Dew Drop – August 7, 2018 (#2782)

Top Links

• Introducing Android 9 Pie (Dave Burke)
• .NET Rocks! – Learning UX with Jessica Engstrom (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• PWA on Windows: File Type Association (Alan Mendelevich)
• TechBash Discount Code (Jared Rhodes)

Web & Cloud Development

• The best Vue.js Admin Dashboards (MadeWithVueJS)
• Azure Tips and Tricks Part 147 – Run TSQL on an Azure SQL database with Azure Functions (Michael Crump)
• New inspections in PhpStorm 2018.2 (Anton Monakov)
• Sublime Text and Sed for a winning combo on HTML tags. (Joshua Otwell)
• How To Do Microservices Integration Testing in the Cloud (Alex Handy)
• What’s New in Deep Learning Research: Microsoft’s TextWorld is the OpenAI Gym of Language Learning… (Jesus Rodriguez)
• Learn how to orchestrate serverless functions by scraping APIs in 8 minutes (Maxime Rouiller)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

• Switching Your Xamarin Project to Standard Class Projects (Peter Vogel)
• Xamarin Preview Release: Xcode 10 Beta 5 (Bri Brothers)

Visual Studio & .NET

• Handling a new era in the Japanese calendar in .NET (Ron Petrusha)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• Excluding Events from User Flows in Application Insights (Abhijit Jana)
• Super SuperClasses – Code smells series (Dino Esposito)
• Jealous of Your Friend’s Success? Why Healthy Competition Can Be A Good Thing (Kat Boogaard)
• Why Tech Projects Fail: Management, Planning, Process (Rob Waller)
• Building a Serverless CI/CD Pipeline with Jenkins (Tracy Miranda)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• Android 9 Pie: Powered by AI for a smarter, simpler experience that adapts to you (Sameer Samat)
• Hear It from a Skill Builder: 4 Ways to Uplevel Your Skills for Customer Engagement (Jennifer King)
• Introducing 50+ additional Text-to-Speech voices with Amazon Polly Integration (Kris Gutta)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• Provisioning Kubernetes clusters on AKS using HashiCorp Terraform | Azure Friday (Scott Hanselman & Rob Caron)
• Getting Started with Visual Studio Code (Codepunk)
• AFH 097: PSM II An Advanced Scrum Master Course (Ryan Ripley)
• Mocking in C# Unit Tests – Video and Resources (Tim Corey)
• Syntax Podcast – Hasty Treat – JSON, JSONP and CORS (Wes Bos)
• Defrag Tools #195 – Console Command Favorites | Defrag Tools (Andrew Richards & Cameron Tomisser)
• The Amp Hour #402 – An Interview with Ben Einstein (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
• Revision Path 254: Goldi Gold (Maurice Cherry)
• Three Devs and a Maybe 153: The Mouse in the House (Michael Budd, Fraser Hart, Lewis Cains & Edd Mann)
• Software Engineering Daily – Future Architecture with Chad Fowler (Jeff Meyerson)

Community & Events

• Meet Abbie Turner: student, chihuahua owner and Android developer (Noa Havazelet)
• Mind the Product SF 2018, The Road to Sponsorship and What We Learned (Glenn Block)
• 26 Spectacular Things To Do In Philadelphia This Week, August 6-12 (Kelly Bucci)
• Stack Overflow – Get to Know Our New Code of Conduct (Tim Post)
• Investing in Lifelong Learners (Karen McCavitt)
• How to Successfully Champion Your Developer Community Initiative (Colin Bish)

Database

• SQL Server Function to Generate Random Numbers (Eli Leiba)
• Two Important Differences Between SQL Server and PostgreSQL (Brent Ozar)
• Eventing: Notification with Couchbase Functions (Matthew Groves)
• SQL SERVER – Setting ARITHABORT ON for All Connecting .Net Applications (Pinal Dave)

MS Teams

• Microsoft: Hit the road, Slack (Mary Jo Foley)

PowerShell

• PowerShell Standard Library: Build single module that works across Windows PowerShell and PowerShell Core (Steve Lee)

Miscellaneous

• Redstone 5, Phone work points to…? (Steve Litchfield)
• Bring your film libraries together through Movies Anywhere, now available on Xbox and Windows 10 (Athima Chansanchai)
• Apple adds improved Windows Migration Utility to macOS Mojave (Nick Statt)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #2638 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #2149 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Xamarin & Windows App Developer Links – 2018-08-07 (Dan Rigby)
• Professional Development 7/30/2018 – 8/05/2018 (Cameron Presley)
• Collective #439 (Pedro Botelho)
• Interesting links of the week (07/30 – 08/05, 2018) (Michael Eaton)
• Reading Notes #339 (Frank Boucher)

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