Reading Notes #496

Good Monday, 

time to 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. 

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Cloud

• Is Serverless Just a Stopover for Event-Driven Architecture? (Mark Hinkle) - An interesting post. I'm still using many serverless services as one year ago... Am I marginal? Is there a trend that I did see (that more like it)?

Programming

• A Full-Stack Web App Using Blazor WebAssembly and GraphQL: Part 2 (Ankit Sharma) - This second post is in a series where there build a real-life type of application. Really interesting to see all pieces go together (have you ever noticed are package names are funny?). Nice work.

• Blazor Custom Components (John Peters) - Nice series to learn how to write reusable code.

• Testing ASP.NET Core 6 Apps (Khalid Abuhakmeh) - A nice quick tutorial on how to do unit tests. Wonderful.

• Upgrading an ASP.NET Core Web API Project to .NET 6 (Christian Nagel) - This post is not about changing the version of the package, but how to use all those features to make you more productive with fewer lines of code.

Podcasts

• Modern Code Generation with Jordan Adler (Hanselminutes with Scott Hanselman) - Very interesting discussion about code generation, the different pattern, difficulties, and so much more.

• SPI 551: Why Lying to Yourself Helps You Become More Successful with Marisa Peer (The Smart Passive Income Online Business and Blogging Podcast) - Without falling into the magic thinking, this shows how strong our mind can be. Great episode.

• Make money with open source software (Software Engineering Unlocked) - Open source software is another world: Unknow, different, scary. This week guest shares his experience and story, while transitioning into Open-Source.

• Happiness with Arthur Brooks (A Bit of Optimism) - It's important to love what we do, as in has an huge impact on our level of happiness.

• Greg and Anna McKeown on The Power Of Small Wins (What's Essential) - Lovely episode where Greg's wife Anna joins him to share examples of small wins impact.

~Frank

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 #252

Cloud

• Azure Subscription Migration to CSP (Kirill Kotlyarenko) - Excellent post that explains the differences between the different types and how to migrate ... with a minimum of pain.
  
• New lower Azure pricing (Takeshi Numoto) - Really good news more VMs types and lower prices.
  
• Storing and using secrets in Azure (Bertrand Le Roy) - This p is great tutorial that explains all h steps to configure use the Azure Vault, when our secrets need more then sits in a config file.

Programming

• Sharing Authorization Cookies between ASP.NET 4.x and ASP.NET Core 1.0 (Scott Hanselman) - Nice tutorial to implement a single sign-on experience with multi part website.
  
• DevOps - Commit to Git: Source Control in Visual Studio 2015 (Jonathan Waldman) - Git is a must for all developers, this post explains all the bells and whistles in Visual Studio to manage it.

Databases

• Avoid ORDER BY in SQL Server views (Aaron Bertrand) - Sometimes we need workarounds to bend some services to our wishes, but we must keep in mind the real best practices.

Reading Notes #251

Cloud

• Announcing Azure DNS General Availability  - One of the many announcement at Ignite, it will be pretty convenient to have it in Azure portal.
  
• Availability of H-series VMs in Microsoft Azure - New type of high-performance vm, that's welcome.
  
• Azure Functions in practice (Troy Hunt) - Cool post that shows a real-life situation where Function Apps are helpful.
  
• Load Balancing Managed Services in Azure (Daniel Szweda) - Great tutorial that explains very clearly how to configure our balancer.

Programming

• Optimising LINQ - Optimization is a world by itself, this post shares few tips and tools to get better at it.
  
• Using the Postman Chrome App? Implications from the Recent Google Announcement  - Most of us are Postman users, so this news will have an impact... Be prepared.

Miscellaneous

• Being A Developer After 40 (Adrian Kosmaczewski) - Great post, a must whatever you are older or younger than 40.

Reading Notes #238

Cloud

• Application Map: Filter and pin to a dashboard (Soubhagya Dash) - Aaah... Great, it's time to update our Azure Portal Dashboard, really cool.
  
• Azure Marketplace Free Trials and Subscription Spending Limits (Steve Ross) - We all started or used at one point that great opportunity that is "the trial". This post is a gold mine in little details that will calm you down and let you enjoy the ride. A must.
• Remote Debugging Azure Web Apps from Visual Studio (Chris Pietschmann) - This post is a tutorial that explains step by step. How successfully configure a remote debugging on Azure.

Programming

• 3 ways to spot if your controller is doing too much - Nice post that shares few tricks on how spot if our controllers are doing too much.
  
• DockerCon 2016 - What is new in Docker 1.12 - - Nice summary about all the new features announced at DockerCon.
  
• Forgotten (but Awesome) Windows Command Prompt Features - BBS art..... souvenir souvenir. Refresh your memory or learn some really cool tricks of the command prompt with this post.
  
• Microsoft brings container innovation to the enterprise at DockerCon 2016 (Mark Russinovich) - Microsoft is definitely embracing the container pattern; this post summarizes announcement done during the DockerCon.

Miscellaneous

• Back to my core - In this post, Darrel shares the beginning of a new adventure... Congradulation to you and looking forward to reading again from you. Microsoft gained a really good developer.