Day: October 20, 2017

Top Links

• Experiment with Azure for FREE! (Anthony D. Green)
• Debugging Cake on macOS with Mono (Jonathan Dick)
• Visual Studio Team Services notifications in Visual Studio IDE (Ruben Rios)
• Windows Application Driver v1.0 Release (Hassan Uraizee)
• Let’s Encrypt – Wildcard Certificates Coming January 2018 (Josh Aas)

Web & Cloud Development

• Free .NET Core eBook, including ASP.NET Core and EF Core (Andrew Lock)
• Angular 5 Release Imminent! (Brian Fernandes)
• Working with Angular and its technology stack in .NET (Edward Charbeneau)
• Essential JavaScript Libraries and Frameworks You Should Know About (Manjunath M)
• Streem Brings Augmented Reality, 3-D Mapping to Twilio Video Chat (Kyle Kelly-Yahner)
• Prevent IIS (and potentially other reverse proxies) from unexpectedly compressing ASP.NET Core response (Tomasz Pęczek)
• Using Azure Storage in ASP.NET Core (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Managing Storage Queues with the Azure CLI (Mark Heath)
• Importing OpenAPI Definition To Create An API With AWS API Gateway (Kin Lane)
• A Painless Introduction to APIs: Usage, Integration, & Benefits (Maxime Laboissonniere)
• OAuth 2.0 Best Practices for Native Apps (Kim Maida)
• Twilio Authenticator SDK Now Supports Offline Authentication with TOTP (Simon Thorpe)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

• #PowerBI – Sending information to Streaming Datasets from a UWP App with C# (Bruno Capuano)
• Xamarin iOS Expanding Splash View NuGet Announcement! (Alex Dunn)

Visual Studio & .NET

• First Look at Visual Studio 2017 Update 5 Preview (Jeff Martin)
• C# 7.0 and 7.1 support in ReSharper – Expression-bodied everything (Maarten Balliauw)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• The Necessity of Systematic Thinking (Aaron Stannard)
• Want real app security? Ditch your legacy code. (John Browne)
• 5 Ways to Use Imposter Syndrome to Your Advantage (Jordan Scheltgen)

Mobile & IoT

• Daily Kotlin: Static methods (Aanand Shekhar Roy)
• How to make PWAs with Ionic (Jorge Vergara)
• Intel Announces New Dev Kit for Building Far-Field, Alexa-Enabled Products (Rachel Bennett)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• Hanselminutes – Web Animation at Work with Rachel Nabors (Scott Hanselman)
• Visual Studio Toolbox – Entity Framework Power Tools (Robert Green)
• This Week on Windows: The Windows 10 Fall Creators Update, Surface Book 2 and more (Elana Pidgeon)
• Talk Python to Me #134 – Python in Climate Science (Michael Kennedy)
• RadioTFS – Bunches About Bots with Jeffrey Opdam (Martin Woodward & Greg Duncan)
• Rocket 145: Baby’s Got Back, As They Say (Simone De Rochefort, Christina Warren & Brianna Wu)
• SSW TV – From UX to CX – Improving the Customer Experience with Adam Cogan (Sophie Belle)
• Developer Tea – Interview w/ Kristen Gallagher (Part 2) (Jonathan Cutrell)
• Azure Podcast Episode 200 – SQL on Linux (Sujit D’Mello)

Community & Events

• Upcoming Webinar | Build Better Games with Unity and Microsoft Azure (Courtney Witmer)
• I’ll be hosting workshops at DataSciCon.Tech in ATL (Dave Voyles)
• Game Off, our annual game jam returns in November (Lee Reilly)
• Slack co-founder Cal Henderson to talk on Slack’s progress at Disrupt Berlin (Mike Butcher)
• Q&A: Meet Asma Khalid, The First Female MVP In Pakistan (MVP Award Program)

Database

• Querying JSON Data in SQL Server 2016 (Peter Vogel)
• Web Screen Scraping with Python to Populate SQL Server Tables (Rick Dobson)
• Announcing the Data Science Virtual Machine in Batch AI Service (Paul Shealy)
• Linux for the SQL Server DBA- Part II (Kellyn Pot’Vin-Gorman)
• SQL SERVER – When to Turn On Optimize for Ad Hoc Workloads? (Pinal Dave)

PowerShell

• Get-Learning : Why PowerShell? (Mike Shepard)

More Link Collections

• Windows App Developer Links – 2017-10-20 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2017-10-20 (Dan Rigby)
• The Morning Brew #2447 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #1957 (Mike Gunderloy)

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