Dew Drop – July 24, 2018 (#2772)

Top Links

• Windows UI Library Preview released! (Jesse Bishop)
• This sick Live Share extension is a blessing! (Vaibhav Khulbe)
• Boosting performance of Angular applications with manual change detection (Chidume Nnamdi)
• Markdown View — Markdown Viewer for the Web, Windows 10, Android and everything (Alan Mendelevich)

Web & Cloud Development

• Use JavaScript Code from One File in Another File with IntelliSense (Peter Vogel)
• Azure Tips and Tricks Part 143 – Keep your Azure Web App Hydrated and Responsive (Michael Crump)
• Trigger Azure Data Factory Pipeline when a Blob is created or deleted (Abhijit Jana)
• Why Web Workers Make JavaScript More Than a Single Thread (Brandon Morelli)
• WebStorm 2018.2: Extract React component, integration with ‘ng add’, Node.js on WSL, and more (Ekaterina Prigara)
• Security in Angular – Part 3 (Paul D. Sheriff)
• Quick Tip: Write an HTTP server in Dart (Jermaine Oppong)
• 5 Essential Tips for Service Worker Development (Kezz Bracey)
• How the EU made our website slow and One small step for a browser, one giant leap for web security! (Scott Helme)
• Working with Polly – Using the Context to Obtain the Retry Count for Diagnostics (Steve Gordon)
• Why No HTTPS? Here’s the World’s Largest Websites Not Redirecting Insecure Requests to HTTPS (Troy Hunt)
• Photoshop 101, introduction for web developers (Vincent Humeau)
• Adding Particle Effects to DOM Elements with Canvas (Zach Saucier)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

• Binding a Collection to a FlexLayout IV (David Britch)

Visual Studio & .NET

• The Simplest Way to Create an Asynchronous Method and Eliminate Code and Add Functionality with Fody Attributes (Peter Vogel)
• Line spacing in Visual Studio (Alex Hajdu)
• C# Access Modifiers – Video and Resources (Tim Corey)
• String repeat method for C# (Gunnar Peipman)
• Protecting .NET applications that use JSON objects (Johnny Brawner)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• Estimation Article Posted: When to Estimate and When Not to Estimate (Johanna Rothman)
• Reduce Technical Debt by Using Unit Tests as Documentation (Steve Poling)
• Every method begins with “new” – code smells series (Dino Esposito)
• Write quality mobile apps in any architecture (Leandro Alonso)
• Why Code Reviews Hurt Your Code Quality and Team Productivity (Lou Bichard)
• The 14 Best Productivity Tools for Developers of All Disciplines (Maddy Osman)
• The conflict between data protection and DevOps (Steve Jones)
• Don’t learn new tech in a vacuum (Swizec Teller)
• Time for a Change (Tim Zack)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• Contextual Clues Can Help Improve Alexa’s Speech Recognizers (Anirudh Raju)
• Announcing Ionic Identity Vault: Secure Biometric Authentication for Your Mobile App (Matt Kremer)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• .NET Rocks! – It’s a Container World with Ben Hall (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Accelerating Your Agile Journey Podcast (Johanna Rothman)
• Revision Path 252: Shaw Strothers (Maurice Cherry)
• Bot Framework v4 QnA Maker Tutorial Series: Working with Knowledge Bases (Michael Szul)
• Software Engineering Daily – Video Machine Learning with Ben Dodson (Jeff Meyerson)
• Syntax Podcast – Hasty Treat – Refactoring (Wes Bos)

Community & Events

• #Event – Virtual event, Machine Learning .Net & Azure Functions (Bruno Capuano)
• At the largest private hackathon on the planet, Microsoft employees fire up ideas by the thousands (Candace Whitney-Morris)
• 23 Awesome Things To Do In Philly This Week, July 23-29 (Kelly Bucci)
• Spotlight on Engineering: Ankit Muchhala (Nikita)
• ng-conf 2018 with Alex Castillo (Rob Lauer)

Database

• Why Surrogate Keys are Needed for a SQL Server Data Warehouse (Dinesh Asanka)
• SQL SERVER – How to Listen on Multiple TCP Ports in SQL Server? (Pinal Dave)
• Configuring Azure environment to set up Azure SQL Database Managed Instance (preview) (Jovan Popovic)
• Setting Up a Fast, Comprehensive Search Routine With PostgreSQL (Rob Conery)
• Automated SQL Server WMI Alerts for Server Scope and Server Objects Permissions Changes (Svetlana Golovko)
• Unexpected use cases for RavenDB in IoT (Oren Eini)

Miscellaneous

• Chocolatey Package Manager and How I Use It (David Giard)
• Neural Regression Using Keras (James McCaffrey)
• The Top 3 Ways to Fail at Interviewing Software Developers (Ambrose Little)
• Logging approaches in Go (Chuck Ha)
• Windows 10 build 17713.1002 heads to Insiders in the Fast ring (Dan Thorp-Lancaster)
• Microsoft reportedly building two new Xbox consoles, including a lower-priced streaming device (Taylor Soper)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #2628 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #2142 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Xamarin & Windows App Developer Links – 2018-07-24 (Dan Rigby)
• Interesting links of the week (07/16 – 07/22, 2018) (Mike Eaton)
• Collective #435 (Pedro Botelho)
• Professional Development 7/16/2018 – 7/22/2018 (Cameron Presley)

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