Reading Notes #407

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

• Linked ARM Templates for a Multi Resource Azure Solution (Roy Kim (MVP)) (Roy Kim) - A nice quick post with code sample to show how to simplify and help to maintain ARM templates.

• Azure Advent Calendar video - Azure CLI and Cloudshell (Dan Clarke) - Wow! One great post and a ton of pretty cool videos available on YouTube...

• Generating Images with Azure Functions (Aaron Powell) - Brilliant usage of Azure function and its the first one I see in F#! All the code is available in GitHub, definitely worth the detour.

Programming

• A WebAssembly Powered Augmented Reality Sudoku Solver (Colin Eberhardt) - This is sick! I'm very impressed by all that work and of course by the result! A great post that explains all the steps to get that working.

• ASP.NET Core Integration Testing & Mocking using Moq (Muhammad Rehan Saeed) - Great post that explains all the setup to put in place a stable and reliable test solution.

• Use MongoDB in Your C# ASP.NET Apps (Terje Kolderup) - This is a very complete tutorial the shows all the code and explains step by step how to add, configure and use MongoDB.

Podcasts

• SPI 401: Jesse Cole—The Yellow Tux Guy (Jesse Cole) - Wow! Great show, if you don't feel pumped up and 200% motivated after listening to this show... We might be in Zombieland already.... 😜.

Miscellaneous

• Is that position available for remote? (Mark Downie) - A very interesting post that, I think, explains well the 'behind the scene' of the response we can get when asking the remote question.

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Reading Notes #217

Suggestion of the week

• Building an ASP.NET 5 website using Visual Studio Code (VSCode) and Yeoman - If you are looking for a super light .Net environment, whatever you are on Windows, Linux or Apple, this is th perfect post to get started.

Cloud

• Azure IoT Hub in Public Preview - Quick intro to Azure IoT Hub leveraging the excellent AzureCon video.
  
• Freeing your Azure data with F# Type Providers - This nice post regroupes nice Azure storage type, enough to make you fall in love with F# right await.

Programming

• Version Control PowerShell Scripts with Visual Studio and Visual Studio Team Services - This post describes a fantastic solution if you already have Visual Studio (it could also be the free community edition). But vscode could also be a nice. solution.
  
• Evolution of #CSharp (1.0 to 6.0) - an Infographic (Kunal Chowdhury) - Cool recap an infographic.
  
• Submitting your first Pull Request (David Paquette) - Nice post, that demystifies a lo o things, if Git is new for you or that open source projects.
  
• Task runners in Visual Studio 2015 (Mads Kristensen) - This post regroups many extensions to Visual Studio that will definitely speed up repetitive process.

Miscellaneous

• Visualizing Your (Real) Software Architecture (View all posts by Erik Dietrich) - This post describe a situation that too often true, and suggested a way to avoid it.
  
• When did we stop caring about memory management? - That totally right!
  
• Developers: Here’s why you should make yourself replaceable - Interesting post, how many of this Howard type did you work with?

Reading Notes #215

Cloud

• Azure Learning Paths (Laurent Duveau) - Did you know that the Azure documentation site has a set of 25 learning paths? I didn't, and it's awesome.
  
• Using Azure Storage Queues from .NET - Nice post that explores the Azure queues through .net, and feature th very useful cloud config...
  
• Advanced Use of Azure Virtual Machine DSC Extensions - Very nice tutorial about how to troubleshooting.

Programming

• Exploring the new .NET (Scott Hanselman) - This is the first post I read about the "dotnet compile" since the MVP Summit, and it looks at as much interesting as before.
  
• Why build scripts? (Amir Barylko) - This post changed my mind about F#, now I'm looking forward to try it.
  
• Signing into Windows 10 with your Face - Using an Xbox One Kinect with Windows Hello (Scott Hanselman) - I didn't think it was that easy to setup a XBox Kinect to a Pc...
  
• Visual Studio Shortcuts: Comment Selection / Uncomment Selection (Jeremy) - Time to learn some little time saving tips with this short post.
  
• Visual Studio Shortcuts: Format Document (Jeremy) - Recently, I have been surprised to learn that some people are still not aware of that very powerful feature o VisualStudio.

Data

• More Power BI Feature Updates: Power BI Desktop December Update and new Power BI service features - This post detailed the features of th December update.

Miscellaneous

• 12 Most Influential Books Every Software Engineer Needs to Read (roelljr) - Fantastic list of essential books to read. A must.
  
• Google Spotlight Story Special Delivery is a nice YouTube gift for the holidays (Jeff Causey) - Really interesting little animation movie in a 360 degree environment.
  
• First Update Released for Open Live Writer (Richard Hay) - Awesome new, and it works!
  
• Announcing Programmer Tools! (Henry Spencer) - We all need some little tools from time to time. This post lists many useful tools, and what's nice about them is that they are available from everywhere because they are online tools.