Top Links .NET Rocks! – Blazor in .NET 9 with Dan Roth (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell) * Building AI Assistants with Microsoft Copilot Studio (Siva Saripilli) * Create a Flutter Semi-Doughnut Chart to Visualize Transport Emissions per Kilometer Traveled (Aswini Suresh Reddy) * Unreal Engine Toolbar in Visual Studio (David Li) * How Machine Learning Models Actually Work… the Easy Way | Ctrl+Alt+AI (Michael Jolley) * SQL Server (mssql) for Visual Studio Code (Visual Studio Code Marketplace) – October release includes a connection dialog, table designer, new query results pane, query plan viewing, and object explorer filtering*
Web & Cloud Development* Integrate data from external sources into Microsoft Entra tokens using the Authentication Events library (Abdul Hakim) * Azure Bicep: Parameter Files for Streamlined Infrastructure as Code (IaC) (Chris Pietschmann) * .NET Aspire 9.0 RC1: Simplified Setup, Azure Functions Support Added, and Other Improvements (Almir Vuk) * GitHub Copilot for Azure: 6 Must-Try Features (Amy Boyd) * State of CSS 2024 Results (Geoff Graham) * Never mind, Lamar is going to continue (Jeremy D. Miller) * jQuery UI 1.14.1 released (Michał Gołębiowski-Owczarek) * Configure File in Azure Static Web Apps (Ringe Chen) * HTMX: What’s Old is New Again (Derek Comartin)
Visual Studio & .NET* .NET C# PDF Generation Techniques: Which Method is Right for Your Project? (Bjoern Meyer) * I have enabled “take ownership” permission, but I still cannot obtain write access (Raymond Chen) * Code Smarter: Spell Checker and Colorization Braces in Visual Studio 2022 (Leomaris Reyes)
AI* Introducing SimpleQA (OpenAI Team) * Bringing AI Agents to production with Gemini API (Vishal Dharmadhikari, Paige Bailey & Adam Silverman) * No Tricks, All Treats: A Sneak Peek at Our New AI Theming Tool (Kathryn Grayson Nanz) * How AI is reshaping the University of Washington computer science school (Taylor Soper) * ONNX and NPU Acceleration for Speech on ARM (Yuanzhuo Hu) * YouTubeGPT: A Deep Dive Into Building and Running It (Zil e Huma)
Design, Methodology & Testing* Designing For Gen Z: Expectations And UX Guidelines (Vitaly Friedman) * Smooth Parameter Replacement | TeamCity Pipelines Pulse #8 (Olga Bedrina)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development* Raspberry Pi product series explained (Nate Contino) * Announcing the Developer Preview of DynamoDB Mapper for Kotlin (Ian Botsford) * Easily Create a Bullet Graph with Flutter Charts (Natrayan Ramalingam) * Diving deeper into using the Strangler Fig with Mobile Apps (Martin Fowler) * File Plugin 8.1.2 Released! (Norman Breau) * Animatronic Singing Spooks: Building Musical Ghosts With Free Software (Evan McMahon) * The Amazon Echo graveyard (Andrew Liszewski)
Screencasts & Videos* IoT Coffee Talk: Episode 233 – The Perpetual Pivot Cycle (IoT Coffee Talk Crew) * GitHub Universe 2024 Day 2 Keynote: Building 1 billion developers (Kyle Daigle & the GitHub Team)
Podcasts* GeekWire Podcast: Amazon devices chief Panos Panay on the color Kindle, AI, and his first year on the job (Todd Bishop) * Yet Another Podcast – Mads Torgersen and C# 13 (Jesse Liberty) * Syntax Podcast #841: Spooky Web Dev Horror Stories – PART 2 (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski) * The Stack Overflow Podcast #751 – Life in the Fastlane: SDK tools built with developers in mind (Ben Popper) * The Amp Hour #681 – Compact High Speed Design with Lukas Henkel (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell) * Grammar Girl Podcast – How linguists solve crimes, with Natalie Schilling (Mignon Fogarty) * Software Engineering Radio #640 – Jonathan Horvath on Physical Security (Jeremy Jung) * Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Leading Change with Radical Candor, Building Organizational Openness | Hassan Butt (Vasco Duarte)
Community & Events* Celebrating the GitHub Awards 2024 recipients (Laura Lindeman) * Dropbox is Laying Off 20% of Its Staff (msmash)
Database* Enforce Business Rules in a SQL Server Database (Christopher Mohr) * What Missing Index Requests Miss In SQL Server (Erik Darling) * SQL Server Ledger – Are You Really Using This Feature? (Pinal Dave) * T-SQL Notebooks: Manage Views Source Control and more (Dennes Torres)
SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams* Retirement of the SharePoint SendEmail API (SharePoint Team) * Engage the Copilot in Viva Engage! (Vesa Nopanen)
PowerShell* Announcing Microsoft.PowerShell.PlatyPS 1.0.0-Preview1 (Jason Helmick)
Miscellaneous REPORT: Arm is sensationally canceling the license that allowed Qualcomm to make Snapdragon chips, which power everything from Microsoft’s Copilot+ PCs to Samsung’s Galaxy smartphones and tablets (Update: Qualcomm, Arm respond) (Jez Corden) * Apple introduces M4 Pro and M4 Max and New MacBook Pro features M4 family of chips and Apple Intelligence (Apple Newsroom) * Nintendo Made a Music Streaming App For Video Game Soundtracks (BeauHD) * Bing 2024 Elections Experience (Bing Team) * Microsoft’s gaming revenue keeps going up, even though hardware sales are down (Jay Peters) * Record Levels of Heat-Related Deaths in 2023 Due To Climate Crisis, Report Finds (msmash) * Microsoft Earnings Up 16 Percent in Quarter (Paul Thurrott) * Paint.NET 5.1 Beta (build 9070) (Rick Brewster) * The Washington Post’s non-endorsement led to record-breaking weeks at other news orgs (Sarah Scire) * Hands-on with the new Kindle Colorsoft: Is Amazon’s color e-reader worth the premium price? and* Microsoft beats expectations with nearly $25B in quarterly profits, as AI revenue boosts cloud growth (Todd Bishop)
More Link Collections* Daily Reading List – October 30, 2024 (#430) (Richard Seroter)
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