Dew Drop – April 3, 2017 (#2454)

…and we’re back to normal service. I hope everyone enjoyed Saturday’s special edition.

Top Links

• Welcoming CodePlex projects to GitHub (Sara Ford)
• Shutting down CodePlex (Brian Harry)
• Day 5 – Exploring Docker for Windows – Running A Command Prompt Inside a Container (Michael Crump)
• Hash Passwords with ASP.NET Membership Providers (Jeffrey T. Fritz)

 

Web Development

• Building JavaScript Demos With TypeScript 2.2.1, Webpack 2, And Angular 2.4.9 (Ben Nadel)
• Often forgotten must-haves for Continuous Delivery teams (Paul Hammant)
• Build and Deploy a MongoDB Angular NodeJS App using nginx in Three Steps with Docker (Jeremy Likness)
• Add MVC to your ASP.NET 1.1 application using the dotnet command line (Jon Hilton)
• Testing Angular faster with Jest (Michal Pierzchala)
• Updating my AlbumViewer Sample to ASP.NET Core 1.1 and Angular 4 (Rick Strahl)
• Does CSS Grid Replace Flexbox? (Robin Rendle)
• HTTP-triggered Azure Functions (Gunnar Peipman)
• Setting up multi-platform npm packages (Axel Rauschmayer)
• Faxing ASCII Images using Node and Twilio Programmable Fax (Devin Rader)
• Introducing MDXC: A new way to write Markdown for React (James K Nelson)
• VS Code Extension with Azure Function Intellisense (John Papa)
• AWS Lambda: Encrypted environment variables (Mark Needham)
• Authenticate A Golang API With JSON Web Tokens (Nic Raboy) – * Premium Content

 

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

• 2000 WPF Things #1,203 – Create a Reusable Group of Elements with a ContentPresenter (Sean Sexton)
• Xamarin.Tips – Sending Authorized SignalR Requests (Alex Dunn)
• New MapControl features in Windows 10 Creators Update (Sandra Lori-Amini)
• Introducing WebViewExtensions and WebViewBehavior (Scott Lovegrove)

 

Visual Studio & .NET

• Deleting highly performant code (Oren Eini)
• #Friki – Sharp80: #TRS-80 emulator written in C# (Bruno Capuano)
• Modeling Battleship in C# – Playing the Game (Matthew Jones)
• How to fix the “I’ve started making changes on master. How do I get those to another branch?” using Visual Studio – 090 and How to do a fast forward merge in Visual Studio – 092 (Sara Ford)
• Introduction to Reactive Extensions (Rx.NET) (Adam Pedley)
• Desktop Bridge: Creators Update (Arian Ghotbi)
• No GCs for your allocations? (Maoni Stephens)
• Tracing .NET Core on Linux with USDT and BCC (Sasha Goldshtein)
• How to create your own templates for dotnet new (Sayed-Ibrahim-Hashimi)

 

Design, Methodology & Testing

• Broad Brushes and Narrow Brushes: There’s More to BDD Than Given/When/Then (John Ferguson Smart)
• The Principle of Least Surprise (Allen Pike)
• The right way to approach a legacy code base (Andrea Angella)
• We’re on the same team (Eric Brechner)
• Team Services Extensions Roundup – March (Joseph Bourne)
• Ship Quickly, Ship Quality: The Developer’s Quest (Nora Georgieva)
• Managing Line-feeds in a Cross-platform Team via Git (Rey Bango)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Alexa Audio Skill in C# (.Net Core) (Matthias Shapiro)
• 5.6 is now available and completes the Unity 5 cycle (Alex Lian)
• Facebook Build Target Now Available in Unity 5.6 (Kevin Thai)
• A ‘roller blind’ animation component for HoloLens applications (Joost van Schaik)
• Swift 3.1 Improves Language, Package Manager, and Linux Implementation (Sergio De Simone)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Cross Cutting Concerns Podcast 035 – Nathan Groves on Retro Game Streaming with Twitch (Matthew Groves)
• Agile Uprising Podcast – Kelly Waters | 101 Ways (Ryan Lockard)
• Indie Dev Podcast, Ep 35-Shawn Woods, Alpha Dog Games and [TALK] Native iOS & Android Development With Xamarin (Dave Voyles)
• Webinar Recording | Introduction to Xamarin with Visual Studio (Kym Phillpotts)
• VIDEO: Create Azure Web App in the Azure Portal and VIDEO: Create Azure SQL Database in the Azure Portal (Chris Pietschmann)
• CodeNewbie Ep. 134 – Getting Into Hardware (Elecia White) (CodeNewbie Team)
• Developer on Fire Episode 222 | Ben Hood – Gratefully Geeking Out (Dave Rael)
• Merge Conflict 39: Parsing Palindromes (Frank Krueger & James Montemagno)
• TWC9: A Hitchhikers Guide to the CoreCLR, System.Ben, Squirrel.Windows and more… | This Week On Channel 9 (Greg Duncan, Seth Juarez & Kendra Havens)
• An overview of Azure Monitor (Microsoft Mechanics)
• StarTalk Radio – Cosmic Queries: Galactic Gumbo (Neil deGrasse Tyson)
• Samsung Announces The Galaxy S8 – What The Tech Ep. 349 (Paul Thurrott)
• Away From the Keyboard Episode 63: Derick Bailey’s Move From Fast Food To Entrepreneur (Richie Rump)
• Azure Monitor | Azure Friday (Scott Hanselman & Rob Caron)
• Rocket 116: Gosh-Darn Angry! (Simone De Rochefort, Christina Warren & Brianna Wu)
• Developer Tea – This Mistake Could Be Killing Your Resumé (Jonathan Cutrell)
• Azure Podcast Episode 172 – Containers Discussion (Sujit D’Mello)
• Episode 226: Microsoft R Server Solutions | Microsoft Azure Cloud Cover Show (Thiago Almeida, Chris Risner & Mustafa Kasap)
• Adam & Patrick Unplugged – EP1 (Adam & Patrick)

 

Community / Events

• Orlando Codecamp is this week! (Esteban Garcia)
• Six Awesome Philadelphia Cherry Blossom Festival Events Across Town, April 1-9 (Grace Dickinson)
• Open source contributors wanted (Piotr Gankiewicz)

 

Database

• Reflect on SQL Server Security Considerations After Recent Breaches (Tim Smith)
• How to Find Median in SQL Server? – Interview Question of the Week #115 and SQL SERVER – Management Studio Missing – SSMS 2014 not Installed with SQL Server 2014 (Pinal Dave)
• Technical Preview: Database Experimentation Assistant (Christina Lee)
• Tutorial: Using R for Scalable Data Analytics (David Smith)
• Six shades of masking your data (Toby Smyth)

 

Miscellaneous

• ‘Project Scorpio’ Xbox roadmap reveals planned June performance boost, game certification dates (Jez Corden)
• Big News! Small Basic available on Windows App Store! (Liz Bander)

 

More Link Collections

• Xamarin App Developer Links – 2017-04-03 and Windows App Developer Links – 2017-04-03 (Dan Rigby)
• The Morning Brew #2313 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #1832 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Things I’ve Learnt This Week (2nd April) (Steve Gordon)
• Collective #302 (Pedro Botelho)
• Reading Notes #274 (Frank Boucher)
• Coding4Fun First Quarter 2017 Round-Up and Last Week on Channel 9: March 27th – April 2nd, 2017 (Greg Duncan)
• The Friday Five: Have A Look At What These Technical Experts Are Writing (MVP Award Program)
• Azure Weekly: Apr 3, 2017 (Chris Pietschmann)
• GameDev News – Week Ending March 31, 2017 (Brian Peek)
• From my reading list. March 2017 (Denis Gladkikh)
• Weekly C# Digest Issue #148 (Jakub Chodounsky)
• F# Weekly #14, 2017 (Sergey Tihon)

 

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