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 #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.

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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Reading Notes #430

Cloud

• Introducing live video analytics from Azure Media Services—now in preview | Azure blog and updates | Microsoft Azure (Milan Gada) - Interesting new azure services and IoT.

Programming

• 7 Essential Best Practices to Follow When Adopting a DevOps Model (Gregory Chapman) - A nice reflection about devops and the impact it will have on your teams.

• Easily rename your Git default branch from master to main (Scott Hanselman) - So simple why not doing it!?

• How To Detect Unsupported Browsers Under a Blazor WebAssembly Application? (Wael Kdouh) - Oh I love it. Simple and efficient!

Podcast

• Episode 51 - Extensions, Home automation and Remoulade sauce with Mads Kristensen (Coding After Work Podcast) - And awesome episode with the legend... Creator of so many extensions.

• Testing Blazor Apps with Egil Hansen (.NET Rocks!) - A very interesting episode about a unit testing framework build by the community for Blazor!

• Gerald Undone - MAJOR Gear Talk: Custom PCs, Sony vs Canon and Cinema Cameras (That Creative Life) - Two greate creator met again to talk cameras, laptop, and some much good stuff.

• Red Teaming with Leron Gray (Hanselminutes with Scott Hanselman) - A quite interesting episode about playing the bad guys for the good cause. I enjoyed each second of this episode. I new those them existed, but it's great to learn more about them.

• Baking Bread with Eric Wolfinger (Wild Ideas Worth Living) - I've been doing my bread for probably fifteen years, and just recently start messing around with sourdoughs... I'm not crazy.. Making bread is both simple and complex... and of course so fun.

Miscellaneous

• My Windows Terminal Color Schemes (Thomas Maurer) - Cool windows terminal themes.

• The idea that making code open-source won't cost a company anything (Matt Lacey) - Totally agree maintaining a project open source or not required time and effort... Therefore cost money.

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Reading Notes #429

Suggestion of the week

• Git Tag Based Released Process Using GitHub Actions (Calvin A. Allen) - An awesome tutorial to deploy automatically IF certain conditions are met. Plus we got the yaml file.

Cloud

• Building an Azure Static Web App With GraphQL | LINQ to Fail (Aaron Powell) - Oh! Interesting... Reading this you probably, like me, missed the live version. But there is always the video on demand.

Programming

• Download a whole YouTube Playlist at one go - DEV Community 👩‍💻👨‍💻 (Trideep Barik) - Nice little python tutorial to automate tasks.

• GitKraken Git GUI How-To: Add & Remove Files (Calvin A. Allen) - Nice post that describes some very useful operation on git using the graphic interface provided by Git Kraken.

• Login and use an ASP.NET Core API with Azure AD Auth and user access tokens (Damien Bowden) - Nice tutorial to use Azure AD between an Asp.Net App and an API.

• OAuth 2.0 with GitHub in ASP.NET Core - Simple Talk (Diogo Souza) - A nice tutorial that guides us in a complex world.

• Remote Debugging .NET Containers (Karol Deland) - A nice tutorial that explains clearly first the difference between remote and local debugging and then explains how to do it.

• Using MongoDB With ASP.NET Core Web API (Munib Butt) - A great tutorial from .Net Core to Mongo in a snap

Podcast

• Social Friendships and Internet Creativity with Cassidy Williams (Hanselminutes with Scott Hanselman) - A refreshing episode, simple and true. Isn't it the base of a real friendship?!

• 472: How to Run an Online Meeting, with Bonni Stachowiak (Coaching for Leaders) - I'm always surprised and a bit disappointed when I realize that this topic or those best practices are not well known. An episode to share :)

Miscellaneous

• Screen Sharing with an Ultrawide Monitor (Kenny Lowe) - Really interesting post.As I think about getting a new screen and heard bad experiences sharing ultrawide screens this look like a nice solution.

Book

Vlog Like a Boss - How to Kill It Online with Video Blogging

Author: Amy Schmittauer Landino

An interesting book that shares the best practices about making videos today. How to plan, record, edit... What to do and not do. A quick, direct to the point and complete tutorial to get started. This book was done like today's videos.

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Reading Notes #427

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. As you will quickly see This week is heavily tinted by the Microsoft Build event. I still have tons of videos to watch since I was was busy monitoring the chat during most of the performances.

You think you may have interesting content, share it!

Cloud

• 10 Tips for Building and Deploying Hugo Websites on Azure Static Web Apps (Jason Hand) - A very nice blog post that shares tons of gotcha and will make you save a ton of time.

• Deploy Blazor WebAssembly apps to Azure Static Web Apps (Christopher Maneu) - That seems really cool and easy.... Very interesting.

• Getting Started with Azure Static Web Apps (Dan Wahlin) - Another great post that helps us to get started with the new SWA announced earlier this week.

• I Built a Simple Serverless Storage Solution (Eldad Bercovici) - Pretty cool personal project and definitely useful.

• Static Web Apps - First Look (John Papa) - Awesome get started blog post about the new SWA.

Programming

• Blazor WebAssembly 3.2.0 now available | ASP.NET Blog (Daniel Roth) - Finally here, I mean officially since it was available for many months. It's now more than ever time to start playing.

• Using Visual Studio Codespaces with .NET Core | .NET Blog ( Tim Heuer) - Codespace can simplify so much your dev or testing experience!

Podcast

• Chocolatey with Rob Reynolds (.NET Rocks!) - Awesome episode talking about all the good and the great of Chocolatey that awesome package manager.

• A path to technical leadership with Keavy McMinn (Hanselminutes with Scott Hanselman) - Because the most interesting path are more then often not the straight one... Great talk about the choice we make in our lives...

• #41: Scott Hanselman - A Few Minutes of Wisdom and Technology [S02-E20] (The Solo Coder Podcast) - Just great. Yeah, listen to it... I just wish it was longer ;p

Miscellaneous

• What’s New in Microsoft Teams | Build Edition 2020 - A lot of nice new features added to Teams. Looking forward to try them.

• Windows PowerToys FancyZones is the essential window manager for Windows 10 (Scott Hanselman) - In this short post Scott gives more details about how he was managing his windows during MS Build and how you can also do it.

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Reading Notes #425

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

• Configuring Azure Services and emulators using Visual Studio (Angelos Petropoulos) - Pretty nice feature coming up our way in Visual Studio.

Programming

• New from Satellite 2020: GitHub Codespaces, GitHub Discussions, securing code in private repositories, and more (Shanku Niyogi) - If like me you missed this amazing event, this post is a nice recap.
• All about Github Satellite 2020 - Codespaces, Discussions & More (Saad) - Another great summary of the GitHub event.Nice.
• Is Asynchronous The Best Way To Go in ASP.NET Core? (David Grace) - Awesome post that explains very clearly the difference between the two types of processes.
• Working with GitHub Issues in Visual Studio Code ( Alex Ross) - A very interesting extension. I will need to check that one.

Shameless Plugs

• How to make your deployment simple and flexible with nested Azure Resource Manager (ARM) template (Frank Boucher) - Short video that explains how you can deploy all the pieces of a solution individually, or altogether without writing more deployment. They're also a blog post if you prefer, all links are in the description. 

Podcast

• 070: Securing DevOps in the Cloud (CloudSkills.fm) - Great episode talking about security yes but also best practices and to change mindsets. Love it.
• Running a successful dev shop with Martin Gratzer (Software Engineering Unlocked) - This show is one of my new favorites. Always interesting and very dynamic. This time it was about the hard reality of "dev shop". Very interesting, so true!
• The Overreaction Paradox (Developer Tea) - I never thought about it that way... But it's so true. Are we celebrating the wrong things?
• #34: Michael Jolley - The Fresh Prince of Live Coding [S02-E13] (The Solo Coder Podcast) - Okay, I'm a total fanboy of Michael... but how can you resist?! If you feel the passion inside you... Don't way, share, create, enjoy! Another great episode.
• 197: I Need a Website (Merge Conflict) - They got me 50% of the time... I think they are talking to me: 'Frank we are ....'. Nice episode sharing some dreams about a perfect tool (aka website) for apps developers.

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Reading Notes #424

Suggestion of the week

• Microsoft Build 2020 registration is not only open, it's FREE, it's LIVE, it's VIRTUAL, and it is all FOR YOU (Scott Hanselman) - Amazing news right?! Who doesn't needs some good news... I will see you there!

Cloud

• Microsoft’s Making Azure AD SSO “Free” (Brad Sams ) - That's an excellent news Azure Active Directory for everyone!

Programming

• Blazor WebAssembly 3.2.0 Release Candidate now available (Daniel Ruth) - We are getting closer now... I didn't have the time to try the last preview!
• Announcing Entity Framework Core 5.0 Preview 3 | .NET Blog (Jeremy Likness) - Awesome I'm looking forward to trying the final version. But in the meantime... why not try it.
• Blazor - Changing the title without JavaScript (Jimmy Engström) - A nice tutorial that shows how to go over certain boundaries in Blazor.
• Clean Coding in C# - Part I (Calvin A. Allen) - A great little post packed with 200% of wisdom.
• How to Integrate Unit Testing with ASP.NET Core 3.1 (Vijayaraj Angappan) - A very clear tutorial that explains how to use Moq and NUnit 2 great tools.
• Markdown .NET Core Library (Jason N. Gaylord) - That looks nice! And it's in .Net!
• Tips, tricks, hacks, and secrets from Alyson La (Alyson La) - A nice little list of pro tips...perfect to get started, or push forward if you are already a git user.

Podcasts

• 465: How to Lead a Virtual Team, with Susan Gerke (Coaching for Leaders) - Nice show. It doesn't matter if you are a manager or just that you work in a remote team, there nice tips.

Miscellaneous

• Visual Studio Codespaces (Nik Molnar) - I really like the new name I think it says more about what it is. And seriously how can I not like the new price! Less than 2$/day for a machine!

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 #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 #419

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!

Suggestion of the week

• Approval Workflows With GitHub Actions (Aaron Powell) - Wow! That's a very clever and impressive way to have step flow in GitHub. All the details are in the post if you would like to create your own.

Cloud

• How to use Azure App Service managed certificates (Michael Crump) - It's that simple. A few clicks and you will; have https.

Programming

• Using GitHub Actions to deploy a .Net Web App (Gregor Suttie) - A nice tutorial to learn how to deploy a Hugo website.
• Blazor WebAssembly 3.2.0 Preview 3 release now available (Daniel Ruth) - OMG! Super excited about all those new features as they will all help me in a current project I'm working on...
• Creating an event-driven architecture out of existing, non-event-driven systems (Richard Seroter) - An interesting post that explains the different options to go event-driven.
• GitHub with Azure DevOps | Premier Developer (GitHub with Azure DevOps) - Very interesting post that explains al the benefits of using this mixt, and why an enterprise would be interested to do that.

Podcasts

• The Joy of making with LEGO Master and Cosplaying Engineer Amie DD (Hanselminutes with Scott Hanselman) - A delicious episode and BTW I watch Lego master because of that.
• #31: Julie Lerman - Software Coach, Writer & Speaker (The Solo Coder Podcast) - I was really looking forward to listen to this interview. Julie is an extraordinary person and an amazing communicator.
• 193: UI Is Messy (Merge Conflict) - I, once more, had a nice moment listening to that discussion/ argumentation about different patterns pros and cons.

Miscellaneous

• Bond At A Distance With The Remote Team Cooking Challenge (Alexia) - We are so creative when we want. Super.

Reading Notes #413

Cloud

• Calling an Azure Signalr Instance from an Azure function (pcmichaels) - This is a nice tutorial to show how to connect different services together.
• Updating to Azure Functions v3 in Visual Studio (Brandon Minnick) - Nice quick post that shows how easy it is to start using the new version.
• Using Azure Functions Durable HTTP APIs (Mark Heath) - This post explains well how to use this new feature in the durable functions.

Programming

• Announcing .NET Interactive - Try .NET includes .NET Notebooks and more (Scott Hanselman) - This .Net interactive is really interesting.
• GitHub Enterprise is now free through Microsoft for Startups (Kelly Stirman) - This is fantastic news and a great opportunity for startups. If you are a startup, check out this program!
• It's time for you to install Windows Terminal (Scott Hanselman) - Definitely an incredible tool this Windows Terminal. Try it you will see. And the thing I like is it never stops to amaze me with new features.
• Manage secrets and more with the GitHub Actions API (Chris Patterson) - New API, new possibility with the runner... This is really interesting... I need to try that.
• Reading RSS Feeds With .NET Core (Nong Vang) - I don't know why I always thought it was complicated to parse an RSS feed. A very nice quick tutorial.
• VS Code Integration with GitHub and Azure (Robert Green, Aaron Powell) - A fantastic 10 minutes video that shows the most frequent scenarios of developers using GitHub and how easy it is with VSCode.

Miscellaneous

• Surviving as a remote tech employee with Jayson J. Phillips | Hanselminutes - Fresh Talk and Tech for Developers (Scott Hanselman, Jayson J. Phillips) - As a full-time remote worker for the past 6-7 years, I can easily identify myself in this podcast episode. And you gave me some ideas that I didn't think about... Awesome!
• Your Todo application is too complex or not complex enough (Scott Hanselman) - Learning by reading code is great, but we need some sources. Well in this post you will find a GitHub repo that is a gold mine.

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Reading Notes #408

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

• Deploying Azure Functions With Github Actions | LINQ to Fail (Aaron Powell) - Fantastic post that shows how with only a few lines of code you can auto-deploy to Azure your serverless components.

• How to Prepare for a Successful Cloud Migration (Aaron Woods) - This post list the questions we should ask ourselves before migrating. This will definitely help to reduce the bumps of a migration.

Programming

• Future Ready Blazor Application Architecture (S.Ravi Kumar) - Great tutorial that explains how to build our own component and start to reuse code.

• How to Add Infinite Scrolling to Your React App (John Au-Yeung) - Nice react tutorial for an optimized webpage.

• Solving Sudoku with backtracking : Algorithms for the masses (Julian M Bucknall) - Interesting post to read about code patterns applied to something we all know... Sudoku.

Miscellaneous

• Mastering the all-remote environment: My top 5 challenges and solutions - A great post. That really list the challenges you can encounter as a remote worker with there solutions, or suggestions to ease them.

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Reading Notes #405

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. This one is the last of 2019!

Cloud

• Implementing GitHub Actions for an Azure Static Website (Aaron Powell) - An excellent tutorial that explains how to deploy a static website, build with Hugo, using the GitHub Actions.

Programming

• User Secrets in Docker-based .NET Core Worker Applications (Jimmy Bogard) - Nice gotcha.

• Awesome List of Top ASP.NET Core-Based Open-Source Application Projects (Bharat Dwarkani) - A nice list of projects to get inspired, or learn a few things.

• Upgrading the Blazor HTML Table with FlexGrid ( Alvaro Rivoir) - This is a great tutorial that explains very clearly step by step how to replace the grid in the default Asp.Net Core project.

Miscellaneous

• Advice to my 20 year old self (Scott Hanselman) - An Interesting post. But to be honest, the more I think about it the less I would spoil things. So as good or bad as it sounds, my advice would probably just be something like thrust yourself, you'll be fine.

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Reading Notes #404

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.

Cloud

• Azure Mystery Mansion - Microsoft in Business Blogs (Em Lazer-Walker) - Very interesting post. As I'm writing myself a text-based adventure game(just for fun) it's interesting to see the different approaches and tools available.

• Azure DevOps Hidden Gems #8 - Turn Azure Board Queries into Dashboard Chart Items (Graham Smith) - Useful and simple tutorial to build great dashboards in Azure Devops.

Programming

• Updating an ASP.NET Core 2.2 Web Site to .NET Core 3.1 LTS (Scott Hanselman) - Great tutorial that shows us a few things to check when migrating... Because of its time.

Podcasts

• Stream Coach - How hard should you HUSTLE with Sara Dietschy - Twitch Tips and Advice (Ashnichrist) - Two very smart women Sara and Ashnichrist discuss about that "luck"... that is is in fact hard work. An excellent episode, very motivating. Looking forward to your the next episode on both podcasts.

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Reading Notes #401

Cloud

• Run Azure Cloud Shell in Windows Admin Center (Thomas Maurer) - Nice tutorial and demo video to enable Cloud Shell.
• Serverless HTTP With Durable Functions ( Jeremy Likness) - Great post that shows, with code examples, the new functionalities for the Durable Functions.

Programming

• ASP.NET Core 3.0 MVC Secure Authentication | Okta Developer (Lee Brandt) - Nice tutorial to add authentication to an existing .Net Core App.
• Custom Terminals and User Interface (UI) in Windows Terminal (Jeremy Likness) - Learn how to get and customize your Windows Terminal in this quick post.
• GitHub Actions for Azure is now generally available (Usha Narayanabhatta) - Fantastic news..and perfect timing... At least for me!
• GitHub Learning Path (Premier Developer) - Nice source of info to get started or... Get better.
• What is Blazor? A Tutorial on Building Web Apps with Authentication (Andrea Chiarelli) - Great article that describes in detail how to create a simple blazor app with authentification.

Miscellaneous

• Easily move WSL distributions between Windows 10 machines with import and export! (Scott Hanselman) - First I was Whaaat!? Very simple yet useful feature no need now do redo all your customization on all your computer...just export and import.

Reading Notes #397

Suggestion of the week

• Visual Studio for Nintendo Switch? - FUZE4 Nintendo Switch is an amazing coding app (Scott Hanselman) - Whaaat?! If someone in your entourage or a citizen of your life ( like Scott says) owns a Nintendo switch...you MUST read this post.

Cloud

• SSL certificates management using Lets Encrypt, Azure Automation and Web Apps (Dominique St-Amand ) - Security, of course. Automatically ... I'm in! This post explains how to automate your renewing process.
• Serverless Deployment Best Practices (Fernando Medina Corey) - A nice post that shows some of the best practices for serverless and how AWS implements them.

Programming

• How partners like GitKraken use GitHub Actions (Marc Campbell) - So cool to see what people are doing with the GitHub Actions.
• How to make ASP.NET Core compile modified views (Gunnar Peipman) - Nice update of Asp.net core... Following the best practices
• How to make a pretty prompt in Windows Terminal with Powerline, Nerd Fonts, Cascadia Code, WSL, and oh-my-posh (Scott Hanselman) - It's great to have a step by step on how to install it. Even if the documentation is well done on Github, it could be confusing to set everything up altogether.
• Why jQuery is Obsolete and Time to Stop Using It (Chris Love) - Great post. I was a big user of jQuery, and these days I do less front end stuff, so it is nice to see how things have evolved and to understand the impact jQuery had.
• Getting Started with Git (Sarah Lean) - Great post that explains the basic functionalities of Git.

Miscellaneous

• Video Interview: Between Two Nerds ( Steve Carroll & Scott Hanselman) - Really cool and interesting video interview.

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