Reading Notes #452

Cloud

• Announcing Azure Mobile Apps v4.2.0 for .NET | Xamarin Blog (Adrian) - Nice update, more platforms.

Programming

• .Net 5 is PERFECT for DevOps (Davide Benvegnù) - I said it many times but allow me to say it one more time... It a great time to be a .Net developer.

• Azure Functions via GitHub Actions with No Publish Profile (Justin Yoo) - Nice post. We can do so much with those GitHub actions it's so cool.

• Spectre.Console lets you make beautiful console apps with .NET Core (Scott Hanselman) - Looks totally cool and could definitely be useful for some API I have... Could I just add params for pretty results?? Hmmm.

Miscellaneous

• Understanding the difference between null and undefined in Azure Cosmos DB | Azure Cosmos DB Blog (Tim Sander) - Super interesting post that shares a nice tip about how to work with null and undefined values in your NoSQL queries.

• Preventing Developer Burnout in the Age of Rapid Software Delivery (James Brotsos) - This post is definitely interesting as it talks about a real health problem. at the same time there that mix with DevOps and security thing... Could be just me, interesting nevertheless.

Reading Notes #451

Cloud

• Migrating to the new C# Azure KeyVault SDK Libraries (Dominique St-Amand) - Learning a new SDK can be challenging and this post can help you lowering the learning curve. So much great feature.

• Tip 295 - What database should you use in your next Azure Functions app | Azure Tips and Tricks - A nice little post that shows different options to connect our azFunctions to a data store.

Programming

• 6 ways to narrow types in TypeScript (Carl Rippon) - This is a nice post that teaches how to avoid a few good exceptions.

• What's new in .NET Productivity (Mika Dumont) - In post offers a nice summary of the new feature available in the latest version of Roslyn.

• Your dotnet outdated is outdated! Update and help keep your .NET projects up to date (Scott Hanselman) - Wonderful! Easy to update and to use. Sold!

Miscellaneous

• Azure DevOps Boards and Excel! (Sarah Lean) - Pretty sweet tips for everyone.

Podcast

• 622 - Why Vulnerability Is a Misunderstood Professional Superpower (Modern Mentor) - First time on this podcast, but definitely not the last. Great show great topic.
• The Shorts -- Backyard Adventures (The Dirtbag Diaries) - One thing keep coming back to my head again and again as I was listening... Yeah, so true! I love it. Let's do small adventure.
• 227: Databases! (Merge Conflict) - So many great questions, a tons of answers, hypotheses, and laughs. Great show guys!
• Growing the next generation of technologists with CodeCrew's Meka Egwuekwe (Hanselminutes with Scott Hanselman) - Very interesting questions. I really like discussion from a different point of view; for me.

Books

A Game Plan for Life: The Power of Mentoring

Author: John Wooden, John C. Maxwell

What a great book. I didn't know John Wooden before, but I am very impressed and inspired by both coach Wooden and the author. There is so much in this book and worth reading it again... But first, let's get prepare :)

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 #449

Cloud

• Deploying Minecraft on Azure (Sophia Parafina) - Interesting post that leverages Pulumi.

Programming

• Using the ASP.NET Core Environment Feature to manage Development vs. Production for any config file type (Scott Hanselman) - A nice tutorial that explains how to benefits of our environment in C#

• Building applications with C# and a Challenge! (Shayne Boyer) - Very happy to finally see C# to learn. I should have a look at all those modules...interactive he said...it looks awesome.

• Internationalization And Localization For Static Sites — Smashing Magazine (Sam Richard) - This is an amazing post that not only shows how they did it but explains why they did. Really interesting.

• Managing multiple SSH keys for authentication to GitHub on Windows 10 (Dominique St-Amand) - Nice tips to work securely with 2 ssh key.

• Node.js REST API Tutorial: Express.js and TypeScript (Marcos Henrique da Silva) - As I'm learning TypeScript/ Node.js for a project and was looking for how to structure and organized my project this post provide so much.

• Should Your Enterprise Pick Angular, React or Blazor? (Jon Hilton) - Of course, it depends, but I like how this post lets you think about many different aspects before making your decision.

• Best practice when naming Durable Functions in C# (Laurent Bugnion) - Nice update. So many developers will thank you later...

Miscellaneous

• How to waste your career, one comfortable year at a time (Apoorva Govind) - In the end, what is most important is that you are happy. I like to continuously learn new things, but I also learn that for some people, this is not healthy. And it is totally fine.

Reading Notes #448

Cloud

• When, Why and How to Use Azure Key Vault (Paul F. Wood) - A nice tutorial that explains how to setup a keyvaul to use in our pipeline.

Programming

• Develop Secure Apps with WebSockets and Node.js (Nickolas Fisher) - An interesting post that guides us and gives us all the code to build a chatroom using WebSockets and Nodejs.
• Distro installation added to WSL --install in Windows 10 insiders preview build 20246 ( Craig Loewen) - Wsl is a very nice tool, looking forward for that installer.
• How to: Choose Which Advanced Installer Azure DevOps Task You Need? (Ciprian Burca) - A quick intro to powerful tools.
• Setting Up Cloud Deployments Using Docker, Azure and Github Actions (Ben De St Paer-Gotch) - Part two of building a nice Containerized deployment environment.

Miscellaneous

• 15+ Chrome extensions you should have in your pocket. (Jane Tracy) - A nice list of extensions. I have a few of them already. It's Always hard to find the balance between all the ones that are great and what you really need.
• Getting started with DevOps automation ( Jared Murrell) - A greatt post that describe all the pieces of DevOps. What is means and how it could be uses.

Podcasts

• Getting Guests To Share Your Podcast Show (Feed Your Brand) - Nice episode focus on how to get guests, how to work with them/ for them to grow. Very interesting.
• Episode 11 - DevOps Rockstar Abel Wang Talks Azure DevOps (AzureABILITY Podcast) - First time listening to this podcast... Great show loved it!
• YouTube Channel Art Ultimate Guide (Your Thriving Side Hustle) - I really go show. I was just thinking about that in fact, the timing was excellent! Very interesting..
• How to Get More Traffic and Exposure for Your Brand with Brittney Lynn (SPI Podcast) - Interesting topics. I agree with what Pat... She made look like it's easy, but it's a lot of work.

Reading Notes #447

Cloud

• Azure CLI Oct 2020 release (Lomis Chen) - Nice new features in our favorite CLI

• Using Azure Identity with Azure SQL, Graph, and Entity Framework | Azure SDK Blog (Mickaël Derriey) - A great tutorial that explains a lot. All those little details in the development phase of production that will make our lives more simple or safe

Programming

• Don't ever break a URL if you can help it (Scott Hanselman) - Wonderful post that explains and shows how to provide a great experience to our readers even if we modernize our website.

Miscellaneous

• Windows Terminal Tips and Tricks | Windows Command Line (Kayla Cinnamon) - Great post that does a quick tour of the key features for Windows Terminal.

• 7 Ways to Boost Your Self-Confidence and Become a More Empathetic Leader (Maria Ross) - Nice little tips, even just to be more comfortable in your own skin.

• Upgrading the Storage Pool, Drives, and File System in a Synology to Btrfs (Scott Hanselman) - I've been joggling with this idea to have a local NAS since I also have a lot of video files... Thanks for sharing.

• What’s new in the Windows 10 October 2020 Update (Aaron Woodman) - Nice list of improvements and new features.

Books

Talk Triggers: The Complete Guide to Creating Customers with Word of Mouth 

Author: Jay Baer

A good book filled with good stories. I personally like it when they deconstruct like this winner journey or factor that makes those ideas, plans, actions different. The idea of a talk trigger is good and it was nice that the creation, lifetime, and death of a talk trigger was also cover in the book.

~Frank

Reading Notes #446

Every Monday, I share my "reading notes". Those are a curated list of all 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.

You think you may have interesting content, share it!

Cloud

• Introducing the new Azure SDK for C++ Beta (Jeffrey Richter) - Oh wow! Now I just want to take from my dusty memory shelf my c++ knowledge and mixt it with Azure...
• Migrating this blog to Azure. It's done. Now the work begins. (Scott Hanselman) - A very exciting and promising series of posts related to migration. So many of us have websites that are old and clunky. I'm looking forward to reading more.
• Update Azure CLI from the command-line (az upgrade) (Dan Patrick) - Tools are great! And If you never try Chocolatey... What are you waiting for, it's awesome.
• Zone Redundancy for Azure Cache for Redis now in preview | Azure blog and updates | Microsoft Azure (Kyle Teegarden) - Great news for the Redis Cache users.

Programming

• Moq vs NSubstitute vs FakeItEasy - Which one to choose? ( Thomas Ardal) - A very interesting post that compares three mocking solutions. No bad choices here it depends on your taste.
• Async Await JavaScript Tutorial – How to Wait for a Function to Finish in JS (Fredrik Strand Oseberg) - Really interesting post. I learn better by trying... And now I have all the snippets I need.
• Creating a .NET Core Global Tool (John Smith) - Cool project. It gave me ideas of little things I would like to have available...
• How to Docker with .NET: Getting Started (Dave Brock) - A truly beginner tutorial. If you know about Docker but never did really play with it, here is your chance. First post of a trilogy that definitely worth our time.
• Keeping your WSL Linux instances up to date automatically within Windows 10 (Scott Hanselman) - This is sooo simple! Wonderful.
• Let's use NUKE to Quickly Deploy an App to Azure via Zip Deployment - Dangl.Blog(); (Georg Dangl) - Interesting build/ automation framework. Definitely worth giving it a try.

Suggestion of the week

• Learn Node.js with this series of short videos for beginners (Microsoft) - An amazing series of tiny videos. I started myself and already learned so much! Perfect bite-size to watch in a break, or to find THE topic/ answer you are looking for.

Books

Take Control of Your Life

Author: Mel Robbins

Great book. I wasn't sure first but someone recommended it and since, I like her first book and thought why not! I was not disappointed. I like this journey through interviews. Each person (yes real person, not characters), is great; full of emotions, victory, fails... like us, well me at least. 

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Reading Notes #445

Every Monday, I share my "reading notes". Those are a curated list of all 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.

You think you may have interesting content, share it!

Cloud

• Azure Machine Learning helps customers stay ahead of challenges (Erez Barak) - A nice post to get us inspires to start our journey.

• Azure introduces new capabilities for live video analytics (Jason Hogg) - The custom vision was already as impressive as a service. So easy to use and powerful. But now in a video...that's incredibly cool.

Programming

• How to use, open, resize, and split Panes in the Windows Terminal (Scott Hanselman) - Tabs are so useful! And now it's native...awesome.

• 10 Azure DevOps – Work Items Tips & Tricks that you should know (Abhijit Jana) - Nice post. Did you know all those?

• GitHub Docs are now open source (Janice Niemeir) - Open-source documentation is the best. Faster updated, often more accurate and complete... And all of it at one URL easy to remember fantastic.

• How to use autocomplete at the command line for dotnet, git, winget, and more! (Scott Hanselman) - I love that shell/ terminal series... Learn something new each time.

• Writing JavaScript tools in other languages – a new trend? (Dr. Axel Rauschmayer) - Javascript or not javascript... I'm surprised how the opinions are so strong.

Podcasts

• #23 Fatal Conveniences™: Caffeine: Consuming Coffee With Caution (The Darin Olien Show) - Apparently not a usual episode ( I don't know it was my first one), but really interesting deep dive into the coffee world; the effect, origin and more.
• Podcast Crasher – The Binge Factor: Pat Flynn On Building An Online Business From a Podcast (Feed Your Brand) - This episode it the counterpart of another episode that happens on Pat Flynn show. Really interesting topic I don't think about my content that way... Maybe I should, a little.
• #54: Yihua Zhang - From Fitness to Coding [S03-E12] (The Solo Coder Podcast) - WHen you like what you are doing I think it shows. It doesn't mean you will always be a super start, but at least you will be happy and most of the time it will be really good for your career. Fantastic story, inspiring.
• Microsoft Identity for Developers (CloudSkills.fm) - Nice episode I think Identity/security is a really hard topic to abort, and those guys are doing a great

Miscellaneous

• 40 Microsoft Teams tips and tricks: from novice to expert. - Great tips for beginners to advanced Teams users.

~ Have a nice week!

Reading Notes #444

Every Monday, I share my "reading notes". Those are a curated list of all 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.

You think you may have interesting content, share it!

Cloud

• Optimizing bandwidth in the Azure Cosmos DB .NET SDK | Azure Cosmos DB Blog (Matias Quaranta) - Optimization is an art& sooo important.

• Publishing an ASP.NET Core App to Azure App Service Using Visual Studio (Code Maze) - A nice tutorial very easy to follow that explains how to create and deploy your first web app to Azure using .Net.

Programming

• Cross-platform diagnostic tools for .NET Core (Scott Hanselman) - Interesting sets of dotnet commands.

• .NET Conf 2020 and Community Events this October | Xamarin Blog (microsoft.com) - Nice event coming up mid-November...

• 6 Tools I use for Web Development (Jakob Klamser) - A nice list of great tools. I'm surprised to read that notion would be more flexible then OneNote, I heard a lot of good from it but never tried it.

• Bringing the browser developer tools to Visual Studio Code (Microsoft Edge Team) - Cool...I need to try that.

• Render diagrams on the fly in your Blazor apps (Jon Hilton) - A cool and simple way to add graphics inside your App, wonderful!

• WebAssembly Could Be the Key for Cloud Native Extensibility (Joab Jackson) - Oh, interesting topics, I need to check that podcast.

Reading Notes #443

Every Monday, I share my "reading notes". Those are a curated list of all 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. 

You think you may have interesting content, share it!

Cloud

• Announcing Azure Deprecation Notices (Tom Kerkhove) - An interesting new way to stay on top and be sure you don't miss a notification.
• Why Running Azure Logic Apps Anywhere is a Game Changer (Tom Kerkhove) - Interesting feedback from private preview participants about this new flavor of LogicApps.
• Azure Static Web Apps with .NET and Blazor (Aaron Powell) - I'm really excited about this news! Now I will be able to use this for my URL shortener.

Programming

• ASP.NET Core updates in .NET 5 Release Candidate 1 | ASP.NET Blog (Daniel Roth) - Nice update...It goes so fast, or am I going slower?!
• Announcing the GitHub integration with Microsoft Teams (Ashok Kirla) - Nice integration, guest what I will add soon to my team Teams...
• Blazor WebAssembly on Azure Static Web Apps (Scott Hanselman) - Great post to get started with Azure static web app saw and ...Blazor!
• Announcing Entity Framework Core (EFCore) 5.0 RC1 (Jeremy Likness) - This awesome post is full of examples showing the differences with the previous versions. It shows how to get started and of course all the new features.
• Using Azure DevOps for Product Development (Multiple Teams) (Subodh Sohoni ) - Really interesting post. We use Azure DevOps in my team and we're thinking about doing a cross-team thing...

Podcast

• SPI 440: How to Create Bingeworthy Content with Tracy Hazzard (The Smart Passive Income Online Business and Blogging Podcast) - A very interesting topic. WHen it's useful how could you make your content more digestible.
• A new way to learn about technology with Disco's Saron Yitbarek (Hanselminutes with Scott Hanselman) - In this podcast you learn so many things... It go sideways a little an It's even better.
• Microsoft & the Next Level of Transformation with Corey Sanders (Screaming in the Cloud) - What's new why it's interesting, why should we care, and so much more. Nice show.
• Morning Brew - Newsletters ARE NOT Dead! (That Creative Life) - A great conversation between to young and really smart creator. It's interesting to confirm you are not alone asking yourself those questions.
• Are YouTube Keyword Research Tools Worth It? (Your Thriving Side Hustle) - Do you spend time entering all that metadata? Sometimes I wonder if I'm the only one doing it, and the second haft of the time I'm sure I'm doing it wrong. Nice episode.
• Cloud & DevOps with Bart Castle (CloudSkills.fm) - I love those stories how someone became who they are. THe path to picked, the choices they made with the reason why.
• Special Episode 25: From art school to Microsoft Research (Software Engineering Unlocked) - Wonderful, I knew her study. carreer path couldn't be strait. Like I mentioned many times the best stories are the one with "detours". Love it, looking forward for the next episode.

Miscellaneous

• You're Not a Fake Programmer, That's Just Impostor Syndrome (Daniel Chae) - Its definitely real, and there is a way to be more comfortable with it. This post will share a few of those tips.

~fb

Reading Notes #442

Cloud

• ASP.NET Core Configuration – Azure Key Vault (Vladimir Pecanac) - A nice tutorial that shows how to setup our keyvaul. All the commands and code snippets are there to help.

• Azure SDK Release (September 2020) | Azure SDK Blog (Jon Gallant) - Super SDK update...

• Introducing the new Azure Tables Client Libraries | Azure SDK Blog (Christopher Scott) - Storage is everywhere, this post is an excellent starting point to benefits of how the new SDKs can help us.

• Project Bicep Sneak Peek (Justin Yoo) - Very interesting new project from the ARM team. I really need to try it.

Programming

• Dependency Injection with Azure Functions (Joseph Guadagno) - Interesting code perspective on the AzFunctions.

• Azure Container Instances - Docker integration now in Docker Desktop stable release (MacKenzie Olson) - Learn more about this really useful integration in this post.

• Creating a Progressive Web App with Blazor WebAssembly -- Visual Studio Magazine (Peter Vogel) - A really cool idea, not perfect but pretty fun.

• Introduction à Bicep (Lucas de Carli) - A nice FRENCH post that gives us an introduction of Bicep and where it comes from.

• Making Scott Hanselman's Powerpoint Greenscreen trick work with RevealJS via Blazor Server (Jon Hilton) - Really cool post that shows the magic of another presentation tool.

• Starting to Use Git Hooks With a Team - Redgate Software (Grant Fritchey) - Interesting uses of the hook.nice.

• The First Blazor Dock Manager (Brian Lagunas) - Nice demo/ tutorial of the new dock manager with Blazor.The pretty cool component in this suite.

• VSCode Tips for Power Users (Boris Yordanov) - Because there is always something new that we can learn about this amazing tool.

Reading Notes #441

Cloud

• Auto-installing Applications on Azure VM with Chocolatey for Live Streaming (Justin Yoo) - A nice quick tutorial that lists all the pieces to build you're ready to use VM like a streaming machine.

• Creating an .NET AWS serverless application using API Gateway with API Key (Dror Helper) - A nice tutorial that explains how to get started.

• Introduction to Cloud Computing and Azure (Code Maze) - A good article to get started. Starting from nothing and explaining the basic concepts.

Programming

• How to Add TypeScript to a JavaScript Project (Dor Sever) - Great post that shares a lot of information to get started with TypeScript, even how to sell it to your team.

• ASP.NET Core updates in .NET 5 Preview 8 (Daniel Roth) - Nice update packed with tons of features.

• Blazor WebAssembly Gets Lazy Loading -- Visual Studio Magazine (David Ramel) - Nice post that focuses on one of the features (lazy loading of the dependencies) of the last update.

Miscellaneous

• I'm Open Sourcing the Have I Been Pwned Code Base (Troy Hunt) - Interesting news about this project. Going open source is a big move, and Troy explains why he did it.

Podcast

• How to Create a Social Media Plan Template with Andrea Jones (Influencer Entrepreneurs with Jenny Melrose) - They say planning is everything, so I was happy to listen to this episode and learn more it and see if it was different depending on the platform.

• Cycling Through Changes with Laura King (Wild Ideas Worth Living) - I'm a man and my "baby" is an adult now. Yet, I found that episode very interesting. Even though a lot of friends shared with me a few "challenges" that pregnancy brings... And didn't think about the training ones...

Book

Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less 

Author: Greg McKeown 

- I really like this book. In a world where we all try to get more things done to be more productive, this book talks about doing less... to be more productive. Very interesting I thought. Talking about priorities, and how to help you to find our focus.

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Summary of Week 34

Every beginning weekend, I will share a recap of the week and at the same time a summary of my streams. Those videos are at least two hours longs, so I thought a short summary to know if the topic interest you could be useful. Watch only the summary or relax and enjoy the longer version that up to you!

   

• Aysegul Yonet - What kind of reality is that? - https://c5m.ca/aaa-ep27

• Em Lazer-Walker - Using AI to avoid touching your face - https://c5m.ca/aaa-ep28

• Stream 121 - Working on deployment doc for Tiny Blazor Admin - https://c5m.ca/stream-ep121

• ARM Series #6: Template Output - https://c5m.ca/learn-arm-ep6

• Stream 122 - Learning Node.js CloudBot - https://c5m.ca/stream-ep122

• All Around Azure blog - https://c5m.ca/aaa 

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Reading Notes #440

Cloud

• Azure portal August 2020 update (Angie Doyle) - Wonderful Updates better search, better productivity.Very nice.

• Path based routing in Azure Application Gateway with Azure WebApps (Dominique St-Amand) - Great post that explains how to get the most of our domain name and workaround a little limitation of the portal.

Programming

• How to Develop an ASP.NET Core Application Using Visual Studio Code (Mathankumar Rajendran) - The perfect post to get started without impacting too much (installing heavy software) your computer.

• Configuring Codespaces for .NET Core Development (Justin Yoo ) - This post goes deeper than the usual hello word type of post about Codespace. It really shows an example of configuration.

• Have you built your GitHub Profile README yet? (Mayank Choudhary) - What?! This is super cool, and I didn't know about it.

• How to Work With Client-Side Blazor (Jon Hilton ) - This is a great simple post to get started with Blazor web assembly. Simple enough so all can understand what it is and what's nice about it.

• Introducing Blazor Automatic Kingdom (null) - Interesting of the popular blocky UI/UX with Blazor.

• Introduction to SVELTE (Sohaib Nehal) - As I rediscover JavaScript, it's fascinating to see how much this language as evolve and now have so many great frameworks.

• WSL 2 Support is coming to Windows 10 Versions 1903 and 1909 | Windows Command Line (Tyler) - Yeah! One of my computers is not in the insider program and was still with WSL1... But not anymore.

Podcasts

• 087: Learning Azure with Gwyneth Pena (CloudSkills.fm) - In this episode, you will discover a freshly awarded MVP, a brilliant content creator, and super energetic women. Wonderful.

• Why you should double down on intergration testing with Kent C. Dodds (Software Engineering Unlocked) - Tests are important we all know that (well we should), but there is a shift about the type of tests that are the best one recently... Interesting.

• Working in Public: Open Source Software with Nadia Eghbal (Hanselminutes with Scott Hanselman) - A very interesting conversation about the open-source work today. She is the author of the book Working in Public, which looks fascinating.

• #169 – Thinking One Step Ahead to Grow Your Business through PR with Dmitry Dragilev of JustReachOut.io (The Indie Hackers Podcast) - I think this quote used summarize perfectly: Just because you built it doesn't mean people will come. Great discussion.

• The Shorts -- Twindom (The Dirtbag Diaries) - A really touching story of two sisters and a hiking trip that changed her lives.

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Reading Notes #439

Cloud

• How to Redirect with Azure Static Web Apps - Kevin W. Griffin | Developer, Training, Entrepreneur (Kevin W. Griffin) - A nice tutorial that explains a key feature.

• Free eBook: Developer’s Guide to Azure: 2020 Edition (Chris Pietschmann) - Awesome Free book. It looks very nice.

Programming

• Azure SDK: Packaging, tools, and repository structure | Azure SDKs (Mitch Denny) - A very interesting post, it's important to find the best way and for that, we need to start by asking the good questions.

• Integration Testing ASP.NET Core Applications: Best Practices (Steve Gordon) - This summary chapter gives us a really good preview of this very interesting Pluralsight course.

• Introducing C# 9: Extending Partial Methods (Anthony Giretti) - It's been a while since a used them, but it nice to see it will be much easier...because I remember how it was.

• The DevOps Journey (Chris Ayers) - Interesting post about DevOps in our reality.

Podcasts

• TikTok, Reels, and Shorts (UGH! Not another algorithm to learn?!) (Your Thriving Side Hustle) - When I saw the title I was TikTok? Not for me... I'm still not convinced, but now it's definitely not that clear. Could some serious things work in that format?
• SPI 435: 7 Terrible Traps Entrepreneurs Fall Into (And How to Get Out of Them) (The Smart Passive Income Online Business and Blogging Podcast) - Interesting real-life stories. We ear more often about success, but things don't go always well.
• Cybersecurity for Executives in the Age of Cloud with Teri Radichel (Hanselminutes with Scott Hanselman) - A interesting conversation about security. Who's accountable? What does it mean?
• #385: Rediscovering the Joy of Work with Bruce Daisley (The EntreLeadership Podcast) - I'm lucky because I really like what I do for a living. You could too. An interesting episode about emotion, joy, and work.
• Linus Tech Tips Returns for Episode 100! (That Creative Life) - I was really happy when I saw that Linus was back on the show. I really like to dynamic between those two, it feels honest and true.

Books

How to Talk to Anyone: 92 Little Tricks for Big Success in Relationships 

Author: Leil Lowndes

I was interested to read this book to get some inspiration when it's time to talk to people in an event. But this book brought me way more then that. I really appreciated the clear example and the variety. After reading this book you won't be a master, but you now have options to start a conversation.

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Recap/ Summary week #33

 Every beginning of weekend, I will share a recap of the week and at the same time a summary of my streams. Those videos are at least two hour longs, so I thought a short summary to know if topic interest you could be useful. Watch only the summary or relax and enjoy the longer version that up to you!

   

• Coding Python: Deploy Django and Postgres Apps to Azure with VS Code - c5m.ca/aaa-ep25
• Stream 119 - How easy can we make the deployment of TinyBlazorAdmin -  c5m.ca/stream-ep119
• Stream120 - Celebrating 500 followers and working on the Chat bot -  c5m.ca/stream-ep120

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Reading Notes #438

Cloud

• Azure Durable Functions Monitoring and Diagnostics (Damien Bod) - A nice tutorial to help us get more visibility on our Durable Functions.

• Authenticate Blazor WebAssembly with Azure Static Web Apps (Anthony Chu) - A great 

• tutorial that explains how to uses the socials account to authenticate our users in a Blazor app.

• Azure Cost Management + Billing updates – July 2020 (Michael Flanakin) - We all have a budget, this post helps us to stay up to date with the tool.

• Azure Durable Functions Monitoring and Diagnostics (Damien Bod) - If you are using (or planning to) the durable function this post is a must as it will ease your debugging / monitoring.

Programming

• Learn about the latest .NET Productivity features (Mika) - Nice post that describes in detail how to use the new feature of Roslyn.

• Sign Up for the Private Preview of Visual Studio support for Codespaces! (Nick) - Nice more codespace possibilities!

Miscellaneous

• .NET Foundation Board of Directors Election 2020: Results! (null) - After earing about this board on a .Net Rocks episode, I'm happy to see the result.

• THE EASY WAY how to SSH into Bash and WSL2 on Windows 10 from an external machine (Scott Hanselman) - Read 1 post and get 1 for free... Awesome and easy tips.

Reading Notes #437

Cloud

• Introducing Azure Tools, a new blog community for Azure command line tools - Open Source Blog (PUI CHEE CHAN, MARK GRAY) - Nice! Anew smart source of information, that et you filter the post you see.

• Tip 272 - Azure Security Best Practices | Azure Tips and Tricks (Michael Crump) - Seven great methods to keep our solution secure in Azure.

Programming

• 5 Ways Artifactory NuGet Repositories Boost .NET Development (Rami Honig) - This post introduces an end to end DevOps solution to manage packages dependencies. It looks very interesting.

• Exploring the .NET open source hybrid ORM library RepoDB (Scott Hanselman) - A great open-source solution... I need to give it a try, maybe with my Use-R-vote project...

• Highlights from Git 2.28 (Taylor Blau) - Nice update. I'm personally very please with the default name of our choice.

• Introducing GitHub's OpenAPI Description (Marc-Andre Giroux) - An interesting project.

• New Developer Landing Page and Issues Repo - Windows Developer Blog (Rich Turner) - Nice now we have a customized entry door to the knowledge word.

• Official Support for Remote Debugging a .NET Core Linux app in WSL2 from Visual Studio on Windows (Scott Hanselman) - Wsl2 is an incredible tool. There only one of my machines that don't have it yet because it running on public Windows release... But I should have it soon everywhere and it will be so great!

• Pimp up your Blazor EditForms with Tailwind CSS! (Tarik Alkathiri) - Nice tutorial.

• When does it make sense to use containers in a development workflow? (Sean Killeen) - Nice post that shares a very good answer.

Podcasts

• 211: Failure To Launch (Merge Conflict) - Interesting conversation about when it's time to stop adding features and deploy. Finding a comfortable point could be difficult sometime.

• 482: How to Sell Your Vision, with Michael Hyatt (Coaching for Leaders) - nice episode that shares a few points to guide us when it's time to build/ present our vision.

• #167 – The Most Sensible Debate on Hustle Culture and Work-Life Balance with Natalie Nagele and DHH (The Indie Hackers Podcast) - A very interesting discussion about the "entrepreneur" mentality. Are there too many differences between the guess (cultural)? It's definitely good to ear all their points... But be aware that's mostly a two-hour long episode.

• The Open Source Ecosystem, .NET Foundation, and Microsoft with Sebastien Lambla (.NET Rocks!) - A fantastic episode. A hot topic very strong opinion but done in with class!

• Managing remotely with Asana Engineering Manager Kate Reading (Hanselminutes with Scott Hanselman) - Interesting conversation. It's not a not topic, but they're a lot of unprepared managers that were forced into this situation.

Miscellaneous

• New Windows Virtual Desktop capabilities now generally available | Azure blog and updates | Microsoft Azure (Kam VedBrat) - Wow, that very nice news.

• Simplified YouTube live streaming with Azure and OBS Studio. ( Ihor Leontiev) - With more and more people doing conferences or streaming online this alternative could simplify a lot of technical issues.

Recap/ Summary Week #31

Every beginning of weekend, I will share a recap of the week and at the same time a summary of my streams. Those videos are at least two hour longs, so I thought a short summary to know if topic interest you could be useful. Watch only the summary or relax and enjoy the longer version that up to you!

   

• Let's get Started with Containers on Azure (Erik St. Martin) - c5m.ca/aaa-ep18
• Let's build a website with Node.js on Azure (Tiemey Cyren) - c5m.ca/aaa-ep19
• Adding all functionalities from previous version into TinyBlazorAdmin website - c5m.ca/stream-ep115
• DevOps Lab: Demystifying ARM Templates: Variables (Abel Wang) - c5m.ca/learn-arm-ep5
• Monitoring the new followers, displaying the highest scores in order - c5m.ca/stream-ep116

Reading Notes #436

The suggestion of the week

• Learn Durable Functions with .NET Core and C#, stateful Serverless (Chris Noring) - A fascinating tutorial that teaches us how to get started with Azure Durable Functions and also explains how they work.

Cloud

• Azure Functions and App Service Authentication with Auth0 and other OpenID Connect providers (Anthony Chu) - A nice post that explains how to configure our function with the CLI.

• Using Key Vault and Managed Identities with Azure Functions (Damien Bod) - A very resourceful and tutorial post. The perfect place to get started.

Programming

• Bootstrap 5 alpha1 is here..! What is NEW? (Charuka herath) - Nice update.

• Securing Blazor WebAssembly Apps (Andrea Chiarelli) - A nice post with all the code.

• Windows Terminal Preview 1.2 Release (Kayla) - Very nice update of an open-source project...It's nice to see that.

Podcasts

• Stop Pushing Down Your Emotions (Developer Tea) - I think a lot of people are doing that, me included. Very interesting podcast about a real situation.

• How the OBS Project changed video forever with lead Hugh Bailey (Hanselminutes with Scott Hanselman) - I was trilled to listen to this podcast. I'm a regular user of OBS and it was wonderful to learn more about this project. I will definitely be lurking on the GitHub side...

• 480: Get Noticed Without Selling Out, with Laura Huang (Coaching for Leaders) - Interesting discussion. I never realize how “Be yourself” wasn't really useful...

• Episode 219: Remote crickets and Manager Careering (Soft Skills Engineering) - A really nice episode. Great topics answering diverse questions. One that kept my attention was about the magic manager and the time management...

• How to Improve Time Management with Angela Proffitt (Influencer Entrepreneurs with Jenny Melrose) - A few great tips to improve our efficiency at managing time. It's always good to have new ideas and ear how others are doing.

• #49: Erin Doyle - Beautiful Code and Accessibility (The Solo Coder Podcast) - A beautiful, very inspiring episode about how to make the world a better place for all.

Miscellaneous

• Azure DevOps Roadmap update for 2020 Q3 | Azure DevOps Blog (Sidi) - That looks pretty neat

• How to make separate Work and Personal Profiles with the New Microsoft Edge on Beyonce's Internet (Scott Hanselman) - The profiles are really awesome and very useful. I'd say it's a must.

• Microsoft is working on an Azure-powered Cloud PC service ( Mary Jo Foley) - Interesting..

• Sort Data With ASP.NET Core and Query Strings (Khalid Abuhakmeh) - A very cool tutorial with all thee e required code. Pretty cool.

• Top 7 OBS Studio Tricks for 2020 – and you won’t believe #4 (Jeff Fritz) - A wonderful list of accessible tips to improve our stream.

Recap/ Summary of Week #30

Every beginning of weekend, I will share a recap of the week and at the same time a summary of my streams. Those videos are at least two hour longs, so I thought a short summary to know if topic interest you could be useful. Watch only the summary or relax and enjoy the longer version that up to you!

   

• Let's get started why Azure static web apps (John Papa): https://c5m.ca/aaa-ep15 
• Mixed Reality QnA Bot (April): https://c5m.ca/aaa-ep16
• Why it's not working?! Investigating login Azure AD Token with Blazor WebAssembly: https://c5m.ca/stream-ep113
• ARM Series #4: Template Functions (Abel): https://c5m.ca/learn-arm-ep4
• Learning Node js: Serializing and deserializing an object to a file: https://c5m.ca/stream-ep114

Reading Notes #435

Cloud

• Introducing Azure CLI v2.9 with improved performance and user experience (Lomis Chen) - Awesome news more performance and quiet mode.

Programming

• How to Serve Static Files (CSS, JS, Images) in Express JS? (Digamber Rawat) - I just recently start using Express.js and it's been a joy. A very well done package. This post explains a way to structure your server for static content.
• New experimental Razor editor for Visual Studio | ASP.NET Blog (Daniel Roth) - That looks interesting... I will definitely give it a try.
• Read Configuration values in ASP.NET Core - A great little tutorial that shows a way to have different config files by environments.
• Splitting the Windows Terminal into multiple panes (Guy Barette) - Short and sweet. Quick tip about tmux.

Podcast

• Spider Web Effect on YouTube – Should you implement it now? (Your Thriving Side Hustle) - It's the second time I here Meredith talking about the "spider web effect", and I think it's a nice and honest strategy.
• Austin Evans - Tech YouTuber Starts a New Channel After 11 Years & 4.5 Million Subscribers (That Creative Life) - Just an awesome discussion between to YouTube/ content creator. How they grow and worked over the years.
• SPI 431: Is Writing Still a Viable Content Platform? Medium, Copywriting Tips, and More, with Dr. Benjamin Hardy (Smart Passive Income Podcast with Pat Flynn) - A very interesting episode talking about the written content. Is it still popular today, and a few simple strategies to help getting started.
• The DevOps Handbook - The Technical Practices of Flow (Coding Blocks) - A very long but funny and interesting episode about DevOps. They will review The DevOps Handbook, sharing some experiences, and explaining why they like dislike agree or disagree.

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Recap / Summary of the week #29

Every Friday, I will share a recap of the week and at the same time a summary of my streams. Those videos are at least two hour longs, so I thought a short summary to know if topic interest you could be useful.

Useful Links:

• Stream 111 - Back to TinyBlazorAdmin: c5m.ca/stream-ep111
• Stream112 Learning Node.js for the first time: c5m.ca/stream-ep112
• 5 ways to Manage Azure Resources: c5m.ca/ep-61
• My Twitch: twitch.tv/fboucheros 
• Microsoft DeveloperTwitch: twitch.tv/microsoftdeveloper

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How to Manage Azure Resources

What ever you are on running on Linux, Mac or Windows that you are on the road or in the comfort of your office there is many different ways to manage your Azure resources. In this video I will show you five ways to do it and explain the pros and cons of each:

1. Azure Portal
2. Azure PowerShell
3. Azure CLI
4. Azure Mobile App
5. Azure Cloud Shell

There is also an excellent Microsoft Learn module that will teach you how to use the Azure portal efficiently.

References

• Azure Portal: https://portal.azure.com
• Learn Module: https://c5m.ca/azFun-portal
• Azure PowerShell: https://c5m.ca/azPS
• Azure CLI: https://c5m.ca/azCLI
• Azure Mobile App: https://c5m.ca/azMobileApp
• Azure Cloud Shell: https://shell..azure.com

Reading Notes #434

Every Monday, I share my "reading notes". Those are a curated list of all 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. 

You think you may have interesting content, share it!

Cloud

• One Ops Question: What are Azure Blueprints? (Pierre Roman) - For post and nice little video that gives you everything you need a clear explanation and steps to get started.
• Using External Inputs in Azure Durable functions (Damien Bod) - A very nice tutorial with all the code we need, just as we all like.

Programming

• Always Use the for…of loop to iterate in JavaScript (Dhananjay Kumar) - I thought I knew how to loop in JavaScript, apparently, I didn't.
• Exciting new updates to the Git experience in Visual Studio | Visual Studio Blog (Pratik) - Wow, that nice update. Good tools are important when moving and merging code... We don't want to make mistakes.
• Getting Started With Kubernetes: Application Basics (Sophia Parafina) - A nice second post in a series on kubernetes. Learning layer by layer.awesome.
• How to Create and Delete Branches in Visual Studio Code (Jason N. Gaylord) - Nice quick tips. I didn't know how to delete it.

Podcasts

• AsapSCIENCE - YouTubers on Building a Creative Team, USA vs Canada and the Crossover of Art & Science (That Creative Life) - Cool podcast talking about sooo many things... like sciences, politics, and hangover...
• DOs and DON'Ts of your First 100 YouTube Subscribers (Your Thriving Side Hustle) - A nice little episode about the rebranding of the podcast, and some good tips for YouTubers who, are starting their channel.
• #164 – Facing Down an Existential Threat to Your Business with Scott Keyes of Scotts Cheap Flights (The Indie Hackers Podcast) - Interesting story about how an enterprise was built and adapted to the current time in a very difficult period in its market.
• 082: Starting Your DevOps Career from Scratch (CloudSkills.fm) - Discussion questions about DevOps, answering auditor questions: how to prepare, what to expect... very interesting.
• SPI 430: Passive Income Success Story: How Jacques Hopkins Finally Made (Significant) Money Online (The Smart Passive Income Online Business and Blogging Podcast) - Amazing episode once again, about an electric engineer that became an online piano teacher and live from it happy and nicely.

Miscellaneous

• Backing up an Azure database : Algorithms for the masses - julian m bucknall (Julian M Bucknall) - Just a reference to the Azure tips and tricks, but it still very worth it. Do your backups
• Best Markdown Editor (Jimmy McBride) - Nice cool project. As a markdown user, I will definitely have a look.
• How we launched docs.github.com (Sarah Schneider) - Wow, a very interesting story, and all that in one year.Impressive.

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Recap / Summary of the week #28

This is some basic, sample markdown. Every Friday, starting now, I will share a recap of the week and at the same time a summary of my streams. Those videos are at least two hour longs, so I thought a short summary to know if topic interest you could be useful.

Useful Links:

• Learning how to use a Blazor WebAssembly with Azure AD Token c5m.ca/stream-ep109
• Learning JavaScript Building Twitch chatbot c5m.ca/stream-ep110
• Demystifying ARM Templates: Parameters c5m.ca/learn-arm-ep3
• MicrosoftDeveloper Twitch channel twitch.tv/microsoftdeveloper

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