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Continuing Education Index of Resources

A collection of notes from research and continuing education, with references for future use.

Current Learnings and Activities
Things I Want To Learn More About
Notes And Takeaways from Research and Experience
Azure Learnings
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Current Learnings and Activities

[ ] Investigate a client website for potential changes or a redesign/rewerite.

Things I Want To Learn More About

Here is a snippet of items I look forward to learning more about:

[ ] Monorepos.
[ ] Web Building and CMS Services notes.
[ ] Copilots: How to create a copilot.
[ ] Gain familiarity with Playwright, an end-to-end testing framework for .NET.
[ ] Bogus for .NET a Faker.js port for .NET.
[ ] Consider obtaining a GitHub Foundations Certification.
[ ] Check out inquirer for use with Node and Express.

Notes And Takeaways from Research and Experience

[x] While browsing other web-design topics I ran across an NDC Oslo presentation featuring Amy Kapernik, who discussed how to build an SPA without JavaScript.
[x] Added features to Markdown ToC VS Code Extension: Support Closed ATX headings, TOC is same as user's, and various bug fixes. See Visual Studio Code Extensions Marketplace.
[x] DotNET Aspire.
[x] Read "Inclusive 101 Guidebook" from Microsoft Design, and take notes.
[x] Fix-up bugs and incomplete features to my Mob-WX Android App (in process).
[x] Extensions in CSharp. When and how to use them.
[x] Learn about Heapsort algorithm, documented and implemented in my Heapsort-js repository.
[x] Meshtastic Web is an open source project looking for help. Given my recent interest in LoRa text-message communications, this might be a good OSS contribution option for me.
[x] Build and deploy a functional version of BF-BMX - the message synchronization tool for an upcoming volunteer event.
[x] Update the BF Bib Report Form and prepare for possible usage by August 2024.
[x] MS Build 24 and recent work caused me to use WinGet a few times recently, so I did a little research to get familiar.
[x] MSFT Build 2024 Conference will be held on 21-23 May, 2024.
[x] MSFT Reactor notes on using Python for Web Apps.
[x] Complete at least one Microsoft Learn Challenge - Build 2024 Edition.
[x] Complete MSLearn's currently available (up to May 2024) Blazor training materials.
[x] MVVM and MSFT MVVM Toolkit. Collection of captured WPF and MVVM project layout implementations and frameworks. Targets .NET Framework 4.6+, and .NET 6+.
[x] Learn how to effectively (and properly) leverage Async Await and Task Parallel Library.
[x] Complete MS Learn Web Accessibility Basics and take notes.
[x] Attended Azure Developers .NET Day 2024 and took a bunch of notes.
[x] Attended a .NET Community Standup regarding simplifying development, where PMs and Architects discussed .NET project templating, Visual Studio Solution files, C# and F#, and other items such as nullability and global usings.
[x] MSFT JDConf - the Java Conference.
[x] MSFT Reactor session note on Azure Container Apps.
[x] .NET Publish command and types of published packages.
[x] .NET MAUI 8 for Windows and Android
[x] .NET MAUI Community Toolkit
[x] Brandon Minnick's Async Await Best Practices and the NuGet package instructions, and even more at Brandon's Code Traveler.io website.
[x] MSFT Vector DB and Semantic Kernel.
[x] Build Minimal API using ASP.NET Core.
[x] Create a UI Using XAML in MAUI.
[x] Build Mobile and Desktop Apps in MAUI.
[x] Web Accessibility Basics notes from Microsoft Learn module.
[x] DotNET MAUI for desktop and mobile app development mobile-to-deskto-dotnet-maui.
[x] DotNET MAUI Handlers: Native Controls.
[x] DotNET MAUI Data Binding in MVVM.
[x] Build and Test Node.js using GitHub Actions for Node.js.
[x] Jest vs Mocha vs Chai JS Testing Frameworks.
[x] React Hooks.
[x] Deploying to Linux on Azure.
[x] Build a VS Code Extension.
[x] Investigate Cheerio - notes started here.
[x] Attend MSFT Build 2023 and take notes.
[x] MongoDB and Mongoose notes.
[x] Review Java Scanner at Oracle Java Docs - Scanner and Baeldung - Java Scanner.
[x] Promises in JavaScript.
[x] Java Object Streams: What they are and how to use them (Oracle.com) - my notes start here.
[x] Introductions to ChatGPT and regenerative learning models.
[x] An Agile Mindset leads to agile actions and success.
[x] GitHub Copilot notes
[x] Generics: Review Oracle.com then check out JavaPoint
[x] Microsoft Graph SDK, API.
[x] Windows Subsystem for Linux WSL Notes.
[x] React Lifecycle: useEffect, setState, componentWillLoad, componentUnloaded are all special ways to execute code and manage state during, before, and after render cycles. Examples of useEffect can be found in LBJS code (post MVP).
[x] Handling Errors in ExpressJS. I am implementing this in a live API server instance and there is work still to do.
[x] Study Auth0 Client Credentials Flow, to prepare for possible Auth0 implementation for LingoBingo v.Next.
[x] Using 'cursor' in Java: Cursor and Iterators.
[x] When and why would I choose to develop in Java vs C# or Python e.g. for a project.
[x] Deploy Express.js to Azure.
[x] Auth0 with Express.js.
[x] Research Firebase Authentication and Firebase Google Docs as a possible alternative to Auth0. See notes at firebase-auth.
[x] React useContext.
[x] Using cookies in ExpressJS.
[x] MS Dot Net Conf 2022 Notes.
[x] Unit testing in Android Studio.
[x] MSFT Ignite October 2022 provides an overview of MSFT new and upcoming technical solutions, especially Azure services, MSFT 365, and integration with and around those platforms.
[x] Deploy a Node.js WebApp to Azure.
[x] Cross Origin Resource Sharing CORS
[x] Animating web elements using CSS
[x] React NavBar with Router notes from WebDevSimplified - How to create a navbar in react with routing
[x] Get up to speed on React Router: react-router-dom and react-router-native (which I won't cover here...at least not yet).
[x] Review 301 class notes regarding React, State, Props, and Components.
[x] Review Javascript "hoisting". This is related to the 2-pass setup and execution behavior of Javascript as runtime initializes.
[x] How to implement Style and Themes to your Android App.
[x] Proper and efficient installation of a specified JDK in Linux: Use JetBrains Tools box for IntelliJ installations; Use DEB install for Linux without JetBrains; Use Zip for Windows, put files where you want them, update JAVAHOME reference.
[x] Handling exceptions and exception types in asynchronous programming in Java.
[x] JUnit Tests: Why do they pass by default, without asserts or any code? They would always fail otherwise.
[x] Spring MVC especially SQL and other DB APIs.
[x] Interfaces: See OOP, Inheritance, Interfaces.
[x] Trees and Decision Trees have perplexed me for a while I'd like to get over that.
[x] Configuring Linux and Windows to support "IDEA ." to open IntelliJ at current directory.

Azure Learnings

MS Reactor: Azure Integration Services Exploring Message Queueing with Azure Service Bus.
About Monitoring Azure Resources.
Developing Azure Functions in Python (and other languages, too).
Managing and Reporting on Costs and Billing in Azure.
Microsoft Identity Platform is integrated into Azure: Microsoft Identity Platform.
DevOps for Microsoft Platforms (an overview, introduction really)MSFT Platform DevOps.
Continuous test and validating Azure Workloads.
Azure for Java Applications (multi-part).
Azure App Services Best Practices.
Azure Static WebApps API Options.
Azure Nodejs Kubernetes.
Azure Developer Cli AZD.
Deploy Expressjs to Azure.
Deploy React App to Azure.

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