Day: November 13, 2017

Top Links

• .NET Standard Comes to the Xamarin.Forms Project Templates! (Pierce Boggan)
• Prism Template Pack 2.0 (Brian Lagunas)
• Azure Tips and Tricks Part 49 – Add Azure Cloud Shell to Visual Studio Code (Michael Crump)
• WebAssembly explodes client-side programming (Chris Sells)

Web & Cloud Development

• Continous Deployment with Azure App Service (Clinton Barr)
• Currying is not idiomatic in JavaScript (Axel Rauschmayer)
• Deploying Azure WebApps with Kudu Zip API (Mark Heath)
• Creating A Twitter-Inspired SVG Progress Indicator In Angular 5.0.1 (Ben Nadel)
• Docker GUI’s On Windows With Reasons (Aaron Powell)
• Docker + dotnet-watch (Nate McMaster)
• WebStorm 2017.3 EAP, 173.3622: Vue code snippets and alias for system’s default node (Ekaterina Prigara)
• Docker Read-Only File Systems (Muhammad Rehan Saeed)
• Setting up my WSL Environment – Azure CLI, Docker and .NET (Shayne Boyer)
• Testing a B2C secured Web API using Postman (Sara Ford)
• Avoiding npm globals through run-script (Aaron Powell)
• IdentityServer4 Localization using ui_locales and the query string (Damien Bowden)
• Building a Slack Bot Using Python (Jamie Munro)
• Deep dive on Kubernetes for container orchestration (Ali Hussain)
• Eight years of Go (Steve Francia)
• Building Chat Bots With Bing Search Results Using Bot Framework (Suthahar J)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

• Improving HTTP Performance in Xamarin Applications (Jonathan Peppers)
• A High-Quality IconBitmapEncoder for WPF (Herbert Lausmann)
• Combining the power of Grial UI Kit, Prism, and Infragistics AppMap (Devlin Duldulao)

Visual Studio & .NET

• Bundling .NET build tools in NuGet and MSBuild tasks with dependencies (Nate McMaster)
• Template Creator for Visual Studio for Mac (Matt Ward)
• xUnit Roslyn Analyzers (David Pine)
• Deeper Dive Into EF Core 2 – Part 3 (Dustin Horne)
• A problem with extension methods (Patrick Smacchia)
• Holograms Catalogue (Pete D.)
• Dialog management with QnA, LUIS, and Scorables (Matthew Shim & Jason Sowers)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• Periodic Table of Agile Principles and Practices (Andy Cleff)
• 3 Ways Trello Will Change How Your Distributed Team Brainstorms (Sarah Goff-Dupont)
• Transform T4 templates as part of the build, and pass variables from the project (Thomas Levesque)
• STABLE tactics for writing SOLID code (Mark Heath)
• Building a software product – what’s one of the secret ingredients? (Yosif Yosifov)
• Getting started with a modern source control system and DevOps (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Should Code Review Include Manual Testing? Depends! (Matthew Jones)

Mobile & IoT

• Alexa, Turn on the TV – Alexa Smart Home Device Controls for TVs, Audio Video Devices and Entertainment Hubs Now Available in UK (Jennifer King)
• Reactive Programming For Android (Moses Kim)
• Building a modern, mobile-first app (Chris Sells)
• GameMaker Basics: Hitboxes and Hurtboxes (Emily Esposito Fulkerson)
• Cooking up the RetroPie (Greg Duncan)
• Deploying a .NET Core 2 app to a Raspberry Pi with Cake and PuTTY saved sessions (Jeremy Lindsay)
• Building a CustomView -TicTacToe (Krishan Sharma)
• RadialGradient – Gradients (Mark Allison)
• Finding the floor – and displaying holograms at floor level in HoloLens apps (Joost van Schaik)
• Using the MXChip AZ3166 Azure DevKit with Arduino – coding with pin names instead of numbers (Jeremy Lindsay)
• Help us beta-test Unity 2017.3 and earn a chance to win a Mixed Reality headset (Jacob Herold)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• Cross Cutting Concerns Podcast 067 – Season 2 Finale (Matthew Groves)
• TWC9: Connect(); Next Week, Picking the Right Azure VM, Star Wars Video Cards, Life After the Uniform and more… | This Week On Channel 9 (Greg Duncan, Christina Warren)
• Java in Azure Functions | Azure Friday (Scott Hanselman & Rob Caron)
• Developer on Fire Episode 286 | Pablo Rivera – Grateful Underdog (Dave Rael)
• CodeNewbie S2:E3 – How do tech companies read your resume? (Eddie Washington) (CodeNewbie Team)
• Microsoft’s Joe Belfiore talks about creators and the future of tech on a special #AskDanWindows (Daniel Rubino)
• Merge Conflict 71: Continuous Everything with DevOps (Frank Krueger & James Montemagno)
• Developer Tea – Focus Week: Deconstructing Distractions (Jonathan Cutrell)
• Azure Podcast Episode 203 – DevCon3 (Sujit D’Mello)

Community & Events

• One Week Until MINECON Earth! (Tom Stone)

Database

• How to Validate Email Address in SQL Server? – Interview Question of the Week #147 (Pinal Dave)
• Create the Right Index, Get the Right Performance. (Keshav Murthy)

Miscellaneous

• What Is Quantum Computing (Mahesh Chand)
• Will Artificial Intelligence replace developers (part 1)? (Michał Komorowski)
• Introduction to Artificial Neural Networks (Nikola Živković)
• Run and Debug Java 9 in Visual Studio Code (Xiaokai He)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #2463 (Chris Alcock)
• Azure Weekly: Nov 13, 2017 (Chris Pietschmann)
• Friday Five: HoloLens, ASP.NET, Office 365 And More (MVP Award Program)
• Top stories from the VSTS community – 2017.11.10 (Willy-P. Schaub)
• Weekly C# Digest Issue #180 (Jakub Chodounsky)
• The Weekly Edition – Issue 2 (Daniel Gynn)
• Double Shot #1972 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Reading Notes #304 (Frank Boucher)
• Collective #365 (Pedro Botelho)
• Last Week on Channel 9: November 6th – November 12th, 2017 (Greg Duncan)
• The Top 10 .NET Blogs You Should Follow Today (Ben Putano)

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