Reading Notes #618

It's reading notes time! 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.

You also read something you liked? Share it!

Programming

• Announcing .NET Aspire 8.2 – Goodbye Components, Hello Integrations! (Maddy Montaquila) - New release, new name, new functionalities, and one documented breaking change. All in this post.

• C# Dev Kit update brings enhanced Razor IntelliSense, Project Status, and New Config Options (Wendy Breiding) - Wow so many great improvements! I can't wait to enable the experimental ones and open my vsCode again.

• Working with tar files in .NET 8 (Andrew Lock) - A nice post that explored and show what we can to do with tarbal from .NEt and explains some of the limitations.

• Blazor Basics: Testing Blazor Components with BUnit (Claudio Bernasconi) - We all agree that tests are important (or we should). bUnit is specially build for Blazor Applications. If you are using this web frontend you should definitely have a look!This post helps you getting started.

Miscellaneous

• If you’re going to block your time, do this, too (Michael Eaton) - Simple and efficient time blocking is a great way to be productive.

~frank

Reading Notes #617

Less posts and articles this week, I was devouring books! I guess a special "book edition" of the Reading Notes should be coming soon... 

If you are new on this blog, welcome! The reading notes post 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.

 
You also read something you liked? Share it!

Cloud

• Containerising Azure Functions without Dockerfile (Justin Yoo) - Cool post that shares while providing all the required code two way to create containerized .NET Azure Function.

Programming

• The Singleton Pattern in C# Today Is Not Your Dad's One! (Metalama Team) - Learn more about one of the oldest pattern, how it was, how it evolved.

• What Is OpenTelemetry? The Ultimate Guide (B. Cameron Gain) - Learn more about what is,why it's useful, what are the golden points in the nice post.

• Asynchronous HTTP APIs with Azure Container Apps jobs (Anthony Chu) - This is a great post. it explains the long process async pattern and provides the code to so it can be implemented with Azure container app.

Podcasts

• Debug Containers with Mintoolkit (DevOps and Docker Talk: Cloud Native Interviews and Tooling) - Great episode about the intricacy of debugging containers and a tool mintoolkit,before knows as DockerSlim, that could really simplify things for us.

• Fine tuning Products with Stanza System's Stacie Frederick (Hanselminutes with Scott Hanselman) - Do we really need to have that automatic build and deployment x time by week, or day? Are far should we go? Are we trying to solve a real problem or just find a solution we think we need. Great episode that will help you answering those questions.

• Better ways to have tricky conversations at work (Modern Mentor) - It's been many stories I heard from people who quit their job before even talking to their manager... This short episode will provides you a few tips to get more prepare and try different alternative.

~Frank

Reading Notes #616

It's reading notes time! 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.

 

You also read something you liked? Share it!

 

Cloud

• Static Sites on Azure Storage vs Azure Static Web Apps (John Kilmister) - Yes both options are available.Do you know the differences?

Programming

• Easier to fix async exceptions (Mark Downie) - Debugging Asynchronous code as been always more complicated, looking forward to seeing (and using) that new capability in .NET 9.

• Simplify development with Dev Container templates for Azure SQL Database (Carlos Robles) - I love that! Instead or having multiple containers (database, dev environment) we can now have only one. No special configuration, faster into the code.

• The 3 Most Common Security Mistakes Developers Make () - This is an interesting post that shares popular mistakes yes but also some better practices accessible to all.

• How to make your web page faster before it even loads (Salma Alam-Naylor) - To make sure our users have he best experience possible it important to fine-tune some little details. This post goes deep and explains them very well.

Miscellaneous

• How to save your online writing from disappearing forever ( Barbara Krasnoff) - A series of online tools that could keep copies of the blog post you put online.

~ Frank