Dew Drop – May 25, 2017 (#2487)

Top Links

• Xamarin University’s free webinar series: Learn mobile development from experts (Mark Smith)
• Connecting Intercom and Slack with a Serverless Webhook (Glenn Block)
• Using the Windows Template Studio with #MVVMLight (Laurent Bugnion)
• Incremental build in Rider (Maarten Balliauw)

Web & Cloud Development

• A very good time to understand CSS layout (Rachel Andrew)
• How to use multiple hosting environments on the same machine in ASP.NET Core (Andrew Lock)
• WebStorm 2017.2 EAP, 172.2465: run single Karma test, better navigation for TypeScript (Ekaterina Prigara)
• Introducing Speech Recognition – Public Beta Now Open (Andrew Jordan)
• Request a professional app translation from the Google Play Console and reach new users (Rahim Nathwani)
• Announcing Phone Numbers in 70 countries, Transparent Toll-Free Pricing, and Hosted SMS (Billy Chia)
• Introducing Twilio Proxy (David Ganly)
• Microsoft Bot Framework: using a LuisDialog for processing intents (Davide Zordan)
• Declarative APIs (Greg Baugues)
• Integrating Postman Pro with Microsoft Flow (Ankit Jaggi)
• The Amazing Evolution of the Web on Mobile (Max Lynch)
• Release of SDK 2.6.210 and Runtime 5.6.210 refresh for Windows, and SDK 2.7 and Runtime 5.7 Preview (Service Fabric Team)
• Azure Functions – Dev Workflow (Shahed Chowdhuri)
• Should I Use WebListener or Kestrel or IIS on Windows? (Steve Smith)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

• Using Local Notifications in Xamarin.Mac (Al Clark)
• Azure ApplicationsInsights for Xamarin iOS (Has Altaiar)
• Change the font type of a NavigationPage Title in Xamarin Forms (Jan Tourlamain)
• Getting Started with SkiaSharp with Xamarin Forms (S Ravi Kumar)

Visual Studio & .NET

• Tuples in .NET world and C# 7.0 improvements (Nikola Živković)
• What is a C# Throw Exception? Examples, Best Practices, and Everything You Need to Know (Angela Stringfellow)
• Get Started with the Cortana Skills Kit (Greg Duncan)
• IEnumerable vs IReadOnlyList (Vladimir Khorikov)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• The Architect Elevator — Visiting the upper floors (Martin Fowler)
• Are Unit Tests Part of Your Team’s Performance Reviews? (Eli Lopian)
• Agile Metrics: A GQM Approach (John Tanner)
• Stop Reinventing The Wheel (David McCarter)
• A Great Start to a Radical Candor Journey (Elisse Lockhart)
• How Should Microservice’s Communicate? (Jeremy D. Miller)

Mobile & IoT

• Setup Raspberry Pi with Windows 10 IoT Core (Chris Pietschmann)
• Simple deep linking in Swift (Josh Smith)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Ditching the Hourly Crusade with Jonathan Stark (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Agile Uprising – Tracking Scrum Master Performance (Troy Lightfoot & Dave Prior)
• SQL Data Partners Podcast Episode 97: SQL Server Replication (Carlos L. Chacon)
• SQL Server Data Tools in your DevOps pipeline | Visual Studio Toolbox (Dmitry Lyalin)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Bill Burr #3 (Chris Hardwick)
• Developer on Fire Episode 237 | Seb Rose – Experiences (Dave Rael)
• One Dev Question with Raymond Chen – Why are there “Program Files” and “Program Files (x86)” directories? (keantonc & Rosshe)
• Becoming a software developer – episode XVIII (Piotr Gankiewicz)

• Community & Events

• An Ode to Developers (Nicholas Vella)
• The largest Git repo on the planet (Brian Harry)
• Announcing the Women Techmakers Udacity Scholarship (Amy Schapiro)
• Announcing GitHub Universe early bird tickets and speaker submissions (mandyzc)
• Satya Nadella, Judson Althoff and Kirk Koenigsbauer will keynote Microsoft Inspire this July (Michael Cottuli)

Database

• How to change default backup directory in SQL Server on Linux (Rajendra Gupta)
• SQL SERVER – Simple Query to List Size of the Table with Row Counts (Pinal Dave)
• MongoDB Authentication and Roles: Creating Your First Personalized Role (Adamo Tonete)
• Using Docker to develop with Couchbase (Laura Czajkowski)
• Demystifying Conflict Resolution in Couchbase Mobile (Priya Rajagopal)

PowerShell

• High Performance PowerShell with LINQ (Michael Sorens)

Miscellaneous

• A Dive Into Stack Overflow Jobs Search (Alyssa Mazzina)
• Xbox Game Pass Launches June 1 With 100+ Games; Early Access For Gold Members Starts Today (Larry Hryb)

More Link Collections

• Xamarin App Developer Links – 2017-05-25 and Windows App Developer Links – 2017-05-25 (Dan Rigby)
• The Morning Brew #2348 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #1854 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Collective #317 (Pedro Botelho)

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