Dew Drop – September 15, 2017 (#2562)

Top Links

• Windows Developer Day Returns! (Windows Apps Team)
• The ASP.NET Interns ship their project – A basic blog template for .NET Core (Scott Hanselman)
• TechBash 2017 – Oct 4-6 (Brian Harry)
• Announcing SignalR for ASP.NET Core 2.0 (Glenn Condron)

Web & Cloud Development

• A Quick Introduction to Functional JavaScript (Angelos Chalaris)
• Strapping React.js on a WordPress Backend: WP REST API Example (Maxime Laboissonniere)
• How to Deploy JavaScript & Node.js Applications to AWS Lambda (Maciej Treder)
• Getting Started With End-to-End Testing in Angular Using Protractor (Manjunath M)
• Accepting Raw Request Body Content in ASP.NET Core API Controllers (Rick Strahl)
• Azure Tips and Tricks Part 16 – Deploy Jekyll Site Hosted on GitHub Pages to Azure (Michael Crump)
• Function Proxies adds Mock APIs to the Portal (Alex Karcher)
• Azure functions for single page websites (Daniel Hindrikes)
• Weekly Windows Dockerfile #7 (Elton Stoneman)
• Lean Startup on elmah.io – Metrics (Thomas Ardal)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

• TinyNavigationHelper for Xamarin.Forms (Daniel Hindrikes)

Visual Studio & .NET

• NuGet Package Signing (Ricardo Minguez)
• Asynchronous Programming Succinctly Published (Dirk Strauss)
• CMake support in Visual Studio – CMake 3.9, Linux targeting, feedback (Will Buik)
• .NET Ninja Tooling Arrives—Shipping the Telerik R3 Release (Stefan Stefanov)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• Why People Give Up on Agile (Ana Jones)
• Agile Principles Aren’t About Process. They’re a Shift in Values and Mindset. (Tyler Hakes)
• How Personality Matters in Software Development (Ben Linders)
• Git LFS 2.3.0 released (Taylor Blau)
• Why we’re using AWS, not Azure, to store our OSS releases (Willy-P. Schaub)

Mobile & IoT

• Working with the Files app in iOS 11 (Joseph Dixon)
• Create Bluetooth Android Application Using Android Studio (Abubackkar Shithik)
• UrhoSharp for HoloLens Project Templates (Greg Duncan)
• Introducing Snacklabs: A New Way to Learn NativeScript (Jen Looper)
• Kotlin Testability – Part 1 (Mark Allison)
• Building a Successful App: The Benefits of Device Targeting (Serena McIntire)
• Application Metrics for Swift is now available for Swift 4.0.0 (Sian January)
• Amazon Launches Enhanced Developer Site for the Alexa Voice Service (Ted Karczewski)
• Code a Real-Time App With NativeScript: Push Notifications (Wernher-Bel Ancheta)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• Hanselminutes – Technology in non-profits with the New York Public Library and Courteney Ervin (Scott Hanselman)
• Rocket 140: The Revolutionary iPhone (Simone De Rochefort, Christina Warren & Brianna Wu)
• This Week on Windows: Fall TV Guide, Windows 10 Fall Creators Update and more (Elana Pidgeon)
• Software Engineering Daily – Visual Search with Neel Vadoothker (Jeff Meyerson)
• Developer Tea – DCR: Traits of a Great Developer – Grit of a Scientist (Jonathan Cutrell)
• Azure Podcast Episode 195 – ML & AI (Sujit D’Mello)

Community & Events

• Xamarin All-Stars at .NET Conf 2017! (Jayme Singleton)
• Interview with Asynchronous Programming Succinctly Author Dirk Strauss (Darren West)
• Conferences for Introverts. Part 6: Dress Code (Alan Mendelevich)
• 10 Questions with Sam Basu (Matthew Soucoup)
• Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella recounts his first time meeting Steve Ballmer in 1992 (Taylor Soper)

Database

• Using SQL Server In-Memory Tables Within ETL Architecture (Tim Smith)

PowerShell

• Processing text files with PowerShell (John Miner)
• PowerShell with the Couchbase REST API (Matthew Groves)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Pix captures better pictures of people, and now whiteboards too (John Roach)

More Link Collections

• Windows App Developer Links – 2017-09-15 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2017-09-15 (Dan Rigby)
• Double Shot #1932 (Mike Gunderloy)

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