Dew Drop – January 3, 2018 (#2635)

Top Links

• Building an ASP.NET Core Website with Xamarin.Forms, XAML, and Ooui (James Montemagno)
• The Top 12 Xamarin Blog Posts of 2017 (Courtney Witmer)
• Top 12 Visual Studio App Center Tips and Tricks of 2017 (Lacey Butler)
• Think About Your API Client (K. Scott Allen)

Web & Cloud Development

• The HTML5 Table Element and the Grid View (ShieldUI Team)
• Handling Forms in Vue.js (Chinedu Izuchukwu)
• Attaching an Angular Child Component’s Form to a Parent (Dave M. Bush)
• Working with Vue.js in WebStorm (Ekaterina Prigara)
• Azure Tips and Tricks Part 73 – Send Emails through Azure with C# and SendGrid (Michael Crump)
• Additive Animation with the Web Animations API (Dan Wilson)
• Run a LoopBack App on Google App Engine (Chidume Nnamdi)
• Writing your Webpack configuration in TypeScript (Muhammad Rehan Saeed)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

• Spicing up your Xamarin app with Lottie animations (Gerald Versluis)
• Identifying my daughters toys using AI – Part 2, using the model (Jim Bennett)

Visual Studio & .NET

• Colour-mixing magma (Mark Seemann)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• Architecting Services with Design Patterns (Peter Vogel)
• Following the Software Architecture Career Path (Erik Dietrich)

Mobile & IoT

• Experiments with Shared Holograms and Azure Blob Storage/UDP Multicasting (Part 5) (Mike Taulty)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• ngAir 142 – Angular Elements with Rob Wormald (Justin Schwartzenberger)
• Last week in Azure: Azure HDInsight, Azure Cosmos DB, and more (Rob Caron)
• AFH 082: Coaching Beyond Agile with Pradeepa Narayanaswamy (Ryan Ripley)
• 9 TED Talks to Help You Live Out Your Sci-Fi Dreams (TED Talks)
• The Amp Hour #373 – Pedantic or Andrantic (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
• Intel® Developer Zone Update | January 2018 (Gerald M.)
• Interview with Jasmine Greenaway, Cloud Developer Advocate on .NET | GALs (Golnaz Alibeigi)
• RunAs Radio – Making Work Visible with Dominica DeGrandis (Richard Campbell & Greg Hughes)
• Software Engineering Daily – Cloud Foundry with Rupa Nandi (Jeff Meyerson)

Community & Events

• Alexa Pioneers: Akilah Bolden-Monifa Cried ‘Tears of Joy’ After Building First Alexa Skill at Age 60 (Jennifer King)
• Philly .NET Meetup – Kubernetes Containers and .NET Product Team Update (Bill Wolfe & Rob Keiser)
• 14 must-follow Mixer streams for gamers (Jez Corden)
• 18 Wonderful Things To Do In Philadelphia This Week, January 2-7 (Michael Butler)
• Microsoft forms coalition to bring high-speed internet to rural communities (Monica Nickelsburg)
• New ‘Brotopia’ book goes inside secret drug and sex-fueled parties for Silicon Valley elite (Taylor Soper)

Database

• Monitoring SQL Server Log Shipping with sqlcmd (Daniel Farina)

Miscellaneous

• Book Review: Programming with MicroPython (Harry Fairhead)
• Microsoft in the enterprise: 7 predictions for 2018 (Simon Bisson)
• Is there a mixed-reality dress code? (James Ashley)
• Sorry, Google: We tried Amazon’s YouTube workaround on Fire TV, and it worked great (Nat Levy)

More Link Collections

• Xamarin App Developer Links – 2018-01-03 and Windows App Developer Links – 2018-01-03 (Dan Rigby)
• The Morning Brew #2497 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #2005 (Mike Gunderloy)

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