Links - 10/19/2024
Quote of the Day
“If people like you, they’ll listen to you, but if they trust you, they’ll do business with you.”
-- Zig Ziglar
Software Development
An Engineer’s Checklist of Logging Best Practices
API Error Messages for a GOOD Developer Experience
Testing
My book “Practical Debugging for .NET Developers” is now Free!
Condition xunit tests to presence of user secrets
Trace sampling in SerilogTracing
Developer Tools / Libraries
Git Tricks: Get the last checked out branch
How we build GitHub Copilot into Visual Studio
Designing for Trust in AI-Powered Developer Tooling
AI
New Function Calling Available in .NET for Semantic Kernel
Microsoft Eases Integration with Semantic Kernel AI SDK
Observability in Semantic Kernel
See Prompts Microsoft Engineers Use for Bleeding-Edge Multimodal RAG AI Research
Building RAG on Phi-3 locally using embeddings on VS Code AI Toolkit
eShopSupport Series: Evaluator Project
New Hugging Face Models on Azure AI: Phi-3 Variants from the Community
The Architect’s Guide to Interoperability in the AI Data Stack
Business
Key Qualities of Great Companies : Friday Forward (#453)
Leadership/Management
How Hard Should Your Employer Work To Retain You?
Navigating the BS Maze: A Tech Leader’s Guide to Brandolini’s Law
Set Sail for Success: Why Your Team Needs to Try the Sailboat Retrospective
6 Essential Leadership Skills — and How to Develop Them
Professional Development
Personal Development
Web and Cloud Development
How Accessify Was Built: An Adobe Express Add-On That Ensures Your Content Is Accessible
Mobile Development
DotNet
Multi-Tenancy in Wolverine Messaging
Building an AI Dev Space With a Little Assistance from Aspire
Working with the result pattern
Typed chat completions with OpenAI and .NET 9