Dew Drop – July 25, 2018 (#2773)

Top Links

• Visual Studio IntelliCode expands AI-assisted coding to Python in Visual Studio Code (Dan Taylor)
• Example Code – Opinionated ContosoUniversity on ASP.NET Core 2.0’s Razor Pages (Scott Hanselman)
• PWA on Windows: PWA, Windows and TypeScript (Alan Mendelevich)
• Imagine Cup 2018 Competition Day 1 | World Finals 2018 (Donovan Brown & Susan Ibach)

Web & Cloud Development

• What Time is it in Wakanda? A Beginner’s Only Guide to Using Moment.js (Code Girl)
• AWS JavaScript SDK Now Supports Amazon S3 Select (Eric Carter)
• Finite State Machines with React (Jon Bellah)
• Using Middleware in ASP.NET Core to Log Requests and Responses (Matthew Jones)
• Ahead of Time Compilation – AoT in Angular (Performance Improvements) (Ravi Kiran)
• Test Secure Web APIs with Visual Studio Web Tests (Steve Smith)
• Aurelia Release Notes – Late July 2018 (Rob Eisenberg)
• Creating an If Tag Helper to conditionally render content (Andrew Lock)
• Are Web Components Finally a Thing? (Carl Rippon)
• Portable Cloud Programming with Go Cloud (Eno Compton & Cassandra Salisbury)
• 5 Essential Tips for Service Worker Development (Kezz Bracey)
• Did you know that style and script tags can be set to display: block? (Robin Rendle)
• How to improve .NET Core Kestrel performance using a Linux-specific transport (Tom Deseyn)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

• What are the Important Tools for Xamarin App Development? (Celin Smith)

Visual Studio & .NET

• Ref local re-assignment – C# 7.3 in Rider and ReSharper (Maarten Balliauw)
• CodeIt.Right Rules Explained, Part 18 (Carlos Schults)
• .NET Core Plugins (Nate McMaster)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• Software Soup (Rion Williams)
• As You Develop Software, Always Consider the User Experience (David Rubinstein)
• Containers – What Are They Good For? Running Our CI Builds (Jimmy Bogard)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• Introduction to Reanimated in React Native (Jason Brown)
• Build Skills for the Greater Good: Announcing the Next Alexa Skills Challenge (Bertrand Vacherot)
• A Look at Android ML Kit – the Machine Learning SDK (Joyce Echessa)
• Kotlin’s Nothing: Its Usefulness in Generics (Guest Allan Caine)
• 3 Best Practices for Playtesting (Nathan Ranney)
• Feature Flags Give Crash Reporting a Serious Boost (Eyal Keren)
• Now It’s Easier to Test Your Echo Buttons Skills to Deliver Fun Experiences (Karen Yue)
• Twitter Unveils New Developer Requirements (Patricio Robles)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• Agile Uprising Podcast: Your meetings are dumb, or just the facilitator? (Brad Stokes)
• Microsoft Cloud Show Episode 264 | Microsoft Teams Free SKU & Azure App Insights Behavior Analytics (Andrew Connell & Chris Johnson)
• First look at Maps in Azure IoT Central | Internet of Things Show (Olivier Bloch)
• Detecting unwanted content using machine-assisted content moderation | On .NET (Cecil Phillip & Rich Lander)
• ngAir 170 – From Zero to However Far We Can Get With Nx (Justin Schwartzenberger)
• STEM Everyday #101 | Teched Up Teacher | feat. Chris Aviles (Chris Woods)
• SE-Radio Episode 331: Kevin Goldsmith on Architecture and Organizational Design (Travis Kimmel)
• Software Engineering Daily – Video Games and Funding Techniques with Howard Marks (Jeff Meyerson)
• Developer Tea – Replacing Implicit Questions (Jonathan Cutrell)

Database

• Microsoft® SQL Server® 2016 Service Pack 2 Express (MS Downloads)
• Dealing with massively distributed data flows (Oren Eini)
• Using Azure Cosmos DB Explorer (Abhijit Jana)

SharePoint

• SharePoint Server 2019 Public Preview (MS Downloads)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft delivers public previews of its Office 2019 server products (Mary Jo Foley)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #2629 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #2143 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Xamarin & Windows App Developer Links – 2018-07-25 (Dan Rigby)

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