Issue: 2021 - July/August

Rod has some great suggestions for how to work more efficiently.

It seems like everyone’s talking about Microsoft Graph these days. Sahil shows you why.

Paul continues looking at the XMLHttpRequest object in this exploration of the Fetch API. It’s not all sunshine and unicorns, but it’s pretty useful nonetheless.

When it’s time to deploy your app, and you’re using Azure SQL and Azure, you’re going to want to use Azure Managed Identity to authenticate and access the database. Julie shows you that it’s not even a little bit scary.

APIs are everywhere! Joydip shows you how to take advantage of them using a new, free, cross-platform desktop framework, Insomnia, with its user-friendly interface and sophisticated features.

Rod whips up a quick app to help a friend and ends up discovering some pretty cool multi-platform features that are part of command line utilities.

Most of the core functionalities in VS Code are extensions, and you can extend almost any feature, from color themes, to activity bars, to displaying data. Bilal gives an overview of how extensions work and some cool ideas for what to do with them.

Data Visualization can be the best way to get your message across. Helen shows you how, using Power BI and R.

John looks at the nature of commitment in terms of getting things done at work.