Reading Notes #428

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 AD Secured Serverless Cosmos DB from Blazor WebAssembly ( Jeremy Likness) - Great post that really explains how those pieces can work very well together.
• Creating an Azure Function from the Command Line (Jason N. Gaylord) - A nice tutorial that helps us to get started.

Programming

• Multiple Environments in ASP.NET Core (Code Maze) - Nice Asp.Net MVC tutorial.
• ASP.NET Core Series: Blazor (Jeremy Likness, Dan Roth) - Nice video to get started with Blazor.
• Developing on Docker with the new and improved Visual Studio Container Tools (and WSL2) (Scott Hanselman) - A great example that shows how easier it is now to start working with containers on Windows.
• Unit Testing in ASP .NET Core 3.1 (Shahed C) - A nice post that shows how to get started with xUnit the voted most popular test framework.

Miscellaneous

• APIs in the 2020s Panel (.NET Rocks!) - A virtual panel of awesome speakers that talked about API, REST, GraphQL, oData and so more. Lovely episode.
• 471: How to Say No Without Saying No, with Lois Frankel (Coaching for Leaders) - Saying No... being open. Really interesting topic. I put Lois Frankel: Nice Girls Don’t Speak Up or Stand Out in my to read list, that book maybe written for women in mind, but I think it is really interesting.
• Leveraging Our Emotional Goals (Developer Tea) - An interesting episode that talk about goals and what we need to do (or not) to achieved them.
• 203: Updating Open Source Projects (https://castbox.fm/episode/203%3A-Updating-Open-Source-Projects-id2117504-id267802246) - As I just create my first version in one of my open-source project I found the topic more than interesting... Thank you, great show.

Miscellaneous

• 20 productivity tools for the Linux terminal (Alan Smithee) - Cool app to try for our terminal.
• How to Stop Windows 10 Updates (5 Methods) (Mohammed Siddiqui) - I think you should only prevent auto-update when you really know what you are doing. Updates are easy to forget and therefore your PC could be at risk. That said, sometime it could really be a must.5misc.windows.update]
• Mirroring your Presence Status from the Microsoft Graph in Teams to LIFX or Hue bias lighting (Scott Hanselman) - Did this post just created new needs?! And you should check the keynote video linked to this post it was really a good one.

Books

  The Impossible First: From Fire to Ice—Crossing Antarctica Alone

  Author: Colin O'Brady

  An incredible adventure yes around the globe, but more important over the personal limits. I found this book very inspiring. I felt following him across the Antarctica... In the blizzard or in those deep moment. Great memoir, great adventure.

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Reading Notes #421

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. Enjoy!

Programming

• Running ASP.NET Core Apps on a Synology NAS with Docker (Jason Roberts) - Cool project to leverage your NAS to his max potential.

• Git Visualized: Forked a Repo, Now The Original Has More Commits (Saqib Ameen) - A nice little gem... Commun scenario that we all at one point struggle with.

• Add Discord Notifications to ASP.NET Core Apps (Steve Smith) - Really nice post that shows us how to use GitHub actions and Csharp to push info into Discord. I need to try something like that someday....

• How I Got My Website to Load in 1 Second (Jeremy Morgan) - An interesting story about a migration and some optimization choices.

• Top 3 Blazor Extensions for Visual Studio Code -- Visual Studio Magazine (David Ramel) - Nice extensions that definitely deserve our attention.

• Try gh, GitHub's new CLI (John Papa) - Oh, that's really nice I like that. I find it funny that t should like you just got a hit in the chest. However, it looks powerful enough to cut your breath... so it probably deserves it.

• Use SimpleSQL from Github pages (Simone Mosciatti) - That's kind of really cool. It gives me a few ideas...

• Using Entity Framework in a Blazor Server Application (David Grace) - This post shares two nice solutions for a recurring error with EF Core.

Podcasts

• Internet Legend Hank Green! Founder of VidCon, Vlogbrothers and His Production (That Creative Life) - Strangely I didn't know much about this guest... What a pleasant discovery!

• How to Succeed In Building Developer Tooling with Peter Pezaris (Software Engineering Unlocked) - Don't blink, don't even blink. Not sure if it really apply when you listen to podcast, but this episode was so packed of great content. I really like the open discussion. An awesome show.

• 0241 - Etienne Tremblay - GitHub Actions (Visual Studio Talk Show) - Great episode that compare, discuss, and speculate with GitHub Actions and Azure DevOps. It's in French. I miss you guys it's been too long... Great show.

Miscellaneous

• Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 19603 (Brandon LeBlanc) - Nice.... Are you on a developer's ring?

• How I Manage and Plan Tasks as a Remote Worker (Thomas Maurer) - It's very interesting to see how others are doing, and the kind of tools they are using..Even better when it's your colleague.

• Using Certificates from Azure Key Vault in ASP.NET Core (Damien Bowden) - An interesting post that leverages keyvault with Identity server.

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Reading Notes #418

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. Enjoy!

Cloud

• How to live-stream meetups on Twitch without any special equipment (Alex Casalboni) - Really cool experimentation and ideas using AWS cloud.

• Run Azure PowerShell in a Docker Container (Thomas Maurer) - Really useful tips to use different versions of PowerShell without having to install them.

Programming

• How to migrate an ASP.NET MVC app from .NET Core 2.2 to .NET Core 3.1 (Claudio Bernasconi) - This is a good step by step tutorial for a migration.

• EF Core 5.0: Using ToQueryString() method to translate LINQ query to SQL (Gunnar Peipman) - Nice little and cool feature coming up in the next version.

• How to create better code using Domain-Driven Design - Software House Altkom Software & Consulting (null) - A really interesting and complete article that explains it all.

• Introducing the New Pull Request Experience for Azure Repos | Azure DevOps Blog (Apeksha Awasthi) - Wonderful PR used to be a GitHub only feature... Really happy to see that it is now also present on Azure DevOps Repos.

• WSL2 will be generally available in Windows 10, version 2004 | Windows Command Line (Craig Loewen) - WSL2 is the next best thing I install on my PC since Win10 and used with the new Docker for Windows... It's fantastic

Shameless plug

• How to know how much your application is consuming on Azure (Frank Boucher) - Great post and video in both French and English that explains how to plan, visualize and monitor the cost of your applications in the cloud. And there is also a great MS Learn Azure Cost Management module.

Podcasts

• Des fonctions courtes, qui font une chose (Les Semi-Colons) - First time for me listening to this podcast, third time for them. A very interesting podcast in "Canadian French". They are passing through the book Clean Code of Robert C. Martin. This episode was about chapter 3.

• vygl - Le balado Ep.17 (vygl) - Great podcast in French. It was my first try and I really liked it. We can ear the experience of the speaker in their voice but also by the quality of this audio.

• Episode 14: What developers should know about security with Troy Hunt (Software Engineering Unlocked) - Okay, I know I've been a big fan of Troy for years, but this podcast is an incredibly interesting interview.

Miscellaneous

• An Update on the MSDN and TechNet Migration to docs.microsoft.com (Jeff Sandquist) - It was looking mostly like an impossible mission, but with a lot of work, it is really incredible the things that can be achieved. This post shares the status of the migration of each section.

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Reading Notes #416

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. Enjoy!

Cloud

• ASP.NET Core Apps Observability (Francisco) - A great post that shares, and explains how to implement logs, traces, and metrics in modern application.

• Azure Cost Management + Billing updates – February 2020 (Michael Flanakin) - Wow, an incredible update on all front. New features, new PowerBi app, new APIs, and so much more.

• Durable Functions Upgrade Strategies (Mark Heath) - A real gold mine of information about best practices when migrating. Of course great when migrating durable functions, but also true for any services.

Programming

• How to set up a tab profile in Windows Terminal to automatically SSH into a Linux box - Scott Hanselman (Scott Hanselman) - If you've been hacking or just copy-pasting config without understanding to mutch, this post will explain how to do you own version.

• Announcing PowerShell 7.0 (Joey) - That awesome post will explain what's in PowerShell 7 and why we should care... Because yes... we should.

• Docker Desktop for Windows Home is here! - Docker Blog (Ben De St Paer-Gotch) - Fantastic news! And so easy to install. Lovely.

• How to merge a pull request 🔥🔥🔥 (Steve Belovarich) - Interesting post that shares some best practices when merging.

Podcast

• Starting a profitable business in six weeks with Courtland Allen (Software Engineering Unlocked) - A really interesting discussion about success in tech. All the work that it required, but also the timing, and the people you keep around you in the journey.

• #28: Frank Boucher - Live Stream Coding (The Solo Coder Podcast) - Shameless plug... But a good episode nevertheless.

• #361: The Generosity of Scars with Scott Mann (The EntreLeadership Podcast) - First when I eared the guess was a military I thought it will be full of war references... But no! This episode is all about human. Our self, are we feel alone and strangely the fact that we are not. Great episode and I really liked Scott Mann verbs.

• How to Start and Grow A Podcast That Gets Listeners - Twitch Advice (Stream Coach: Twitch Stream Tips) - I like how Ashley treats her topics. She does it in a different way. In my journey to learn about how to provide great streaming content, this episode was a nice complement.

Book

The Infinite Game 

by: Simon Sinek

 I really enjoyed this book. This book gave me vocabulary. It was putting words on ideas, explaining clearly some feelings that I wasn't able to express. Like when you know something is good or bad, but that you can explain why. It's less impressive than Start with Why, but definitely, something to read.

 

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 #411

Cloud

• Azure CLI Kung-Fu Tips and Tricks (Dan Patrick) - A true story for a real warrior... This post explains how a well done Azure CLI script can save you in hard conditions.

• How to Reduce the Costs of your Azure IaaS VMs (Thomas Maurer) - Amazing post that will help us to migrate and/or optimize our virtual machine usage in the cloud.

Programming

• Blazor WebAssembly 3.2.0 Preview 1 release now available (Daniel Roth) - Oooooh, it's coming. New version and big update for the .Net Core WebAssembly. Have fun!

• Getting Started with Visual Studio Online – Cloud IDE (Chris Pietschmann) - Announced in May it's already there and so nice to be able to work with VSOnline that is ( this time ;) f a real Visual Studio but in the cloud.

• Trying out Container Tools in Visual Studio 2019 (Scott Hanseleman) - An interesting post that shows us all the great features packed into the new update of the container tool inside VsStudio 2019. So powerful.

Podcast

• Done playing Microsoft's corporate game (Software Engineering Unlocked) - Great episode with the lovely Suz (aka: noopkat) talking about her roles and experience to different enterprises.

• John Sonmez - Becoming a Finisher, Part 2 (The Solo Coder Podcast) - Second part of the interview with the very prolific John. Once more the episode is very interesting.

Reading Notes #403

Every week, I publish my reading notes. Those are the articles, blog posts, podcast episodes, and books that catch my interest and that I found interesting. It's a mix of the actuality and what I was looking for.

The suggestion of the week

• Azure Cost Management updates – November 2019 | Blog | Microsoft Azure (Michael Flanakin) - This is great news. Finally also available for CSPs learn more about it in this post and there also a link to the Ignite recorded session video.

Cloud

• Deploying Containerized Azure Functions with Terraform (Jason) - Nice quick tutorial to avoid deploying a "zip file".

• Tip 236 - Deploy your web app in Windows Containers on Azure App Service | Azure Tips and Tricks (Michael Crump) - Great and easy way to get started with containers using Visual Studio

• Using Azure File Storage as Container Volume Mounts in App Services | (Michael Jolley) - A nice piece of information and so useful! Every one needs volumes...

Programming

• ASP.NET Core updates in .NET Core 3.1 (Sourabh Shirhatti) - I'm very excited about this 3.1 version.I'm not sure why maybe it's because it is the long-time support (LTS). Nevertheless, I will update all my projects.

• Working with Linux and Windows Containers simultaneously on Docker Desktop (Mark Heath) - A very and I mean VERY interesting post that proof that it is possible to run containers with mix OS from Win10 without any fancy or preview features.

Miscellaneous

• Use Google Sheets to translate faster (Robin Kretzschmar) - Woo! That's pretty cool. Automatic translation is never the best but this is very convenient.

• 7 Dangers of Micromanagement ( Jack Wallen) - Nice post to help you give the best version of yourself. (Note it's now 6, but it was 7 when I read it)

• Defragmenting your Calendar and your Outlook (Scott Hanselman) - Time management is hard...Timeboxing, Pomodoro, no meeting, short meetings... What's your thoughts?

Books

Build Your Dream Stream

Ashley

Great book with many very interesting ideas.Not the same things that we ear elsewhere, or if it is, it's in very different words.

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Reading Notes #399

Cloud

• Azure DevOps Roadmap update for 2019 Q4 (Gloridel Morales) - Since the multi-stage pipeline launch in May, the team as been listening to his community. In this post learn more about what they have been working on and what is their roadmap.

Programming

• Azure DevOps - Docker Release Pipeline (Jeffrey Chilberto ) - A nice and simple tutorial that shows the best practices. Fantastic!

• Code Comments (Donn Felker) - Very smart idea! I'm staring using that rule right away.
• Microservices Fundamentals (Mark Heath) - New course on Pluralsight about an indeed challenging topic. This post shares the plan of that Microservices course.
• Stop Waiting! Start using Async and Await! (Simon Hawe) - Learn the power of async in this excellent post. The example may be in Python the idea is the same however language we are using.

Miscellaneous

• How to Authorize Users in Blazor Declaratively -- Visual Studio Magazine (Peter Vogel) - Great article that explains how authentication could by manage with Blazor.
• What’s in my bag for Microsoft Ignite 2019 (Thomas Maurer) - As I'm packing my own bag, going to Ignite for the first time it's interesting to see what others bring... (Note to myself next time don't leave at home your network cable adapter)

Books

Superfans: The Easy Way to Stand Out, Grow Your Tribe, And Build a Successful Business

Author: Pat Flynn

I really like this book, and planning to read it again soon. I like the way things are simply explained. Like if you deconstructed a situation and then re-building it. It felt authentic and true. It's nothing transcending, but the way it is explained is great.




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Reading Notes #396

Suggestion of the week

• The one who created languages (Anne-Laure Civeyrac) - Fantastic article and video. It's a must.

• What's the difference between a console, a terminal, and a shell? (Scott Hanselman) - Fantastic post short and clear. It's so simple, yet could still be confusing at the same time. Well, until you read this post.

Programming

• Now is the time to make a fresh new Windows Terminal profiles.json (Scott Hanselman) - I have never been so excited about a terminal. But this one wants to do things right, option and flexibility without being too complex to use and setup.

• Blazor Server in .NET Core 3.0 scenarios and performance (Daniel Ruth) - Great post that explains which version of Blazor could be used in different scenarios and when it better to use something else.

• ASP.NET Core and Blazor updates in .NET Core 3.0 Release Candidate 1 (Daniel Ruth) - Wonderful! The release candidate is already available.

• How to build with Cake on Linux using Cake.CoreCLR or the Cake global tool (Andrew Lock) - Great post playing with .Net Core on the Linux side...does v3.0 will have an impact...

• Run an External Executable in ASP.NET Core (Changhui Xu) - An interesting post, very clear.

• Visual Studio Remotes: Simplifying developer environments (Martin Moxon) - If you didn't try yet the remote feature of VSCode, read this post and give it a try. It's a game-changing feature.

Miscellaneous

• Runtime binding with Azure Functions (Craig Shoemaker) - Great post that goes over the Azure Function binding.

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Reading Notes #394

Suggestion of the week

• How the .NET Team uses Azure Pipelines to produce Docker Images (Matt Thalman) - Woaaah! I knew there were many docker images, but I didn't think it was that much. It's Incredibly interesting to read everything that is in place to do all those images...automatically.

Cloud

• Announcing the Azure Repos app for Slack (Karthik RG) - Nice features.

Programming

• ASP.NET Core and Blazor updates in .NET Core 3.0 Preview 9 (Daniel Ruth) - Already Preview 9 with a ton of upgrades. This team is sick! Seriously, awesome work.

• Containerising a Blazor WebAssembly App (Chris Sainty) - Once more Docker is displayed as a very useful development tool.

• Git Graph Visualizes Branches in VS Code for Free (Steve Smith) - There so many great extension for VSCode, the community is amazing.

• Moving from jQuery to Vue (Shawn Wildermuth) - An interesting post that explains Vue and gives references from a jQuery user...like me.

Reading Notes #392

The suggestion of the week

• Episode 44 - Microsoft Ignite, Call for Content, and developer focus with Anna Chu (Jimmy and Jessica) - Excellent episode! Learn all you should know about Microsoft Ignite 2019, how to participate, what to expect... All of it.

Cloud

• Andrew Connell's Blog (Andrew Connell) - This nice post is the second of a series of three. It explains how to do every step but also why the author decided to do that.

Programming

• A Start-To-Finish Guide to Docker for .NET (Daniel Hilgarth) - This is a great docker introduction, yes focusing on .Net usage... But still really good for all.
• Highlights from Git 2.23 ( Taylor Blau) - This was the first time I notice an update of git... It is very intriguing to see such a powerful tool evolving and see some experimental feature. It's a long post, but totally worth it.
• Why you should think twice about contributing to Open Source (Rafiullah Hamedy) - Contributing to an opensource project is both frightening and rewarding. Nice post that could help you to start in a better position.

Miscellaneous

• How to Setup an Ubuntu Linux VM in Azure with Remote Desktop (RDP) Access (Chris Pietschmann) - This post is a nice walkthrough to set-up our own VM.

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Reading Notes #391

Suggestion of the week

• How to Use Github Professionally (Aaron Stannard) - This post is great! Tons of information and best practices (with an explanation of why its a best practice).

• Please, everyone, put your entire development environment in Github (Burke Holland) - OMG! It is sooooo simple! I was already using containers to develop, but didn't know VSCode could manage that for me! And make it easily reproducible!

Cloud

• The Azure Cloud Shell Connector in Windows Terminal | Windows Command Line Tools For Developers (Pankaj Bhojwani) - Pure happiness.

Programming

• 5 Things to Try with Docker Desktop WSL 2 Tech Preview - Docker Blog (Ben De St Paer-Gotch) - So cool...
• 10 Git Tricks to Save Your Time and Sanity (Jacob Herrington) - Really useful (and even cool) git commands. Try them you'll see what I mean.
• ASP.NET Core and Blazor updates in .NET Core 3.0 Preview 8 (Sourabh Shirhatti) - Nice update. Be aware of a few breaking changes...but it's all for the best.
• Build Data-Driven Web Apps Blazing Fast with Blazor and OData ( Jeremy Likness) - This post is a great tutorial that explains how to build a complete todo list use that tech. Really cool.
• Developing Docker-Powered Applications on Windows with WSL 2 - Docker Blog (Antonis Kalipetis) - That new Docker desktop version looks very promising
• GitKraken & Glo Boards Now Support GitHub Actions (Lauren Witte Girard) - Great. Now we only just need the GitHub action...
• Investigating Drag and Drop with Blazor (Chris Sainty) - Interesting share of an experiment.

Books

Living with the Monks: What Turning Off My Phone Taught Me about Happiness, Gratitude, and Focus 

Author: Jesse Itzler

I really enjoyed this book. Yes it's light and funny, but don't get fool, there is a deeper message here. I think Jessy wins his challenge by going into a monastery so we don't have to. We all have what it takes to live a more purposeful life, we just need to pause. Showdown, to go faster, do less to do more... Embrace the silence.



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Reading Notes #387

Cloud

• Announcing preview of Azure Data Share (Mike Flasko) - Looking forward to use this new feature in my project.

Programming

• Intro Guide to Dockerfile Best Practices - Docker Blog (Tibor Vass) - Would it be for a review because you know your way with Docker or to get started, this post is excellent.
• Dependency Injection in ASP.NET Core MVC (Code Maze) - An interesting article introducing an important patern.
• My Personal Git Tricks Cheatsheet (Antonin Januska) - This is a list of awesome tricks and idea for our Git daily usage.
• Using EasyAuth (AppService Authentication) with ASP.NET Core (Maxime Rouiller) - A cool tutorial that explains a workaround to do an easyAuth in .Net Core.

Podcasts

• Methods to Organize Your Learning Process with Lourdes Montano (Scott Hanselman) - Great episode, a few methods, or ideas of organization resonate with me. Definitely interesting.
• How to Use External Storage in Docker (Brett Fisher) - Nice short episode that explains how to think (or when to think) about storage while working with containers.
• Episode 68: The Rise of the Cloud-First Generation with Christina Warren (Corey Quinn) - A very interesting episode. They is no "best way", all path go somewhere and have advantages. As my journey was not straight forward, I totally agree with that.
• #313: 3 Steps to Finding Freedom to Focus (Ken Coleman and Michael Hyatt) - The work-life balance... not an easy thing to answer... I enjoyed this episode exploring, suggesting a way to improve (get closer) to a balance.
• Ubuntu, with Mark Shuttleworth (Craig and Adam) - It was so nice to learn more about Mark Shuttleworth and his projects. Like always... an awesome episode.
• 418: The Way to Nurture New Ideas, with Safi Bahcall (Dave Stachowiak) - Very interesting episode where we learn that there are always multiple sides to a story... And knowing them will change our perception.
• 403: Transition Well Through Your Day, with Gretchen Rubin (Dave Stachowiak) - Doing a little bit of catching up with this podcast, but I'm glad I did! Not only the episode was good but now I have to books that I'm really looking forward to read!
• Which Online Courses are Worth Investing In? (and how do you decide?) (Meredith Marsh - Great question! I then to try to go the source and try/learn it by my self... what do you do?

Books

Dare to Lead: Brave Work. Tough Conversations. Whole Hearts. (Brené Brown) - A nice book. pack with a lot of information. A lot's of stories to emphasize her points, I always like that. It was maybe a little too much cartesian for me... many steps. Or maybe I was not in a good mindset. Good book however.








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Reading Notes #386

Cloud

• Delete your resource groups in parallel using the az group command (Wes MacDonald) - What!? So cool, and efficient.

• Demystifying Azure App Services Plan (Scott Allen) - Very clear and so well explained. I love it.
• Understanding Azure Durable Functions - Part 1: Overview (Jason Roberts) - A nice quick introduction to the durable functions. A series to watched.
• Managing Azure Functions Keys (using the new ARM APIs!) (Mark Heath) - This post shares all the required code to get, list, or change our keys using the new API and some PowerShell.

Programming

• Git is case-sensitive and your filesystem may not be - Weird folder merging on Windows (Scott Hanselman) - A nice tip to know when creating a multi-platform application.
• How YOU can use Nest to build a GraphQL API (Chris Noring) - A pretty cool tutorial that gives us all the code to get started with GraphQL.
• The Top 5 DevOps Automation Tools .NET Developers Should Know (Heather Downing) - So many great tools! Could it be the opportunity to try something new that you were waiting for?
• Azure DevOps Hidden Gems #3 - Pull Request Validation Builds AND Releases (Graham Smith) - Amazing features that I didn't know even existed! A very promising series indeed!

Databases

• Using SQL Server in Docker containers for basic tasks (Michael Jolley) - Stop installing SQL server on your dev machine!? After reading this post you may consider that as a really good idea.

Miscellaneous

• A better way to sell your skills as a developer than just "hire me!" or mass applying (Corey Cleary) - Interesting post that shows the proper way to do things.
• How I Started Existing on the Internet (Ryland G) - An awesome story. Hopefully, it will help those who didn't start yet...
• The Best Book to Read as a Developer (Ryland G) - Looking for something technical to read this summer? Well, this one look interesting.

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Reading Notes #385

Suggestion of the week

• Copying Azure Blobs Between Containers the Quick Way (Mark Heath) - Pretty sure that you will get back to your code after reading this nice short (but packed of awesomeness) post.

Programming

• You can now download the new Open Source Windows Terminal (Scott Hanselman) - Lovely! Downloading it right now!

• 7 Top Reasons for Introducing Technical Debt (Mark Heath) - Excellent post that lists a few reasons, because yah... Sometimes it okay to write less perfect code.

• Adding Reaction Gifs for your Build System and the Windows Terminal (Scott Habselman) - Brilliant post of a funny idea, and if you have a few minutes go check Tyler's stream it was awesome.

• Choosing the Right React Datepicker UI Component (Eric Bishard ) - This post will help you to avoid a few gotchas when selecting your datepicker.

• Docker ❤️ WSL 2 - The Future of Docker Desktop for Windows (Simon Ferquel) - Wow! Very exciting news! This new WLS 2 is getting better every day!

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Reading Notes #381

Suggestion of the week

• Running a Minecraft Server in Azure Container Instances (Mark Heath) - A cool real-life story where Azure Container Instance ACI is very useful.

Cloud

• Automating Azure Container Instances with PowerShell Azure Functions (Mark Heath) - Cool schedule Azure functions demo with PowerShell.
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  Deploy a scalable API and Backend with Serverless, Express, and Node.js (Bryan Killian) - A nice tutorial that explains how to build efficient APIs using lambda.

Programming

• Docker - from the beginning, Part IV (Chris Noring) - Part 4 of 5 this series is still a great read. This one shows the transition to docker compose.
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  Postman 7.1: Manage your APIs within Postman (Nikita) - So many great features are present in the new version. This post is the perfect quick overview.

Miscellaneous

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  Presentation Tips for Technical Talks (Tanya Janca) - This post is filled with great and simple tips that will for sure improve the experience of your attendees and ours.
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  Using The Microsoft Face API to Create Mario Kart “Astrology” (Chloe Condon) - Funny project that leverages the Azure cognitive services and python. How cool is that!

Books

Barking Up the Wrong Tree: The Surprising Science Behind Why Everything You Know About Success Is (Mostly) Wrong 

Author: Eric Barker

Nice book. There is always a good story to make a correlation with his current point. Then it could go in a different direction with another story. All the stories are complementary and are adding layer by layer to the more complex message that is delivered to us. Easy to read, enjoyable from the beginning until the last word.

Reading Notes #380

Suggestion of the week

• Azure Pipeline YAML Templates and Parameters | LINQ to Fail (Aaron Powell) - An awesome post that will save you hours (or days) of trials and errors. A must.

Cloud

• AZIdentity | Getting It Right: Key Vault Access Policies (Matt Small) - Great post that explans how to use keyvault and sets security correctly.
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  Creating a Free Web Site with Elixir and Redis using Docker Compose (Rob Conery) - Great videos continuing our journey in the linux/ azure / docker aventure.
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  Which of the 295,680 platform combinations will you create on Microsoft Azure? (Richard Seroter) - Interesting post that explains why enterprises see the cloud differently and what they are looking at.

Programming

• Containers? Images? An introduction to Docker in Rider (Rachel Appel) - This post shows how well-integrated Rider is to Docker and demo how easy and powerful it is to do side with that setup.
• Visual Studio Code Remote Development may change everything (Scott Hanselman) - So many aaahs and oohs while reading this post. I don't have the insider version installed ... But this might be the reason I needed for.

Miscellaneous

• The Pomodoro Technique and other methods to get more done (with tools to help) (Geoff Stevens) - For new developers or older ones, it is always good to revisit the time tracking or tools to help us get better and more productive... There is almost always something new.

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Reading Notes #379

Cloud

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  An experiment - The Azure Cloud Shell at the command line with AZ SHELL (Scott Hanselman) - Oooooh I love it! I will right now check what are my option and install/ configure one.
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  Auto blogging Jekyll with Logic Apps, ACI Containers and .NET Core (Shayne Boyer) - Great post that explains how we could use Docker in any flow with logic apps. This time it generates blog post.
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  Kubernetes vs Docker: How to Choose (Eric Boersma) - Interesting post that answers to a trending question.
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  Reading Azure Cosmos DB Data In Azure Functions (Jason Roberts) - Nice post that share code snippets for different situations.
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  The Urlist — An application study in Serverless and Azure (Burke Holland) - The tool looks awesome, and this post explains how it was build and gives the reasons why some choice has been made.

Programming

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  REST API Design Best Practices for Parameters and Query String Usage (Kay Plößer) - This is a nice post That explains some of the best practices... Now let's get back to the design table of our last API and see what is missing.
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  5 Reasons to Containerize Production Windows Apps on Docker Enterprise - Docker Blog (David Friedlander) - If you thought that modernizing your app is mostly impossible, this post is the light at the end of the tunnel, showing you one possibility.
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  Docker from the beginning — part III (Chris Noring) - Third of this docker series. I like how it is not only a happy path but the learning path with the fails and victories.
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  Introducing the Try .NET Global Tool - interactive in-browser documentation and workshop creator (Scott Hanselman) - That look like a very useful tool...

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Reading Notes #378

Cloud

• Getting Started with Azure Cosmos DB and Azure Functions (Jason Roberts) - This is a great tutorial that explains how-to create audit trigger (automatic action on insert or update) using Azure Functions.
• Microsoft’s Satya Nadella Throws the Doors Open Ahead of Build (Lauren Goode) - An excellent summary of the big news and announcements done at build last week. This article also explains why Microsoft is different.

Programming

• Announcing WSL 2 (Craig Loewen) - Awesome news, and not only for the docker part :).
• A new Console for Windows - It's the open source Windows Terminal (Scott Hanselman) - This new terminal look so sick! The code is already available to play with, in GitHub.Docker from the beginning - Part II (Chris Noring) - I really enjoy this series on Docker. This second part improves the initial solution by showing how to leverage volume.
• Handling Access Tokens for private APIs in ASP.NET Core (Damien Bod) - Nice post that shows how to make our calls safer and explains how to improve there performance.
• Improve your Dockerfile, best practices (Chris Noring) - A nice quick post about some really easy best practices. It's so simple why would you not follow them.
• Introducing Windows Terminal (Kayla Cinnamon) - The awesome new terminal with a kickass look. Even more, it's an open source project!
• Getting Started with Containers & Clusters (Ben Cane) - A great tutorial to get started with Kubernetes on another platform than Google.

Miscellaneous

• Readability must be your #1 content priority (Katherine Karaus) - Very interesting post that highlights some key points to improve our writing.

Reading Notes #377

Cloud

• Where do you keep credentials for your Lambda functions? (Davide de Paolis) - Nice post that shows the proper way to store our credentials when deploying lamdas.

Programming

• A crash course to the most important Docker concepts and their commands (Chris Noring) - Oooh. That's the first post of what looks like a very promising series on docker. More to come.
  
• Can’t Attend DockerCon 2019? Here are your Top 5 “To Dos” (Suzanne Panoplos) - Or if you are like me... Watch It after... It's waaay better than nothing!
  
• Did I leave the garage door open? A no-code project with Azure IoT Central and the MXChip DevKit (Scott Hanselman) - Wonderful post that proves that we can do simple IoT projects at home that are useful.
  
• It’s a Wrap - Highlights from the DockerCon 2019 Keynote Sessions - Docker Blog (Jenny Fong) - Great way to grab the essentiall and Dig for more from there.
  
• Undo changes in Git - Cheat sheet for git checkout, stash, reset, clean, revert, rebase -i, amend (Michael) - Awesome post that explains how to fix some mistake while using Git. Because like the author says: Git is one of those things you learn progressively.
  
• When npm tells you you're hosed (John Papa) - Nice little tricks here to save us some keystrokes.
  

Miscellaneous

• Create your own course on GitHub Learning Lab (Hector Alfaro) - Wow! That's something that looks interesting... And I have a few ideas.

Books

Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones (James Clear) - An excellent book that is very pleasant to read. I really appreciated the way things are broken in tiny pieces. I don't think this book re-invented the molecular physic, but by cutting, dissecting our habits that way it's hard to think that you can fail. It's easier to get started right now; even starting new habits before finishing the book!






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