Interesting links of the week 2024-38

Here are the best and most interesting articles, blog posts, videos, podcasts, and GitHub repositories I’ve run into over the last week (September 9, 2024 - September 15, 2024). Enjoy!

Microsoft / Dotnet / Azure - Other Software Dev - Tech and Science - Leadership - Project Management / Agile - Social Media - Non-Tech / Random - Videos - GitHub Repos

Here are some posts I’ve written in the past week

• Nothing this week; more coming soon

My Favorite Links from the Week

• Stay in the flow by any means necessary - Robin Copple
• On over-engineering; finding the right balance - Eliran Turgeman

Microsoft / Dotnet / Azure

• Refit in .NET: Building Robust API Clients in C# - Milan Jovanović
• What are partial classes in C# and why do we use them? - David Grace
• CQRS Command Handlers with Marten - Jeremy D. Miller
• Testcontainers for Integration Testing in .NET - Merwan Chinta
• Comparing productivity Copilot options - Copilot for M365, Copilot Studio, build your own Copilot etc. - Chris O’Brien
• Search scoping helps you find what you’re looking for - Leah Tran
• Quickstart: Create and deploy functions to Azure Functions using the Azure Developer CLI
• 5 Must-Have NuGet Packages for .NET Developers: Elevate Your Code! - Ken Fedorov
• Query Exercise: Why Are These 3 Estimates So Wrong? - Brent Ozar
• Implement Azure Database for MySQL Step-by-Step - Rajendra Gupta
• LINQ Joins on multiple columns in Entity Framework - Steven Giesel
• GitHub Copilot Extensions - Rob Bos
• Preventing breaking changes in public APIs with PublicApiGenerator - Andrew Lock
• Performance Improvements in .NET 9 - Stephen Toub

Other Software Development

• Where Do I Go To Learn About APIs? - Kin Lane
• Run Llama 3 on your laptop: An introduction to Ollama for beginners. - Kris Ograbek
• GitHub trick to find the commit that deleted a file - Raymond Chen
• Master Difficult User Authentication Requirements with OAuth - Gary Archer
• Book Review: Strange Code - Ted Neward
• The insidious problem of configuration sprawl - Brian Grant
• How DevOps can come back from the dead, and why it must
• Event Sourcing 101: Terminology & Concepts - Derek Comartin

Technology and Science

• Nothing this week; more coming soon

Leadership

• Building Aggressively Helpful Teams - Britton Broderick
• How to Lead Your Team when the House Is on Fire - Péter Szász
• Gauging Feedback: The Art of the Give and Take - Brandi Neal

Project Management / Agile

• The hidden cost of speed - Brayden A. Hord
• The Surprising Cost of Bad Estimates - Mike Cohn
• Why Traditional Software Development Practices Are Failing the Modern Enterprise
• Agile In Practice: The Definition of Done - Gil Zilberfeld
• 4 Steps to a Good Code Freeze - Alex Quintana

Social Media

• Nothing this week; more coming soon

Non-Technology / Random

• Nothing this week; more coming soon

Videos

• Azure Functions & PowerShell - Luke Murray
• Adam Savage’s Favorite Budget 3D Printer, Books, YouTubers and Podcasts - Adam Savage
• Azure Update - 13th September 2024 - John Savill

GitHub Repos

• https://github.com/icsharpcode/CodeConverter
• https://github.com/SingleAccretion/dotnet-diff
• https://github.com/PowerShell/vscode-powershell

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