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 #325

Suggestion of the week

• 6 Presentation Mistakes Every Professional Should Avoid (Mike Pacchione) - Very interesting post about mistakes that most (read all) of us do, and of course how we could avoid them.

Cloud

• Dependency Injection and ILogger in Azure Functions (Rory Primrose) - Nice post that explains how to do logging with ILogger in Azure functions.

Programming

• About Blockchain (Clemens Vasters) - Blockchain; the what, the how, the why and probably all your questions about it are answered in this post.
• Connecting Your Azure Bots with QnA Maker Services (Abhijit Jana) - Nice post to get started with the bot framework and learn how to test your prototype.
• Join Microsoft Build Live for the ultimate digital experience (Microsoft Azure) - It's this week reserve your days!
• Keep VS Code from Becoming an IDE (Ryan Palo) - Great finally! I super happy to see I'm not the only one doing that. Now what we need is a way to quickly change setups... Going from Markdown editor to Azure C# Function.
• VS Code can do that?! (Burke Holland and Sarah Drasner) - Pretty cool little tips and tricks with vscode.

Data

• Power BI Desktop April Feature Summary (Amanda Cofsky) - Check out all the new features from April release.

Miscellaneous

• How Can You Be Sure Someone Has True Leadership Skills? Look for These 2 Rare Signs (Marcel Schwantes) - Interesting post. Its True, we all have our stories.

Books

• The ONE Thing The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results
  
  Authors Gary Keller, Jay Papasan
  That book was fantastic, and I really mean it. It helps on so many points! Professional, personal, social... It must be in your library.
  ISBN: 978-1885167774

Reading Notes #241

Cloud

• Announcing the release of the Azure Usage and Billing Portal (Chris Risner) - I have been waiting long time to get a tool like that. I will definitely clone it this week.
  
• Azure Infographic: Cloud Design Patterns - Wow! A fantastic infographic that shows many different patterns that should be used when developing with Azure.
  
• Azure Search Suggesters: Helping users to find search keywords - Nice demo that shows the power of suggesters and how to implement them.
  
• Create your first botframework bot in Azure! (Robin Osborne) - This post is a nice tutorial that gives a lot of ideas about what you could do with the botfrmework.
  
• Writing simple REST-client for Azure Search (Gunnar Peipman) - Quick demo to show how developing with Azure Search is easy.

Programming

• 5 Impeccable Reasons Node.js is Great for Startups (Keval Padia) - It all makes sense, but I didn't think about it before reading those five reasons.
  
• Visual Studio Code, your new Markdown editor - Another post that affirms how VisualStusio Code is great. It must be true... ;)

Miscellaneous

• 3 Significant Flaws in the Concept of Googliness (Melissa Burns) - Interesting point of view about what look first as good idea that could turn out as bad ideas...
  
• New Microsoft and Open Source Partner Community (Openness Team) - Nice ne community that just begins.
  
• The Anti-Meeting Culture (James Whittaker) - Very interesting thoughs about meetings and an even more interesting ways to make them more productive.