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Quote of the Day

“In any given moment we have two options: to step forward into growth or step back into safety.”
-- Abraham Maslow

Testing

Message Bus Dye Test

Software Development

Why software only moves forward

If You’re Not Refactoring Every Day, You’re Making a Mistake

AI

Top 5 Tips for Fine-Tuning LLMs

Business

Leadership/Management

Dumb Leadership Mistakes I’ve Made

Why Great Leaders Push Authority Down, Not Information Up

Personal Development

til / radiate intent — Lee Byron

Web and Cloud Development

Introducing the modern web app pattern for .NET

The Different (and Modern) Ways to Toggle Content

Add Authentication to Apps in Minutes

11 Best Practices for Software Development Security

Simple approach to modern Access Control in Entra ID

DotNet

JSON Structured Logging for .NET Lambda Functions

How to Set Semantic Versioning for .NET Core Apps and Libraries

Working With DTO Auto Translators – Mapperly

An awaitable Blazor Modal Dialog

Implementing Idempotent REST APIs in ASP.NET Core

Database

Network Round Trips are Evil, So Batch Your Queries When You Can

Quote of the Day

“Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.”
-- Peter F. Drucker

Testing

API Mocking for Unit Tests: Best Practices for Developers

Playwright Tutorial: Mastering Element Locators

Software Development

Platform Engineering: Why You’re Doing It Wrong

Developer Tools / Libraries

.NET Upgrade Assistant Now Supports Upgrading to Centralized Package Mangement

Bringing developer choice to Copilot with Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 Sonnet, Google’s Gemini 1.5 Pro, and OpenAI’s o1-preview

AI

eShop infused with AI – a comprehensive intelligent app sample with Semantic Kernel

Business

How do the most successful VCs pick which companies to bet on and which to avoid?

Professional Development

On Good Software Engineers

Personal Development

On Avoiding Foolish Opinions

DotNet

Implementing Idempotent REST APIs in ASP.NET Core

Is the result pattern worth it?

eShopSupport Series: Customer Web UI Project

Quote of the Day

“Success is not final; failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
-- Winston Churchill

AI

OpenAI Structured Outputs: How-To Guide for Developers

Announcing the Availability of Phi-3.5-MoE in Azure AI Studio and GitHub

Leadership/Management

A Culture of Good Decision-Making (Part 2)

DotNet

Sending Messages to the Original Sender with Wolverine

Adding more extensions to Result

Comparing the performance between the Minimal API and classic Controllers