Dew Drop – September 7, 2018 (#2798)

Top Links

• Re-Assembling the Web with Web Assembly and Blazor (Rick Strahl)
• New! Azure Starter Packs now available (Karina Homme)
• Demystifying React (Milton Abe)
• .NET Core Opinion #2 – Managing a Repository Structure (K. Scott Allen)

Web & Cloud Development

• React Heaxagon Component (Paul Cowan)
• Security in Angular: Part 2 (Paul D. Sheriff)
• How to Use a jQuery ComboBox UI Component in Your Web App (Alberta Williams)
• Using Docker to Shove an Existing Application Into Some Containers (Dan Newton)
• WebStorm 2018.3 Early Access Preview: parameter hints in JavaScript, Structure view for tests, redesigned Search Everywhere (Ekaterina Prigara)
• Dev at Work: Sprint Bulbasur and Azure ping service with Application Insights (Iris Classon)
• ASP.NET 2.2 Preview 1 Debuts Java SignalR Client (Jeff Martin)
• Running ASP.NET Web API Solution in Docker (Code Project)
• Extending AWS CloudFormation with AWS Lambda Powered Macros (Randall Hunt)
• PhpStorm 2018.3 Early Access Program is Open (Roman Pronskiy)
• A neat way to build query string in ASP.NET Core (Talking Dotnet)
• Creating and Testing a Bot with the Microsoft Bot Framework (David Giard)
• How Distributed Tracing Solves One of the Worst Microservices Problems (Aaron Stannard)
• Natural Language Understanding with LUIS (Sahil Malik)
• Aurelia Release Notes – Early September 2018 (Rob Eisenberg)
• #MLNET – ML.Net 0.5 initial support for #TensorFlow (Bruno Capuano)
• REST API: Your Guide to Getting Started Quickly (Eric Goebelbecker)
• Thoughts about .NET, The Cloud, AI, ML, and teaching software engineers (Howard van Rooijen)
• Node v10.10.0 (Current) (Michaël Zasso)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

• Using Object Detection from inside your Xamarin app (Jim Bennett)
• Getting Started with Xamarin.Forms and Platform Specific Resources using OnPlatform (Nick Randolph)
• Xamarin.Forms Smart Pickers in Conversational UI (Sam Basu)

Visual Studio & .NET

• Exploring MoreLINQ Part 11 – Padding (Mark Heath)
• Writing Your Own Debugger and Language Extensions with Visual Studio Code (Vassili Kaplan)
• Live templates and file templates in Rider 2018.2 (Matthias Koch)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• Mad Glad Sad Retrospective (Herbi Bodner)
• Deploying applications to Kubernetes with Octopus (Matthew Casperson)
• Managing Software Dependency at Scale (Szymon Gizecki)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• Ionic Announced Ionic Framework 4 Beta (Dylan Schiemann)
• 3 Types of Alexa Skills Anyone Can Build With Storyline (Jennifer King)
• ML for Android Developers – Part 1 (Mark Allison)
• 7 Reasons Why Facebook’s React Native Wins Over Google’s Flutter (Rahul Varshneya)
• Microsoft Announces the General Availability of Azure IoT Hub’s Integration with Azure Event Grid (Steef-Jan Wiggers)
• TOMRA Leverages IoT to Revolutionize Recycling (Peter Cooper)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• Windows IoT #5: Using Device Methods with IoT Hub (Getting Started Series) | Visual Studio Toolbox (Dmitry Lyalin & Robert Green)
• Custom Vision – Object Detection Made Easy | The Xamarin Show (James Montemagno)
• Azure Podcast Episode 245 – Azure Certifications (Sujit D’Mello)
• Monitoring And Diagnostics of an IoT Solution with Azure IoT Hub | Internet of Things Show (Olivier Bloch)
• Rocket 191: Summer of Scams: The Finale (Brianna Wu, Christina Warren & Simone De Rochefort)
• Alexa Dev Chat Episode 024 – The Voice Generation Will Include All Generations (Dave Isbitski)
• Software Engineering Daily – Go To Market with Mitch Ferguson (Jeff Meyerson)
• Hanselminutes – Accelerate: The State of Dev Ops with Dr. Nicole Forsgren (Scott Hanselman)

Community & Events

• Catch the .NET Conf: Latest Updates and Tips (Christy Hofffman)
• TechBash 2018 (Oct 2-5) – Check out the family and kids activities! (TechBash Team)

Database

• RavenDB 4.1 Tidbits: The production environment (Oren Eini)
• Practical Real World Performance Tuning – Reviews and Feedback (Pinal Dave)

MS Teams

• Microsoft Teams in Education eBook (Loryan Strant)

Miscellaneous

• Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 18234 (Dona Sarkar)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #2659 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #2172 and Double Shot #2173 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Xamarin & Windows App Developer Links – 2018-09-07 (Dan Rigby)
• Roundup #17: StackExchange.Redis v2, Microservices with HTTP, ngrok, Angular Console (Derek Comartin)
• Collective #448 (Pedro Botelho)

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