Dew Drop – July 16, 2018 (#2766)

Top Links

• TWC9: VS Code Updates, Microsoft Surface Go, Azure Static Websites Preview, Java News, and more | This Week On Channel 9 (Cameron Tomisser & Christina Warren)
• Tuple equality – C# 7.3 in Rider and ReSharper (Maarten Balliauw)
• ASP.NET Core 2: Architecture & Design Pattern Ideology (Asma Khalid)
• Custom Visual State Management for Xamarin.Forms (Sam Basu)

Web & Cloud Development

• eBook: Serverless Apps: Architecture, Patterns, and Azure Implementation by Jeremy Likness (Chris Pietschmann)
• The moment I came to play with .NET Standard 2.0 – Azure Functions (Dominique St-Amand)
• Unit Testing in ASP.NET Core Web API (Milos Davidovic)
• ASP.NET Core Hidden Gem – QueryHelpers (Muhammad Rehan Saeed)
• ramd.js – Small JavaScript library for making TODO-like web apps (Vladimir Carrer)
• Using Azure QnA Maker (MS Bot Framework V4 Preview Edition) and Using LUIS -Language Understanding Intelligent Service (MS Bot Framework V4 Preview Edition) (Michael Washington)
• Building a Real Time Data Pipeline in Azure – Part 2 (Jason Farrell)
• Scrolling Gradient and The div that looks different in every browser (Chris Coyier)
• Taking Go modules for a spin (Dave Cheney)
• Building a World Cup Bot with Python, Twilio SMS and Slack (Marina Bichoffe)
• Web.config Redirect to HTTPS Except for Localhost (Michael Szul)
• End-to-End REST from Server to Client (Sara Faatz)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

• Xamarin – Loading a configuration file (John Thiriet)

Visual Studio & .NET

• Machine Learning with ML.NET – Comparing Data Exploration in Python with Data Exploration in ML.NET (Nikola Živković)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• Flavours of Agile (Patrick Kua)
• How A Few Offhand Remarks Can Cause Your Biggest Problems At Work (Alexia)
• Objectives & Accountability vs Responsibility & Autonomy, Part 2 (Johanna Rothman)
• Slack vs. Blocked (John Cutler)
• How to Install Jenkins on Windows (Phi Nguyen)
• WIP Your Product into Shape (Assaf Stone)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• Chatbot Inventory Tracking iOS & Android App with Flutter, DialogFlow, and GCP (Alfian Losari)
• Android Studio 3.2 Beta 3 Brings Navigation Editor, Android App Bundle and More (Diogo Carleto)
• Visual UI Testing for Android Apps with Espresso and Studio App Center (Daniel Puterman)
• Maintainable Architecture – Five Day Forecast – UI Layer (Mark Allison)
• Google’s Flutter SDK Moves Out of Beta With Release Preview 1 (Rohitha Elsa Philip)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• Technology & Friends – Venkat Subramaniam on JavaScript – the Cute Parts (David Giard)
• Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 273 #OTP (Richard Hay)
• Coding Blocks.NET 85 – Graph Algorithms (Allen Underwood, Michael Outlaw & Joe Zack)
• Developer on Fire Episode 356 | Chris Buecheler – Rampant Creation (Dave Rael)
• The Amp Hour #399 – An Interview with Steve Kreuzer (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
• FreeCodeFriday – Episode 7 (Jason Bock)
• Three Devs and a Maybe 152: New Jobs, Engagements and Marathons (Michael Budd, Fraser Hart, Lewis Cains & Edd Mann)
• Talk Python to Me #169 – Becoming a Python content creator (Michael Kennedy)
• An Introduction to Blockchain with Mark Russinovich (Microsoft Developer)
• Flutter: Animated Builder | Improve Performance | Ep 2 | Flutter Weekly Widgets | Every Sunday and Another Boring Flutter Show Feat. Wm Leler ( Google ) | DroidJam 2018 (MTechViral)
• StarTalk Radio – The Geekiverse, with Kevin Smith (Neil deGrasse Tyson)
• Software Engineering Daily – Counting People with Andrew Farah (Jeff Meyerson)
• Developer Tea – Rollercoasters of Emotions (Jonathan Cutrell)
• Azure Podcast Episode 237 – DevOps with AKS (Sujit D’Mello)

Community & Events

• Enabling partner success at Microsoft Inspire 2018 (Charlotte Yarkoni)
• Meet Manojkumar Murugesan, Developer Expert for NativeScript (Jen Looper)

Database

• What can JSON do for you in SQL Server Database? (Jovan Popovic)
• Azure Tips and Tricks Part 140 – Easily copy your SQL Azure database to your local development server (Michael Crump)
• SQL SERVER – Execution Plan Ignores Tabs, Spaces and Comments (Pinal Dave)
• How to update Access Tier in Azure Storage Blob Level? and What is Azure Blob Rehydration ? and Setting up Code Repository for Azure Data Factory (Abhijit Jana)
• 70-777 Implementing Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB Solutions Certification Exam (Chris Pietschmann)

PowerShell

• Set up a PowerShell and .NET Development Environment with AWS Cloud9 and Amazon EC2 (Trevor Sullivan)
• What You Missed This Week in PowerShell! (Will Anderson)

Miscellaneous

• New report confirms Andromeda isn’t dead, at least not yet (Laurent Giret)
• How to Convert Hex Windows Error Codes to the Meaningful Error Message – 0x80040002 and 0x80040005 and others? – Interview Question of the Week #182 (Pinal Dave)
• Lynx is dead – Long live Browsh for text-based internet browsing (Scott Hanselman)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #2622 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #2136 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Weekly C# Digest Issue #215 (Jakub Chodounsky)
• F# Weekly #28, 2018 – Racing the Zebra & Fable Community Heroes (Sergey Tihon)
• Friday Five: ASP.NET Insights, Security Awareness, and More (MVP Award Program)
• Azure Weekly: July 16, 2018 (Chris Pietschmann)
• Xamarin & Windows App Developer Links – 2018-07-16 (Dan Rigby)
• Reading List (Bruce Lawson)
• Daily Links 13 Jul 2018 (Malcolm Jack)
• Top Stories from the Microsoft DevOps Community – 2018.07.13 (Edward Thomson)

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