Day: July 19, 2018

Top Links

• Xamarin.Forms 3.1: Improving the Little Things (David Ortinau)
• Announcing .NET Framework 4.8 Early Access build 3632 (Vivek Mishra)
• Announching the Java API Browser (Den Delimarsky)
• .NET Core Code Coverage as a Global Tool with coverlet (Scott Hanselman)

Web & Cloud Development

• Overriding Controller Authorization in ASP.NET MVC (Peter Vogel)
• Exploring Azure Data Factory Activity Execution Details (Abhijit Jana)
• Makin’ Bacon with Node.js, Hapi, and Vue (David Neal)
• Debugging ASP.NET Core apps in a local Docker container (Maarten Balliauw)
• Twilio + PHP to Call and Text (Margaret Staples)
• PhpStorm 2018.2 Public Preview (Maxim Kolmakov)
• Extending Support Cycle for Docker Community Edition (Sebastiaan Van Stijnn)
• Jumpstart your Microsoft Graph Security API integration with the new JavaScript sample app (Sarah Fender)
• Seamless A/B Testing, Deployment Slots and DNS Rollover with Azure Functions and Cloudflare Workers (Troy Hunt)
• Building a Real Time Data Pipeline in Azure – Part 3 (Jason Farrell)
• Music Notation in Blazor (Ajcek84)
• Node v10.7.0 (Current) (Michaël Zasso)
• Kubernetes, Containers, and Octopus – An Update (Michael Richardson)
• Edge versus Chrome – A Quick createElement Benchmark (K. Scott Allen)
• Foretell and prevent downtime with predictive maintenance (Diego Tamburini)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

• Developing Mobile Apps with Xamarin Forms and Azure Functions (Daniel Krzyczkowski)

Visual Studio & .NET

• CodeRush – New Release (v18.1.7) for Visual Studio (Mark Miller)
• “Leaky Apps” Are Draining Your Data — Here’s How You Plug the Hole (Gabriel Torok)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• You’re not even criticizing Scrum (Chris Cooney)
• The Basics of Agile Transformation (Tim Zack)
• Working Smarter, Not Harder, Part 1 (Rob Conery)
• How to Run Customized Load Tests like a Pro with Test Studio (Ivaylo Todorov)
• How to Increase Quality with a Code Coverage Hack (Lee Richardson)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• Creating Animations With MotionLayout for Android (Ashraff Hathibelagal)
• Continuous Testing for iOS12 Apps (Eran Kinsbruner)
• Best Practices for Building Alexa Skills for Fire TV Cube (Cami Williams)
• 5 New Tutorials to Help You Integrate Alexa Voice Capabilities into Your Product (Fletcher Nelson)
• Be Reactive: Develop your next app with RxJava (Hemant Joshi)
• Microsoft announces the public preview of Windows 10 IoT Core Services (Dan Harman)
• Object Type Introspection in GameMaker – Part 2 (Alejandro Hitti)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• MS Dev Show – Extreme Remote Work (Jason Young & Carl Schweitzer)
• GCast – Azure MySQL Database (David Giard)
• Complete Developer Podcast – 7 Myths of Agile (BJ Burns & Will Gant)
• Syntax Podcast – Advice For Beginners – Tech Skills, Applying for Jobs, Focus, Imposter Syndrome + More (Wes Bos)
• The Changelog 306: The Great GatsbyJS (Adam Stacoviak & Jerod Santo)
• Episode 23: Five Things About npm | Five Things (Burke Holland)
• Developer on Fire Episode 357 | Bryan Colligan – Dragon Slayer (Dave Rael)
• 2FD 087: Debt and Mortgage Free in Four Years, Negative Net Worth to 750K and Estate Planning (Kevin Griffin & Sean Merron)
• Dart Algorithms: Linear Search & Binary Search (MTechViral)
• Getting started with IoT: how to connect, secure, and manage your “things” (Olivier Bloch)
• Software Engineering Daily – Botchain with Rob May (Jeff Meyerson)
• Bot Framework v4 QnA Maker Tutorial Series: Introduction to the CLI (Michael Szul)
• Developer Tea – Problem Chains (Jonathan Cutrell)

Community & Events

• Atlanta Code Camp 2018 Call for Speakers (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Building a global AI supercomputer – The 2018 Microsoft Research Faculty Summit (Emily Maryatt)
• Xbox Is Coming To gamescom (Larry Hryb)
• Webinar: Learn how to use PubNub’s Translator BLOCK to build translation capabilities into your apps (MS Translator Team)
• ng-conf 2018 with Asim Hussain (Rob Lauer)
• When customers love your brand… (Scott Davis)

Database

• Know How Table Variables Different From Temporary Tables in SQL Server (LJ Burrows)
• SQL Server Management Studio Output Option for Object Explorer Queries and Telemetry Data (Rajendra Gupta)
• CRUD Operations in SQL Server (Jeffrey Yao)
• Spanification in RavenDB (Oren Eini)

PowerShell

• Loading PowerShell types into VSCode (Donovan Brown)

Miscellaneous

• My Interviewing Strategy (Cameron Presley)
• Small Basic TextWindow and Keyboard Shortcuts (Nonki Takahashi)
• Enable your users to work securely from anywhere, anytime, across all of their devices (Debbie Seres)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #2625 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #2139 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Xamarin & Windows App Developer Links – 2018-07-19 (Dan Rigby)

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