Day: November 30, 2017

Top Links

• CosmosDB: Serverless NoSQL for the .NET Developer | Visual Studio Toolbox (Dmitry Lyalin, Robert Green & Jeremy Likness)
• C# 8.0 Features: A Glimpse of the Future (Erik Dietrich)
• Azure Tips and Tricks Part 60 – Use Visual Studio 2017 with Docker Support (Michael Crump)
• UWP and .NET Standard 2.0–Remembering the ‘Forgotten’ APIs 🙂 (Mike Taulty)

Web & Cloud Development

• Azure REST APIs with Postman in 2 Minutes (Jon Gallant)
• Amazon Rekognition – Deep learning-based image and video analysis (AWS Team)
• How to make an Azure App Service HTTPS only (Benjamin Perkins)
• Configuring HTTPS in ASP.NET Core across different platforms (Daniel Roth)
• Prototyping ASP.NET Core Data Grids (Ed Charbeneau)
• Introducing AWS Fargate – Run Containers without Managing Infrastructure (Randall Hunt)
• Useful Docker Images – Part 1 (Muhammad Rehan Saeed)
• Securing an ASP.NET Core Web API 2 using Azure AD B2C (Sara Ford)
• ESLint v4.12.1 released (Kevin Partington)
• Use any theme with GitHub Pages (Ben Balter)
• Getting Started with TensorFlow: A Machine Learning Tutorial (Dino Causevic)
• Amazon Web Services Takes on Kubernetes, Offers a Serverless Database Service (Joab Jackson)
• Iometer is how you measure IOPS (Mitul Suthar)
• Open-Source Deep Learning Library Is a Step Towards More and Better AI (Darren West)
• Amazon Transcribe – Accurate Speech To Text At Scale (Randall Hunt)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

• Xamarin.NuGet – DynamicWrapLayout Announcement! (Alex Dunn)
• Picker with right side icon in Xamarin Forms (Charlin Agramonte)
• Xamarin UI Test – Testing State Management (Martyn Wiggins)
• Xamarin.Forms 2.5 and Local Context in Android Custom Renderers (David Britch)
• Xamarin Preview Release: 15.5 Preview 5 (Brendan Zagaeski)

Visual Studio & .NET

• If you have a finalizer, watch your ctor (Oren Eini)
• Configuring code formatting from code selection with ReSharper (Maarten Balliauw)
• Dissecting the async methods in C# (Sergey Teplyakov)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• An Introduction to Anti-Patterns – Preventing Software Design Anomalies (Lokesh Poojari Gangadharaiah)
• Developer Burnout: How to Prevent Boredom, Blow Ups, and Other Bullsh*t (Tyler Hakes)
• Planning for technical debt (Dave Nicolette)
• Getting to Working Software – Introduction (Gil Zilberfeld)

Mobile & IoT

• New Ways to Integrate Alexa – Introducing Alexa Voice Service Solution Providers (Gagan Luthra)
• Alexa, Let’s Play a Game – Introducing New Gaming Experiences (Jennifer King)
• A/B Test All the Things: React Native Experiments with App Center (John Wargo)
• Amazon Announces New Ways to Earn Money with Your Alexa Skills (Developer Preview) (Martha Kang)
• New- AWS IoT Device Management (Jeff Barr)
• HoloLensImmersive Headset Tracking Experiment Part 2 (Mike Taulty)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• Syntax Podcast – What’s New in CSS? Variables, Scoping, New Selectors and Color Functions (Wes Bos)
• Azure Free Account | Azure Friday (Scott Hanselman & Rob Caron)
• Software Engineering Daily – React and GraphQL at New York Times (Jeff Meyerson)
• Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Using Retrospectives for self-development as well as team development | Joe Anderson (Vasco Duarte)
• Developer on Fire Episode 291 | Daniel Rice – Winning Horses (Dave Rael)
• Talk Python to Me #140 – Level up your Python with #100DaysOfCode challenge (Michael Kennedy)
• StarTalk Radio – A Conversation with Andy Weir – Special Bonus Episode (Neil deGrasse Tyson)

Community & Events

• Introducing Docker Community Leaders – Formerly Known as Meetup Organizers (Karen Bajza)
• 2018 Events at the Academy of Natural Sciences (Dorothy Sasso)
• Give the gift of code this holiday season with 24 Pull Requests (Lee Reilly)
• Innovation often comes from the heart of America (MS Corporate Blogs)
• Nerd Nite No. 81: Monster Mash, Resuscitation Science, and the Hershey School! (Nerd Nite Philly Team)
• Here’s What I’m Telling US Congress about Data Breaches (Troy Hunt)
• Upcoming Webinars | Get the Most Out of Android 8 Oreo and iOS 11 (Craig Dunn)

Database

• SQL Server 2017: The world’s first enterprise-class diskless database (Bob Ward & Jamie Reding)

MS Teams

• Microsoft Teams: Help! The team owner left the company and we don’t know what to do! (Matt Soseman)

PowerShell

• PowerShell Functions for Reusability and Restartability in Azure (Robert Cain)
• PowerShell Intellisense: ScriptBlock Handler Parameters (Trevor Sullivan)

Miscellaneous

• Fit vs Ability: Why Hiring the Right Engineer is More Important than Hiring the Best… (Tyler Hakes)
• HK Invoke First Impressions (Rockford Lhotka)
• How to download embedded videos with F12 Tools in your browser (Scott Hanselman)

More Link Collections

• Xamarin App Developer Links – 2017-11-30 and Windows App Developer Links – 2017-11-30 (Dan Rigby)
• The Morning Brew #2476 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #1984 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Collective #370 (Pedro Botelho)
• Coding4Fun November 2017 Round-up (Greg Duncan)

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