Dew Drop – December 18, 2017 (#2626)

Top Links

• Azure Tips and Tricks Part 69 – Access and embed Azure Cloud Shell Anywhere (Michael Crump)
• Visualizing your real-time blood sugar values AND a Git Prompt on Windows PowerShell and Linux Bash (Scott Hanselman)
• FREE from Manning Publications: Node.js in Motion liveVideo course (Me)
• How Does Task in C# Affect Performance? (Jeremy Clark)

Web & Cloud Development

• Is jQuery still relevant? (Remy Sharp)
• Essential JS 2: Building the only JavaScript UI toolkit you’ll need (Graham High)
• Deploy ASP.NET Core apps to Azure – Day 16 – 24 days of “Front-end Development with ASP.NET Core, Angular, and Bootstrap” and Continuous Deployment on Azure Git – Day 17 – 24 days of “Front-end Development with ASP.NET Core, Angular, and Bootstrap” (Simone Chiaretta)
• Introduction to Forms in Angular 4: Template-Driven Forms (Manjunath M)
• What Developers Were Fired Up About In 2017: Top 5 JavaScript Blogs (Nora Georgieva)
• The ultimate guide to sending bulk SMS with Twilio and Node.js (Phil Nash)
• Flux vs. MVC: Comparing two Application Design Patterns (Rahul Sahasrabuddhe)
• JetBrains Launches GoLand Go IDE (Andrew Morgan)
• How to setup a VSTS pipelines for Azure Service Fabric and its containing services (Clemens Reijnen)
• Going Serverless with Twilio and .NET (Corey Weathers)
• Using the OpenSSH Beta in Windows 10 Fall Creators Update and Windows Server 1709 (Joey Aiello)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

• Contest: Get Started with Xamarin (Amy Burns)
• Xamarin.Forms – Rounded BoxView Using Custom BoxRenderer (Delpin Susai Raj)
• MVVM Lite For Data Binding In Xamarin.Form (Mohammad Irshad)
• Xamarin Android – Working with Existing DB (Ahsan Siddique)
• UWP Tip #12 – UWP Community Toolkit – Part 10, OrbitView Control (Me)
• Advanced UWP: Communicating With Apps (Darren West)

Visual Studio & .NET

• C# Special Edition (David Pine)
• Can you trace WCF using Failed Request Tracing (Benjamin Perkins)
• Rust in Visual Studio and VS Code (Jonathan Allen)
• Replace a Running Application with a New Version (Tim Patrick)
• Using BenchMarkDotNet for Performance BenchMarking (Baskar rao Dsn)
• Advent of Code Day 16–The Eternal Dance and Advent of Code Day 17–Splicing Blocks and Advent of Code Day 18-Parallel Programs (Mark Heath)
• XDT configuration transformations in Rider (Maarten Balliauw)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• Personal Infrastructure (Jessie Frazelle)
• How Google Develops New Managers (Abel Avram)
• Twitter sentiment as a release gate (Brian Harry)
• Testing Data-Intensive Code With Go, Part 5 (Gigi Sayfan)
• If you hear these phrases, you might need Microsoft Visual Studio Team Services (Nebbia Technology)
• Deference or Collaboration: pick one. (Jessica Kerr)

Mobile & IoT

• 10 Best Android App Templates for Business (Nona Blackman)
• Managing App Permissions with Fire TV Gen 3 (Emily Esposito Fulkerson)
• ARCore Developer Preview 2 (Nikhil Chandhok)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• Windows Central Podcast 76: ARMing the future (Zac Bowden)
• More Database DevOps with Redgate | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green)
• nsScreencast #315 – UITableView Prefetching (Ben Scheirman)
• CodeNewbie S2:E8 – Getting started on open source when you don’t know where to start (Richard Schneeman) (CodeNewbie Team)
• Developer on Fire Episode 296 | Tiffany White – Shared Learning (Dave Rael)
• The Amp Hour #372 – Year End, 2017 (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
• Merge Conflict Episode 76: We Can’t Solve Everyone’s Problem (Frank Krueger & James Montemagno)
• Mac Power Users 409: Holiday Tech (Katie Floyd & David Sparks)
• Developer Things #1: What is Stackify? Application Performance, Retrace & More with Jason Taylor (Matt Watson)
• StarTalk Radio – Cosmic Queries: Altered States, with Bill Nye (Neil deGrasse Tyson)
• Jenkins CI/CD with Service Fabric (Scott Hanselman & Rob Caron)
• Software Engineering Daily – Protocol Buffers with Kenton Varda (Jeff Meyerson)
• Developer Tea – Data Science w/ Elena Grewal (Part 1) (Jonathan Cutrell)

Community & Events

• Great .NET Conferences to Attend (Thomas Ardal)
• More IoT in Action in 2018 (Greg Duncan)
• Innovate the future at the US Microsoft Tech Summit Event Series (Kyle Elliott)

Database

• SQL SERVER – Fix Error – Restore Operation Failed for Database Due to Insufficient Memory in the Resource Pool ‘Default’ and SQL SERVER – List Users with System Admin (sysadmin) Rights (Pinal Dave)
• Queries++ in RavenDB: Spatial searches (Oren Eini)

SharePoint

• SharePoint Migration Tool from Microsoft (John Naguib)

PowerShell

• PowerShell AWS Tools for Fast File Copy (Douglas Correa)
• How To–Load Exchange Management Shell into PowerShell ISE (Sammy Krosoft)

Miscellaneous

• Windows 10 Pro for Workstations: Power through advanced workloads (Augusto Valdez Ruggiero)
• This Week in Programming: Get Quantum with Q Sharp (Mike Melanson)
• Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella on ‘Daily Show’: Immigration makes U.S. a ‘beacon of hope’ around the globe (Nat Levy)
• Fixing Data Breaches Part 1: Education (Troy Hunt)

More Link Collections

• Xamarin App Developer Links – 2017-12-18 and Windows App Developer Links – 2017-12-18 (Dan Rigby)
• The Morning Brew #2488 (Chris Alcock)
• Meet Your Peers, MVPs! Here’s the Friday Five (MVP Award Program)
• Double Shot #1995 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Azure Weekly: Dec 18, 2017 (Chris Pietschmann)
• Windows Weekly Dockerfile #15: Healthchecks (Elton Stoneman)
• Top stories from the VSTS community – 2017.12.15 (Willy-P. Schaub)
• Reading Notes #309 (Frank Boucher)
• Collective #375 (Pedro Botelho)
• Weekly C# Digest Issue #185 (Jakub Chodounsky)
• F# Weekly #51 – FSSF is now over 2000 members! (Sergey Tihon)
• Last Week on Channel 9: December 11th – December 17th, 2017 (Greg Duncan)

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