Day: October 13, 2017

Top Links

• Step-back while debugging with IntelliTrace (Deborah Chen)
• JetBrains Rider 2017.2 is released (Jura Gorohovsky)
• Introducing Gluon: a new library for machine learning from AWS and Microsoft (Ana Visneski)
• Announcing TypeScript 2.6 RC (Daniel Rosenwasser)

Web Development

• Book Review: The New CSS Layout (Dean Hume)
• Applying CSS Styles To Routable Child Views Using Simulated Encapsulation In Angular 4.4.4 (Ben Nadel)
• Vue.js Crash Course: Create a Simple Blog Using Vue.js (Chinedu Izuchukwu)
• Easy JavaScript Part 11: Simplifying function expressions and the function statement (Dhananjay Kumar)
• WebStorm 2017.3 EAP, 173.3188: better code completion and docs for JavaScript, new refactoring (Ekaterina Prigara)
• How I’m (Not) Using jQuery (Raymond Camden)
• Visual Studio 2017 Service Fabric Tools 2.0 Preview (Service Fabric Team)
• React Boilerplates That You Should Know Of (Bogdan Sandu)
• Consolidating Multiple Identity Sources with Auth0 (Bruno Krebs)
• Unifying monitoring and security for Kubernetes on Azure Container Service (Saurya Das)
• Azure Functions Proxies – Part 4 – A very lightweight API Management (Toon Vanhoutte)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

• MahApps.Metro MetroHeader (Jan Karger)
• UWP News – UWP in FCU Supports .NET Standard 2.0 (Me)
• New Map Control features in Windows 10 Fall Creators Update (Pablo Candelas Gonzalez)
• Bring 3D Models To Life in Augmented Reality with UrhoSharp (Egor Bogatov)
• Check out the new In-app ads dashboard in Windows Dev Center (Shreyas Ganesh Narayanaswamy)

Visual Studio & .NET

• Writing Precompiled Azure Functions in Visual Studio 2017 (Jason Roberts)
• Book Review: Secure Coding in C and C++  2nd Edition (Mike James)
• Avoiding the NullReferenceException (Derek Comartin)
• Static analysis of .NET Core 2.0 applications (Patrick Smacchia)
• 3 Ways To Avoid An Anemic Domain Model In Entity Framework (Paul Hiles)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• Ultimate UX Design Guide to SaaS On-Boarding, Part 3: Drip Campaigns (Aleksander Góra)
• Top 10 Obstacles to Faster Code Reviews and Better Code Quality (Jaime Jorge)
• Composite UIs for Microservices – Data Composition (Jimmy Bogard)
• GitHub now works directly with AWS CodeStar (Kyle Daigle)

Mobile & IoT

• Introducing Android Instant Apps SDK 1.1 (Jichao Li & Shobana Ravi)
• Google Cloud Releases Public Beta of Cloud IoT Core (Martin Abbott)
• Unity 2017.2 is now available (Alex Lian)
• MR Schooling at the Mixed Reality Academy (Greg Duncan)
• Build an Alexa-enabled Product with Streaming Media Capabilities using AVS Device SDK v1.1 (Satish Iyer)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• History Tech #45 | Social Media Creating Tools (Chris Woods)
• This Week on Windows: Marimekko, Surface, Middle Earth: Shadow of War and more (Elana Pidgeon)
• New video: Programming the Microsoft Bot Framework (Kim Spilker)
• SQL Server Radio – Help the Optimizer (Matan Yungman & Guy Glantser)
• Rocket 144: Go Oculus Go (Simone De Rochefort, Christina Warren & Brianna Wu)
• Developer Tea – The Most Important Part of My Day (Part 1) (Jonathan Cutrell)

Community & Events

• Philly .NET Meetup – React vs Angular vs Vue and Philly .NET Meetup – React Basics and Philly .NET Meetup – React Advanced and Philly .NET Meetup – React + Redux + RxJS and Philly .NET Meetup – GraphQL + Razor Pages (Bill Wolff & Rob Keiser)
• Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Ken Muse (Willy-P. Schaub)
• Kendo UI Support for React & Vue Webinars (Tara Manicsic)
• 10 Not-To-Miss Art Exhibitions & Events In Philadelphia This October (Erica Minutella)
• Announcing the Amazon Alexa Session Track at AWS re:Invent 2017 (Jen Gilbert)

Database

• SSIS Package to Centrally Monitor All SQL Servers (Atul Gaikwad)
• How to Do a SQL Server Architecture Review (Brent Ozar)
• SQL SERVER – Msg 1038 – An Object or Column Name is Missing or Empty. For SELECT INTO Statements, Verify Each Column Has a Name (Pinal Dave)
• RavenDB 4.0: Interlocked distributed operations (Oren Eini)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Edge Preview for Android now available on Google Play (Dan Thorp-Lancaster)
• A conversation with Surface and Marimekko designers on the intersection of customization, design, and tech (Eric Lovelin)
• WSL & Console team ch…ch…ch…chaaaaanges! (Rich Turner)

More Link Collections

• Windows App Developer Links – 2017-10-13 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2017-10-13 (Dan Rigby)
• The Morning Brew #2442 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #1952 (Mike Gunderloy)

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