Dew Drop – January 4, 2018 (#2636)

Top Links

• Rewarding our community and fans (Den Delimarsky)
• Aurelia 2018 Roadmap (Aurelia Team)
• Yet Another Podcast – MVVM Light and Xamarin.Forms with Laurent Bugnion (Jesse Liberty)
• KC Lemson: maestro of fun, mastermind of memes (Candace Whitney-Morris)

Web & Cloud Development

• Running ASP.NET Core in an Alpine Linux Docker Container – A True Micro Service (21MB) (Dean North)
• DZone Refcard – Introduction to Web Components (Kito Mann)
• Quick way to deploy an Azure App Service from Visual Studio (Benjamin Perkins)
• Docker (Inc.) Is Dead (Chris Short)
• Designing, building, and operating microservices on Azure (Peter Taylor)
• Microsoft to acquire Avere Systems, accelerating high-performance computing innovation for media and entertainment industry and beyond (Jason Zander)
• Mitigating speculative execution side-channel attacks in Microsoft Edge and Internet Explorer (John Hazen)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

• Fluent Theme for WPF & WinForms Apps is Coming in 2018 (Dobrin Grancharov)
• Xamarin 101: How to use Syncfusion Community Edition in Xamarin Forms (Devlin Duldulao)
• Xamarin Forms and .NET Standard – Getting Started (Michele Ferracin)
• Create an Android Oreo (8.0) Emulator for Visual Studio Mac (Xamarin) (Mario Jesús Galván Miranda)

Visual Studio & .NET

• Simple Asynchronous Processing for Web Service Calls (Peter Vogel)
• Open your current project in Visual Studio Code directly from Visual Studio IDE (Abhijit Jana)
• Sneak Peak of JustMock R1 2018: TFS Web Based Builds (Stefan Stefanov)
• Creating a C# Console App From My iPhone (Thomas Hansen)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• 8 Best Practices for Agile Software Deployment (Ben Putano)
• Respawn 2.0 released (Jimmy Bogard)
• Unit Testing, DevOps and Flow Agile (Haydn Shaughnessy)
• The five requirements for the design of all major RavenDB features (Oren Eini)
• Builds with conditional NuGet publishing in Team Foundation Server (Daniel Fisher)
• Network virtualization using SCVMM and TFS/VSTS for your Build-Deploy-Test scenarios (Ashok Kirla)
• Dealing With the Disadvantages of Multithreading (Dzung Tran)
• Technical Solutions Used for Performance Testing and Tuning (Tom Smith)
• Benefits of Using GitHub (Ekaterina Novoseltseva)
• Code Review vs Pair-Programming: Which One Should Your Team Pick? (Erik Dietrich)
• Let’s Talk About Stress, Baby – Part 1 (Gil Zilberfeld)
• Design Rules to Manage Software Architecture (Sean Barow)
• The New Guy Is A Better Coder Than Me, And That’s Wonderful (Matthew Jones)

Mobile & IoT

• Fastlane your Android App — Build and upload APK to Slack (Kalyan Dechiraju)
• New Resources for Enhancing User Experience on Your Alexa-Enabled Product (Ted Karczewski)
• How to Create VR Content for iOS and Android Apps in 2018? (ThinkMobiles Team)
• How to Port Your Unity® Game from Google Play to the Amazon Appstore (Emily Esposito Fulkerson)
• Apple Developer Program fee waivers are now available for nonprofits, schools and government (Sarah Perez)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Vision, AI and More with Tim Huckaby (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Azure Analysis Services Scale Out & Diagnostics | Azure Friday (Scott Hanselman & Rob Caron)
• Syntax Podcast – All About Redux && Cookies vs JWT (Wes Bos)
• JSJ 294: Node Security with Adam Baldwin (AJ O’Neal, Charles Max Wood & Joe Eames)
• AiA 170: NG Atlanta with Zack Chapple and Kim Maida (Charles Max Wood, Joe Eames & Ward Bell)
• PyMLadies — What is Data Science? | AI Show (Cameron Tomisser)
• Developer on Fire Episode 301 | Marco Pivetta – Worth Doing (Dave Rael)
• How Programming Languages Quietly Run the World with Dr. Ben Zorn (Emily Maryatt)

Community & Events

• Xamarin Developer Events This January (Jayme Singleton)
• MVP Summit Trip Crypto-Gamble (Alan Mendelevich)
• #Coding4Fun – Goodbye to one of the funniest and useful Channel9 ‘s resources (Bruno Capuano)
• 2017: A Retrospective (Josh Varty)
• 10 Exciting Concerts Coming To Philadelphia This January (Nikki Volpicelli)

Database

• Tracking Execution Times for SSIS Packages (Tim Smith)
• Scripts to check SQL Server instant file initialization and lock pages in memory for all servers (Pablo Echeverria)
• Using the Resource Usage Profiler Event For SSAS Multidimensional Query Performance Tuning, Part 3: Aggregations And Indexes (Chris Webb)
• SQL SERVER – Puzzle – Why Does UNION ALL Work but UNION Produces Error? (Pinal Dave)

SharePoint

• Fun with SharePoint Service Application Pools! (Mike Lee)

Miscellaneous

• Your Path to a Successful Career (Adobe Careers)
• Groove Music dies and so does Cortana’s music identifying skill (Jules Wang)

More Link Collections

• Xamarin App Developer Links – 2018-01-04 and Windows App Developer Links – 2018-01-04 (Dan Rigby)
• The Morning Brew #2498 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #2006 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Windows Weekly Dockerfile #16: SQL Server (Elton Stoneman)
• Daily Links 3 Jan 2018 (Malcolm Jack)
• Hello 2018 | Recap of “Top 10” Posts of 2017 (Cortana Intelligence & ML Blog Team)

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