Franky's Notes

Cloud

Azure Tips and Tricks Part 162 - ARM Templates Demystified (Michael Crump) - Nice little intro to know what is ARM at a very high level. Seriously every introduction talk about ARM should start like that.
Azure Portal October update (Peri Rocha) - I'm sure you noticed... The portal is always evolving getting better every day. This post list all the changes, what have you missed?

How to get HTTPS working on your local development environment in 5 minutes (Daksh Shah) - Tired to get the unsecured notification when working locally? This tutorial will explain all the steps to fix that.
Introduction to Vue.js with a Single Page Application (SPA) in Visual Studio - Simple Talk (Damon Armstrong) - Very complete and detailed article, the perfect one to get started with vue.js
Update on .NET Core 3.0 and .NET Framework 4.8 (Scott H) - Great update and a glimpse of the Frameworks roadmap.

Fun with SQL Server Containers (Donovan Brown) - Interesting post. Perfect to get ready in 5 minutes.

An Introduction to AI at LinkedIn (Deepak Agarwal) - Interesting reel life case where AI is used... Not crazy sci-fi, very day to day improvement.

Thoughts on Azure DevOps (Scott Allen) - Interesting review of the rebranded tool.
Azure Tips and Tricks Part 160 - The BEST of Azure Tips and Tricks is now available as a FREE ebook (Michael Crump) - Fantastic! The BEST of Azure Tips and Tricks is now available as a FREE
Introducing Azure Functions 2.0 (Eduardo Laureano) - Wow, the Azure Functions has evolved so much since the beginning. It's time to upgrade our old functions.

Exploring the Docker Extension for VS Code and .NET Core (Shayne Boyer) - Wow, really nice update! It looks so easy.
Hacktoberfest: Tips for growing open source communities in October and beyond | Microsoft + Open Source (Stephanie Morillo) - Nice post that provides a little bit more context about how to do things for the Hacktoberfest.
Headless CMS and Decoupled CMS in .NET Core (Scott Hanselman) - Nice post that lists some of the most popular headless CMS.
Join our #Hacktoberfest 2018 celebration! | Microsoft + Open Source (Bernd Verst) - Microsoft announced it's one month long hackaton on all his opensource projects. Learn more about where to find that list in this post.

Microsoft Ignite Aftermath ( Chris Pietschmann, Dan Patrick) - If you are like me and need to catch up on what append to Ignite, this post is a really good place to start as it contains a list of all the links we need.

How to securely connect to Azure from C# and run REST APIs (Benjamin Perkins) - Great post! This last piece put all the puzzle pieces together. And I love when author shared their mistakes... we learn even more.

How to audit an Azure subscription Role Based Access Control (RBAC) assignments (Stephane Lapointe) - Great new PowerShell script to help us keeping the control over our subscriptions.
Introducing Azure DevOps (null) - VSTS just got a major update... It's now on called azure DevOps and is packed with tons of great features. Awesome!

A complete containerized .NET Core Application microservice that is as small as possible (Scott Hanselman) - A great new part in the optimization journey of Scott and his Apps.
Introducing Microsoft Learn (Microsoft Developer) - Nice short video that explains why the new Learn portal will be so great.
NLog vs log4net vs Serilog: Compare .NET Logging Frameworks (Simon Timms) - Useful post that reviews three popular logging framework.
Scripts to remove old .NET Core SDKs (Scott Hanselman) - Neet script! Thanks, Scott.

Attitude Matters (When It Comes To Winning Users Over)! (Gaurav) - Interesting post that once again shows that communication is A great in both ways.
When and Why Chatbots - The Wit and Ramblings of David Giard (David Giard) - Yes chatbot, are great... But not to all situation, learn more in the post why.
Windows Virtual Desktop (null) - This week Microsoft announced what looks like a very simple way to get powerful environments without all the trouble to maintain them. More to come.