Dew Drop – January 5, 2018 (#2637)

Top Links

• Build Any App with Visual Studio App Center (derpixeldan)
• How do I get the computer’s serial number? Consuming Windows Runtime classes in desktop apps, part 1: Raw C++ (Raymond Chen)
• Five RESTFul Web Design Patterns Implemented in ASP.NET Core 2.0 Bonus: Swagger (Jeremy Likness)
• Episode 37: .NET Standard Libraries with Immo Landwerth | The Xamarin Show (James Montemagno)
• CERT: Only way to fix Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities is to replace CPU (Update: CERT backtracks) (Chris O’Brien)

Web & Cloud Development

• Configuration Settings for Angular Applications (Paul D. Sheriff)
• Asynchronous refresh with the REST API for Azure Analysis Services (Christian Wade)
• Functional vs. Stateful React.js Components (David Starr)
• 5 Angular Directives You Can Use in Your Project (Dmitry Pashkevich)
• Push Notifications and ASP.NET Core – Part 2 (Requesting Delivery) (Tomasz Pęczek)
• Sneak Peek: Telerik and Kendo UI R1 2018 (Sara Faatz)
• CORS Origin is Case Sensitive (Andy Schwam)
• 5 tips to learn Docker in 2018 (Victor Coisne)
• Front-End Performance Checklist 2018 (Grant Palin)
• Securing IIS Web Sites with Let’s Encrypt Certificates (Rick Strahl)
• Building GPU Accelerated Workflows with TensorFlow and Kubernetes (Srini Penchikala)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

• CoreML Programming with Xamarin.Mac and F# (Larry O’Brien)

Visual Studio & .NET

• Visual Studio 2017 Throughput Improvements and Advice (Terry Mahaffey)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• Cucumberish – BDD testing framework for iOS applications + sample application. (Bart Ziemba)
• How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Continuous Integration (Geoffrey Callaghan)
• An easy way to check that your UI is intuitive enough (Florent Anders)
• Compiler Test Framework (Henrik Poulsen)
• The Gemba Walk for Designing Software (Jimmy Bogard)
• Investment Thinking vs. Cost Thinking (Johanna Rothman)
• What part of your job can you automate? (Kevin Bahr)
• Track the progress of your projects (Kevin Sawicki)
• Work better with GitHub Enterprise and Codeship (Marc Campbell)
• Getting started with a Definition of Done (DoD). (Martin Hinshelwood)

Mobile & IoT

• Android UI Automation: Part 1, Building Trust (Valera Zakharov)
• Experiments with Shared Holograms and Azure Blob Storage/UDP Multicasting (Part 6) (Mike Taulty)
• How to Control Your Cooking Devices with the Smart Home Skill API (BJ Haberkorn)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• Hanselminutes – Functional Programming, F#, and Cloud Containers with Lena Hall (Scott Hanselman)
• Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – The anti-patterns that drive fear | Viyoma Sachdeva (Vasco Duarte)
• C++ Programming with Visual Studio Code | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green)
• How to customize the Remote Monitoring Preconfigured Solution for Azure IoT | Internet of Things Show (Olivier Bloch & Golnaz Alibeigi)
• AAWP Insight #241: The Pro verdict and double hinges (Steve Litchfield)
• MJS 042: Kassandra Perch and MAS 020: Kent C. Dodds (Charles Max Wood)
• RiYL Episode 251: Chris Ware (Brian Heater)
• .NET Video Tutorials (Derek Comartin)
• This Week on Windows: Productivity tips for 2018, 3D in Office and more (Elana Pidgeon)
• Developer Things # 6: Professional Speaking and Consulting Advice with Cory House (Matt Watson)
• Windows Weekly 551: Glow Walnut Nasal (Paul Thurrott)
• Rocket 156: Brain Hurt (Simone De Rochefort, Christina Warren & Brianna Wu)
• Software Engineering Daily – Cloud R&D with Onsi Fakhouri (Jeff Meyerson)
• SSW TV – Excellent Teams and How to Build Them | Amanda Dean @ DDD Brisbane 2017 (Sophie Belle)
• Developer Tea – Finding Perspective in 2018 (Jonathan Cutrell)
• Azure Podcast Episode 210 – CPU Vulnerability (Sujit D’Mello)

Community & Events

• Oracle Hosts Bay Area Girl Geeks and Asks: What’s Your Superpower? (Alexa Morales)
• Webinar on Web and Mobile Code Sharing with Angular and NativeScript (Rob Lauer)
• MVP Data Platform (Angela Henry)
• MSSQLTips.com Author and Rookie of 2017 (Edgewood Solutions)
• Orlando Codecamp 2018! (Esteban Garcia)
• Melinda Gates on why we should invest in women in 2018: “Simply put, women get things done” (Nicole Gallucci)

Database

• Is your SQL Server environment ready for GDPR? (Aaron Bertrand)
• SQL SERVER – Error: 17142 – SQL Server Service has Been Paused. No New Connections Will be Allowed (Pinal Dave)
• Adding Users to Azure SQL Databases (Joe Gavin)
• The state of RavenDB (Oren Eini)
• New Release of Node.js Module for Oracle Database (Bruno Borges)
• DevOps for Data Science – Continuous Delivery (Buck Woody)
• Pinned Tabs (Day 4) (Wayne Sheffield)

SharePoint

• SharePoint Framework Extension (Sahil Malik)

Miscellaneous

• Don’t Be Afraid of the Future of Artificial Intelligence (Lili Cheng)
• Meltdown and Spectre: What They Are and How to Deal with Them (Abel Avram)
• Microsoft unveils preorders for the beautiful $319 Cortana-powered thermostat (Tom Warren)

More Link Collections

• Windows App Developer Links – 2018-01-05 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2018-01-05 (Dan Rigby)
• The Morning Brew #2499 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #2007 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Developer Digest: Life Before Lootboxes — Playing Dart-Based Skyrim via Text (Kyle Kelly-Yahner)

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