Dew Drop – September 7, 2017 (#2556)

Top Links

• Azure Tips and Tricks Part 12 – Easily Start, Restart, Stop or Delete Multiple VMs (Michael Crump)
• Live Webinar | Xamarin University Presents: Exploring UrhoSharp 3D with Xamarin Workbooks (Charles Petzold)
• Logitech wants to make trackball mice great again with the MX Ergo (Dan Thorp-Lancaster)
• TechBash 2017–You can still register (Andy Schwam)

Web & Cloud Development

• E2E Testing AngularJS applications with TestCafe (Alexander Moskovkin)
• Testing Components in Angular Using Jasmine: Part 1 (Manjunath M)
• Debugging ASP.NET Core 2.0 Source Code (Steve Gordon)
• Overview on Web App for Containers and Azure App Service on Linux (Apurva Joshi)
• A Tour of Azure Messaging Services (Queues, Event Grid, IoT Hub, and More) (Chris Pietschmann)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

• It’s Here, UWP Community Toolkit v2.0! (Greg Duncan)

Visual Studio & .NET

• New C# 7 features in action: Local Functions in C# 7 (Kapil Khandelwal)
• Improved XML documentation support in ReSharper and Rider (Maarten Balliauw)
• What’s New and Changed in Entity Framework Core 2 (Ricardo Peres)
• Azure Management Libraries for .NET – v1.2 (Asir Selvasingh)
• Logging MediatR Requests (Derek Comartin)
• Creating a C++/CLI Wrapper (Mircea Oprea)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• Alternatives for Agile and Lean Roadmapping: Part 3, Flow-Based Roadmapping (Johanna Rothman)
• Automated Testing: Improving Application Speed and Quality (DZone)
• New Power-Ups! Integrations With GitLab, JotForm, OneDrive & More (Brian Cervino)
• How do managers* get stuck? (Camille Fournier)
• Marker Interface Isn’t a Pattern or a Good Idea (Erik Dietrich)
• Azure Functions – Prepare for continuous delivery (Mikael Krief)

Mobile & IoT

• Smart Gesture Recognition in iOS 11 with Core ML and TensorFlow (Adam King)
• Working With Android Notification Channels (Dan Lew)
• Running a TensorFlow model on iOS and Android (Mostafa Gazar)
• Announcing List Events and Two–Way Sync with Alexa Lists (David Isbitski)
• Integrated Testing with React Native, Part 1: Generator Functions (Jay Hayes)
• Enroll for app signing in the Google Play Console & secure your app using Google’s robust security infrastructure (Kobi Glick)
• Making the Google Developers documentation style guide public (Jed Hartman)
• Submitting a NativeScript Feature Request (Rob Lauer)
• Azure IoT Hub Device Provisioning Service preview automates device connection and configuration! (Sam George)
• GitHub for Unity 0.19-alpha released (Lee Reilly)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Animations at Work with Rachel Nabors (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Syntax Podcast – CSS in JS ‍ (Drama Free!) (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
• Channel 9 Demo: Polished Telerik UI for Xamarin Apps (Sara Faatz)
• Build A MongoDB App Video Series Is Here (Burke H✪lland)
• SQL Data Partners Podcast Episode 108: The Future of the Relational Database (Carlos L. Chacon)
• Developer on Fire Episode 267 | Lyndsey Padget – Cultivating Confidence (Dave Rael)
• An Introduction to Blockchain with Mark Russinovich (Mark Russinovich & Seth Juarez)
• Becoming a software developer – episode XXIV (Piotr Gankiewicz)
• RadioTFS – The One Martin (Martin Woodward & Greg Duncan)

Community & Events

• Ways to get involved in the local tech community (5 of 5) (Jason Haley)
• The Incredible Growth of Python (David Robinson)
• Find out more about database DevOps at an event near you (Hannah Mumby)
• 10 Questions with Nate Turley (James Ashley)
• Location-Based Marketing Is Coming to an Event Near You (Kalahari Meetings)
• Discover database DevOps at Microsoft Ignite (Mary Robbins)
• 10 Delicious Food And Drink Deals In Philadelphia This Week (Michael Butler)

Database

• Desired State Configuration and the SQL Server DBA (Shawn Melton)
• SQL SERVER – System Procedure to List Out Table From Linked Server (Pinal Dave)
• Dynamic nodes distribution in RavenDB 4.0 (Oren Eini)
• How to Monitor Storage Performance with a Single Application (K. Brian Kelley)
• Top 10 SQL Features (Shad Reynolds)

Miscellaneous

• How I Built Trump Sentiment Tracker (Conor Dewey)
• New Tutorial: Creative Coding with Small Basic (Liz Bander)
• Logitech launches its first updated trackball mouse in nearly a decade (Lory Gil)
• Destiny 2 Available Now on Xbox One (Mike Nelson)

More Link Collections

• Xamarin App Developer Links – 2017-09-07 and Windows App Developer Links – 2017-09-07 (Dan Rigby)
• The Morning Brew #2421 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #1926 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Collective #346 (Pedro Botelho)

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