Dew Drop – March 16, 2017 (#2441)

Top Links

• Preview 5 – Visual Studio for Mac (Bri Brothers)
• Modern Web Development | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green)
• Smart Paste in Rider (Maarten Balliauw)
• The Diversity And Inclusion Blog Series: Our First Thoughts (Karen Juhl & Betsy Weber)

 

Web & Cloud Dev

• Logging And Debugging Unhandled Promise Rejections In Node.js v1.4.1 And Later (Ben Nadel)
• Subgrid moved to Level 2 of the CSS Grid specification (Rachel Andrew)
• PhpStorm 2017.1 Release Candidate is available (Anna Lebedeva)
• ASP.NET Core Error Management with elmah.io (Damien Bowden)
• Using dotPeek to figure out why IIS crashed (Maarten Balliauw)
• Kendo UI for React in 2017 (Petyo Ivanov)
• WordPress – How to Move from HTTP to HTTPS – The Simple Complete Tutorial (Pinal Dave)
• ZEIT now deployments of open source ASP.NET Core web apps with Docker (Scott Hanselman)
• The Express.js Route to Success (Timmy Kokke)
• ASP.NET Core: Implementing Syslog logger (Gunnar Peipman)
• Building / Configuring the Lambda into AWS (Phillip Haydon)
• Introducing the Copilot API for Programmable SMS (Donnie Wang)
• Stack Motion Hover Effects (Mary Lou)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Concurrency in Go – $21.49 (Save 50%) Use code DEAL (O’Reilly Media)
• Cloud Messaging – Amazon or Azure? (Steve Smith)
• From ng-switch to ngSwitch (Todd Motto)

 

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

• Xamarin.Controls – BadgeView (Alex Dunn)
• Introduction to Apache Cordova in Universal Windows Platform Using Visual Studio (Delpin Susai Raj)
• Validating User Input in Xamarin.Forms III (David Britch)

 

Visual Studio & .NET

• All of Visual Studio 2017 Visually In One Suite Release (Michael Domingo)
• Azure and Office APIs in Visual Studio (Kin Lane)
• Shaping the Future of Visual Studio (Jeff Martin)
• Pattern Matching and Tuples (Eric Potter)
• Approaching Function Programming Completely Wrong (Jeremy Clark)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The Lean Inception (Martin Fowler)
• Becoming an Agile Leader, Part 3: How to Create Allies (Johanna Rothman)
• The occasionally failing test (Oren Eini)
• How to amend changes to your code in your most recent commit – 074 (Sara Ford)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Swift From Scratch: Function Parameters, Types, and Nesting (Bart Jacobs)
• App Store Optimization: From Keywords to Reviews (Becky Young)
• MonoGame Content Pipeline – Your Asset Asset (Greg Duncan)
• Amazon Makes it Free for Developers to Build and Host Most Alexa Skills Using AWS (Hilary Fagan)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Moon Base Geek Out (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Becoming a software developer – episode VIII (Piotr Gankiewicz)
• Endpoint Zone with Brad Anderson [1703] | The Endpoint Zone with Brad Anderson (Simon May & Cameron Tomisser)
• SSW TV – NDC Sydney 2016 – Ask Me Anything! with Shawn Wildermuth (Angular 2.0) and SSW TV – The State of .NET​ with Markus Egger (long version) and SSW TV – NDC Sydney 2016 – Ask Me Anything! with Chris Klug (ASP.NET Core & OWIN) (Sophie Belle)
• Xamarin University Webinar Recordings | Intro to Xamarin for Visual Studio and Building Your First Xamarin.Forms App (Courtney Witmer)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Danny Boyle (Chris Hardwick)
• The Fourth User Interface: How Virtual, Augmented & Mixed Reality will Change your World (Chris Caldwell, Lex Thomas & CrC)
• Community Content Presenter Training: IoT Session 1 Demo 1 (Colin Melia)
• Developer on Fire Episode 217 | Josh Doody – Fearless (Dave Rael)
• Coming Soon: The MVP Show | The MVP Show (Larry Larsen & Seth Juarez)

 

Community / Events

• MSFT is looking for a Tech Evangelist in Atlanta (Dave Voyles)
• 8+ Ways To Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day 2017 In Philadelphia (Elisa Ludwig)
• On-demand and on time: The Microsoft Tech Summit Content Hub (Kyle Elliott)
• Slack Bug Bounty: Three Years Later (Max Feldman)

 

Database

• List Dependencies for SQL Server Foreign Keys (Rick Dobson)
• DocumentDB: API for MongoDB now generally available (Andrew Hoh)
• 3 Results Grid features SQL Prompt brings to SSMS (Cathrine Wilhelmsen)
• No seriously, don’t use SQL_VARIANT for that (Erik Darling)
• Time travelling with SQL Compare (Jamie Wallis)
• Couchbase 5.0 March 2017 Developer Build Features and Enhancements (Nic Raboy)
• Introducing Microsoft Data Amp (Mitra Azizirad)

 

PowerShell

• Using Measure-Object to sum file sizes in Powershell (Alex Hildyard)

 

More Link Collections

• Xamarin App Developer Links – 2017-03-16 and Windows App Developer Links – 2017-03-16 (Dan Rigby)
• The Morning Brew #2301 (Chris Alcock)
• Collective #297 (Pedro Botelho)

 

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