Dew Drop – August 3, 2017 (#2534)

Top Links

• SQL Server 2017 Release Candidate 2 (RC2) is now available (SQL Server Team)
• JetBrains Rider – New Cross-Platform .NET IDE Overview (Maarten Balliauw)
• Updating the Windows Console Colors (Craig Loewen)
• Visual Studio for Mac version 7.2 Alpha Preview (Miguel de Icaza)

Web & Cloud Development

• Meet Vue.js, the Flexible JavaScript Framework (Alex Handy)
• PhpStorm 2017.2.1 is here (Anna Lebedeva)
• WebStorm 2017.2.1 is now available (Ekaterina Prigara)
• React.js Structures JavaScript for Easy Componentization (Michelle Maher)
• Enhancing WordPress Comments Using Twilio and WebServices (Michelle Randolph)
• Rotate Text Links using jQuery (jQuery By Example)
• How to Send SMS in WordPress with a PHP Plugin (Onwuka Gideon)
• Custom response caching in ASP.NET Core (with cache invalidation) (Paul Hiles)
• The State of CSS in Angular (Stephen Fluin)
• Separate Form Submit Buttons That Go To Different URLs (Chris Coyier)
• Run Azure Stack in the Microsoft Azure Public Cloud (Chris Pietschmann)
• What is the Rest Parameter in a Function? (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Find projects infected by malicious npm packages (Dominik Kundel)
• Mesosphere DCOS, Azure, Docker, VMware & Everything Between – Deploying DC/OS with Azure Container Service (Lior Kamrat)
• Securing Your Twilio Account With 2FA (Marcelo Jabali)
• Leveraging Security Headers for Better Web App Security (Prithvi Bisht)
• Create a Drupal Site and Add Authentication with Auth0 (Prosper Otemuyiwa)
• 7 Tools for Developing Your First Progressive Web App (Vikas Agrawal)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

• WPF Tip #17 – Extended WPF Toolkit – BusyIndicator Control (Me)
• Using ARKit with UrhoSharp (Xamarin Team)
• The Page Object Pattern Will Make You A Better Xamarin UI Automation Tester (Adam Pedley)
• Xamarin Alpha Release: 15.4 Alpha 1 (Bri Brothers)
• Breaking Changes for Prism Autofac Users (Dan Siegel)

Visual Studio & .NET

• Helper function for your local method – Local Function in C# 7.0 (Abhijit Jana)
• Porting a Twilio MMS app to .NET Core with Visual Studio Code (Corey Weathers)
• Getting Started with C# 7 (James Montemagno)
• A proper terminal for Visual Studio (Scott Hanselman)
• Converting a Library to NetStandard (Derek Comartin)
• AutoMapper joins the .NET Foundation (Jimmy Bogard)
• Our experience with using third-party libraries (Patrick Smacchia)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• Shield your Agile team (Moses ‘Muhammad’ Soliman)
• Microservices and Docker containers: Architecture, Patterns and Development guidance (Cesar de la Torre)
• Unit Testing Implementation – The Plan #EverydayUnitTesting (Gil Zilberfeld)
• How Has Static Code Analysis Changed Through the Years? (Erik Dietrich)
• Composite UIs for Microservices – Composition options (Jimmy Bogard)
• 100 Excuses for Designers (Jon Moore)
• How to Break into UX Design: Tips from Design Instructor Beth Koloski (Patrick Faller)

Mobile & IoT

• Improve Usability in Your iOS App with These Features (Zack Simon)
• Android Bug Swatting with Sanitizers (Dan Austin)
• Game UI Patterns (Greg Duncan)
• Amazon job listing suggests Kindle team is working on virtual and augmented reality (Monica Nickelsburg)
• Introduction to Voice Recognition and IoT Automation (Daniel H.)
• #Hololens – Tutorial to use Buttons, Dialogs and more with #MRDesignLab (#HoloToolkit ++) (Bruno Capuano)
• Seek, and Ye Shall Find: The Algolia Plugin (Jen Looper)
• Creating a 3D topographical map in your HoloLens / Windows MR app with the Bing Elevation API (Joost van Schaik)
• Unity 2017.1 feature spotlight: Playable API (Pierre Paul Giroux)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• The Joy of Coding – Episode 108 (Air Mozilla)
• SQL Data Partners Podcast Episode 107: BI for the Little Guy (Carlos L. Chacon)
• Developer on Fire Episode 257 | The Hidden Genius Project – Whole Humans (Dave Rael)
• The Xamarin Show Episode 27: Azure Active Directory Authentication with Vittorio Bertocci (James Montemagno)
• Microsoft .future Podcast – Design For All (Dan Formosa, Angela Glover Blackwell, Jenny Lay-Flurrie, Sean Marihugh, Crystal Jones & Erin Williams)
• Microsoft Planner Updates (Microsoft Mechanics)
• TPDP Episode #15: Authorizing Access with OAuth (Nic Raboy)
• Windows Weekly 529: Things to do While You’re Eating Ham (Paul Thurrott)
• Radio TFS – Greg and Martin at it again (Martin Woodward & Greg Duncan)
• Software Engineering Daily – Quantum Computing with Vijay Pande (Jeff Meyerson)

Community / Events

• Women in Technology – Sarah Kong (Adobe Careers)
• 10 Questions with Vincent Guigui (James Ashley)
• Technovation Challenge Helps Girls Around the World Become Tech Entrepreneurs (Adobe Conversations Team)

Database

• SQL Server 2016 Increased Non-Clustered Index Key Size (Ahmad Yaseen)
• RavenDB 4.0: Raven Query Language (Oren Eini)
• Why Missing Index Recommendations Aren’t Perfect (Brent Ozar)

PowerShell

• How to set Azure PowerShell to a specific Azure Subscription (Benjamin Perkins)
• Updated! PowerShell Core [Beta] 6.04, AzureRM.NetCore Module, and Az CLI 2.0 Install Scripts for Ubuntu and OS X (Jessica Deen)

Miscellaneous

• Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 16257 for PC & Build 15237 for Mobile (Dona Sarkar)

More Link Collections

• Xamarin App Developer Links – 2017-08-03 and Windows App Developer Links – 2017-08-03 (Dan Rigby)
• The Morning Brew #2397 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #1902 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Collective #337 (Pedro Botelho)

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