Dew Drop – January 24, 2018 (#2650)

Top Links

• Introducing the Windows Desktop Program for Desktop Application Analytics (Sonia P. Carlson)
• Shawn Wildermuth on “Hello World – The Film” and much more (Jesse Liberty)
• Interacting with Azure SQL Using All Command Line Tools (K. Scott Allen)
• Scalable and Performant ASP.NET Core Web APIs: Introduction (Carl Rippon)

Web Development

• Azure Tips and Tricks Part 84 – Reading an item from an Azure Storage Table (Michael Crump)
• Are you registering IHttpContextAccessor correctly? (Adam Storr)
• Working with Azure Storage Explorer for Azure Cosmos DB (Abhijit Jana)
• 3 Performance Tips to Speed Up Your React Applications (Brandon Satrom)
• Using the dotnet Angular template with Azure AD OIDC Implicit Flow (Damien Bowden)
• Using INI Files in Your Node.js Applications for Health and Profit (Dave Johnson)
• How to debug with WebStorm (Ekaterina Prigara)
• A Component Dev Kit for Angular (Jeremy Elbourn)
• How to Authenticate Firebase and Angular with Auth0: Part 1 – Custom Tokens & Lazy Loading (Kim Maida)
• Creating Vue.js Component Instances Programmatically (Kushagra Gour)
• Beginner’s Guide to Angular 4: Services (Roy Agasthyan)
• Programming the Microsoft Bot Framework Errata (Kim Spilker)
• Want to succeed in web development? (Matthew Calder)
• Contributing to LUIS with Microsoft/Recognizers-Text – Part 1 (Matthew Shim)
• Dev Workflow Using Git Submodules and Yarn Workspaces (Victor Savkin)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

• Better Resource Organization in Xamarin.Forms (David Ortinau)

Visual Studio & .NET

• Saving Clipboard Images to File in C# (Mark Heath)
• How to Find the Size of the HTTP Resource Being Fetched (Srinath M S)
• .NET Standard Explained: How To Share Code (Barry Luijbregts)
• Allocation is cheap… until it is not (Konrad Kokosa)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• What are your favorite Kanban books? (Ben Linders)
• Unit Tests Correlate With Desirable Codebase Properties (Erik Dietrich)
• The Comprehensive Guide to Serverless Architecture (Jignesh Solanki)
• Introducing The New Trello Power-Ups Directory (Brian Cervino)
• I Am a 9 to 5 Developer (And So Can You!) (Matthew Jones)

Mobile & IoT

• Alexa Display Template Skill Deep Dive Part 5: Alexa Skill Image Cheatsheet (April Hamilton)
• New Alexa Skills Kit Sample Template: Build an Alexa Decision Tree Skill (Justin Jeffress)
• Git Version Control on the Command Line for iOS Devs (Vardhan Agrawal)
• HoloLens and MR Device Dev Advisory Jan-2018 (James Ashley)
• Bootstrap Your Next App with NativeScript Sidekick Starter Kits (Rob Lauer)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• Database options in Microsoft Azure and DevOps with Microsoft Azure (Microsoft Mechanics)
• Cask CDAP on Azure HDInsight | Data Exposed and H20.ai on Azure HDInsight | Data Exposed (Seth Juarez)
• JSJ 297: Scrollytelling with Russell Goldenberg and Adam Pearce (Charles Max Wood, Joe Eames & Aimee Knight)
• AiA 173: StackBlitz with Eric Simons and Albert Pai (Joe Eames, Alyssa Nicoll & Ward Bell)
• Microsoft Cloud Show Episode 235 | GCP & Office 365 Cloud News Catchup (Andrew Connell & Chris Johnson)
• All Things Git – Teaching Git with Johan Abildskov (Edward Thomson & Martin Woodward)
• RunAs Radio – Office 365 Hubs for Teamwork with Tony Redmond (Richard Campbell & Greg Hughes)
• Windows Insider Podcast – Mixed Reality Part 2: Creators (Microsoft)
• Corey Talks with Microsoft Solutions Providers: Datacom Systems, Hanu and New Signature | Tuesdays With Corey (RicksterCDN)
• Software Engineering Daily – Web Security at Cloudflare, Pinterest, and Segment (Jeff Meyerson)
• Developer Tea – Our Imagined Fictions (Jonathan Cutrell)

Community & Events

• Ticket Giveaway for Git Merge 2018 (Edward Thomson & Martin Woodward)
• Microsoft carries out ‘small round’ of layoffs (Dan Thorp-Lancaster)
• The Massive Philadelphia Auto Show Drives Into Town, January 27-February 4 (Grace Dickinson)

Database

• Why SQL Server Shouldn’t Run as Root on Linux (Kellyn Pot’Vin-Gorman)
• SQL SERVER – Identity Jumping 1000 – IDENTITY_CACHE (Pinal Dave)
• My Favorite SQL Prompt Features (Marlon Ribunal)
• Quick Editing Tips (Day 23) (Wayne Sheffield)

Miscellaneous

• Announcing Windows Server Insider Preview Build 17079 (Dona Sarkar)
• Windows 10 Tip: Annotate your books in Microsoft Edge (Elana Pidgeon)
• Latest Firefox Quantum release available with faster, always-on privacy with opt-in Tracking Protection and new features (Nick Nguyen)

More Link Collections

• Xamarin App Developer Links – 2018-01-24 and Windows App Developer Links – 2018-01-24 (Dan Rigby)
• The Morning Brew #2512 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #2020 (Mike Gunderloy)

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