Dew Drop – June 26, 2018 (#2753)

Top Links

• A New Release of Docs Authoring Pack for VS Code (Megan Bradley)
• Build Real-time Applications with ASP.NET Core SignalR (Anthony Chu)
• We’re Baking Have I Been Pwned into Firefox and 1Password (Troy Hunt)
• What’s New In the Xamarin Android Designer (Jon Douglas)

Web & Cloud Development

• Azure Tips and Tricks Part 135 – Use Run-From-Zip without Azure Storage to deploy a site to Azure Web Apps or Functions (Michael Crump)
• Pin Azure Resource details from Blades to Azure Portal dashboard (Abhijit Jana)
• Building ASP.NET Core apps on both Windows and Linux using AppVeyor (Andrew Lock)
• Code Deep Dive: Slots and Session Attributes in the ASK SDK for Node.js (Jennifer King)
• Drawing Images with CSS Gradients (Jon Kantner)
• Microsoft improves facial recognition technology to perform well across all skin tones, genders (John Roach)
• How to build powerful REST APIs blazingly fast with Node.js (Justin Headley)
• How to use the Global Subscription Filter on the Azure Portal? (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Is JavaScript Changing Too Quickly? (SD Times)
• Learning DevOps and building the ASP.NET Core Workshop and keeping it up to date (Shayne Boyer)
• face-api.js — JavaScript API for Face Recognition in the Browser with tensorflow.js (Vincent Mühler)
• Gain Interaction Insights Using New Analytics in the ASK Developer Console (BJ Haberkorn)
• Triple Panel Reveal Slideshow (Mary Lou)
• Let’s Encrypt is only a click away (Scott Helme)
• How I test my NgRx selectors (Tim Deschryver)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

• Build Mobile Chatbots and Chat Rooms with Ease in Xamarin (Petar Marchev)
• Building a “Next Entry” Effect for iOS and Android in Xamarin.Forms (Joe Meyer)

Visual Studio & .NET

• Customizing C# Object Member Display During Debugging (Jason Roberts)
• Working with T4 templates in Visual Studio (David Giard)
• The simple case of special string types – code smells series (Dino Esposito)
• Visitor as a sum type (Mark Seemann)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• Time You Spend in Agile Meetings (Johanna Rothman)
• About Unit Test Envies and What Classes to Watch out for (Leah Grantz)
• 7 Inspiring Templates From The Trello Community: From Productivity To Podcasts, Parenting & More (Lauren Moon)
• Examples and definitions of the SOLID principles in Software Design (Harry Mumford-Turner)
• A Developer’s Guide to Setting and Smashing Career Goals (Isabel Nyo)
• When it Comes to Delivering Business Value, Confidence isn’t Enough (Scott Sehlhorst)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• How to Use Free 3D Models From Google Poly in Android Apps (Ashraff Hathibelagal)
• How to make an Elm app Progressive (Cedd Burge)
• Introducing Codeless App Events Setup as Part of New Facebook SDK (Wei Liu)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• MS Dev Show – The Latest in MS Teams with Larry Jin and Andrew Bybee (Jason Young & Carl Schweitzer)
• .NET Rocks! – ML.NET with John Alexander (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• InfoQ Podcast: Pooja Brown on Building Great Engineering Cultures (Pooja Brown)
• AiA 195: Angular for Microsoft Developers with Sahil Malik (Charles Max Wood, Alyssa Nicholl & Ward Bell)
• Using JFrog Artifactory with Azure Kubernetes Service | Azure Friday (Rob Caron & Lara Rubbelke)
• Defrag Tools #192 – Windows Update and Windows Upgrade | Defrag Tools (Andrew Richards & Chad Beeder)
• The Amp Hour #397.9 – An Interview with Dominic Spill and #379.10 – An Interview with Jeremy Hong (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
• Revision Path 248: Cheryl D. Miller (Maurice Cherry)
• Bot Framework v4 Chatdown Tutorial #5: Suggesting Actions (Michael Szul)
• ng-conf 2018 with Brad Green (Rob Lauer)
• Software Engineering Daily – Function Platforms with Chad Arimura and Matt Stephenson (Jeff Meyerson)

Community & Events

• It’s almost time! Imagine Cup 2018 Championship judges and special guest announced (Charlotte Yarkoni)
• Developer Relations revelations: Conferences are a lot of work (Chris Heilmann)
• Eight Event Statistics You Can Use to Help With Your Planning Efforts (Kalahari Meetings)
• 25 Fabulous Things To Do In Philly This Week, June 25-July 1 (Kelly Bucci)

Database

• No More Service Packs for SQL Server (Rajendra Gupta)
• SQL SERVER – Unable to Start SQL Resource in Cluster – HUGE Master Database! (Pinal Dave)
• Securing your data with Azure SQL Database (SQL Server Team)

PowerShell

• Pre-validating Data in Delimited Files with PowerShell Prior to Importing to SQL Server (Tim Smith)
• Old School PowerShell Expressions vs New (Mike Shepard)

Miscellaneous

• Radio AdBlock (Tomek Rękawek)
• ebook deal of the week: Begin to Code with Python (Microsoft Press)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew 2613 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #2127 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Azure Weekly: June 25, 2018 (Chris Pietschmann)
• Xamarin & Windows App Developer Links – 2018-06-26 (Dan Rigby)
• Professional Development 6/18/2018 – 6/24/2018 (Cameron Presley)
• Interesting links of the week (06/18 – 06/24, 2018) (Mike Eaton)
• Reading Notes #333 (Frank Boucher)
• Collective #427 (Pedro Botelho)

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