Reading Notes #560

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!

The suggestion of the week

• GitHub Copilot Fundamentals Learning Path - Your New AI programming friend! (Bruno Capuano ) - A free series of lessons to get to know how to use Copilot ( an AI partner application).

Cloud

• Azure Communication Services June 2023 Feature Updates (Daysha Carter) - A series of pretty cool new features from Azure communication services.

Low Code

• Power Apps Dataverse Offline Mode For Canvas Apps (Matthew Devaney) - This is a nice step-by-step tutorial that guides us to make our Apps offline capable.

Programming

• Should We Use Records With EF Core as Model Classes? (Code Maze ) - Fantastic post that not only explains how Records could be used with EF but also explains why they aren't always the best choice.

• Best Practices for Building Secure Micro Frontends (Grgur Grisogono) - Nice short post about security best practices.Because it's important everywhere and its the job of everyone.

• How to Start an Open Source Project with VS Code (Bekah) - This is a nice and simple tutorial that overviews how to get started.

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft’s Satya Nadella Is Betting Everything on AI (Steven Levy) - A great interview with a focus on AI technology.

~Frank

Reading Notes #559

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!

Programming

• The Git repository that vanished by Mark Seemann (Mark Seemann) - I love it! I really enjoy those investigation posts, I think we learn more in those. Thank you for sharing it!

• Creating RESTful APIs with Minimal APIs and Entity Framework Core in ASP.NET (Bruno Sonnino) - Fast way to build an API meet efficiency to talk to the database!

• Demystifying WebAssembly: What Beginners Need to Know (Robert Kimani) - Wasm is a great addition to your toolbox. This post explains what makes it different and goes over the pros and cons.

• How to use plugins with Semantic Kernel | Semantic Kernel (Nilesh Acharya) - Short tutorial that helps us with a ready-to-try sample.

Databases

• Kusto Emulator on Linux (Vincent-Philippe Lauzon) - Great announcement! Faster and smaller perfect for us!

Miscellaneous

• Power Apps is empowering coders with next-generation AI capabilities (Ryan Cunningham) - Looking forward to using that AI to do the little repetitive thing in Power platforms.

~Frank

Reading Notes #558

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 have interesting content, share it!

Databases

• Introducing GitHub Copilot for Azure Data Studio (Drew Skwiers-Koballa) - That's such a great idea! I spend less time writing queries than I used to. This will help save time remembering the schema and other quick things.

Programming

• Introducing Dev Home (Kayla Cinnamon) - Very excited by the potential of DevHome.It was announced at Build and it's looking great already. As Kayla talked about it I installed it from the store. A project to watch for sure.

• 8 Free and Open Source Blazor UI Libraries (Claudio Bernasconi ) - Wow! I didn't know so many free and great libraries existed!

• Announcing an update for .NET Upgrade Assistant with a new CLI tool! - .NET Blog (Olia Gavrysh) - An interesting tool indeed! Would be if we could do the same to upgrade the packages.

LowCode

• Create a Microsoft Power App for your ASP.NET Core Web API - Visual Studio Blog (Julia Kasper) - This is an excellent tutorial to build a mobile app without code and using an API as a source of data.

• What’s new: Power Apps May 2023 Feature Update (Clay Wesener) - That month was packed! I need to try these new features.

• Transforming Excel into Power Apps: A Game-Changer with Microsoft's CoPilot AI (Shane Young) - Hopefully this will helps a few people to move out of Excel. Because yes there is a time for that.

• More power with pipelines in Power Platform (Anthony Sheehi,) - Next deployment new feature in the Pipeline. There are also a few video references to learn more about it.

• Power Apps is empowering coders with next-generation AI capabilities (Ryan Cunningham,) - So many mind-blowing new capabilities! Copilot's presence will really change the game in terms of productivity.

Podcasts

• Remote Versus Local Development with Mike Brevoort (Screaming in the Cloud) - Remote or not remote, that's the question... right? Interesting discussion around a polarized question.
• DevPod for Dev Containers (DevOps and Docker Talk) - I heard of DevPod before, but it wasn't stable enough for my occasional usage. But now it looks just perfect! Looking forward to trying it!
• Blazor Web Assembly by Example with Toi B. Wright (Hanselminutes with Scott Hanselman) - You can hear the passion in her voice! I'm sure the book is excellent, plus I love the idea of picking only the part that you want/ need and not missing anything.

~Frank

Reading Notes #557

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 have interesting content, share it!

Open Source

• Introducing Dart | Windows (Tim Sneath) - This a nice post that makes us dive into a world close to the machine. An interesting open-source project indeed.

Programming

• Boost Your Local Testing Game with the LambdaTest Tunnel Docker Extension (Salman Khan, Ajeet Singh Raina) - With this extension, we can test simply and securely our application. This tutorial helps us get started.

• Windows Terminal Preview 1.18 Release (Christopher Nguyen) - Tons of super cool features coming up in this release. Kalya and Hanselmann showed a few of them during Build keynote.

• PSReadLine 2.3.1-beta1 Release - PowerShell Team (Steven Bucher) - And it keeps getting better. This tool helps everyone. Make heavy user faster, and save the occasional user with suggestions.

LowCode

• Ridiculously Simple Power Apps Drop Shadow Technique (Matthew Devaney) - New cool looks for our apps.

• Building Quick and Visual Reports with Power Apps Reporting not Power BI (Shane Young) - This post shares an interesting alternative to PowerBi when requirements are less demanding.

Podcasts

• Toi Wright: Blazor WebAssembly - Episode 246 (Azure DevOps Podcast) - Great interview about this .NET author.
• Episode 179: Maintainer Month with GitHub's Martin Woodward (Sustain) - Learn more about the Maintainer Month during this episode. Martin talks also about the status of GitHub, five years after being acquired by Microsoft.
• Contribute to Kubernetes (DevOps and Docker Talk) - Inspirering episode about open source. The focus is on Kubernetes but this is true for any project.
• Computing History with Atari and Commodore's Leonard Tramiel (Hanselminutes with Scott Hanselman) - I grow-up with a Pet Commodore and Commodore 64. This episode is a great interview.

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Learn announces Microsoft Q&A Assist and new content for building AI skills (erinrifkin) - This is brilliant. Asking the question correctly or asking the right question make all the difference to the answer we will get.Looking forward to seeing this available more broadly.

~Frank

Reading Notes #556

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

• Azure Developer CLI (azd) - May 2023 Release (Savannah Ostrowski) - The Azure Developers CLI just is evolving so fast! New Java early functionalities, improvement with Container Apps... Looking forward to watching Build sessions and seeing all of it!

Programming

• Announcing the new Azure Container Registry libraries (Mario Guerra) - Nice update! And there are more languages supported, which is fantastic.

• How I used GitHub Copilot to build a browser extension (Rizel Scarlett) - Another great story about how Copilot helps the productivity of a developer. And at the same time, great tutorial to build and Chrome extension.

• Choose Your Own Adventure in Open Source: Paths to Success (Bekah) - This is a nice post that provides many excellent reasons why you should start contributing to open source and how it is good for you

• Quick Progress in Software Development (Mike Krop) - Interesting... A Development Sim game?!

LowCode

• Exploring the Power Platform GPT Prompts: Unleashing the Potential of AI in the Power Platform (Lee Stott) - When new tools are coming up with such potential its great to have ideas of how to work with it. This post helps users get started or find new ways, and advance users an opportunity to share.

• Fueling Creativity: Introducing our Power Platform Prompt Samples Repository! | Power Platform Developer Blog (April Dunnam) - A great initiative to get us started when the spark is missing.

Podcasts

• Molly's Game with Molly Bloom (A Bit of Optimism) - What a story! An inspiring journey with so many challenges.
• 357: The Zune UI was the Best UI (Merge Conflict) - Ahhh! Now I understand why so many people are talking about the Zune! Great episode that go over some souvenirs and memories.

Miscellaneous

• Discover Ways to Make Open Source Contributions to Microsoft (Kiran Panjwani) - Great post shows how you, students, can make a huge difference.

• Why Put PostgreSQL in Azure - Grant Fritchey (Grant Fritchey) - Great post that explains why Azure is a great hosting platform. In this case, it's about the database and it is so true. But it's also true with many other services...

~Frank

Reading Notes #548

The suggestion of the week

• GitHub Copilot X: The AI-powered developer experience (Thomas Dohmke) - Wow! Very excited about this news. Copilot is way more than just a buzz. After using it for a while I really appreciate the suggestions it was making. Looking forward to trying that next release.

Cloud

• Announcing: Azure Developers (Mehul Harry) - A nice online event is coming up. I'm honored and excited to be part of the sneakers. Looking forward to it.

• General Availability: ASP. NET web app migration to Azure App Service using PowerShell Scripts - This a nice tool that can help so many with that first step.

Programming

• A first look at Blazor and .NET 8 (Damien Bowden) - The future of Blazor looks very promising and interesting in .NET 8

• Announcing Docker+Wasm Technical Preview 2 (Djordje Lukic) - This wasm+docker is making progress fast! I feel like it was yesterday when they announced the first bits.

• Secure your .NET cloud apps with rootless Linux Containers - .NET Blog (Richard Lander) - In this post, the .NET teams explain their decisions ti make the images more secure. Safer containers are always better, right?

• Turn your database into an API in minutes with Data API builder for Azure Databases (Jasmine Greenaway) - A pretty cool open-source project that can definitely help.

Miscellaneous

• What’s different about these layoffs (Eira May) - It is a troubled period. how many of us were affected directly or indirectly.

~frank

Reading Notes #519

Good Monday, Already time to share new reading notes. Here is a list of all the articles, and blog posts that catch my interest during the week.

If you think you may have interesting content, share it!

Suggestion of the week

• .NET 6 is now in Ubuntu 22.04 (Richard Lander) - So many amazing news in this post, all .NET dev must read it.

Cloud

• Announcing Microsoft Dev Box Preview (Anthony Cangialosi) - That seems very interesting! Developers don't need powerful machines all the time.

• Deploying Logic App Standard resource through DevOps pipeline (Shree Divya) - This is an excellent example of deployment, that includes all requirements.

Programming

• Thoughts on Copilot (Dave Rupert) - Interesting opinion about copilot after a few months.

~Frank

Reading Notes #510

Good Monday, Already time to share new reading notes. Here is a list of all the articles, blog posts, and podcast episodes that catch my interest during the week. 

If you think you may have interesting content, share it!

The Suggestion of the week

• Incremental ASP.NET to ASP.NET Core Migration (Taylor Southwick) - Migrating an application is not an easy task. This post shares the new GitHub repos that the .NET team puts in place with guidance, pattern, and toolings to help us. Really interesting, bookmark that one for future references.

Cloud

• Azure Logic Apps team is interested in your feedback – BizTalk Business Rules Engine Survey (Sandro Pereira) - Integration technologies are so useful, help the teams to plan their priorities.

Programming

• Introducing Project Volterra (Mark Downie) - This little beast really caught my attention during Build. I'm impatient to learn more about it.

• GitHub Copilot AI Programming Assistant to Hit GA This Summer (Rabia Noureen) - The demos are really impressive, and the comments are all positive. I'll try it for sure!

Data

• Introducing the Microsoft Intelligent Data Platform | Azure Blog and Updates | Microsoft Azure (Rohan Kumar) - This post is an excellent summary of the data and AI news from Microsoft Build.

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft's metaverse rival Meta chooses Azure as strategic cloud provider (Arif Bacchus) - Meta, a new world to explore...

~frank

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 #422

Cloud

• Azure Functions: Extend Execution Timeout Past 5 Minutes (Chris Pietschmann) - Very cool post that explains how to take advantages of this new feature.
• Create, Build, Deploy and Configure an Azure Function with Azure DevOps and Azure CLI (Damien Bowden) - The perfect tutorial to get started with Azure DevOps.It contains all the code we need and a ton of references
• Introducing the Azure Key Vault Credentials Provider for Jenkins (Tim Jacomb) - Great news for all the Jenkins users and nice extension for Keyvault.
• Making an Interactive Cognitive Portrait Exhibit using some Creativity, .NET, Azure Functions and Cognitive Services Magic (Dmitry Soshnikov) - Very cool project mixing art and techno.

Programming

• GitHub is now free for teams (Nat Friedman) - That was definitely a piece of good news this week.
• Bring your own machine to Visual Studio Online | Visual Studio Blog (Allison) - Fantastic news! Before it was possible to access a powerful developer environment from our poor local devices. Now we can also access our own powerful machine from elsewhere! That's very very nice!
• Tips, tricks, hacks, and secrets from Jason Etcovitch ( Jason Etcovich) - An incredible post there is so many awesome tools and references in it.

Podcasts

• 195: The Hanselman Machine Learning Model (Merge Conflict) - Great episode where Frank and James discuss how James could build a sentiment analysis of Hanselman tweets, is it possible or not and what would be the cost (effort, and money).
• GitHub Actions with Enrico Campidoglio (.NET Rocks!) - I think it's my first .Net Show since the Pandemie. Well with was a create show that dig deeper in the GitHub Action. Loved it.
• 068: How to Build Your Personal Brand (CloudSkills.fm) - I really liked this episode as I did "created" my personal brand (without really realizing it ) a few years ago.
• 455: How to Create Great Relationships, with Colleen Bordeaux (Coaching for Leaders) - Interesting discussion with the author of the book: Am I Doing This Right?: A Philosophical Guide to Life in the Age of Overwhelm, that is now in my to read list/

Miscellaneous

• Backing up SQL Server databases to Blob Storage using Impersonation (Dominique St-Amand) - Nice post that not only shows us and to do backups, but how to do it in a very secured and structure way.Excellent!
• Free SSL vs. Paid SSL Certificates: Why Pay for SSL? (Chip Securis) - Before reading this post I assumed what could be the differences. NOW I know.
• How viewers can be actors in streams on Twitch (null) - Interesting post about streaming and how to leverage the channel points
• Microsoft Learning Blog (Alex Payne) - This is nice.

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Reading Notes #415

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

• Creating a RESTful Serverless API with Azure Functions and MongoDB (Will Velida) - This is a great tutorial that uses Azure function mongo and c# to build a project from scratch. It is simple enough to make sense and be easy to understand.

• Running Containers in Azure with Rancher (Tom Callway) - This post introduces Rancher, a tool thatt looks really interesting.

• Step-by-Step: Finding and Analyzing Microsoft Azure Cloud Usage Costs (Sonia Cuff ) - Great post that provides a few tips to better see or highlight some cost sending in Azure.

Programming

• Build your own Azure CLI Extensions (Michael Crump) - A very cool tutorial that explains how to do our own extension.

• How to set up Docker within Windows System for Linux (WSL2) on Windows 10 (Scott Hanselman) - Nice update; tons of info about wsl, docker, ssh and more.

• Pulling your DEV.TO Stats into a Google Sheet (Jeremy Morgan) - That's a cool little project, and I'm pretty sure it can be used by a lot of authors...on devto.

• Using Cognitive Services: Custom Vision Service with Azure IoT Edge - Cloud | Mobile | Edge (Jared Rhodes) - A nice tutorial that shows how to use Python and vscode to create an awesome app.

• What's New in Visual Studio Online | Visual Studio Blog (Allison Buchholtz-Au) - Wow, a turbo mode! But this time(remember the turbo on our old 486 beige pc), it makes totally sens...

Miscellaneous

• What are Azure CLI Extensions? (Michael Crump) - An interesting first article of a series. This one introduces us to the extension... Hmmm. I think I have an idea.

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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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The Dog-Not-a-Dog Workshop

I recently presented, a workshop at the TOHack to get started with Azure. The goal was to try different Azure services, and see how we could augment an existing website using serverless function and artificial intelligence.
(Aussi disponible en français)

During this workshop, a website is deployed automatically from GitHub. Then by adding an Azure Function and using the Vision API of Azure Cognitive Services, the final solution is able to detect when uploaded pictures are or not dogs and keep our image folder "clean". We call that application: The automatic Not a Dog application.

The step by step instruction with the code can be found on GitHub - Not-a-Dog-Workshop. The workshop can be done in about 45-60 minutes.

I also did a video that is available on my YouTube channel:

You have questions, you are blocked, it will be a pleasure to help you.

Reading Notes #367

Suggestion of the week

• Eight things your existing ASP.NET apps should get for “free” from a good platform (Richard Seroter) - If you have a solution that runs on-premises, this is why you should at lest consider doing a lift & shift... Seriously, this post is a must.

Cloud

• Accessing Azure Key Vault using Managed Service Identity Logic Apps (Vincent-Philippe Lauzon) - An awesome tutorial that hit two targets with one demo.
• Migrating Azure Functions from v1 (.NET) to v2 (Jeremy Likness) - A great story and an migration walkthrough. It's most likely that by following these steps we can only be successful with our migration.
• Announcing launch of Azure Pipelines app for Slack (Atin Bansal) - Great integration on a tool that so many of us used.
• Update to Azure DevOps Projects support for Azure Kubernetes Service | Blog | Microsoft Azure (Atul Malaviya) - It's now easier to use these two great tools together.

Programming

• Everything You Need for Coding with Node and Cosmos DB in 60 Seconds-ish (John Papa) - Get started quickly. Excellent tips.
• Introducing the Cake.VsCode.Recipe Package (Gary Ewan Park) - Great set of tools to help us build awesome VSCode extension.
• Introducing draft pull requests (Luke) - That look like a very useful feature! Looking forward to try it.
• Keep Calm, and Keep Coding with Cosmos and Node.js (John Papa) - An excellent first-time tutorial.

Miscellaneous

• Exploring nopCommerce - open source e-commerce shopping cart platform in .NET Core (Scott Hanselman) - This open source project looks very interesting.
• Applied AI in Software Development (Afsana Atar) - This post is an excellent overview of whats AI at ten thousand feet in the air. Perfect if you are not a data scientist and would like to learn more about that trend.
• My Twitch Live Coding Setup (Suz Hinton) - A great post from Suz (aka Noopkat) a long time technical streamer, who his both very smart and generous. Definitely, a post to read.
• Using the Basic Process Template in Azure DevOps to make support management easier (Matteo Emili) - I love it. Start simple to learn fast. Then if you need it, grow, but smartly.

Reading Notes #365

Cloud

• Azure Cost Management now general availability for enterprise agreements and more! (Raphael Chacko) - Great news for the PAYG and enterprise subscriptions.
• Configure resource group control for your Azure DevTest Lab (Tanmayee Kamath) - This is a fantastic news. The DevTestLabs were real little resources groups generator, so now we will be able to keep it cleaner.
• Make the most of your monthly Azure Credits (Angelos Petropoulos) - Yes, that true you can run a lot of things for free!
• Step-By-Step: Getting Started with Azure Machine Learning (Anthony Bartolo) - This is a fantastic post to get started with machine learning.
• Remove a directory from your Azure account (Dominique St-Amand) - Awesome quick tips. It's time to clean up these accounts!

Miscellaneous

• How Satya Nadella Uses Learn-It-All to Beat Know-It-All (Terence Mauri) - Interesting thoughts, it totally makes sense.
• Microsoft Build 2019 Developer Conference May 6-8 Seattle, WA (build) - Great! Registration starts end of February .
• Why you don't have time to advance your career - A geek with a hat (Swizec Teller) - An excellent post as I was reading it I couldn't stop thinking yep so true!

Books

I Hope I Screw This Up: How Falling In Love with Your Fears Can Change the World (Kyle Cease)

I was definitely not expecting that, when I picked up this book, but I am happy I did.

This "self-help" book is filled with a ton of comedy and I appreciated it. I felt like my best friend was talking about a serious topic but because he was in a crazy good mood was just having a good time telling me his story. Simple and real. It leaves you with a lot to think about.

Reading Notes #357

Suggestion of the week

• Use Azure Cognitive Services to recognize karting images with Custom Vision service (Vivien Chevallier) - Really cool post that explains how to build an API and trained it.

Cloud

• ARM - Etendre vos templates grâce à Azure Function (Wilfried Woivré) - A very clever way to leverage some services resources it ARM.

Programming

• How to set up ASP.NET Core 2.2 Health Checks with BeatPulse's AspNetCore.Diagnostics.HealthChecks (Scott Hanselman) - This is a nice quick tutorial perfect to get started.
• Finding your next .NET Open Source project using the command line (Shayne Boyer) - Really cool tool/ project to get started.
• Ghost : A Father-Daughter Project, Part 1 (David Pallmann) - This is both a nice tutorial to build a simple game and a great project to do with new developers.
• Visual Studio 2019 Preview .NET Productivity (Kendra Havens) - This is a nice overview of what Was announced at Connect.

Miscellaneous

• A crash course on Serverless with AWS — Running Node.js 11 on Lambda (Adnan Rahić) - Great tutorial that will take you from zero to definitely knowing enough to be dangerous.

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Reading Notes #347

Cloud

• Azure Tips and Tricks Part 162 - ARM Templates Demystified (Michael Crump) - Nice little intro to know what is ARM at a very high level. Seriously every introduction talk about ARM should start like that.
• Azure Portal October update (Peri Rocha) - I'm sure you noticed... The portal is always evolving getting better every day. This post list all the changes, what have you missed?

Programming

• How to get HTTPS working on your local development environment in 5 minutes (Daksh Shah) - Tired to get the unsecured notification when working locally? This tutorial will explain all the steps to fix that.
• Introduction to Vue.js with a Single Page Application (SPA) in Visual Studio - Simple Talk (Damon Armstrong) - Very complete and detailed article, the perfect one to get started with vue.js
• Update on .NET Core 3.0 and .NET Framework 4.8 (Scott H) - Great update and a glimpse of the Frameworks roadmap.

Data

• Fun with SQL Server Containers (Donovan Brown) - Interesting post. Perfect to get ready in 5 minutes.

Miscellaneous

• An Introduction to AI at LinkedIn (Deepak Agarwal) - Interesting reel life case where AI is used... Not crazy sci-fi, very day to day improvement.

Reading Notes #337

Cloud

• Using Azure QnA Maker (MS Bot Framework V4 Preview Edition) - This post is an excellent tutorial to get started, it explains everything step by step and you can download the final code.
• The moment I came to play with .NET Standard 2.0 – Azure Functions (Dominique St-Amand) - Nice advice/walkthrough to update our Azure Fonctions.

Programming

• Step by step: Detecting files added between two commits in git (Maxime Rouiller) - Awesome! It makes total sense to be able to filter and manipulate the query outputs, but I never thought of doing it... I still use a lot GUI App...
• .NET Core Code Coverage as a Global Tool with coverlet (Scott Hanselman) - I think it's a really cool time to be a developer as so many great tools are available (and free).
• ASP.NET Core Hidden Gem – QueryHelpers (Muhammad Rehan Saeed) - Cool little tricks.
• LINQ Challenge #3 (Mark Heath) - Okay, I know I'm not a LINQ expert but ... I'm curious to see the answers and will definitely give it a try.
• Unit Testing in ASP.NET Core Web API (Milos Davidovic) - Great tutorial that explains every bit of the inversion of control and how to create your unit tests.

Data

• Building a Real Time Data Pipeline in Azure – Part 2 (Jason Farrell) - Interesting start (part 2) of a series build and editing a solution.

Miscellaneous

• Lynx is dead - Long live Browsh for text-based internet browsing (Scott Hanselman) - Wow that's really interesting... It's True though that it feels like ... The old time.

Reading Notes #336

Cloud

• Azure Tips and Tricks Part 139 - Prevent AzCopy Uploads from maxing out Internet Connection Speed (Michael Crump) - Nice little cool trick.

• Quickly create VSTS Work Items for Application Insights Telemetry from Visual Studio (Abhijit Jana) - Can it be more DevOps than that? I don't think so.

Programming

• 7 best practices for building containers (Google) - This post helps us to improve our skill with containers. It also shares a lot of excellent more detailed references.
• How Postman Can Improve Your API Documentation (Abhinav Asthana) - With openAPI and Postman, our Apis will definitely be easier to consume.
• Using Elasticsearch with ASP.NET Core and Docker (Miroslav Popovic ARCHIVE TAGS) - Interesting post. I like how docker was used in this case.

Miscellaneous

• How to Lead When You’re Feeling Afraid (Peter Bregman) - A really interesting post that will help us, for sure, because we all leave this kind of situation one day or the other.
• Defeating Electron (Felix Rieseberg) - Pretty good is the chance that you are (just like me) using an application builds on top of electron. This post explains a little about what's it happening under the hood.
• Here's Why Your Static Website Needs HTTPS (Troy Hunt) - Definitely a post to read.
• How to Write a Catchy Hook and Title for Your Blog - This post can definitely help us getting inspired.

Reading Notes #321

Suggestion of the week

• Creating an ASP.NET Core Markdown TagHelper and Parser (Rick Strahl) - Amazing post that shares a cool taghelper for our projects, and explains all steps to build it.

Cloud

• Beyond The Obvious With API Vision On Cognitive Services (Víctor Moreno ) - This post is a nice and details overview of the cognitive services.
• Deployment Pipelines For Versioned Azure Resource Manager Template Deployments ( Peter Groenewegen) - Great post that explains all the best practices to manage healthy ARM template.
• Differences between Azure Functions v1 and v2 in C# (Damien Guard) - Nice overview showing the differences in the code.
• Secure your backups, not just your data! (Aruna Somendra) - I do most of that already...but yeah not all of it. What's YOUR backup plan?

Programming

• Azure vs GCP part 15: Microservices (Kenichiro Nakamura) - Interesting post that compares two microservice platforms... A must.
• Converting a Ghost blog to a Progressive Web App (Dean Hume) - Very interesting post that explains every step in its conversion journey.
• How to deploy Angular application to GitHub (Dhananjay Kumar) - Nice post to get started with Angular and Angular CLI.
• Demystifying Serverless with Cecil Phillip (Scott Hanselman) - Very interesting discussion about serverless or less server programming...

Databases

• The world of Automatic Tuning – SQL Server 2017 | All About SQL on WordPress.com (blobeater) - I was also surprised, but yes it's true the auto tunning really works.

Miscellaneous

• From Windows to the Cloud (Tim Sneath) - Wow! Well... Speechless, just read it.

Books

When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing (Daniel H. Pink)

A really amazing book packed of very interesting advice. Things that you kind of already knew, or at least had a feeling you maybe knew are clearly explained to you.

After reading (or listening) this book, you will know why, and you can decide to fight it or change the when... improve your performance and use your time and energy on something else.

ISBN: 0525589333