Day: March 27, 2018

Top Links

• Releasing the Unity C# source code (Aras Pranckevičius)
• Introducing CodeSandbox Live: real time code collaboration in the browser (Ives van Hoorne)
• Xamarin UI – Telerik Tagit App, Part 1 – App Overview (Progress Xamarin Team)
• Adding support for Debug Adapters to Visual Studio IDE (Andrew Crawley)

Web & Cloud Development

• Azure Tips and Tricks Part 108 – Day 7 – An end to end scenario with Azure App Service, API Apps, SQL, VSTS and CI/CD (Michael Crump)
• Build a bot in under 3 minutes… in Azure! (Chris Walden)
• Announcing Azure Service Health general availability – configure your alerts today (Dushyant Gill)
• WebStorm 2018.1: Prettier, partial Git commits, new documentation UI, and more (Ekaterina Prigara)
• Windows Weekly Dockerfile #21: Back to the Nerd Dinner (Elton Stoneman)
• Deploying .NET Core to Azure using Bitrise and Cake (Mattias Karlsson)
• Understanding the ASP.NET Core middleware pipeline (Thomas Levesque)
• Practical App Development with Aurelia (Matt Duffield)
• Kubernetes 1.10: an insider take on what’s new (Craig Box)
• March Machine Learning Madness! (Randall Hunt)
• Kubernetes 1.10: Stabilizing Storage, Security, and Networking (K. Barnard)
• A Proposal for Package Versioning in Go (Russ Cox)
• How to create a Helm chart repository using Amazon S3 (Andrew Lock)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

• Migrating from Xamarin Test Cloud to App Center Test (Donovan Brown)
• Responsive Layout in Xamarin.Forms (Damien Doumer)
• Firebase authentication in Xamarin.Forms (Evgeny Zborovsky)
• Simple Animation with Xamarin.Forms (Kym Phillpotts)
• Facebook Client Plugin for Xamarin (Rendy Del Rosario)
• Reactive Extensions with #uwpdev and Reactive Extensions with #uwpdev Part 2 (Hermit Dave)
• New Xamarin.Android and Xamarin.iOS Project Templates Now Available (Jimmy Garrido)
• Xamarin Release: 15.6.3 Servicing Release (Bri Brothers)

Visual Studio & .NET

• Learning Git with Visual Studio #4 (Corrado Cavalli)
• NHibernate supports .NET Core 2.0 (Vladimir Khorikov)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• Q&A on the Book The Age of Agile (Ben Linders)
• Analyzing code coverage of web apps with the dotCover 2018.1 Console Runner (Alexey Totin)
• Testing in the Mob (Dave Nicolette)
• Tips to Adopt a Design-Centric Approach (Fred Wilson)
• Working from Home: Frequently Asked Questions (Leon Barnard)
• What are the odds that two pull requests get completed at the exact same time? (Raymond Chen)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• Android Studio 3.1 (Jamal Eason)
• Ionic From Scratch: Working With Ionic Components (Tinashe Munyaka)
• A Brief Intro to Using Vue.js with NativeScript (Rob Lauer)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Concurrency in .NET with Riccardo Terrell (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• InfoQ Podcast: Katherine Kirk, Sally Freudenberg & Chris Courier on Inclusive Collaboration (Katherine Kirk, Sally Freudenberg & Chris Courier)
• Cloud scale events with Azure Event Grid | On .NET (Cecil Phillip, Kathy Hickman, Rich Lander)
• Functional Geekery Episode 121 – Claudia Doppioslash (Steven Proctor)
• AFH 091: Using Nexus to Scale Scrum (Ryan Ripley)
• Azure Virtual Machine Serial Console | Azure Friday (Scott Hanselman & Rob Caron)
• Defrag Tools #190 – Performance Power Slider | Defrag Tools (Andrew Richards & Chad Beeder)
• Part 3 of 4: Create a Web App for Containers and set up a web hook | The Open Source Show (Golnaz Alibeigi, Cameron Tomisser & Alena Hall)
• Revision Path 235: Daniel Dickson (Maurice Cherry)
• No Dogma Podcast #92 – Felienne Hermans, What is Programming? (Bryan Hogan)
• Software Engineering Daily – Cryptocurrency Networking with Soumya Basu (Jeff Meyerson)

Community & Events

• #GlobalAzure Bootcamp 2018 (Magnus Mårtensson)
• We’re all in this together: Miri’s brand of being herself (Toyinaminia “Toy” Norwood)
• A magnet for change: engineering training for women, by women (Candace Whitney-Morris)
• 2018 EMEA Scholarships to Advance Compelling Research in Healthcare, AI, Future of Work (Emily Maryatt)
• Join LEADTOOLS at Microsoft Build 2018 – Chance to Win a Free Conference Pass! (Katie De Santis)
• Learn from experts and play with emerging tech at Microsoft Build (Azure Team)

Database

• SQL Server Common Table Expressions (CTE) usage and examples (Jayendra Viswanathan)
• RavenDB Security Review: Non-Constant Time Secret Comparison (Oren Eini)
• Backup and Restore Options for Azure SQL DB (Arun Sirpal)
• ebook deal of the week: T-SQL Fundamentals, 3rd Edition (Microsoft Press)

PowerShell

• Exploring Azure Table Storage with PowerShell (John Miner)
• Using the PowerShell Standard Library (James W. Truher)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft goes all in with Android apps for business (Mary Jo Foley)
• Microsoft Edge rolls out support for iPad and Android tablets (Dan Thorp-Lancaster)
• Windows 10 Tip: Six keyboard shortcuts to help you find what you’re looking for (Elana Pidgeon)
• Yes, Microsoft is Racing to a $1 Trillion Market Cap Too (Paul Thurrott)
• Open Sourcing a WSL Sample for Linux Distribution Maintainers and Sideloading Custom Linux Distributions (Tara Raj)
• Windows 10 Redstone 4 reaches RTM milestone (Zac Bowden)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #2552 (Chris Alcock)
• Interesting links of the week (03/19 – 03/25, 2018) (Mike Eaton)
• Double Shot #2062 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Xamarin & Windows App Developer Links – 2018-03-27 (Dan Rigby)
• Collective #401 (Pedro Botelho)

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