Dew Drop – August 30, 2018 (#2793)

Top Links

• .NET Rocks! – Windows Compatibility Pack with Immo Landwerth (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• 2018 State of DevOps Report Now Available (Sam Guckenheimer)
• New tricks for an old dog – what I learnt from VS Code (Tom Wright)

Web & Cloud Development

• Announcing general availability of Azure IoT Hub’s integration with Azure Event Grid (Ashita Rastogi)
• Angular Components: Pass by Reference or Pass by Value? (Dhananjay Kumar)
• How To Implement AutoMapper In ASP.NET Core MVC Application (Pawan Kumar)
• R3 2018 Sneak Peek: The Next Telerik ASP.NET MVC and Core Tools Release (Sara Faatz)
• Changing the Replication Type of an Azure Storage Account (David Giard)
• How to Use Sass in ASP.NET Core 2.0 MVC (Colin Bacon)
• ERROR_INSUFFICIENT_BUFFER and Concurrency (Eric Lawrence)
• In the Works – Amazon RDS on VMware (Jeff Barr)
• Practical application of reverse-engineering guidelines and principles and Level Up Your Reverse Engineering Skills (Max NgWizard K)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

• Particle follower with CocosSharp and Xamarin.Forms (Marco Kuiper)

Visual Studio & .NET

• What’s Inside Visual Studio 2017 15.8 (Jeff Martin)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• Steps 6 & 7 of extracting a data-rich service and Refactoring 2nd Edition rough cut available (Martin Fowler)
• The Business Case for Unit Testing – Part 2 (Erik Dietrich)
• Making Testing Worthwhile (Peter Vogel)
• From Passion To Productivity: How To Build Personal Motivation Into Better Work (Anne Lowrey)
• A Minimal Development Environment: Part Two (Dave Nicolette)
• Team Management Crash Course: 3 Best Practices (Nathan Ranney)
• It’s official: database development is now part of DevOps (Mary Robbins)
• Stovepipe Enterprise – The Daily Software Anti-Pattern (Matthew Jones)
• Pitfalls In Performance Feedback (Steven Sinofsky)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• Build a Game Skill for the Alexa Skills Challenge: Games and Compete for Over €50,000 in Prizes (Kristin Fritsche)
• Best Practices for Building Voice-First Games for Alexa (Andrea Muttoni)
• Make the most of Notifications with the redesigned Wear OS by Google (Hoi Lam)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• GCast – Azure Media Services – Uploading, Encoding, and Sharing a Video (David Giard)
• Azure IoT Hub and Azure Event Grid | Internet of Things Show (Olivier Bloch)
• Syntax Podcast – Potluck – Programming Languages × Soft Skills × PHP vs JS × Breakdancing x Spice Blends (Wes Bos)
• MAS 049: Joe Eames (Charles Max Wood)
• The Changelog 312: Segment’s transition back to a monorepo (Adam Stacoviak & Jerod Santo)
• #FiveThings Renewed for Season 2 | Five Things (Burke Holland, John Papa, Golnaz Alibeigi, Kaitlin McKinnon, Cameron Tomisser, Matthew Pew)
• 2FD 093: Peeling Back Frugality (Kevin Griffin & Sean Merron)
• Women in Business & Technology 028 – Becoming an unapologetic feminist mother with Chairman Mom CEO Sarah Lacy (Sonia Dara & Colleen O’Brien)
• Software Engineering Daily – Kubernetes Continuous Deployment with Sheroy Marker (Jeff Meyerson)

Community & Events

• Malmo, Minecraft and machine learning with Dr. Katja Hofmann (Emily Maryatt)
• Xbox is at PAX West 2018 (Tara Theoharis)
• Meet the Developer: Introducing Mahsa “Always Improving” Hassankashi (Yolanda Fintschenko)

Database

• Find, Analyze and Optimize SQL Server Performance with SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer (Jeremy Kadlec)
• Deep dive into Python scripts execution in SQL Server (Maria Zakourdaev)
• SQL SERVER – UDF – User Defined Function to Extract Only Numbers From String (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

• Female, minority students took AP computer science in record numbers (Ryan Suppe)
• Obsolete Microspeak: TDBN and the six-pack (Raymond Chen)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #2654 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #2167 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Xamarin & Windows App Developer Links – 2018-08-30 (Dan Rigby)

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