Reading Notes #576

It is time to share new reading notes. It 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 think you may have interesting content, share it!

Suggestion of the week

• Visual Studio Code: C# Dev Kit Now Generally Available (Almir Vuk) - As a .NET developer that spend a lot of time in Linux, I was already using a lot VSCode and started using DevKit curious to see if if would really helps. I felt empowered. Great work, and congrats on the GA that was fast!

Programming

• How to version your ASP.NET API (Dennis Frühauff)- Versioning will stay easy and hard at the same time...But me must give ot our best.... Right?

• Announcing .NET 8 RC2 - .NET Blog (Jon Douglas) - So much in this next release,the team is seeking feedback, if you have some they will be pleased to listen.

• Introducing Windows Terminal Canary (Christopher Nguyen) - That's a brilliant idea how many times I heard people asking to get the earliest bits faster...Well here it is!

• Blazor Basics: Creating a Todo App using Blazor WebAssembly (Claudio Bernasconi) - A tutorial like I like them: simple And where we do stuff! Great place to get started.

Podcasts

• What do we want from a web browser? (The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source) - I think it was my first episode of The Changelog. I liked it. Interesting discussion about what should be a "good" web browser...

~Frank

Reading Notes #574

It is time to share new reading notes. It 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 think you may have interesting content, share it!

Cloud

• Announcing Notation Azure Key Vault plugin v1.0 for signing container images (Feynman Zhou) - A nice CLI tool the ease the security validation of our containers. Learn more about this CNCF project.

• OpenTofu Joins the Linux Foundation (Pawel Hytry) - If you used Terraform in your IaC and would like to keep it that way look like this is the way.

Programming

• Creating User Interface Applications with .NET C# and Slint UI (Matheus Castello) - Nice and light new framework, definitely worth a look.

• How I use Docker to deploy my Blazor apps to affordable hosting (Jon Hilton) - Containers make it easier to deploy everywhere, so it great when its easier to contenarize...

Podcasts

• Damian Brady: GitHub Copilot - Episode 258 (Azure DevOps Podcast) - Awesome episode where Damian talks about Copilot how it works, how it evolved.

• Defining Your Role Before Someone Else Does (Ep 81) (Community Pulse) - It's definitely true for devrel roles, but I think it's true for all roles... Communication is key!

• Going Full Time on Open Source with Shaun Walker (.NET Rocks!) - The older will remember the amazing DotNetNuke. That OSS project was create by Shaun a few years ago. In this episode, they talk about his new project and how he is building it.

Miscellaneous

• How AI is generating change in newsrooms worldwide (Charlie Beckett) - An interesting post that look at a important question and impact of AI. I didn't thought about it, but of course news are affected by those generative AI tools.

• What's new in System.Text.Json in .NET 8 - .NET Blog (Eirik Tsarpalis) - Json is such a important medium to express data, it great to see improvements in the tooling.

~frank