I missed posting my links post last weekend but I had an absolutely good reason. This previous week was my first week at Foxit and while I've only had three days so far, I'm incredibly excited about this new role and being able to introduce a whole suite of new offerings to developers. The next few months are going to be pretty busy and I'm really happy about that. My new job also coincided with a little vacation my wife and I are taking in Saint Louis. While I've been in Louisiana for sometime now, I grew up in Saint Louis and love visiting here. (My mom still lives up here.) Yesterday we visited the Missouri Botanical Garden which was beautiful.
This isn't a pretty picture, but I LOLed at the name:
Ok, on with the links!
Learning about MCP
MCP is incredibly hot now in the AI world, and it's something I've yet to truly wrap my head around yet. I plan on getting up to speed with it more very soon, but I thought it would be useful for folks in the same boat to point out an excellent series of articles by Todd Sharp (this is the third week in a row I've led with one of his articles so it's something of a trend now): Hype or Hope - Is MCP The Missing Piece of the Puzzle?.
This is part one of a four part series, so buckle up and be ready to learn.
On Being Principal Developer Advocate
Next up is a good read on the good, and bad, of being the principal developer advocate in an organization. Dewan Ahmed wrote about the challenges facing developer advocates in regards to the great freedom the role has in opposition to the great responsibility as well. It's a great read: The Principal Developer Advocate Paradox: Scaling Impact Without Burnout
Tips and Tricks for Better File Uploads
Last up is a good set of tips for better file uploads in your web apps: 7 Best Practices of File Upload With JavaScript. Most of these are things I knew already, but haven't really thought about in a nice list here as written by StorageBowl. (Who, conveniently, offer a storage solution that I probably need to play with soon.)
Just For Fun
My readers know I love a good cover (in fact, I've got a nearly 11 hour Spotify playlist of covers) so why not enjoy this really good cover of The Cure's "Burn" by NITE: