Dew Drop – January 2, 2018 (#2634)

Top Links

• Build a Serverless Link Shortener with Analytics Faster than Finishing your Latte and The Year of Docker, Serverless, and .NET Core: 2017 in Review (Jeremy Likness)
• .NET Rocks! – ASP.NET in 2018 with Jeff Fritz (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Microsoft Campus Tours – Inside the NEW Channel 9 Studio | Microsoft Campus Tours (Golnaz Alibeigi, Kaitlin McKinnon, James Montemagno, Cameron Tomisser, Matthew Pew & Christina Warren)
• Use the Single-Page Application templates (preview) (Steve Sanderson)

Web Development

• Frameworks And Libraries Can Make You A Better JavaScript Programmer (Ben Nadel)
• The missing Azure Functions documentation (Szymon Warda)
• ASP.NET Core in Action – What is middleware? and Exploring the .NET Core Docker files: dotnet vs aspnetcore vs aspnetcore-build (Andrew Lock)
• Deploy to an Azure App Service using KUDU and a zip file (Benjamin Perkins)
• Attaching an Angular Child Component’s Form to a Parent (Dave M. Bush)
• Four Ways to Create Objects in JavaScript and Understanding @Output and EventEmitter in Angular (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Working with Vue.js in WebStorm (Ekaterina Prigara)
• What have I learned so far with Azure? and Azure Functions and Azure Learning Resources (Gregor Suttie)
• Real-time talk between Windows 10 IoT Core background task and ASP.NET Core web application (Gunnar Peipman)
• PhpStorm 2017.3.3 EAP 173.4301 (Maxim Kolmakov)
• Avoid MVC Core Performance Penalty with Html.DisplayFor() (Mitchel Sellers)
• Use XDCR to Replicate NoSQL Data Between Couchbase Docker Containers – Video Tutorial (Nic Raboy)
• Push Notifications and ASP.NET Core – Part 1 (Push API) (Tomasz Pęczek)
• Angular CLI – Getting Started (Ravi Kiran)
• React, Redux, and Redux Observables (Jason Farrell)
• A Web Performance Audit Of C# Corner (Chris Love)
• Using Cognitive Services to Generate a Thumbnail Image and Using the Cognitive Services Emotion API and Cognitive Services Optical Character Recognition (David Giard)
• Test Drive- Serverless Web Applications (Eric Potter)
• Getting started with Redis (Carl Rippon)
• Using an EF Core database for the IdentityServer4 configuration data (Damien Bowden)
• 10 tips for working with Postman variables (Joyce)
• Quick introduction to Righthand.SharpRedux library (Miha Markic)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

• Xamarin Forms 101: How to create a floating action button and Xamarin 101: Two Easy Ways to Get Started With MvvmCross and How to create a custom ListView using DataTemplateSelector (Devlin Duldulao)
• MVVM Cross with Xamarin.Platform – Resx localization (Daniel Krzyczkowski)
• Making MvvmCross with Xamarin Forms Friction Free (Nick Randolph)
• Markdig Extension – Bad Header Handler (Alex Dunn)
• Hiding API keys from Git (Jim Bennett)

Visual Studio & .NET

• When would we get .NET Core 2.0 AWS Lambdas? (Dror Helper)
• Using C# to Target GPUs (Jeff Martin)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• Agile and Lean Experiences from the Real World: Story Slicing: A Real Life Example (René Wiersma)
• Supporting Digital Leadership with Agile (Ben Linders)
• The Scrum Guide 2017 Update (Gunter Rotsaert)
• NuGet Package Management in VSTS (Subodh Sohoni)
• Team Foundation Server to Visual Studio Team Services Migration Guide and Database Import Tooling (MS Downloads)
• Load Tests are not in every VSTS Region (Donovan Brown)
• How to make a local deployment and create a zip file for drag and drop deployment (Benjamin Perkins)
• Quality Of Software Is Getting Worse, Not Better (2018) (David McCarter)
• This Week in Numbers: Not All Developers Use CI/CD (Lawrence Hecht)
• Release planning and predictable delivery (Martin Hinshelwood)

Mobile & IoT

• Alexa Display Template Skill Design & Coding Deep Dive Part 3: Visual Tarot Alexa Skill Code (April Hamilton)
• Help Test Ionic Native 5 (Max Lynch)
• Experiments with Shared Holograms and Azure Blob Storage/UDP Multicasting (Part 1) and Experiments with Shared Holograms and Azure Blob Storage/UDP Multicasting (Part 2) and Experiments with Shared Holograms and Azure Blob Storage/UDP Multicasting (Part 3) and Experiments with Shared Holograms and Azure Blob Storage/UDP Multicasting (Part 4) (Mike Taulty)
• Building Applications for Platform X (Nick Randolph)
• How to enable Fastest Rendering for your Holographic Application? (Abhijit Jana)
• Unity game engine gets Xbox One X support (Asher Madan)
• Easy Input Replay System in GameMaker Studio 2 (Emily Esposito Fulkerson)
• Making things in 2017 and Thing #1 in 2018 – building a servo calibrator (Jeremy Lindsay)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• MS Dev Show – Personal Learning Side Projects (Jason Young & Carl Schweitzer)
• Technology & Friends – Michael and Alana Blumenthal on an IoT project (David Giard)
• Herding Code 228: 2017 Wrap Up with Microservices, .NET Foundation, Mixed Reality, Bitcoin, Alexa (Jon Galloway)
• Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 254 #OTP (Richard Hay)
• Hanselminutes – Serverless and OpenFaas with Alex Ellis (Scott Hanselman)
• Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – BONUS: Johanna Rothman explains how you can create a successful agile project (Vasco Duarte)
• The Xamarin Show Episode 36: Building a C# & Netduino Connected Coffee Maker with Bryan Costanich (James Montemagno)
• Developer on Fire Episode 300 | Richard Taylor – Full Throttle (Dave Rael)
• Merge Conflict Episode 78: This One is Actually Good (Frank Krueger & James Montemagno)
• “What we lose when we lose net neutrality,” by MIT Media Lab’s Andy Lipman [VIDEO] (Hackernoon)
• SQL Server Radio – Be as Lazy as Possible (Matan Yungman & Guy Glantser)
• Developer Things #5: What Is BenchmarkDotNet & Nerding out on Performance with Matt Warren (Matt Watson)
• Revision Path 223: Jermaine Bell (Maurice Cherry)
• Talk Python to Me #145 – 2017 Python Year in Review (Michael Kennedy)
• Women in Biz & Tech 011 – Engineering the team with Star Treknical Goddess Laura Butler (Microsoft)
• This Week on Windows: The Countdown to 2018 sale at Microsoft Store, Windows 10 tips and more (Mollie Ruiz-Hopper)
• Rocket 155: We’re All From Rocket Now (Simone De Rochefort, Christina Warren & Brianna Wu)
• Software Engineering Daily – Language Design with Brian Kernighan Holiday Repeat (Jeff Meyerson)
• Developer Tea – Setting The Course For 2018 (Jonathan Cutrell)

Community & Events

• How this Microsoft employee helped bring critical infrastructure to a hurricane-ravaged Caribbean island (Nat Levy)
• Connect-Event-In-A-Box (Beth Massi)
• To Serve Man, with Software (Jeff Atwood)
• 2017 in review (Mark Heath)
• Earning vs Learning (Sarah Dutkiewicz)

Database

• SQL SERVER – xp_cmdshell and Net Use ERROR: The Local Device Name is Already in Use and SQL SERVER – How to Restart SQL Azure Database? and SQL SERVER – SQL Vulnerability Assessment – Security Analysis and SQL SERVER – Account Added Automatically in SQL Server Used by SharePoint and How to List Queries With Memory Grant and Execution Plan? – Interview Question of the Week #154 (Pinal Dave)
• What’s So Bad About Shrinking Databases with DBCC SHRINKDATABASE? (Brent Ozar)
• RegEx in SSMS: A gift for quick code (Jen McCown)
• New in SSMS 17.4 – Vulnerability Assessment (Jonathan Allen)
• SSMS Solutions (Day 1) (Wayne Sheffield)

PowerShell

• Execute and Track T-SQL Script Executions with PowerShell (Tim Smith)
• Azure and Windows PowerShell: The Basics (Nicolas Prigent)
• Running PowerShell Core on Raspberry Pi 2 (Stefan Stranger)

Miscellaneous

• Authenticating with Instagram API without the browser (Den Delimarsky)
• 5 Essential Ingredients for an Awesome Tech Talk (David Neal)
• Surprise! Leading media center solution Kodi has arrived on Xbox One (Jez Corden)
• New book: Windows 10 Step by Step, 2nd Edition (Kim Spilker)
• The Verge 2017 tech report card: Microsoft (Tom Warren)

More Link Collections

• Xamarin App Developer Links – 2017-12-29 and Windows App Developer Links – 2017-12-29 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2018-01-01 and Windows App Developer Links – 2018-01-01 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2018-01-02 and Windows App Developer Links – 2018-01-02 (Dan Rigby)
• The Morning Brew #2495 and The Morning Brew #2496 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #2003 and Double Shot #2004 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Interesting links of the week (12/26 – 12/31, 2017) (Mike Eaton)
• Top stories from the VSTS community – 2017.12.29 (Willy-P. Schaub)
• Weekly C# Digest Issue #187 (Jakub Chodounsky)
• F# Weekly #52 – Happy New 2018 Year! (Sergey Tihon)
• F# 2017 Retrospective (Sergio De Simone)
• 2017 year-end link clearance (Raymond Chen)

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