Day: July 30, 2018

Top Links

• Xamarin: Announcing Xamarin.Android 9.0 (P) Preview (Jon Douglas)
• Merge Conflict 108: .NET Standard Wants & Modernizing Win32 Apps (James Montemagno)
• Google Flutter From Scratch: Building Apps With Widgets (Ashraff Hathibelagal)
• TWC9: Imagine Cup Winners, Visual Studio IntelliCode for Python, Knative in Azure, and more | This Week On Channel 9 (Christina Warren)

Web & Cloud Development

• Implementing A “Show Password” Checkbox On A Login Form In JavaScript (Ben Nadel)
• Drop 20K from your production Angular app (Abraham Williams)
• Progressive Web Application Development By Example (Chris Love)
• Automatically remove unused css from Bootstrap or other frameworks (Luke Lowrey)
• Export Azure Application Insights Data (Abhijit Jana)
• Stuff you can do with CSS pointer events (Chris Coyier)
• Windows Weekly Dockerfile #24: Building Distributed .NET Apps (Elton Stoneman)
• Asp.Net Core Basics- Accessing Configuration Settings from Multiple Sources (Jeeva Subburaj)
• PhpStorm 2018.2 is now released! (Maxim Kolmakov)
• Azure Tips and Tricks Part 144 – Swiftly understand what versions of .NET are supported on Azure App Service (Michael Crump)
• Writing Multitenant ASP.NET Core Applications (Ricardo Peres)
• Avoid Lazy Loading in ASP.NET (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Essential JavaScript features for React (Shubhangi Raj Agrawal)
• Angular 6.1 introduces a new KeyValue Pipe (Talking Dotnet)
• As it awaits the close of the Microsoft deal, GitHub strikes partnership deal with Google Cloud (Tom Krazit)
• Predictions for the direction of serverless platforms · More than seven (Gareth Rushgrove)
• PWAs: Blurring the Lines Between Web and Mobile Apps (Aditya Modi)
• Understanding Server-Side Blazor (Ankit Sharma)
• Using the Canonical Attribute Value to Consolidate Duplicate Blog Posts (Michael Szul)
• Do Things Right with TypeScript (Jessica Kerr)
• Progressive Web Apps (PWA), its got electrolytes! (Prashant Ram)
• Calling The Microsoft Bot Framework Using The Direct Line API (MS Bot Framework V4 Preview Edition) (Michael Washington)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

• A Look At New Xamarin Forms Features (Damien Doumer)
• Revisiting Easy Tables: An Azure Back-End Service and a ToDo App (Devlin Duldulao)
• Xamarin.Android.Lite – Prototype/proof of concept of a “lite” Xamarin.Android that only supports Xamarin.Forms (Jonathan Peppers)
• UWP App Tips Announcement – Windows UI LIbrary (WinUI) (Me)
• #WinML – How to create a #Windows10 App and use #TinyYOLOV2 for object detection (the complete series) (Bruno Capuano)
• Connecting to Bluetooth RFCOMM with UWP (j2inet)

Visual Studio & .NET

• .NET & C# – Back to Basics Series (Abhijit Jana)
• Performance improvements in ReSharper 2018.2 EAP: EditorConfig support (Alexander Kurakin)
• .NET Core Application Development in Visual Studio Code (VS Code) (Damir Arh)
• New C# 7 Features – Ref Returns And Out Variables – Part Three (Jignesh Kumar)
• Visual Studio 2017 – Debugging Enhancements: Reattach to Process & Set Next Statement (Kapil Khandelwal)
• How to use VS Code for your Python projects (Clément Verna)
• Pipe Dreams, part 3 (Marc Gravell)
• Flattening arrow code using a stack of monads (Mark Seemann)
• Database migration for .Net Core projects (Neel Bhatt)
• Code like an idiot (Rob Miles)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• Why Do You Need to Unit Test If You Have a QA Team? (Erik Dietrich)
• Agnostic Agile: The Key to a Successful Lean Agile Transformation (Tim Guay)
• DZone Refcard #129 – Foundations of RESTful Architecture (Brian Sletten & Chase Doelling)
• Delegation: When being helpful is actually hurting (Camille Fournier)
• Maintainable Architecture – Readability (Mark Allison)
• The Importance of Limiting Your WIP (Assaf Stone)
• Continuous Integration with Jenkins and Docker (Ravindranath Barathy)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• Things Every Alexa Skill Should Do: Use Analytics to Make Enhancements (Jeff Blankenburg)
• Mobile App That Speaks with DeepMind WaveNet Google Cloud Text To Speech ML API and Flutter (Alfian Losari)
• Creating together: Unity and Google Cloud (Richard Lee)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• Week in Geek Podcast: A reckoning for Facebook and the life-changing tech of Microsoft’s Imagine Cup (Clare McGrane)
• Technology & Friend – Silviu Niculita on Chatbots (David Giard)
• Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 275 #OTP (Richard Hay)
• Flutter: World of Cupertino (iOS) | Ep 4 | Flutter Weekly Widgets (MTechViral)
• Coding Blocks.NET 86 – Lightning Talks (Michael Outlaw, Allen Underwood & Joe Zack)
• PPP 209 | (Video) Less About Us, More About Them. Be Curious (Andy Kaufman)
• Developer on Fire Episode 360 | Guy Royse – Generalized Excellence (Dave Rael)
• Eat, Sleep, Code Podcast – An Augmented Reality Check (Ed Charbeneau)
• FreeCodeFriday – Episode 9 (Jason Bock)
• Talk Python to Me #171 – 1M Jupyter notebooks analyzed (Michael Kennedy)
• Bot Framework Tutorial #19: Hierarchical Entities in LUIS (Michael Szul)
• Software Engineering Daily – Edge Kubernetes with Venkat Yalla (Jeff Meyerson)
• Developer Tea – Evidence is Not Proof (Jonathan Cutrell)

Community & Events

• We’re Hiring! Kendo UI for React Developer Advocate (John Bristowe)
• Nerd Nite No 87: Dying in Space, Star Wars and your Genome! (Philly Nerd Nite Team)

Database

• Steps to install a stand-alone SQL Server 2017 instance (Percy Reyes)
• SQL SERVER – How to Check If Instant File Initialization Enabled or Not? and SQL SERVER – T-SQL Script: How to Search for Multiple Values in ERRORLOG? and How to Check Status of Instant File Initialization? – Interview Question of the Week #184 (Pinal Dave)
• 8 Azure Cosmos DB Tips & Tricks that you should know (Abhijit Jana)
• Importing Data from AWS DynamoDB into SQL Server 2017 (Derek Colley)

PowerShell

• What You Missed This Week in PowerShell! (Greg Tate)
• Lesson Learned – Keep PowerShell Modules Consistent and Up To Date (Melissa Coates)

Miscellaneous

• Some thoughts on how to teach programming (K. Matthew Dupree)
• Amazon is now accepting pre-orders for the Microsoft Surface Go (Phone Arena Team)
• New Preview Alpha and Alpha Skip Ahead 1810 Update – 7/29/18 and New Preview Delta & Omega Ring 1806 System Update – 7/29/18 (Bradley Rossetti)
• Surface Go – A Mini Hands On (Richard Hay)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #2632 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #2146 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Azure Weekly: July 30, 2018 (Chris Pietschmann)
• Weekly C# Digest Issue #217 (Jakub Chodounsky)
• F# Weekly #30, 2018 – F# 4.5 Preview & F# Talks from NDC Oslo (Sergey Tihon)
• Reading List (Bruce Lawson)
• Top Stories from the Microsoft DevOps Community – 2018.07.27 (Edward Thomson)
• LAPS, Surface Peripherals, a GDPR Field Guide, an MVP Journey, and more on the Friday Five! (MVP Award Program)

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