Dew Drop – November 28, 2016 (#2371)

Top Links

• .NET Standard 2.0 – Making Sense of .NET Again (Rick Strahl)
• Publishing ASP.NET Core 1.1 applications to Azure using git deploy (Scott Hanselman)
• Mixed Feelings About FsUnit and Simple Mocking in FsUnit (I Like This) (Jeremy Clark)
• Introducing Xamarin.Forms 2.3.3: Native View Declaration and Platform Specifics (Pierce Boggan)

Web Development

• Should I try to use the IE implementation of CSS Grid Layout? (Rachel Andrew)
• When to use which CSS methodology (Simon)
• PhpStorm 2016.3 is now released! (Anna Lebedeva)
• Random Interesting Facts on HTML/SVG usage (Catalin Rosu)
• ASP.NET Core: Clean Reusable Front-end code (Daniel Jimenez Garcia)
• Docker and containers are about software (Wes Higbee)
• How to print or enumerate properties of a JavaScript object? (Dhananjay Kumar)
• WebStorm 2016.3.1 is now available (Ekaterina Prigara)
• How to insert an element at the middle of a post using #jQuery? (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Snippets: Disable Scroll Using jQuery (Learning jQuery)
• Custom ModelBinding in ASP.NET MVC Core (Steve Gordon)
• Tutorial: Creating An Angular 2 CRUD Application Using MVC 5 and OData 4 (Michael Washington)
• Example for Saving Botframework Messages to Sql Server (Robin Osborne)
• ESLint v3.11.0 released (ESLint Team)
• Get Your TypeScript Definitions from NPM (Aaron Marisi)
• What’s New in Node 6? (Andrew Blackman)
• Controlling access to global variables via an ES6 proxy (Axel Rauschmayer)
• Docker and Swarmkit – Part 6 – New Features of v1.13 (Gabriel Schenker)
• VSS Web Extensions SDK Update (version 1.108.0) – Breaking Changes (Igor R. Macedo)
• Weather API in five minutes (Iris Classon)
• Deploying Docker Swarm With Azure Container Service (Jeremy Hess)
• New Blog, now .NET Core, Docker and Linux powered – and soon to be open-sourced (Joseph Woodward)
• URL rewriting with Github Pages (Lea Verou)
• Lessons learn while trying to deploy a Docker container in Azure (Frank Boucher)
• So I’ve been doing microservices (Piotr Gankiewicz)
• How Passwordless Authentication Works (Prosper Otemuyiwa)
• How to Hang Up Currently Active Twilio Phone Calls with Python (Sam Agnew)
• AWS Lambda Now Supports Environment Variables (Sergio De Simone)

XAML

• Dev Projects for the Long Weekend (Windows Apps Team)
• Installing Visual Studio 2017 and ready for UWP – in under 10min! (Dmitry Lyalin)
• Windows Ink 3: Beyond Doodling (Michael Crump)

Miscellaneous .NET

• Visual Studio 2017 – ‘Lightweight Solution Load’ to shorter load time (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Nuget in C++ rulez (Michał Komorowski)
• Package EntityFramework 6.1.3 is not compatible with uap10.0 (Dmitry Lyalin)
• .NET Standard and Testing Partially Trusted Code (Steve Wilkes)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The Well Rounded Architect (Patrick Kua)
• Test Controller, Test Agent versions and their usage in different scenarios (Prachi Bora)
• Code Review Checklist (Ebenezar John Paul)
• Alternatives to Lines of Code (LOC) (Erik Dietrich)
• Follow a PR, task versioning, and search for commits in branches – Nov 23 (Erin Dormier)
• Implementing Unit Testing, Part II – Outcomes (Gil Zilberfeld)
• The “Must Haves” for a Service-based Architecture (Howard Dierking)
• Iterations and Increments (Johanna Rothman)
• Will Reading Fiction Make You a Better Programmer? (Jonathan Wood)
• Thinking More About API-Driven Conversational Interfaces (Kin Lane)
• Git Basics: How to remove files from the working tree and the index? (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Be a Thankful Developer (Steve Smith)

Other Mobile Platforms

• Introducing Android Fragments (Mike James)
• Useful links for exam 70-357: Developing Mobile Apps (Davide Zordan)
• Building a Puzzle Game with Xamarin Forms (Daniel Vaughan)
• Xamarin.Forms: Java.Lang.IllegalStateException (James Montemagno)
• Build Enterprise Mobile Apps with AWS Mobile Hub – New User Management and SaaS Integration (Jeff Barr)
• Hitchhiking the HoloToolkit-Unity, Leg 4 – Text To Speech (Mike Taulty)
• Building Mobile UI Tests using REPL (Noel Rice)
• Common React Native App Layouts: Login Page (Wernher-Bel Ancheta)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Cross Cutting Concerns Podcast 025 – Jesse Riley on The Farmer Effect (Matthew Groves)
• .NET Rocks! – SQL Choices with Tony Petrossian (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Hanselminutes – Alcohol and the Tech Industry with Victor Yocco (Scott Hanselman)
• Getting Started with CSS Animations (keantonc & Rosshe)
• 239 JSJ Vets Who Code with Jerome Hardaway (Aimee Knight, Charles Max Wood & Dave Smith)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Jeremy Irons (Chris Hardwick)
• The Monsters Weekly – Episode 81 – Invoking View Components as Tag Helpers (David Paquette, James Chambers & Simon Timms)
• 120 AiA Back End And Front End Teams versus Cross-Functional Teams (John Papa)
• The Changelog 229: Python, Django, and Channels with Andrew Godwin and The Changelog 230: 18F and OSS in the U.S. Federal Government with Hillary Hartley and Aidan Feldman (Adam Stacoviak & Jerod Santo)
• RiYL Episode 195: Julien Koster (Brian Heater)
• SQL Data Partners Podcast Episode 71: BI Tools of the Trade (Carlos Chacon Jr.)
• CodeNewbie Ep. 116 – Diversity in Tech – Part I (Ashe Dryden) (CodeNewbie Team)
• Developer on Fire Episode 186 | Gayle Laakman McDowell – Creating Authority (Dave Rael)
• The Amp Hour #324 – Mapping Out Nerdery (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
• Talk Python to Me #86 – Python at StackOverflow (Michael Kennedy)
• StarTalk Radio Extended Classic: The Salt of the Earth (Part 1) (Neil deGrasse Tyson)
• What The Tech 333: x86 Emulation on ARM (Paul Thurrott)
• Introducing Microsoft Stream and Logic Apps Management and Tooling (Scott Hanselman & Rob Caron)
• Transition your Mobile Services to App Service (Scott Hanselman, Rob Caron & Seth Juarez)
• Rocket 98: At the End (Simone De Rochefort, Christina Warren & Brianna Wu)
• SSW TV – .NET To The Power of R1: An Introduction to R Development Language – TJ Gokcen (Sophie Belle)
• GoingNative 55: ISO C++ @Issaquah Debriefing | C9::GoingNative (Steve Carroll, Augustin Popa & Bryan DiLaura)
• Azure Podcast Episode 154 – Simpler Management Libraries (Sujit D’Mello)

Database

• Debugging Control Flow in SQL Server Integration Services – Part 1 (Nat Sundar)
• SQL Server Launchpad service cannot be started (Vitor Montalvao)
• Microsoft® SQL Server® vNext CTP1 Master Data Services Add-in For Microsoft® Excel® (MS Downloads)
• Integration Testing with Entity Framework Core and SQL Server (David Paquette)
• SQL Azure Cross Database Querying (John Miner)
• SQL Server 2016 SP1 Bug with Graphical Execution Plans (Brent Ozar)
• SQL SERVER – System Function @@IDLE to Find System Ideal Time and How to Downgrade Database from SQL Server 2014 to SQL Server 2012 – Interview Question of the Week #099 and SQL SERVER – Playing with Backups and Compression (Pinal Dave)
• Enforcing Referential Integrity Between Documents with Marten and PostgreSQL and Reducing Database Round Trips With Included Documents in Marten (Jason Roberts)
• What’s the Difference Between Estimated and Actual Execution Plans? (Brent Ozar)
• 7 Ways to Avoid SELECT * FROM Queries in SQL Developer (Jeff Smith)

Miscellaneous

• Creating a Tweet Buffer with Azure Queues and Microsoft Flow (Jason Roberts)
• Meet ALVINN, the self-driving car from 1989 (Andrew J . Hawkins)
• Big or Small, Every Girl Can Code with Help from Small Basic (Greg Duncan)
• Why Programmers Should Always Have a Side Project (Latish Sehgal)
• Invert Mouse Scroll Wheel on Win 10 (Michael Crump)
• How to recruit, hire and retain female engineers (Sharon Wienbar)
• Have I been pwned and spam lists of personal information (Troy Hunt)

More Link Collections

• Xamarin App Developer Links – 2016-11-24 and Windows App Developer Links – 2016-11-24 and Windows App Developer Links – 2016-11-25 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2016-11-25 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2016-11-28 and Windows App Developer Links – 2016-11-28 (Dan Rigby)
• The Morning Brew #2229 and The Morning Brew #2230 and The Morning Brew #2231 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #1774 and Double Shot #1775 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Reading Notes #258 (Frank Boucher)
• Collective #266 and Collective #267 (Pedro Botelho)
• Friday Five: Check Out What These MVPs Are Writing (MVP Award Program)
• Last Week on Channel 9: November 21st – November 27th, 2016 (Greg Duncan)
• The Daily Six Pack: November 24, 2016 (Dirk Strauss)
• Weekly C# Digest Issue #130 (Jakub Chodounsky)
• F# Weekly #48, 2016 (Sergey Tihon)

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