Dew Drop – December 21, 2017 (#2629)

Happy Winter Solstice, everyone.

Top Links

• All About Span: Exploring a New .NET Mainstay (Stephen Toub)
• Debugging third-party code with Rider (Maarten Balliauw)
• Must use, must know WinDbg commands, my most used (Benjamin Perkins)
• Azure Tips and Tricks Part 72 – Sentiment Analysis with Cognitive Service and Azure (Michael Crump)

Web & Cloud Development

• Entity Framework Core migration – Day 20 – 24 days of “Front-end Development with ASP.NET Core, Angular, and Bootstrap” and How to seed your database with EF Core – Day 21 – 24 days of “Front-end Development with ASP.NET Core, Angular, and Bootstrap” (Simone Chiaretta)
• Chatbot on Azure and Couchbase for Viber (Matthew Groves)
• WebAssembly: Calling Into JavaScript From Bare-Bones C Code (Gerard Gallant)
• CSS Glitch Effect (Mary Lou)
• Writing Shorter React-Redux Containers (Nick Sweeting)
• How should we resolve percentage margins and padding on grid and flex items? (Rachel Andrew)
• Developing NPM Packages (Bruno Krebs)
• REST API Calls Using Server Side Swift on the Mainframe (Igor Todorovski)
• Kubernetes 1.9 Supports Workloads API, Container Storage Enhancements and Windows Beta Support (Srini Penchikala)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

• Xamarin Forms 101: How to put an Entry or Search View in the Navigation Bar (Devlin Duldulao)
• CSS In Xamarin.Forms (Adam Pedley)
• Fluent Theme for WPF & WinForms Apps Are Coming in 2018 (Dobrin Grancharov)
• Breaking Down WPF Grid View vs. Virtual Grid (Stefan Stefanov)
• Baby Steps in Writing Libraries for UWP and the Unity Editor (Mike Taulty)

Visual Studio & .NET

• #VS2017 – Releasing #Qubits using Reset() and ResetAll() in Q# on Microsoft Quantum Development Kit (Bruno Capuano)
• Reverse Engineering Existing Databases in Entity Framework Core 2 (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Help! My TFS automatically redirects HTTPS to HTTP! (Matteo Emili)
• Advent of Code Day 20–The Long Run (Mark Heath)
• The moment I came to play with .NET Standard 2.0… (Dominique St-Amand)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• The Unit Test Effect Study, Refined (Erik Dietrich)
• Favor Readable Code Over Idiomatic Code (Ben Nadel)
• How Technical Practices Support Evolutionary Architecture and Continuous Delivery (Ben Linders)
• Getting to Working Software: Code Reviews – Benefits (Gil Zilberfeld)
• No, I Didn’t Automate That Test (Jim Holmes)

Mobile & IoT

• Is VueJS’ Weex a Suitable Alternative to React Native? (Sam Landfried)
• Get Started With Natural Language Processing in iOS 11 (Doron Katz)
• Resource Roundup: Top Alexa Tips and Tutorials for New Skill Builders (Jennifer King)
• Creating a Task Manager App Using Ionic: Part 2 (Roy Agasthyan)
• The Google Assistant SDK – new languages, API updates, and Device Actions (Glen Shires)
• Running a .NET Core Web Crawler on a Raspberry Pi (Farooq Ahmad)
• Announcing the Release of NativeScript 3.4 (Rob Lauer)
• Dev Center’s Year in Review: 2017 (MS Dev Center Team)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• .NET Rocks! – UX Design Rants with Billy Hollis (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Software Engineering Daily – React Components with Max Stoiber (Jeff Meyerson)
• Neuroscience with Azure Machine Learning | AI Show (Golnaz Alibeigi & Sonya Koptyev)
• Use the Azure portal to answer your billing questions (Scott Hanselman & Rob Caron)
• Syntax Podcast – All About CSS BEM! (Wes Bos)
• Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – How to develop high-performing teams | Susan McIntosh (Vasco Duarte)
• AAWP Insight #240: Wileyfox Pro, Security, Surface Mobile (Steve Litchfield)
• Developer on Fire Episode 297 | Howie Ross – Unlocking Potential (Dave Rael)
• Under the Radar 111: Universal Mac Apps? (David Smith & Marco Arment)
• All Things Git Podcast – GitKraken with Hamid Shojaee (Edward Thomson & Martin Woodward)
• Talk Python to Me #143 – Tuning Python Web App Performance (Michael Kennedy)
• #ifdef DEV_CENTER_ANALYTICS | #ifdef WINDOWS (Nikola Metulev)

Community & Events

• Webinar Q&A: How to Create Apps with Syncfusion and Azure (Jacqueline Bieringer)
• Thinking Of Organizing An Event? Check Out How These MVPs Planned Belgium’s Dev Day Conference (MVP Award Program)

Database

• Implement SQL Server High Availability and Disaster Recovery on Amazon EC2 – Part 3 (Pinakin Patel)
• Querying SQL Server Temporal Table MetaData (Ameena Lalani)
• RavenDB 4.0 is ready! (Oren Eini)

PowerShell

• DSC Resource Kit Release December 2017 (Katie Keim)

Miscellaneous

• Apple Confirms It Deliberately Slows Down Old iPhones, Calls It A Feature, Here’s Why (Oliver Haslam)
• Firefox is Now on Amazon Fire TV – Happy Holiday Watching (Barbara Bermes)
• Photosynth returns as part of Microsoft Pix alongside new ‘Comix’ feature (Dan Thorp-Lancaster)
• Fixing Data Breaches Part 4: Bug Bounties (Troy Hunt)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #2491 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #1998 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Collective #376 (Pedro Botelho)
• Final Coding4Fun Round-up (Greg Duncan)

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