Day: July 28, 2017

Top Links

• XAML Standard Demystified (Sam Basu)
• Announcing the 2017 Imagine Cup Champions (Annie Arnold)
• 2017 World Championship | Imagine Cup World Finals 2017 (Mark Russinovich & Scott Guthrie)
• Introducing Support for Brotli Compression (Immo Landwerth)

Web & Cloud Development

• Getting Started with Workbox: JavaScript Libraries for your next Progressive Web App (Dean Hume)
• Getting Started with MultiAutoComplete for ASP.NET MVC (Prabhakar Mishra)
• Creating Web API With ASP.NET Core Using Visual Studio Code (Ahmed Abdi)
• Node-ChakraCore Update: N-API, Node.js on iOS and more (Arunesh Chandra)
• New Inspections in PhpStorm 2017.2 (Gary Hockin)
• Getting Started With Matter.js: The Composites and Composite Modules (Monty Shokeen)
• Defining Scan Consistency in a Node.js with Couchbase Application (Nic Raboy)
• Peachpie – Open Source PHP Compiler to .NET and WordPress under ASP.NET Core (Scott Hanselman)
• Error handling belongs at Layer 7 (policy) (Oren Eini)
• Ghost 1.0.0 – React, redux and redis?? (Hannah Wolfe)
• You’re using HttpClient wrong and it is destabilizing your software (Simon Timms)
• Couchbase on OpenShift Enterprise and Kubernetes – Developer Preview Available !! (Anil Kumar)
• API testing tips from a Postman professional (James Messinger)
• TypeScript – Getting Rid of Error: X is Declared, But Never Used (Tatu Tamminen)
• Azure Container Instances Promises Cheaper, More Agile Container Tools (Mary Branscombe)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

• Xamarin.Tip – Borderless Editor (Alex Dunn)
• Experiments with HoloLens, Bot Framework and LUIS: adding text to speech (Davide Zordan)

Visual Studio & .NET

• Book on Mastering Visual Studio 2017 has been published and available! (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Project Snowflake: Non-blocking safe manual memory management in .NET (Sandro Magi)
• Profile Guided Optimization Comes to .NET Core (Jeff Martin)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• Testing a Cake Addin (Derek Comartin)
• Introducing the “Delivery Plans” Extension for VSTS (Chris Walden)

Mobile & IoT

• Authenticating Android Apps Developed in Kotlin (Bruno Krebs)
• Introduction to Android Architecture Components (Tin Megali)
• Tablet support for NativeScript with Angular (Eddy Verbruggen)
• How to integrate 360 video with Unity (Toulouse de Margerie)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• AAWP Insight #224: Itching for that premium feel (Steve Litchfield)
• This Week on Windows: Shark Week, Imagine Cup, Help Me Choose and more (Elana Pidgeon)
• CodeChat 070 – Meet the Interns | CodeChat (Jeremy Foster)
• Cloud Developer Advocates at Microsoft Imagine Cup 2017 | Imagine Cup World Finals 2017 (John Papa, Tim Heuer, Donovan Brown, Bryan Liston, Charlotte Yarkoni & Ashley-McNamara)
• Updates to the Windows as a Service model (Microsoft Mechanics)
• StarTalk Radio – #ICYMI: Pitching Physics with Ron Darling (Neil deGrasse Tyson)
• Using Azure Scheduled Events to Prepare for VM Maintenance (Scott Hanselman & Rob Caron)
• Rocket 133: Walmart Disappoints America (Simone De Rochefort, Christina Warren & Brianna Wu)
• Software Engineering Daily – Self-Driving Deep Learning with Lex Fridman (Jeff Meyerson)
• Developer Tea – Listener Question: Simon Asks About Over-Positivity (Jonathan Cutrell)

Community & Events

• Goodbye CodePlex (Mark Heath)
• 10 Questions with Rick Barraza (James Ashley)
• Philly Nerd Nite No. 77: Diatoms, Victorian Era Flirting, Movie Product Placement (Nerd Nite Team)
• Happy Second Birthday: A Kubernetes Retrospective (Sarah Novotny)
• Meg Whitman Leaves HP’s Board (Steven Tweedie)

Database

• SQL SERVER – How to Identify Columns Used In A View? (Pinal Dave)
• Install and configure Power BI Report Server and Power BI Desktop (Siddharth Mehta)
• Handling Row Headers in U-SQL (Melissa Coates)

PowerShell

• Copy databases from 5 different SQL Servers in 100 seconds with the DBATools PowerShell Module (Mike Robbins)
• Standardized table based SQL Server monitoring email with PowerShell (Pablo Echeverria)

Miscellaneous

• MAME Devs Are Using a Unique Method for Circumventing DRM-Protected Arcade Chips (Tony Polanco)
• Amazon may be going head-to-head with Microsoft in healthcare (Mary Jo Foley)
• Windows 10 Creators Update fully available for all Windows 10 customers (John Cable)
• Jeff Bezos is now the world’s richest person, surpassing Bill Gates and Microsoft now lets developers test Windows 10 S (Tom Warren)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #2393 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows Weekly Dockerfile #2 (Elton Stoneman)

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