Reading Notes #357

Suggestion of the week

• Use Azure Cognitive Services to recognize karting images with Custom Vision service (Vivien Chevallier) - Really cool post that explains how to build an API and trained it.

Cloud

• ARM - Etendre vos templates grâce à Azure Function (Wilfried Woivré) - A very clever way to leverage some services resources it ARM.

Programming

• How to set up ASP.NET Core 2.2 Health Checks with BeatPulse's AspNetCore.Diagnostics.HealthChecks (Scott Hanselman) - This is a nice quick tutorial perfect to get started.
• Finding your next .NET Open Source project using the command line (Shayne Boyer) - Really cool tool/ project to get started.
• Ghost : A Father-Daughter Project, Part 1 (David Pallmann) - This is both a nice tutorial to build a simple game and a great project to do with new developers.
• Visual Studio 2019 Preview .NET Productivity (Kendra Havens) - This is a nice overview of what Was announced at Connect.

Miscellaneous

• A crash course on Serverless with AWS — Running Node.js 11 on Lambda (Adnan Rahić) - Great tutorial that will take you from zero to definitely knowing enough to be dangerous.

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Reading Notes #356

Suggestion of the week

• Security Headers (Tanya Janca) - Interesting post that shows the code/configuration we need to add, in order to get a more secure website.

Cloud

• Microsoft Azure portal December 2018 update (Peri Rocha) - Nice new update.. The last one of the year.
• Serverless Google App Engine Flex Custom Docker Runtime & Cloud SQL Backend with Swift & Vapor Web API (Alfian Losari) - Great tutorial that explains how to build a web backend.
• Créez vos Logic Apps via des templates ARM (Wilfried Woivré) - An excellent post in French that explains step by step how to build our ARM template to deploy an Azure Logic Apps.

Programming

• ASP.NET Core 2.2 Parameter Transformers for clean URL generation and slugs in Razor Pages or MVC (Scott Hanselman) - This post explains a new feature of the new core release.
• How to become a Git expert (Aditya Sridhar) - A very nice post that explains how to fix common mistake users does and also explains how to keep our history clean.
• Web Architecture 101 (Jonathan Fulton) - This is a very complete article that does a tour of every piece of a web solution.

Miscellaneous

• 6 Books That Will Help You Become a Better Writer (Glenn Leibowitz) - A nice little list of books for the holiday...
• Becoming a better supporter of women in tech (Tom) - Great post. Share it.
• Leadership Mode Activate (Allen Pike) - Don't be affray to move forward and smash!
• Write more compact SQL Server code using new features (Sergey Gigoyan) - This is a nice way to learn how to be more efficent with SQL.

Books

Fast Focus: A Quick-Start Guide To Mastering Your Attention, Ignoring Distractions, And Getting More Done In Less Time! (Damon Zahariades) - Great book well organized. Simple strike to the point. It is divided into three parts: understanding focus, creating an environment for focus, and employing tactics to focus. It lists the top 10 obstacles to staying focused and gives you a great idea on how to get start your journey.











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Reading Notes #354

Cloud

• Azure Functions—Key Vault integration   - Nice tight integration that will simplify our lives.
• Azure Functions Continuous Deployment with Azure Pipelines- Part 7 (Jason Roberts) - Excellent series to learn and get started with continuous integration and continuous deployment.
• My first Azure build & deploy pipelines for an Azure Function V2 (Joost van Schaik) - A nice tutorial that shows how easy it is to deploy an Azure function with Azure DevOps Pipeline.
• Running Cognitive Service containers (Henrik Frystyk Nielsen) - This post is the perfect one to get started with those new cognitive containers.
• This resource group will self destruct in 30 minutes (Mark Heath) - Pretty clever way to "not forget" any unused resources... And there so save money!

Programming

• Creating a .NET Global Tool from an existing Console Application (Rick Strahl) - Very interesting post that explains some strategy for global donet core application and how to work share them with nuget.
• Upgrading the DakBoard Family Calendar with Raspberry Pi Zero W and Read Only filesystem (Scott Hanselman) - Not even a week has past and it's already version 2! Excellent!!

Books

Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win (Jocko Willink, Leif Babin) - Very interesting book. Yes, it contains a lot of battle details, and first I was not sure, but then things "fall" all in place when you understand what the story was "demonstrating." It also contains more business focus examples. Everything is very clear, well explained in plain English.









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