Reading Notes #390

Suggestion of the week

• HttpRepl: A command-line tool for interacting with RESTful HTTP services (Angelos) - What a great tool, looking forward to trying it.

Cloud

• Azure Blob Storage SAS Guidelines (Mark Heath) - Great post that shares best practices.
• Containerized Azure Pipelines Agent using Docker with WSL2 (Wes MacDonald) - Wsl 2 looks incredibly interesting... This post shows one more reason why you should also be looking forward to using it in your everyday work.

Programming

• 10 Tips For Debugging in Production (Molly Struve) - A very interesting real-life story... Will they find the solution?
• Clean up your code with destructuring (Carl) - Interesting way to keep your code clean. It uses a different syntax but seems to work well.
• How to write 90% cleaner code with Hooks 5535657251 (Amandeep Singh) - Okay. I don't know React, but it's really nice to see that framework continue to evolve like that with his community. A very interesting post.

Podcasts

• Economics of Kubernetes, with Owen Rog (Craig and Adam) - Really interesting episode. Of course all the news about Kubernetes were interesting, but even more the economics of cloud computing with the guess of the week, Owen Rog.

Miscellaneous

• Docker Desktop for WSL 2 integrates Windows 10 and Linux even closer (Scott Hanselman) - Nice thoughts about the new upcoming wsl2.
• Top 3 Tools For Boosting Your Productivity (Emma Wedekind) - Oh, it's a bummer that not all suggestions are multi-platform because they ALL look amazing.

Reading Notes #389

Cloud

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  How to audit Key Vault Access Policy using Azure Resource Graph (Stephane Lapointe) - Another great example of how Azure Graph can help you to search and more importantly find quicky what you are looking for.
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  Managing Jenkins Artifacts with the Azure Artifact Manager Plugin (Jie Shen) - This post explains very clearly how to leverage those two great tools together.

Programming

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  Remote Edit Files on Azure Linux VMs using VS Code (Thomas Maurer) - An awesome tutorial that teaches us a nice way to edit files remotely.
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  Remote SSH access with Visual Studio Code (Sana Ajani) - It's sooooo easy and powerfull! Take two minutes and try it!
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  VS Code Profile Switcher Extensions Support (Aaron Powell) - Wonderful! Thanks Aaron, you just create the extension group has been asking for so long!
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  ASP.NET Core and Blazor updates in .NET Core 3.0 Preview 7 (Daniel Roth) - Nice update, it's amazing to see how fast this project evolves.
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  Installing PowerShell with one line as a .NET Core global tool (Scott Hanselman) - On every platform or even from inside a container...Pretty cool.

Miscellaneous

• Top Developer Collaboration Tools (Roman Zhidkov) - Wow, a pretty cool list with tons of suggestions for all kind of needs.

Reading Notes #388

Suggestion of the week

• Experiment with New Languages and Frameworks with VS Code Remote Development in Containers (Anthony Chu) - Wooooh.This looks way easier than I though. I do not install any preview anymore!

Cloud

• What happens to sleeping instances when you update long-running AWS Lambdas, Azure Functions, and Azure Logic Apps? (Richard Seroter) - Fantastic post, where Richard find-out how are react our serverless components to changes while running (hot-swap)

Programming

• Configuring a Server-side Blazor app with Azure App Configuration (Brady Gaster) - This is a nice tutorial that explains how to use the preview version of .Net Core and blazor to add authentication.
• 21 VSCode Shortcuts to Make Coding Faster and More Fun (Christopher Tran) - I love shortcuts... This post provides a nice list of then with a quit use case.
• ASP.NET Core and Blazor updates in .NET Core 3.0 Preview 6 (Daniel Roth) - Nice thatt explains the chnges in this new version and also how to migrate.
• Authentication in server-side Blazor applications (Gunnar Peipman) - Nice overview of the authentication feature now available in .Net Core version 3
• How to create your own custom URL shortener in 10 minutes for free & deploy to GitHub 5535756960 (Liyas Thomas) - This is a cool project. I like the idea that it can even live in GitHub.
• Take your Linux development experience in Windows to the next level with WSL and Visual Studio Code Remote | Windows Command Line Tools For Developers (Craig Loewen) - Nice tricks to get the best of two systems altogether.
• What is Blazor and why is it important for .Net developers and the web (Maourice Gonzalez) - If you think blazor is a jacket, here where to start to learn more about this awesome about one of the latest Microsoft project.

Podcast

• Coding after work - Episode 43 - Blazor with Ed Charbeneau (Jimmy and Jessica) - Nice episode, where Ed talks about what's cool in Blazor and how Telerik started working on components for it
• Hanselminutes - Creating video games with C# and Mono with Tom Spilman (Scott Hanselman) - Very interesting conversation around games and C#. I thought most big games were done in C++... Nice discovery.
• Coacing for Leaders - Find Your Leadership Voice, with Johanna Nalau (Dave Stachowiak) - Nice episode explaining how a group can help you to grow and become a better "you", and that blogging is still a great way to structure/ but together our thoughts.

Miscellaneous

• How To Develop Apps Like PUBG (Apoorv Gehlot) - An interesting article that gives us an idea of how a game like pugs got that success, and who they manage that rapid growth.

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