Dew Drop – January 16, 2018 (#2644)

Top Links

• AWS Lambda .NET Core 2.0 Support Released (Norm Johanson)
• Microsoft creates AI that can read a document and answer questions about it as well as a person (Allison Linn)
• Xamarin University Presents: Ship better apps with Visual Studio App Center (Mark Smith)
• Jeff Fritz on ASP.NET Core (Jesse Liberty)

Web Development

• Azure Tips and Tricks Part 79 – Creating an Azure Blob Hierarchy (Michael Crump)
• Handy Docker commands for local development – Part 2 (Andrew Lock)
• Web Safe Fonts To Use In HTML and CSS (Bogdan Sandu)
• How to create Custom Validators for Angular Reactive Forms (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Two Ways to Do Async/Await in ASP.NET Wrong (and How to Fix Them) (Matthew Jones)
• PhpStorm 2017.3.3 EAP 173.4301.24 (Maxim Kolmakov)
• API Transit Basics: Security and API Transit Basics: Communication (Kin Lane)
• Using and creating code snippets (Ekaterina Prigara)
• Microservices Resiliency and Fault Tolerance Using Istio and Kubernetes (Srini Penchikala)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

• MvvmCross Binding Target (Tomasz Cielecki)
• #VS2017 – Lessons learned migrating a UWP App from #Windows 8.1 to #Windows10 and how to replace Geolocation CivicAddress (Bruno Capuano)
• Custom Vision, Azure Functions and Xamarin on ioProgrammo (Marco Minerva)

Visual Studio & .NET

• Be careful in using the C# null conditional operators in tests (Andrea Angella)
• Navigation and search updates in ReSharper 2017.3 (Maarten Balliauw)
• How to Build Cross-Platform .NET Core Apps (Barry Luijbregts)
• How do I know that Resource Monitor isn’t just retaining a handle to the terminated process? (Raymond Chen)
• Using Two Versions of Telerik Components on the Same Machine (Stefan Stefanov)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• Questions to Ask Before Estimating an Agile Program Posted (Johanna Rothman)
• Production Test Run: The worst is yet to come (Oren Eini)
• Should the Web Have a Universal Design System? (Ben Bate)
• Working on Your First GitHub Issue (Steve Gordon)

Mobile & IoT

• Implementing Mobile Authentication with React Native and Amazon Cognito (Adrian Hall)
• Resource Roundup: Top Alexa Tips and Tutorials for Building Skills with Visual Components (Jeff Blankenburg)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• .NET Rocks! – OpenAPI.NET with Darrel Miller (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Technology & Friends – Carolina Banales on Woman Tech Entrepreneurs (David Giard)
• InfoQ Podcast: Wendy Closson on Mindfulness and Effective Communication (Wendy Closson)
• Gone Mobile 67: Alexa, what’s Greg watching? (Greg Shackles & Jonathan Dick)
• Hello World Podcast Episode 89: Dylan Beattie (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Revision Path 225: Jomo Tariku (Maurice Cherry)
• Women in Business and Technology Podcast 012 – Getting started with community builder Megan McNally (Microsoft)
• Software Engineering Daily – Kubernetes Operations with Brian Redbeard (Jeff Meyerson)
• Part 1/8 Contoso HVAC’s Digital transformation through Internet of Things solutions | Internet of Things Show (Olivier Bloch)

Community & Events

• UXify Conference 2018 Call for Proposals (Jim Ross)
• CES 2018: Real Advances, Real Progress, Real Questions (Steven Sinofsky)

Database

• Add a SQL Server Database to an Existing Always On Availability Group (Manvendra Singh)
• Hacking Azure Table Storage to do LIKE queries (Scott Helme)
• Bringing DevOps to the database. Part 1: Version control (Matt Hilbert)
• Query Shortcuts in SSMS (Day 15) (Wayne Sheffield)

PowerShell

• Can We Talk About PowerShell Core 6.0? (Don Jones)

Miscellaneous

• Spectre mitigations in MSVC (Andrew Pardoe)
• ebook deal of the week: Begin to Code with Python (Kim Spilker)
• Yuzu emulates Nintendo’s Switch (Rob Beschizza)

More Link Collections

• Xamarin App Developer Links – 2018-01-16 and Windows App Developer Links – 2018-01-16 (Dan Rigby)
• The Morning Brewr #2506 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #2014 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Interesting links of the week (01/08 – 01/14, 2018) (Mike Eaton)
• Collective #382 (Pedro Botelho)

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