Day: October 16, 2017

Top Links

• The DZone Guide to Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning & Predictive Analysis Vol. 1 (DZone)
• Prism for Xamarin Forms Preview 3 (Dan Siegel)
• Azure Tips and Tricks Part 33 – Prevent Changes to Resources in Azure App Service (Michael Crump)
• Give the Visual Studio 2017 Version 15.5 Preview a Try! (Pierce Boggan)

Web & Cloud Development

• Patterns Of Enterprise Application Architecture By Martin Fowler (Ben Nadel)
• Windows Weekly Dockerfile #11: A Stateful ASP.NET Core App (Elton Stoneman)
• Functors in JavaScript (Rajat Sharma)
• Building Chat Interfaces Using JavaScript and React (Kevin Thompson)
• Using Azure Storage in ASP.NET Core (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Golang Guide: A List of Top Golang Frameworks, IDEs, and Tools (Costi Teleman)
• Opening a Web Browser with an HTTP Url from Visual Studio Code (Rick Strahl)
• Type System Differences in TypeScript (Structural Type System) VS C# & Java (Nominal Type System) (Tatu Tamminen)
• ESLint v4.9.0 released (ESLint Team)
• Manage Blob Storage with the Azure CLI (Mark Heath)
• An Elasticsearch Tutorial for .NET Developers (Ivan Cesar)
• Easily Manage Team Access To The Twilio Console (Josh Staples)
• Transforming JSON Using JSON.NET And JSONPath (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
• Why AWS Lambda? 4 Benefits to Using AWS Lambda for Your Custom Skill (Martha Kang)
• Give your customers fine-tuned translations with the Microsoft Translator Hub API (Microsoft Translator)
• Service Fabric 6.0 Refresh Release for Windows Server Standalone, Azure and .NET SDK (Service Fabric Team)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

• MvvmCross 5.3 (Martijn van Dijk)
• 4 Ways to Export from WPF and WinForms to Word and PDF Files (Stefan Stefanov)
• #Windows10 – Rotating maps with C# and #SurfaceDial in UWP Apps (Bruno Capuano)
• Farewell, Keyword Manager (James Ashley)
• .Net Standard 2.0 create Microsoft Office documents in Xamarin Forms (Glenn Versweyveld)
• Getting Started with Visual States in Xamarin Forms using BuildIt.Forms and View Model States and Connecting them to Xamarin Forms Visual States using BuildIt (Nick Randolph)
• Enable and control iOS 11 Large Titles in Xamarin.Forms (Robin-Manuel Thiel)
• IoC Container Performance (Adam Pedley)

Visual Studio & .NET

• Productive C# – How to create a Documents Store in Azure Cosmos DB (Andrea Angella)
• Dotnet Gem Stringdictionary (James Curran)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Agile Velocity: The Art and Science of Consistent Performance (Tyler Hakes)
• Stop Guessing. Start Measuring. (Tyler Hakes)
• Continuous Testing in .NET (Damir Arh)
• Wiki* to turn Wiki & many exciting features (Sandeep Chadda)
• Thoughts on code reviews (Steve Watts)

Mobile & IoT

• Effective phone number verification (Steven Soneff)
• Kotlin From Scratch: Advanced Properties and Classes (Chike Mgbemena)
• Reducing apk size : A quick hack! (Romit Choudhary)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• Hanselminutes – Terms of Service for Developers – ToS explained with lawyer Gary Nissenbaum (Scott Hanselman)
• MS Dev Show – Animation at Work with Rachel Nabors (Jason Young & Carl Schweitzer)
• Cross-Cutting Concerns Podcast 063 – Ted Neward on Transpilers (Matthew Groves)
• Technology & Friends – Jay Harris on Web Development Tools (David Giard)
• InfoQ Podcast: Incident Response across Non-Software Industries with Emil Stolarsky (Emil Stolarsky)
• Moving Your API to Serverless With Azure Functions (Burke Holland)
• Developer on Fire Episode 278 | Thomas Henson (Dave Rael)
• Merge Conflict 67: Surviving a Hackathon (Frank Krueger & James Montemagno)
• TWC9: Windows Developer Day On-Demand, TypeScript is 5, Xbox Onesies and Giant Battling Robots! | This Week On Channel 9 (Greg Duncan & Christina Warren)
• StarTalk Radio – StarTalk Live! from Future Con: Engineering the Future (Part 2) (Neil deGrasse Tyson)
• Developer Tea – The Most Important Part of My Day (Part 1) and Developer Tea – The Most Important Part of My Day (Part 2) (Jonathan Cutrell)
• Weekly Dev Tips 009: Data Transfer Objects (part 2) (Steve Smith)

Community & Events

• Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Geoff Gray (Willy-P. Schaub)
• What’s Coming from Microsoft this Fall (Graham High)
• Join the Journey from Device to Action at the IoT Virtual Bootcamp (Greg Duncan)

Database

• How to build RDS Environment in AWS for SQL Server (Pinakin Patel)
• Team Foundation Server 2018 and SQL Server (Brian Harry)
• Exploring The New SSRS 2017 API In Power BI (Chris Webb)
• SQL SERVER – Empty Startup Parameters in SQL Server Configuration Manager and SQL SERVER – Configure Stored Procedure to Run at Server Startup – Simple Tutorial and Can You DROP Offline Database? – Interview Question of the Week #143 (Pinal Dave)
• RavenDB 4.0: Interlocked distributed operations (Oren Eini)
• Retrospective on Marten at 2 Years Old (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Serverless and Playing Around With MongoDB Atlas and MongoDB Serial (Nikola Živković)

Miscellaneous

• Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 17017 for PC (Dona Sarkar)
• How Microsoft manages marketing activities at scale (Kyle Elliott)
• How To Not Hate Public Speaking (Part 2) (Steve Gordon)

More Link Collections

• Xamarin App Developer Links – 2017-10-16 and Windows App Developer Links – 2017-10-16 (Dan Rigby)
• The Morning Brew #2443 (Chris Alcock)
• Top stories from the VSTS community – 2017.10.13 (Willy-P. Schaub)
• Double Shot #1953 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Weekly C# Digest Issue #176 (Jakub Chodounsky)
• F# Weekly #42 – Visual F# Team is hiring (Sergey Tihon)
• Check Out This Azure Cognitive Services Channel 9 Series, And More On The Friday Five (MVP Award Program)
• Collective #357 (Pedro Botelho)
• Last Week on Channel 9: October 9th – October 15th, 2017 (Greg Duncan)
• Reading List (Bruce Lawson)
• Azure Weekly: Oct 16, 2017 (Chris Pietschmann)

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