Month: January 2017

Top Links

• MediatR Behaviors (Derek Comartin)
• Ashley Grant on Aurelia (David Giard)
• Microsoft – Kids Can Code!!! (Ed Price)
• How to Build & Ship an App in a Week with Xamarin.Forms (James Montemagno)

Web Development

• ASP.NET Core: Globalization and Localization (Daniel Jimenez Garcia)
• Provisioning Cloudant / CouchDB Databases From Auth0 For A Database-Per-User Architecture In Angular 2.4.1 and Associating Auth0 Rules With Specific Auth0 Clients In Angular 2.4.1 (Ben Nadel)
• jQuery’s .fade() Method (Learning jQuery)
• Optimizing App Loading Time With Angular 2 Lazy Loading (Stanimira Vlaeva)
• Async HTTP API and service bus (Piotr Gankiewicz)
• Managing Web Sites from Web Sites using the Azure Management Libraries for .NET (Brady Gaster)
• Rapid Development of Intelligent Bot Using Azure Bot Service (Abhijit Jana)
• Azure Region Pairs Explained (Chris Pietschmann)
• Kanvas Announces SDK Suite for 3rd Party Creative Live Videos (Eric Carter)
• Splunk and AWS: Monitoring & Metrics in a Serverless World (Kyle Champlin)
• Build Callbacks With Stamplay, Twilio and Unbounce (Kyle Kelly-Yahner)

Miscellaneous .NET

• Smarter build scripts with MSBuild and .NET Core (Matthew Abbott)
• Here’s how to detect whether an assembly is digitally signed (using C#) (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Deconstruction In C# 7.0 (Mahesh Chand)
• A C# Mission Launcher For Project Malmo Minecraft (Michael Washington)
• What’s New in Entity Framework Core 1.1 (Ricardo Peres)
• Sorting by indices, part 2: The Schwartzian transform (Raymond Chen)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Scrum Myths: Does Velocity Equal Value? (Alex Ballarin)
• VS Team Services Update – Jan 6 (Brian Harry)
• How Do Individual Contributors Get Stuck? A Primer (Camille Fournier)
• How To Be A Time Lord: Time Management Techniques To Try (Dennis R. Mortensen)
• Does X Make You Successful? (Jeremy Clark)
• Benefits Of Git Rebase (Lee Richardson)
• Book Review: Continuous Integration in .NET (Nathan Gloyn)

Other Mobile Platforms

• Xamarin Forms WebView Bindable Actions (Adam Pedley)
• Introducing EasyLayout.Droid For Simpler Xamarin Android Layouts (Lee Richardson)
• GitBit – Connecting GitHub and littleBits (Brady Gaster)
• 7 Tips for Mobile UI (Kratika Laalwani)
• Display Cards for Alexa: A New Complementary Feature for Screen-Based Products (Ted Karczewski)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• InfoQ Podcast: Neha Batra – Pivotal Labs Pair Programming (Neha Batra)
• AAWP Insight #202: a BringCast special (Steve Litchfield)
• Coding Blocks.NET Episode 53 – Clean Code – Programming around Boundaries (Allen Underwood, Michael Outlaw & Joe Zack)
• This Week on Windows: Countdown to Huge Savings, New Releases, and More | This Week On Windows (Camtomisser)
• CodeNewbie Ep. 122 – The Ethics of Coding (Bill Sourour) (CodeNewbie Team)
• Developer on Fire Episode 198 | Bryan Cantrill – Persistence and Action (Dave Rael)
• The Amp Hour #330 – An Interview with Zach Fredin(Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
• StarTalk Radio – Season 7 Time Capsule (Part 1) (Neil deGrasse Tyson)
• Windows Weekly 499: Air In, Noise Out (Paul Thurrott)
• Away From the Keyboard Episode 56: The Family That Codes Together with Kathleen Dollard (Richie Rump)
• Developer Tea – Understand Your Environment (Jonathan Cutrell)

Community / Events

• Around The World With MVPs: Lisbon (MVP Award Program)

Database

• SQL Server managed backups to Azure (Burt King)
• SQL SERVER – Unable to Start SQL Service – Server TCP provider failed to listen on [‘any’ 1433]. Tcp port is already in use. and How to Get Random Records from Table? – Interview Question of the Week #105 (Pinal Dave)
• Initial design for strong encryption in RavenDB 4.0 (Oren Eini)

Miscellaneous

• Mark Hamill has begun dubbing Donald Trump’s tweets as the Joker (Andrew Liptak)
• All you need to know about YubiKey for Windows Hello and Windows 10 (Daniel Rubino)
• More automakers choose Microsoft as their connected car partner (Gabriel Nunes)
• Microsoft’s Connected Vehicle Platform is a more far-reaching approach than either Apple’s or Google’s (Kareem Anderson)
• CES 2017: Intel Unveils a Credit Card-Sized Computer (Paul Thurrott)
• Windows 10 Insider build 15002 leaks after being canceled this week (Zac Bowden)

More Link Collections

• Xamarin App Developer Links – 2017-01-09 and Windows App Developer Links – 2017-01-09 (Dan Rigby)
• The Morning Brew #2258 (Chris Alcock)
• Welcome to 2017! Coming right up with the Friday Five (MVP Award Program)
• Double Shot #1790 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Collective #278 (Pedro Botelho)
• Reading Notes #262 (Frank Boucher)
• Last Week on Channel 9: January 2nd – January 8th, 2017 (Greg Duncan)
• Azure Weekly: Jan 9, 2017 (Chris Pietschmann)
• GameDev Newsletter – Week Ending January 6, 2017 (Brian Peek)
• Weekly C# Digest Issue #136 (Jakub Chodounsky)
• F# Weekly #2, 2017 (Sergey Tihon)

The Geek Shelf

Mastering Xamarin.Forms: Ed Snider: 9781785287190: Books ISBN: 1785287192 ISBN-13: 9781785287190