Day: March 6, 2018

Top Links

• VS App Center Custom Build Scripts for Production Apps (James Montemagno)
• Renaming BlueMilk to Lamar (Jeremy D. Miller)
• ASP.NET Core 2.1.0-preview1: Functional testing of MVC applications (Daniel Roth)
• Scalable and Performant ASP.NET Core Web APIs: Filtering and Searching (Carl Rippon)

Web & Cloud Development

• ASP.NET Core Anatomy – How does UseStartup work? (Steve Gordon)
• AWS Lambda: Log early, Log often, Log EVERYTHING (Derik Whittaker)
• The Full Stack Developer Myth (Dave M. Bush)
• Major Version Updates to Node and PHP on App Service on Linux (Jennifer Lee)
• Azure Data Lake tools for VS Code now supports job view and job monitoring (Jenny Jiang)
• How to create a responsive Wrap Panel in #HTML using the #CSS Flexbox Layout? (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Fix for SNAT Exhaustion – Node.js Bots (The Bot Framework Team)
• Self Service Infrastructure (Eric Williams)
• LTFN 8: Deeper ConvNets (Josh Varty)
• Microservices 101 (Michelle Gienow)
• Authoring Custom Jupyter Widgets (Olivier Borderies, Olivier Coudray & Pierre Marion)
• Debunking the fallacy that paid certificates are better than free certificates, and other related nonsense (Scott Helme)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

• Xamarin.Forms Code You Can Delete Today! (part 1) (Tom Soderling)
• Xamarin (VS for Mac) Release: 15.6 (Bri Brothers)

Visual Studio & .NET

• #VS2017 – Disable PerfWatson2 to improve Visual Studio performance from the Visual Studio Experience Improvement Program (What?) (Bruno Capuano)
• Enjoy coding in Visual Studio with FiraCode (Andy Schwam)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• What I Talk About When I Talk About Platforms and Revised Agile Fluency Model (Martin Fowler)
• eBook deal of the week: The Enterprise and Scrum (Microsoft Press)
• Intro to Unit Testing – Video and Resources (Tim Corey)
• Data-Driven Thinking for Continuous Improvement (Ben Linders)
• The top 7 benefits of DevOps for IT Managers (Mary Robbins)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• Easy Version Control With Git in Android Studio (Chike Mgbemena)
• React Native: A Better DOM? (Chris Coyier)
• Choosing Between Progressive Web Apps, React Native & NativeScript in 2018 (TJ VanToll)
• Start Testing Your NativeScript Apps Properly (Rob Lauer)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• .NET Rocks! – SharePoint Development in 2018 with Sahil Malik (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Windows Central Podcast 84: The future of the Insider Program (Zac Bowden)
• Windows Compatibility Pack for .NET Core | On .NET (Cecil Phillip, Immo Landwerth & Rich Lander)
• Data ingestion, stream processing and sentiment analysis pipeline using Twitter data example | The Open Source Show (Golnaz Alibeigi, Alena Hall & Suz Hinton)
• Revision Path 232: Lorenzo Wilkins (Maurice Cherry)
• Software Engineering Daily – Bitcoin’s Future with Joseph Bonneau (Jeff Meyerson)

Database

• SQL SERVER – Puzzle – SQL Server Stored Procedure and Unexpected Results (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

• Microspeak: The triad, the ad-hoc acronyms that result, and the arithmetic problem 3 × 3 (Raymond Chen)
• Kali Linux for WSL now available in the Windows Store (Tara Raj)

More Link Collections

• Xamarin App Developer Links – 2018-03-06 and Windows App Developer Links – 2018-03-06 (Dan Rigby)
• The Morning Brew #2540 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #2047 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Interesting links of the week (02/26 – 03/04, 2018) (Mike Eaton)
• Collective #395 (Pedro Botelho)

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