December 2017 – Morning Dew by Alvin Ashcraft

Dew Drop – December 28, 2017 (#2633)

Top Links

Rider 2017.3 is released (Jura Gorohovsky)
fun-ny Faces : Face-based Augmented Reality with F# and the iPhone X (Larry O’Brien)
The 25 most popular TED talks of all time and TED Talks to inspire you to go to bed and get a good night’s sleep (TED Talks)
Making MvvmCross with Xamarin Forms Friction Free (Nick Randolph)

Web & Cloud Development

How to capture an ASP.NET Core memory dump on Azure App Service and Deploy to an Azure App Service using KUDU and a zip file (Benjamin Perkins)
An Introduction to Azure Event Grid (Christos Matskas)
What are @HostBinding() and @HostListener() in Angular? (Dhananjay Kumar)
WebStorm 2017.3.2 is available (Ekaterina Prigara)
Mastering the React Lifecycle Methods (Gigi Sayfan)
React, Redux, and Redux Observables (Jason Farrell)
A Sliding Nightmare: Understanding the Range Input (Ana Tudor)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

Visual Studio & .NET

Why do I have to pass a valid page protection value to VirtualAlloc even if it ignores it? (Raymond Chen)

Design, Methodology & Testing

Supporting Digital Leadership with Agile (Ben Linders)
How to make a local deployment and create a zip file for drag and drop deployment (Benjamin Perkins)
Yes, Remote Teams Can Be High Performing. Here’s How to Make Them Work (Bruce Eckfeldt)
DevOps for Data Science – Automated Testing (Buck Woody)
The Value of Test-Driven Development when Writing Changeable Code (David Bernstein)
Cargo Cult Programming Is the Art of Programming by Coincidence (Erik Dietrich)
2018 Is the Year of the Employee Experience (Jeff Miller)
Never, Ever Joke About Your Teams’ Career Safety (Jim Holmes)
Magmas (Mark Seemann)
Why You Should Keep That Passion Project (Even If It Doesn’t Pay) (Scott Atkinson)
Smarter, Faster Builds with Nrwl Nx (Victor Savkin)

Mobile & IoT

Unity game engine gets Xbox One X support (Asher Madan)
Over-The-Air Firmware: The Critical Driver of IoT Success (Jeffrey Lee)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

.NET Rocks! – Laudato Si Challenge with Stephen Forte (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
Syntax Podcast – Dealing With Email Overload && Prettier Setups (Wes Bos)
AiA 169: NGRX Entities with Jesse Sanders (Ward Bell, Alyssa Nicoll, Joe Eames, John Papa & Charles Max Wood)
JSJ 293: Big Data with Nishant Thacker (Charles Max Wood)
Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – BONUS: Barry O’Reilly on What is Hypothesis-driven Development, and why that matters for Agilists (Vasco Duarte)
Complete Developer Podcast – Resolutions 2018 (BJ Burns & Will Gant)
Developer on Fire Episode 299 | Bill Sourour – Paying It Forward (Dave Rael)
Windows Weekly 550: The Best of 2017 (Paul Thurrott)
Software Engineering Daily – Language Design with Brian Kernighan Holiday Repeat (Jeff Meyerson)

Community & Events

How To Do The New Year’s Day Mummers Parade In Philadelphia 2018 (Grace Dickinson)
Stack Overflow Gives Back 2017 (Robert Cartaino)

Database

SQL Server Stored Procedure to Calculate Database Backup Compression Ratio (Eli Leiba)
SQL SERVER – Linked Server Error: TCP Provider: No Connection Could be Made Because the Target Machine Actively Refused It (Pinal Dave)
Scaling Couchbase Server on Azure (Matthew Groves)
Azure SQL Database Backup and Restore Overview (Vitor Montalvao)
Deploying Couchbase on AWS in less than 3 minutes (Denis Rosa)

PowerShell

Running PowerShell Core on Raspberry Pi 2 (Stefan Stranger)

Miscellaneous

7 Reasons We’ve Fallen Out of Love with Apple (Geoffrey James)

More Link Collections

Xamarin App Developer Links – 2017-12-28 and Windows App Developer Links – 2017-12-28 (Dan Rigby)
The Morning Brew #2494 (Chris Alcock)
Double Shot #2002 (Mike Gunderloy)
Azure Weekly: Dec 25, 2017 (Chris Pietschmann)
Collective #378 (Pedro Botelho)

The Geek Shelf

Mastering Entity Framework Core 2.0: Dive into entities, relationships, querying, performance optimization, and more, to learn efficient data-driven development 1, Prabhakaran Anbazhagan, eBook – Amazon.com

ASIN: B076WTH3FT

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Dew Drop – December 27, 2017 (#2632)

Top Links

Deep-dive into .NET Core primitives: deps.json, runtimeconfig.json, and dll’s (Nate McMaster)
Ex-Microsoft exec Julie Larson-Green shares her secrets on building great teams (Laurent Giret)
Securing IIS Web Sites with Let’s Encrypt Certificates (Rick Strahl)
Getting Started: MvvmCross with Xamarin Forms (Part 2) (Nick Randolph)

Web & Cloud Development

Mastering the React Lifecycle Methods (Gigi Sayfan)
Top 10 Angular articles in 2017 from AngularInDepth you really want to read (Max NgWizard K)
JavaScript Functions – Implicit Parameters (Muhammad Jawwad)
Developing RESTful APIs with Lumen (A PHP Micro-framework) (Prosper Otemuyiwa)
Generating a Cognitive Services API Key (David Giard)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

How to create Checkboxes in Xamarin Forms (Devlin Duldulao)

Visual Studio & .NET

Hello XML, My Old Friend; I’ve Come To Encode You Again. (Rion Williams)

Design, Methodology & Testing

The Value of Test-Driven Development when Writing Changeable Code (David Bernstein)
Microspeak: over-index (Raymond Chen)
Continuous Delivery Shouldn’t Be Guesswork (Tom Smith)

Mobile & IoT

Alexa Display Template Skill Design & Coding Deep Dive Part 1: Sourcing Alexa Skill Content (April Hamilton)
Android Internals for Developers: Part II (Hemant Joshi)
Design Alexa Skills for Echo Spot: 7 Tips to Get Started (Jennifer King)
3 Internet of Things Trends to Watch in 2018 (James Paine)
Centralized reusable audio feedback mechanisms for Mixed Reality apps (Joost van Schaik)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – BONUS: Karl Scotland on what is Agile Strategy? (Vasco Duarte)
Microsoft Cloud Show Episode 232 | Looking Back at 2017 – the Show & Cloud News (Andrew Connell & Chris Johnson)
Why there’s no Windows TV and will Microsoft make another Band? #AskDanWindows Ep 36 (Daniel Rubino)
RunAs Radio – Office Macro Security with Karim El-Melhaoui (Richard Campbell & Greg Hughes)
Developer Things #4: Why 20,000 Developers Love Prefix with Jason Taylor (Matt Watson)
Talk Python to Me #144 – Machine Learning at the Large Hadron Collider (Michael Kennedy)
Software Engineering Daily – Software and Entrepreneurship with Seth Godin Holiday Repeat (Jeff Meyerson)
Developer Tea – 2017 Year End Recap (Jonathan Cutrell)

Community & Events

7 Years of Daily .NET Tips (Abhijit Jana)
Female DBAs Make Less Money. Why? (Brent Ozar)
25+ Brilliant Things To Do In Philadelphia This Week, December 26-January 1 (Grace Dickinson)
A Future in Gaming: I’m headed for Blizzard Entertainment! (Joel Oleson)

Database

Mining Time Series Data by Calculating Moving Averages with T-SQL Code in SQL Server (Rick Dobson)
SQL SERVER – The SaveToSQLServer Method Has Encountered OLE DB Error Code 0x80004005 (Pinal Dave)
Best New(ish) SSMS Feature (Jason Brimhall)

SharePoint

Largest FREE Microsoft eBook Giveaway! I’m Giving Away MILLIONS of FREE Microsoft eBooks again, including: Windows 10, Office 365, Office 2016, Power BI, Azure, Windows 8.1, Office 2013, SharePoint 2016, SharePoint 2013, Dynamics CRM, PowerShell, Exchange Server, System Center, Cloud, SQL Server and more! | Microsoft Director of Business & Sales Operations (Eric Ligman)

PowerShell

Different methods to write PowerShell output to a SQL table (Prashanth Jayaram)

Miscellaneous

Will Windows phone fans finally get the device of their dreams? (Jason Ward)
The Verge 2017 tech report cards (Natt Garun)

More Link Collections

Xamarin App Developer Links – 2017-12-27 and Windows App Developer Links – 2017-12-27 (Dan Rigby)
The Morning Brew #2493 (Chris Alcock)
Double Shot #2001 (Mike Gunderloy)
Interesting links of the week (12/18 – 12/25, 2017) (Mike Eaton)

The Geek Shelf

Learn PowerShell Scripting in a Month of Lunches (9781617295096): Don Jones, Jeffery Hicks: Books

ISBN: 1617295094
ISBN-13: 9781617295096

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Dew Drop – December 26, 2017 (#2631)

Top Links

Getting Started: MvvmCross with Xamarin Forms (Nick Randolph)
Your Ideas Needed: Other Ways to Run Code in Parallel (Jeremy Clark)
.NET Rocks! – Xamarin Development Gets Faster with James Montemagno (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
TWC9: Last Show of 2017 with Qbits, Hardhat Hololens, Azure bots, Mainframe Christmas Cards and more… | This Week On Channel 9 (Greg Duncan, Golnaz Alibeigi & Christina Warren)

Web & Cloud Development

How to add Social Media Authentication to ASPNET Core – Day 22 – 24 days of “Front-end Development with ASP.NET Core, Angular, and Bootstrap” and The book Table of Content – Day 23 – 24 days of “Front-end Development with ASP.NET Core, Angular, and Bootstrap” and Preface to Frontend development with ASP.NET Core MVC, Angular and Bootstrap – Day 24 (Simone Chiaretta)
Angular Testing Patterns – TestBed (Simon Timms)
Swashbuckle and Swagger with ASP.NET Core (Matthew Groves)
Components in Vue.js (Chinedu Izuchukwu)
PhpStorm 2017.3.2 is released (Maxim Kolmakov)
How to Fix the [ERROR] Get-ChildItem when Deploying an Azure Resource Group in Visual Studio” (Frank Boucher)
Azure Data Factory 2.0 – How is it different from Azure Logic Apps? (Tom Kerkhove)
Is jQuery still relevant? (Grant Palin)
ESLint v4.14.0 released (ESLint Team)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

Visual Studio & .NET

Invisible race conditions: The async query (Oren Eini)
ReSharper Ultimate 2017.3.1 bugfix is available! (Alexander Kurakin)
The Producer Consumer Pattern in .NET (C#) (Yacoub Massad)
Advent of Code Day 22-Sparse Grids and Advent of Code Day 23–Human Decompiler and Advent of Code Day 24–Recursive Generators and Advent of Code Day 25-State Machines (Mark Heath)
Time travel is here, at least when it comes to debugging (Raymond Chen)
Useful Developer Tools #9: Clean and Zip .NET projects from Finder (Robin-Manuel Thiel)

Design, Methodology & Testing

What Does Agile Really Mean? (Bria Grangard)
Chaos Engineering at Twilio (Hrishikesh Barua)
How To Power Down And Find Your #JOMO Flow This Year (Leah Ryder)
Cherry picking work is slow and unproductive (Matt Lacey)
Here’s the Thing Development Leaders Get Wrong About Time Tracking (Tyler Hakes)

Mobile & IoT

Resource Roundup: Top Alexa Tips and Tutorials for Building Kid Skills and Best Practices for Scaling Your Alexa Skill Using Amazon Web Services (Jennifer King)
Short tip: using the UI components from the Mixed Reality Toolkit examples (Joost van Schaik)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

Technology & Friends – Rob Reynolds on Chocolatey (David Giard)
InfoQ Podcast: Kolton Andrus on Gremlin’s Newly Announced SaaS Chaos Engineering Product and Running Game Days (Kolton Andrus)
Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – BONUS: JB Rainsberger on Fearless Agile Adoption (Vasco Duarte)
Developer on Fire Episode 298 | Melinda Thielbar – Understanding In Depth (Dave Rael)
This Week on Windows: Celebrate the countdown to 2018 with great deals at Microsoft Store (Elana Pidgeon)
Merge Conflict Episode 77: `dotnet pack holiday` (Frank Krueger & James Montemagno)
Software Engineering Daily – Modern War with Peter Warren Singer (Jeff Meyerson)
Azure Podcast Episode 209 – DevOps with Kubernetes (Sujit D’Mello)

Community & Events

So Long and Thanks for All the Community! (Greg Duncan)

Database

Implement SQL Server High Availability and Disaster Recovery on Amazon EC2 – Part 4 (Pinakin Patel)
What is the Automatic Plan Correction in SQL Server 2017? (Guy Glantser)
How to List All ColumnStore Index with Table Name in SQL Server? – Interview Question of the Week #153 and SQL SERVER – Error: 17300 – SQL Server Was Unable to Run a New System Task and SQL SERVER – How to Install New Sample Database WideWorldImportersDW.bak (Pinal Dave)
Using SQL Server Management Studio Projects (Tim Mitchell)
SQL Tip: LEFT JOINs and WHERE clauses…are they really LEFT JOINs? (Benjamin Reynolds)
Checklist for Finalizing a Data Model in Power BI Desktop (Melissa Coates)

Miscellaneous

Mixer Create on iOS can now stream any game (Richard Devine)
Share Environment Vars between WSL and Windows (Craig Wilhite)
Barack Obama Says “Merry Christmas” 17 Times (Geoffrey James)
Get certified. Get an Awesome T-shirt. (Selina Winter)

More Link Collections

Windows App Developer Links – 2017-12-25 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2017-12-25 (Dan Rigby)
The Morning Brew #2492 (Chris Alcock)
Double Shot #2000 (Mike Gunderloy)
Reading List (Bruce Lawson)
Weekly C# Digest Issue #186 (Jakub Chodounsky)
F# Weekly #52 – Merry Christmas! (Sergey Tihon)
Top stories from the VSTS community – 2017.12.22 (Willy-P. Schaub)
Collective #377 (Pedro Botelho)

The Geek Shelf

Learning Vue.js 2: Olga Filipova: 9781786469946: Books

ISBN: 1786469944
ISBN-13: 9781786469946

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