Dew Drop – January 22, 2018 (#2648)

Top Links

• Running BBS Door Games on Windows 10 with GameSrv, DOSBox, plus telnet fun with WSL (Scott Hanselman)
• What’s New in dotCover 2017.3 (Alexey Totin)
• Data Caching Made Simple with Monkey Cache for .NET (James Montemagno)
• Internals of tuple literals (Gunnar Peipman)

Web & Cloud Development

• Microsoft Azure IoT Extension for Azure CLI 2.0 (Chris Pietschmann)
• WebStorm 2018.1 Early Access Preview: improvements in CSS support, run icons for npm tasks (Ekaterina Prigara)
• Changing Passwords and User Info with Azure AD B2C (Matthew Soucoup)
• Azure Tips and Tricks Part 82 – Creating your first Azure Storage Table (Michael Crump)
• HTML Parser In Xamarin.Android Using jsoup (Mushtaq M A)
• Machine Learning: An Introduction (Rahul Sahasrabuddhe)
• Beginner’s Guide to Angular 4: Components (Roy Agasthyan)
• Creating a Vue.js Serverless Checkout Form: Configure the Checkout Component (Sarah Drasner)
• AWS Lambda Now Supports Go for Serverless Applications (Sergio De Simone)
• React, Redux, and Redux Observables (Jason Farrell)
• LTFN 2: Graphs and Shapes (Josh Varty)
• Top 5 Trending Web Development Frameworks In 2018 (Mahesh Chand)
• Two Key Points To Focus When Learning TypeScript (Tatu Tamminen)
• My winter of hacking on Firebase with Google products and APIs (Doug Stevenson)

XAML

• In-Memory Caching in Xamarin and Should I Use A Xamarin.Forms MVVM Framework? and Creating Xamarin.Android Binding Library (Adam Pedley)
• Checking Battery Status Using Xamarin.Forms (Ajith Kumar)
• Creating A Generic Report in Xamarin.Forms (Jesse Liberty)
• A farewell to our beloved Xamarin Insights ‍♂️❤️ (Steven Thewissen)

Visual Studio & .NET

• Get the most out of Output Window in Visual Studio (Abhijit Jana)
• Protect Your Identity with Proxy Servers, Twilio, and C# (Corey Weathers)
• A Sort Of Problem and More Of A Sort Of Problem (Marc Gravell)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• The Agile Death March (Dave Nicolette)
• Troubleshooting Live Unit Test build failure (Miha Markic)
• Running Xamarin.iOS Unit Tests in Visual Studio Team Services (Prashant Cholachagudda)
• Speeding up multi-architecture compilation by parallelizing your build (Morten Nielsen)
• Software and the Storyteller (Gillian Armstrong)

Mobile & IoT

• Creating a React Native Bridge Library (Adrian Hall)
• How to Code a Navigation Drawer for an Android App (Chike Mgbemena)
• Control multiple servos using Raspberry Pi 2 Model B, PCA9685, Windows 10 IOT and C# (Mitul Suthar)
• Tool Time – Part 1 (Mark Allison)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• InfoQ Podcast: Chris Swan on DevOps and NoOps, plus Operations and Code Validation in a Serverless Environment (Chris Swan)
• AFH 085: Unlearning for Agile Teams with Jessie Shternshus (Ryan Ripley)
• TWC9: The Future Computed Book, C# Developer’s Guide to VS App Center, New Channel 9 Shows, and more | This Week On Channel 9 (Christina Warren)
• GitHub Extension for Visual Studio (Code Insights)
• The Amp Hour #376 – An Interview with Richard Ginus (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
• Merge Conflict 81: It Takes Two to Debug (Frank Krueger & James Montemagno)
• Talk Python to Me #147 – Quart: Flask, but 3x faster (Michael Kennedy)
• StarTalk Radio – Season 8 Time Capsule (Part 2) (Neil deGrasse Tyson)
• Away From the Keyboard Episode 74: The Samurai’s Journey With Ian Felton (Richie Rump)
• Software Engineering Daily – Container Instances with Gabe Monroy (Jeff Meyerson)
• SSW TV – Dynamics 365 for the .NET dev – Andrew Campey (Sophie Belle)
• Developer Tea – How Can We Be Wrong…Without Knowing It? and Developer Tea – Bringing Your Whole Self to Work (Jonathan Cutrell)

Community & Events

• New ASP.NET Core 2 Workshop in Atlanta (Shawn Wildermuth)
• CES 2018: Your Alexa Inventions Will Make Customers’ Lives Easier (David Isbitski)
• Show off your skills with #AzureTrivia (Microsoft Azure)
• Why We Made The Show “5 Things” (Burke H✪lland)
• The toughest part about being a female software engineer (Lily Chen)
• Swift Forums Now Open! (Nicole Jacque)

Database

• Microsoft® SQL Server® 2014 SP2 Feature Pack (MS Downloads)
• SQL SERVER – DMV to Get Host Information – sys.dm_os_host_info and How to Find DISTINCT COUNT of Column Without Using Distinct Count Keywords? – Interview Question of the Week #157 (Pinal Dave)
• Inside RavenDB 4.0: Chapter 10 is done (Oren Eini)
• Executing Code Every Nth Percent of the Time with T-SQL (Tim Smith)
• How Much Can One Row Change A Plan, Part 4 (Erik Darling)
• Use Snippets in SSMS to insert blocks of code (Day 19) and Object Explorer Filtering (Day 20) and Object Explorer Details (Day 21) (Wayne Sheffield)

SharePoint

• Use AIP Label in SharePoint Search (Joanne Klein)

PowerShell

• AutoRuns module compatible with PowerShell Core 6.0 and About PowerShell Core 6.0 logging (Emin Atac)

Miscellaneous

• Building Games With Python 3 and Pygame: Part 5 (Gigi Sayfan)

More Link Collections

• Xamarin App Developer Links – 2018-01-22 and Windows App Developer Links – 2018-01-22 (Dan Rigby)
• The Morning Brew #2510 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #2018 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Azure Weekly: Jan 22, 2018 (Chris Pietschmann)
• Top stories from the VSTS community – 2017.01.19 (Willy-P. Schaub)
• Weekly C# Digest Issue #190 (Jakub Chodounsky)
• F# Weekly #3, 2018 – F# Compiler Office Hours (Sergey Tihon)
• Microsoft Teams, Mobile DevOps, And More On This Friday Five (MVP Award Program)
• Reading Notes #312 (Frank Boucher)

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