Dew Drop – January 9, 2018 (#2639)

Top Links

• Stack Overflow – Take the 2018 Developer Survey (Rachel Ferrigno)
• ASP.NET Single Page Applications Angular Release Candidate (Scott Hanselman)
• Azure Tips and Tricks Part 75 – Create an Azure Storage Blob Container through C# (Michael Crump)
• MFractor Powered XAML IntelliSense (Matthew Robbins)

Web & Cloud Development

• Wildcard Routes (**) Can Be Scoped To Route Sub-Trees In Angular 5.1.3 (Ben Nadel)
• Handy Docker commands for local development – Part 1 (Andrew Lock)
• #VS2017– Azure WebApi App, Amazon Alexa Skills and the error “I’m not sure what went wrong” (you get tired of listening!) (Bruno Capuano)
• Guiding Principles to Maximize Your Org’s Success on AWS – Part 1 (The below post is the first in a four-part blog series) (Eric Miller)
• Creating Durable Functions in the Azure Portal (Mark Heath)
• Understanding Events Across Your API Platform In Real Time and API Life Cycle Basics: Deployment and Looking For THE Answer Instead Of Developing An Understanding Of Good API Design and API Life Cycle Basics: Gateway (Kin Lane)
• NPM Registry: Many packages are disappearing all of a sudden (Kyle)
• Content-Types Matter More Than You Think (Eric Lawrence)
• Shell functions, git shortcuts and other magical scripts I use with the Twilio API (Jarod Reyes)
• Kubectl get nodes error! Unable to connect to the server: dial tcp i/o timeout (Jessica Deen)
• Five Days of Kubernetes 1.9 (K. Barnard)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

• Mobile App Onboarding with Xamarin.Forms and Syncfusion (Malcolm Jack)
• Sneak Peek of Telerik UI for Xamarin R1 2018: New Controls & Design-Time Support (Sara Faatz)

Visual Studio & .NET

• Compare files in Visual Studio IDE using DiffFiles Tool (Abhijit Jana)
• Visual Studio Code Java Debugger Adding Step Filter and Expression Evaluation (Xiaokai He)
• How do I get the computer’s serial number? Consuming Windows Runtime classes in desktop apps, part 3: C++/WinRT (Raymond Chen)
• Compiled queries in Entity Framework Core (Gunnar Peipman)
• C++/WinRT Samples (Kenny Kerr)
• VSTouchbarTools via Parallels (Ruben de la Torre)
• The .NET Ecosystem Demystified (Barry Luijbregts)
• The moment I came to play with .NET Standard 2.0 part 2! (Dominique St-Amand)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• Visual Studio Code Announces JUnit Support (Tim Hodkinson)
• The case for learned index structures – Part II (Adrian Colyer)
• In Favor of Pairing (Dave Nicolette)
• The top 7 business benefits of establishing DevOps in your organization (DevOpsGuys)
• Creating an Environment of Teamwork (Johanna Rothman)
• Five Things Every Developer Should Know About Software Architecture (Simon Brown)
• Learn More from Tests That Stray off the Happy Path (Steve Poling)

Mobile & IoT

• Exploring the Azure IoT Arduino Cloud DevKit (Scott Hanselman)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Building Progressive Web Apps with Chris Love (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Listen to the Agile Uprising Podcast with Me (Johanna Rothman)
• Agile Coffee Podcast, episode 56 – podcast – Agile Coffee (Vic Bonacci)
• no dogma podcast #87 – Veronika Kolesnikova, Xamarin and Cognitive Services (Bryan Hogan)
• Gone Mobile 66: Under the Hood of the Azure Mobile App with Jakub Jedryszek (Greg Shackles & Jonathan Dick)
• Azure SQL Data Warehouse compute optimized performance tier | Azure Friday (Scott Hanselman & Rob Caron)
• 2 Frugal Dudes Episode 14 – How to Start a Business (Sean Merron & Kevin Griffin)
• JSJ 295: Developers as Entrepreneurs with Ryan Glover (Aimee Knight, Charles Max Wood, Cory House & Joe Eames)
• Merge Conflict – Frank Justifies His iMac Pro (Frank Krueger & James Montemagno)
• Software Engineering Daily – Istio Motivations with Louis Ryan (Jeff Meyerson)
• Revision Path 224: Audrey Bennett (Maurice Cherry)

Community & Events

• Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Richie Lee and Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Michael Thomsen and Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Jose DelaCruz (Willy-P. Schaub)
• I’m a mentor? I’m a mentor! (Joanne C. Klein)
• Spotify Spotlight: Interview with Engineer Daenney Sluijters (Colleen McClowry)
• 15+ Sensational Things To Do In Philadelphia This Week, January 8-15 (Grace Dickinson)
• Spotlight on Engineering: Shubham Bhargav (Joyce)

Database

• SQL SERVER – Introduction to Log Space Usage DMV – sys.dm_db_log_space_usage (Pinal Dave)
• Azure SQL database auditing using Blob Storage (John Miner)
• Azure SQL Database – Optimizing For Ad-hoc Workloads (Arun Sirpal)
• SQLCMD Mode (Day 8) (Wayne Sheffield)

MS Teams

• BlogMS Microsoft Team Blogs – December 2017 Roll-up (Aaron Hamilton)

PowerShell

• PowerShell UserVoice: Add Support for NPM Type Version Specification in Module Manifest and #Requires (Ravikanth C)

Miscellaneous

• Rush to the Apple Store to Replace Your iPhone Battery for Just $29 (Melissa Massello)
• Book recommendation: Serious Cryptography (Oren Eini)
• Go’s hidden #pragmas (Dave Cheney)
• Windows 10 Tip: Get started with the Mixed Reality Viewer app (Elana Pidgeon)
• A bunch of online Python courses (Michael Kennedy)

More Link Collections

• Windows App Developer Links – 2018-01-09 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2018-01-09 (Dan Rigby)
• The Morning Brew #2501 (Chris Alcock)
• Top 10 Agile Articles & Tools in 2017 (Ben Linders)
• Interesting links of the week (01/01 – 01/07, 2018) (Mike Eaton)
• Reading Notes #310 (Frank Boucher)
• Collective #380 (Pedro Botelho)

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