Dew Drop – September 25, 2017 (#2568)

Top Links

• Azure Tips and Tricks Part 20 – Working with Files in Azure App Service and Azure Tips and Tricks Part 21 – Adding Extensions to Web Apps in Azure App Service (Michael Crump)
• Spend less time CD’ing around directories with the PowerShell Z shortcut (Scott Hanselman)
• The Ethics of Running a Data Breach Search Service (Troy Hunt)
• Rider 2017.2 EAP 2: open folder, call and value tracking, and more (Maarten Balliauw)
• .NET Conf – ASP.NET Core 2.0 Security (Barry Dorrans)

Web & Cloud Development

• Using Method And Function Overloading In TypeScript (Ben Nadel)
• Relicensing React, Jest, Flow, and Immutable.js (Adam Wolff)
• Debugging Node.js apps in WebStorm (Ekaterina Prigara)
• Announcing Stackdriver Debugger for Node.js (Justin Beckwith)
• The Importance Of JavaScript Abstractions When Working With Remote Data (Kaloyan Kosev)
• Local Debugging with the Azure Functions CLI (Mark Heath)
• Serverless webhooks in Node 8 with Auth0 Webtasks (Tomasz Janczuk)
• What is AWS CLI? Understanding the Command Line Tool (Angela Stringfellow)
• GitLab v10 Integrates with Kubernetes (Michelle Gienow)
• Never Forget A Friend’s Birthday with Python, Flask and Twilio (Bob Belderbos)
• Weekly Windows Dockerfile #8: The Container Filesystem (Elton Stoneman)
• A Day in the Life of a Docker Admin (Jenny Fong)
• Brackets 1.11 is now available (Rajnish Bharti)
• How You Can Use the New Stack Overflow Bot from Microsoft (David Fullerton)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

• 2000 WPF Things #1,218 – Stretching Items in TreeView across Entire Control (Sean Sexton)
• Xamarin Forms: Refresh Data Using MessagingCenter (Uma Narayanan)
• Merged Dictionaries In Xamarin.Forms (Adam Pedley)
• Xamarin Forms – RepeaterView (Glenn Versweyveld)
• UWP Tip #6 – UWP Community Toolkit – Part 4, Leveraging the StorageFiles and Storage Code Helpers (Me)
• Windows 10 IoT Core Project Templates (Greg Duncan)
• What Is The Future of UWP In .NET Standard 2.0 (Mahesh Chand)

Visual Studio & .NET

• C#. Static Cache and Multithreading (Anton Burtsev)
• Inline comments in GitHub for Visual Studio (Steven Kirk)
• A piece of Cake! (Dan Clarke)
• SpecFlow + .NET Core = problems (Michał Komorowski)
• .NET Core September 2017 Update — macOS High Sierra Support (Rich Lander)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• Agile Software Development Is Not Dead (Tyler Hakes)
• How Do You Find Your Perfect Productivity App? A Beginner’s Guide (Francesco D’Alessio)
• Burndown and Burnup Widgets available for the VSTS Analytics Extension (Gregg Boer)
• Effective Use of Slack (Jessica Kerr)
• The Only Country in the World (Mary Poppendieck)

Mobile & IoT

• Android Dev-Tip #6 (Bartek Lipinski)
• Making Kotlin easier (Android development) (Rashi Karanpuria)
• How to Add Variety to Your Alexa Skill’s Responses (Martha Kang)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• Cross Cutting Concerns Podcast 060 – Dean Hume on Progressive Web Apps (Matthew Groves)
• The 21 Best Developer Podcasts Right Now (Ben Putano)
• Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 246 #OTP (Richard Hay)
• InfoQ Podcast: Simon Brown on the Role of the Software Architect in a Continuous Delivery Environment (Simon Brown)
• Mac Power Users 397: More on iOS 11 and High Sierra (Katie Floyd and David Sparks)
• Xamarin Podcast: Android Oreo, iOS 11, and Xamarin.Forms Tips & Tricks (Pierce Boggan)
• no dogma podcast #81 – Doc Norton, Better Agile Metrics (Bryan Hogan)
• Developer on Fire Episode 272 | Marc Grabanski – Teaching Impact (Dave Rael)
• New personalized experiences on the web with Office.com and the Office 365 app launcher (Microsoft Mechanics)
• StarTalk Radio – Let’s Make America Smart Again: The Future of NASA (Neil deGrasse Tyson)
• Software Engineering Daily – Static Analysis with Paul Anderson (Jeff Meyerson)
• Developer Tea – DCR: Growth Mindset (Jonathan Cutrell)
• .NET Conf – Xamarin with Azure IoT Hub and .NET Conf – Responsive UI with Xamarin and .NET Conf – Xamarin Forms 3.0  and .NET Conf – Intro to Xamarin Forms and .NET Conf – Building your CI/CD pipeline for ASP.NET and Mobile using Visual Studio Team Services (Xamarin University Team)
• .NET Conf – Get Started with ASP.NET Core 2.0 (Glenn Condron)
• .NET Conf – Building Web APIs with ASP.NET Core 2.0 (Daniel Roth)

Community & Events

• Stealing Ridgeway’s ‘National Coding Week’ Developer Questions (Dan Clarke)
• We’re getting ready for Microsoft Ignite 2017! (Anisha Pindoria)
• Everything you need to know about the Xbox Insider Program (Jez Corden)
• Philly Nerd Nite No. 79: Archives Month! Monuments, Pamphlets, Stooges, and music by Midwestern Exposure (Nerd Nite Team)
• Remembering How We Should Manage Open Source (Sam Guckenheimer)
• Contribute for New Programmers with TechNet Wiki Small Basic Articles (Nonki Takahashi)
• The Microsoft C++ team is at CppCon 2017 (Andrew Pardoe)

Database

• Execute Python Scripts with Management Studio to Securely Import Data into SQL Server (Rick Dobson)
• How to Kill User Sessions (SPID) in SQL Server? – Interview Question of the Week #140 and SQL SERVER – Simple Explanation of AT TIME ZONE Feature (Pinal Dave)
• RavenDB 4.0 Unsung Heroes: Field compression and RavenDB 4.0 nightly builds are now available (Oren Eini)

MS Teams

• Beware the mirage of Microsoft Teams (Loryan Strant)

PowerShell

• Bulk Insert Data into a Azure SQL Database with PowerShell (John Miner)
• PowerShell [DateTime] throws the error “String was not recognized as a valid DateTime.” (Dan Sheehan)
• Retrieve AWS AccountID using PowerShell (Trevor Sullivan)

Miscellaneous

• The Secret to Beautiful Presentations (Alan Mendelevich)
• Microsoft announces redesigned Office.com experience (Dan Thorp-Lancaster)
• Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 16296 for PC (Dona Sarkar)

More Link Collections

• Windows App Developer Links – 2017-09-25 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2017-09-25 (Dan Rigby)
• The Morning Brew #2428 (Chris Alcock)
• Friday Five: Insight Into ASP.NET, Azure Functions, Hololens And More (MVP Award Program)
• Weekly C# Digest Issue #173 (Jakub Chodounsky)
• F# Weekly #39 – be on the SAFE stack today! (Sergey Tihon)
• Reading List (Bruce Lawson)
• Azure Weekly: Sept 25, 2017 (Chris Pietschmann)
• Reading Notes #298 (Frank Boucher)
• Top stories from the VSTS community – 2017.09.22 (Willy-P. Schaub)
• Collective #351 (Pedro Botelho)
• Last Week on Channel 9: September 18th – September 24th, 2017 (Greg Duncan)

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