Day: July 13, 2017

Top Links

• Announcing Babylon.js 3.0 (David Catuhe)
• What Is Net Neutrality And Why It Needs To Stay (Trello Team)
• The State of Developer Ecosystem 2017 – Infographic (JetBrains)
• Calling all game devs: The Dream.Build.Play 2017 Challenge is Here! (Andrew Parsons)
• Windows 10 SDK Preview Build 16232 Released (Clint Rutkas)

Web Development

• PhpStorm 2017.2 Release Candidate is available (Anna Lebedeva)
• Join free webinar on “Step by Step Getting Started with Angular 4” (Dhananjay Kumar)
• ASP.NET Core Demystified – Model Binding in MVC (Matthew Jones)
• Hooking A Web Page To Firebase With VueJS (Rob Conery)
• Angular Testing In Depth: Components (Gábor Soós)
• An Angular 4 .Net Core Application Updater (Michael Washington)
• Docker for .NET Developers (Part 7) (Steve Gordon)

XAML

• Build your first connected Xamarin mobile app using MvvmCross 5.0 (Kasia Krzyzanowski)
• Xamarin forms Tabbed page – UWP with images (Glenn Versweyveld)
• Loading – Xamarin.Forms (Juliano Custódio)
• Xamarin Beta Release: 15.3 Preview 4 (Bri Brothers)
• Step by step tracking down a macOS Beta regression (Chris Hamons)
• Windows 10 preview build 16232 ISO files and SDK now available (Dan Thorp-Lancaster)
• The UWP Community Toolkit is 1 1/2! (v1.5) (Greg Duncan)

Miscellaneous .NET

• Generate On Build now available on NuGet (Eric J. Smith)
• .NET Core on Circle CI 2.0 using Docker and Cake (Adam Hathcock)
• Unleashing the Power of .NET Big Memory and Memory Mapped Files (Dmitriy Khmaladze)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Unit Testing Implementation: Leadership, Part I on #EverydayUnitTesting (Gil Zilberfeld)
• Managing Artifacts with the Redgate Create Release step template from the Octopus Deploy Library (Alex Yates)
• Code Quality Metrics: Separating the Signal from the Noise (Erik Dietrich)
• Are your automated tests slowing you down? (Gareth Bragg)
• The Leadership Journey is Complete and Live (Jim Holmes)

Other Mobile Platforms

• #Hololens – How to use the Developer Portal when the device is connected via USB (Bruno Capuano)
• Building a fully featured burner phone with Kotlin (Marcos Placona)
• Building a dynamic floating clickable menu for HoloLens/Windows MR (Joost van Schaik)
• Kinvey Releases NativeScript SDK (Rob Lauer)
• Testing Mobile Apps: A Primer (Serena McIntire)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – The .NET Renaissance with Ian Cooper (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Episode 26: Monetizing Mobile Apps with Ads | The Xamarin Show (James Montemagno)
• GoingNative 59: MinGW in Visual Studio | C9::GoingNative (Augustin Popa)
• Design Patterns: Command/Memento | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green)
• Syntax Web Dev Podcast 002 – Webcam and audio access with WebRTC and getUserMedia() (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
• Developer on Fire Episode 251 | James Stone – Bridging the Gap (Dave Rael)
• Talk Python to Me #120 – Python in Finance (Michael Kennedy)
• Developer Tea – Don’t Throw It Over the Wall (Jonathan Cutrell)

Community / Events

• On Quiet Developers (Seán Hanson)
• Interview with UWP Succinctly Author Matteo Pagani (Darren West)
• Trends in Government Software Developers (David Robinson)
• 10 Questions with Sean Ong (James Ashley)
• MVP Reconnect: Why You Should Join The Program For Former MVPs Today (MVP Award Program)

Database

• How to Find Long Running Job Steps in Microsoft SQL Server (Thomas LaRock)
• Heimdall Data Auto-Caching for SQL Server – No Changes to Application (Pinal Dave)
• RavenDB 4.0: The admin’s backdoor is piping hot (Oren Eini)

PowerShell

• DSC Resource Kit Release July 2017 (Katie Keim)
• How do I update VScode (Emin Atac)

Miscellaneous

• Announcing more updates to Paint 3D: Magic select enhancements & drawing tools (Lee Schuneman)
• Presentation Translator, a Microsoft Garage project, Translates and Subtitles Live Presentations (Microsoft Translator Team)

More Link Collections

• Xamarin App Developer Links – 2017-07-13 and Windows App Developer Links – 2017-07-13 (Dan Rigby)
• The Morning Brew #2382 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #1887 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Collective #331 (Pedro Botelho)

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