Day: November 23, 2016

Top Links

• Handling people’s personal data is sensitive business (Troy Hunt)
• MVP Hackathon 2016: Cool Projects from Microsoft MVPs (Jeffrey T. Fritz)
• Windows Ink 2: Digging Deeper with Ink and Pen (Michael Crump)
• Final update to Android 7.1 Developer Preview (Dave Burke)
• .NET Standard 2.0 – Making Sense of .NET Again (Rick Strahl)

 

Web Development

• Creating a New View Engine in ASP.NET Core (David Paquette)
• Node.js: Playing Sounds to Provide Notifications (Dave Johnson)
• Realm releases object database for Node.js (James Chesters)
• ngMigrate Helps You Move from AngularJS 1.x to Angular 2 (Jim Duffy)
• Customizer JavaScript APIs: The Previewer (Louie R.)
• Notes from the ASP.NET Community Standup – November 1, 2016 (Maria Naggaga)
• Storing Password Data Safely with Node.js and Bcrypt (Nic Raboy)
• How to validate dynamic UI with JQuery? (Michał Komorowski)
• ASP.NET Core and the Enterprise Part 3: Middleware (K. Scott Allen)
• Let’s Encrypt Everything (Jeff Atwood)
• Node v7.2.0 (Current) (Jeremiah Senkpiel)
• Deploying Docker Swarm With Azure Container Service (Jeremy Hess)
• Postman’s New Collection Runner (Kasey Byrne)
• Balancing user-friendliness and developer convenience (Kenneth Auchenberg)
• Getting to Know Containers (Alexandre Brisebois)

 

XAML

• Changes for Flyouts in MahApps.Metro v1.4.0 (Jan Karger)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Writing Azure Functions in F# (James Chambers)
• Making code faster: Specialization make it faster still (Oren Eini)
• EF6 or EF Core? How Do I Choose? and Updated My EFCore / WebAPI / PostreSQL / XUnit Repo to 1.1 (Julie Lerman)
• LLBLGen Pro v5.1 RTM has been released! (Frans Bouma)
• Insights Into Entity Framework Core 1.1 (Shay Rojansky, Erik Ejlskov Jensen & Diego Vega)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Book recommendations for Agile Software Development (Ben Linders)
• Unit Testing an Angular 2 CLI Project (Dave M. Bush)
• Microservices and SOA: Better Together (Abhilash Juluri)
• How Diversity Makes Retrospective Actions Stick (Ben Linders)
• Insisting on Core Development Principles (Kendra Skeene)
• Thinking More About API-Driven Conversational Interfaces (Kin Lane)
• Alternatives to Lines of Code (LOC) (Erik Dietrich)
• Getting Started with FsUnit (Jeremy Clark)
• Safely add tasks to an on-premise Build Agent from the vsts-tasks repository (Matteo Emili)
• Where are we in Donovan’s [from 0 to DevOps] world? (Willy-P. Schaub)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• How to Isolate Client-Server Interaction Logic in iOS Applications (Alexander Gaidukov)
• Thomas Dohmke Talks About Visual Studio Mobile Center (Michael Desmond)
• Introduction to the Intel® IoT Gateway (Daniel H.)
• Common React Native App Layouts: Login Page (Wernher-Bel Ancheta)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Science of Great UI with Mark Miller (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• The Monsters Weekly – Episode 80 – ASP.NET 1.1 was Released…Time to Pump the Brakes? (David Paquette, James Chambers & Simon Timms)
• The week in .NET – .NET Core, ASP.NET Core, EF Core 1.1 – Docker – Xenko (Bertrand Le Roy)
• Microsoft Cloud Show Episode 166 | Office365Mon with Steve Peschka (Andrew Connell & Chris Johnson)
• Windows at Microsoft Connect(); // 2016 (Clint Rutkas)
• RunAs Radio – Nano Server with Andrew Mason (Richard Campbell & Greg Hughes)
• Decoding Windows Build Numbers (keantonc & Rosshe)
• StarTalk Radio – Women in Science, with Summer Ash and Emily Rice – StarTalk All-Stars (Neil deGrasse Tyson)
• Phil is back — as Modern Dad! (Phil Nickinson)
• RadioTFS – Cake By Devs For Devs (Martin Woodward & Greg Duncan)
• Tuesdays with Corey: Demystifying SAP HANA on Azure Large Instances | Tuesdays With Corey (RicksterCDN)
• SE-Radio Episode 275: Josh Doody on Salary Negotiation for Software Engineers (Marcus Blankenship)

 

Community / Events

• At DigiGirlz event, Microsoft UK CEO says girls just as likely as boys to change the world using tech (Athima Chansanchai)
• Power BI Webinar 11/29 How Microsoft BI Team manages Power BI (Charles Sterling)

 

Database

• Using Microsoft Query in Excel to Retrieve SQL Server Data (Douglas Correa)
• How to build multiple database versions from the same source: object filters (Alex Yates)

 

Miscellaneous

• Book Review: Shell Programming in Unix, Linux and OSX, 4th Ed (Mike James)
• Creating a Tweet Buffer with Azure Queues and Microsoft Flow (Jason Roberts)
• The best Black Friday 2016 laptop deals: Surface Books, HP Spectre x360, Dell XPS 13, and more (Ashley Carman)
• Microsoft Press: Storewide savings: Save up to 55% (Kim Spilker)

 

More Link Collections

• Windows App Developer Links – 2016-11-23 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2016-11-23 (Dan Rigby)
• The Morning Brew #2228 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #1774 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Reading Notes #257 (Frank Boucher)
• The Daily Six Pack: November 23, 2016 (Dirk Strauss)

 

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