Day: December 6, 2016

Top Links

• Azure Notebooks now support F# (Shahrokh Mortazavi)
• Announcing a Week of ASP.NET Core (Brian Rinaldi)
• Introducing the ASP.Net Async OutputCache Module (lanlanlee2008)
• How ‘Amazon Go’ works: The technology behind the online retailer’s groundbreaking new grocery store (Todd Bishop)
• My Favorite Books of 2016 (Bill Gates)

 

Web Development

• What’s Coming In WordPress 4.7? (Boris Kuzmanov)
• How to create constants in JavaScript? (Dhananjay Kumar)
• 1and1 vs. GoDaddy: Which Is the Better ASP.NET Host? (Emilyn Manuela)
• Create a URL Shortener with Node.js and Couchbase using N1QL (Nic Raboy)
• Using ASP.NET Core Javascript Services to Play Nice with Client-side Frameworks (Rion Williams)
• TypeScript 2.0: Even Better Data Typing and Class Discriminants (Peter Vogel)
• Let’s Go: Golang Concurrency, Part 2 (Gigi Sayfan)
• AMP Cache Updates (John Coiner)
• Get 19 VS 2017 Web Extensions with Just One Install (Greg Duncan)
• Interactive Musical Instruments (Mary Lou)
• The Fibonacci Sequence Printed With Golang (Nic Raboy)
• How SAML Authentication Works (Prosper Otemuyiwa)

 

XAML

• Reengage your customers with UWP ad campaigns and push notifications (Vikram Bodavula, Yamil Hernandez Saa & Sonia P. Carlson)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• #VS2017 – Analyzing the performance impact of extensions, panels, and solutions in Visual Studio IDE (Bruno Capuano)
• It’s a Good Day to Be a C# Developer (Kevin Griffin)
• Here’s how to detect installed ‘Antivirus’ software name (using C#) (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Entity Framework Core Cookbook – Second Edition (Ricardo Peres)
• Orleans 2.0 Tech Preview supporting .NET Core (Julian Dominguez)
• Finding Hidden Exceptions in Your Application with Prefix (Matt Watson)
• When I grow up I want to be a .NETStandard Library! (Nick Randolph)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Relative links for GitHub pages (Ben Balter)
• Improve Code Skills? Consider Blogging (Dirk Strauss)
• ClassInitialize, ClassCleanup, and Sharing Data Across Tests in XUnit2 (Jeff Yates)
• The Break-Up (Tom Churchwell)
• ebook deal of the week: Troubleshooting with the Windows Sysinternals Tools, 2nd Edition (Kim Spilker)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Welcoming Android 7.1.1 Nougat (Dave Burke)
• Setting Up Android x86 HAXM Emulators (James Montemagno)
• NuGet does my head in….. No thanks to Xamarin.Forms (Nick Randolph)
• Installing RavenDB 4.0 on your Raspberry PI 3 (Oren Eini)
• An Introduction to Protocol-oriented Programming in Swift (Alexander Gaidukov)
• AlexaDev Tuesday: Python Alexa Skill Tutorial (April Hamilton)
• Creating a Bookstore application: Interface to SQL (Robert F. Dickerson)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Understanding Entity Framework Core with Julie Lerman (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Windows Central Podcast 27: Windows 10 Home Hub Revealed (Zac Bowden)
• SQL Server Radio – SQL Server Hydra (Matan Yungman & Guy Glantser)
• Gone Mobile 40: Deep Linking and Branch with Sahil Verma (Greg Shackles & Jon Dick)
• Entreprogrammers Episode 144 “Don’t Stop Twerking The Business” (Josh Earl, John Sonmez, Derick Bailey & Charles Max Wood)
• The Married Gamers Presents Episode 404: What was the Question? (Chris Brown)
• Merge Conflict 22: Designing Apps the Developer Way (Frank Krueger & James Montemagno)
• Revision Path 169: Tanya Marie (Maurice Cherry)
• Developer Tea – 3 Commitments for 2017 (Jonathan Cutrell)

 

Community / Events

• Join us for the Xamarin Dev Day Live Virtual Event (James Montemagno)
• 18+ Awesome Things To Do In Philly This Week, December 5-11 (Jillian Wilson)
• Making the Most of Your Next Fundraising Event (Kalahari Meetings)
• Get ready for WinHEC 2016 (Mollie Ruiz-Hopper)

 

Database

• Debugging Control Flow in SQL Server Integration Services – Part 2 (Nat Sundar)
• Disconnecting SQL Server connections after query execution (Rahul Mehta)
• SQL SERVER – Speed Up Performance Without Code Change (Pinal Dave)

 

Miscellaneous

• Amazon launches Amazon Go, a mind-blowing brick-and-mortar grocery store with no checkouts (Paul Sawers)
• NetflixOSS: Announcing Hollow (Drew Koszewnik)
• Excessive explanation, part two (Eric Lippert)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Head First Python – $21.49 (Save 50%) Use code DEAL (O’Reilly Media)
• Here’s 1.4 billion records from Have I been pwned for you to analyse (Troy Hunt)
• Microsoft has a new AI bot in town, and its name is Zo (Zac Bowden)

 

More Link Collections

• Xamarin App Developer Links – 2016-12-06 and Windows App Developer Links – 2016-12-06 (Dan Rigby)
• Double Shot #1780 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Interesting links of the week (11/28 – 12/04) (Mike Eaton)
• The Morning Brew #2237 (Chris Alcock)
• The Daily Six Pack: December 6, 2016 (Dirk Strauss)
• Top Ten Most Popular Developer Links for the Week of November 28, 2016 (Dmitry Lyalin)

 

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