Dew Drop – October 23, 2017 (#2587)

Top Links

• docs. microsoft.com – Announcing New International Features (Jeff Sandquist)
• C# 7.0 and 7.1 support in ReSharper – Async main (Maarten Balliauw)
• TWC9: New Windows 10, New Surface Book, New Visual Studio, New Web Documentation and more… | This Week On Channel 9 (Greg Duncan, Jason Young & Christina Warren)
• 9th Anniversary of Small Basic (Nonki Takahashi)

Web & Cloud Development

• ngOnInit() May Not Get Called Before ngOnDestroy() Is Called In Angular 4.4.6 and The New CSS Layout By Rachel Andrew (Ben Nadel)
• Azure Application Insights for Node.js Hits 1.0 (David Iffland)
• WebStorm 2017.2.5 is now available (Ekaterina Prigara)
• Product Review: Cross-Platform HTML5 Compliant Medical Imaging with LEADTOOLS (Jeremy Likness)
• How to Receive and Respond to Text Messages with Node.js, Express and Twilio (Sam Agnew)
• Issues with native WebVR on Daydream (Timmy Kokke)
• Bringing Mixed Reality to the Web (Andre Vrignaud)
• Swagger is now the OpenAPI Specification (Chris Pietschmann)
• Building and Testing Kubernetes Applications Locally Using Telepresence (Daniel Bryant)
• Debugging React Like a Champ with VSCode (James Jeffery)
• var, let, or const? (J Ballin)
• Azure Tips and Tricks Part 37 – Parse Emails to be used in a Azure Logic Apps (Michael Crump)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

• UWP Tip #8 – UWP Community Toolkit – Part 6, Using the VisualTree and LogicalTree UI Helpers (Me)
• Building Media Applications for the Universal Windows Platform (UWP) using the MediaPlayerElement (Nick Randolph)

Visual Studio & .NET

• Visual Studio Code C/C++ extension October 2017 update (RongLu)
• C# 8 – The Shape of the Things to Come (Nikola Živković)
• F# Advent Calendar in English 2017 (Sergey Tihon)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• The real origins of the Agile Manifesto (Matt Hilbert)
• Mocking with FeatureToggle (Jason Roberts)
• .NET Core DevOps with Docker, Travis CI and Rancher – part 1 (Piotr Gankiewicz)

Mobile & IoT

• The Day All Android Developers Will Use Kotlin (jlelse)
• GameMaker Basics: Drawing Sprites (Becky Young)
• IoT in Action! Boston, October 30th (Greg Duncan)
• Programming the AZ3166 MXChip Azure DevKit – mapping virtual Arduino pins to physical digital I/O pins (Jeremy Lindsay)
• Five-Star Apps with Mobile Center Test (Mayur Tendulkar)
• The future of Unity is just a few clicks away (Vlad Neykov)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• Cross Cutting Concerns Podcast 064 – Patrick Smacchia on NDepend and Refactoring (Matthew Groves)
• Technology & Friends – Pratap Ladhani on PowerApps (David Giard)
• Agile Uprising Podcast: 5 Metrics to Create Safety and High Performing Teams (Paul Elia)
• AFH 079: How to Build an Agile Podcast (Ryan Ripley)
• Merge Conflict 68: Throw Some XAML In It (Frank Krueger & James Montemagno)
• Developer on Fire Episode 280 | Rehema Wachira (Dave Rael)
• The Amp Hour #364 – The Endless Y2K (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
• StarTalk Radio – Cosmic Queries – Climate Change (Neil deGrasse Tyson)
• Windows Weekly 540: Smell the Baguettes and Windows on Arm Battery Life – What The Tech Ep. 372 (Paul Thurrott)
• NativeScript Developer Day – Sessions on Getting Started (Rob Lauer)
• Azure API Management: New Admin UI and Mocks (Scott Hanselman & Rob Caron)
• Software Engineering Daily – Quantum Computing Introduction with Zlatko Minev (Jeff Meyerson)
• SSW TV – NDC Sydney 2017 – Ask Me Anything! with Adam Cogan and Kylie Hunt (Happiness in the Workplace) (Sophie Belle)
• Developer Tea – How To Navigate Communication Problems – Listener Question from Enrico (Jonathan Cutrell)

Community & Events

• Microsoft Autism Hiring Program aims to attract diverse talent (Jason Ward)
• Why I Organize Desert Code Camp (Joseph Guadagno)

Database

• Populate Large Tables with Random Data for SQL Server Performance Testing (Ben Richardson)
• SQL SERVER – How to Create A Global Temporary Table? and What are Forwarded Records in SQL Server? – Interview Question of the Week #145 (Pinal Dave)
• MySQL Multi-Range Read (MRR) Optimization Caused A Partial Database Outage (Ben Nadel)
• Changing the world with data science (Ben Ryon)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #2448 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #1958 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Anniversary edition of F# Weekly #43, 2017 – Five years together! (Sergey Tihon)
• Weekly C# Digest Issue #177 (Jakub Chodounsky)
• Top stories from the VSTS community – 2017.10.20 (Willy-P. Schaub)
• Reading Notes #302 (Frank Boucher)
• Collective #359 (Pedro Botelho)
• Friday Five: DevOps, Mixed Reality, NodeServices And More (MVP Award Program)
• Azure Weekly: Oct 23, 2017 (Chris Pietschmann)

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