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
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)
 
The Geek Shelf
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 ISBN: 0321503627  | 
Growing Object-Oriented Software, Guided by Tests: Steve Freeman, Nat Pryce: 9780321503626: Books
Understanding ECMAScript 6: The Definitive Guide for JavaScript Developers: Nicholas C. Zakas: 9781593277574: Books
The Book of F#: Breaking Free with Managed Functional Programming: Dave Fancher: 9781593275525: Books