Dew Drop – October 11, 2018 (#2821)

Top Links

• Fluent XAML Theme Editor Preview released! (Kalita Saintonge)
• ​Microsoft open-sources its patent portfolio (Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols)
• Wait, THAT runs on Pivotal Cloud Foundry? Part 3 – Background, batch, and scheduled jobs (Richard Seroter)
• Announcing the First Stable Release of Angular Console — The UI for the Angular CLI (Victor Savkin)

Web & Cloud Development

• What’s New in Create React App 2.0 Video Series (Elijah Manor)
• Angular Flex Layout: The Masquerade (Aleix Suau)
• ASP.NET Core: Entity Framework Call Store Procedure (Asma Khalid)
• Why don’t we add a element to HTML? (Bruce Lawson)
• WebStorm 2018.3 EAP #6: debugging Node.js workers, high-contrast theme, new code style options for style sheets (Ekaterina Prigara)
• How to Build Medium’s Real-Time Applause Feature with Angular and Pusher (Esther Vaati)
• Add The Deploy to Azure Button (Frank Boucher)
• Azure Key Vault for Credentials (Matthew Groves)
• Angular Router Series: Pillar 2 — Navigation (Nate Lapinski)
• Nested Forms in Angular 6 (Neel Bhatt)
• Breaking Azure Functions with Too Many Connections (Troy Hunt)
• Syncfusion JavaScript Scheduler: New Features and Improvements in 2018 Volume 3 (Uma Maheswari)
• A Blazor Tip You Should Almost Certainly Ignore (Peter Vogel)
• Using Unity and Shield UI for Displaying 3D Medical Education Objects in the Web Browser (BATJ)
• Electron Basics and Fundamentals (CodeDraken)
• Lambdas as Lambdas: The magic of simple serverless Functions (Cyrus Najmabadi)
• Node v10.12.0 (Current) (Michaël Zasso)
• New Postman Feature: Comments on Collections (Nikita)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

• Android Emulator Exception after updating to Visual Studio 15.9 preview 3 (Nick Randolph)

Visual Studio & .NET

• Add missing packages, faster search and more NuGet improvements in Rider 2018.3 EAP and Tuples, deconstruction, string interpolation – improved inspections and quick fixes in ReSharper and Rider 2018.3 EAP (Maarten Balliauw)
• C# Intermediate – Inheritance in C# (Marinko Spasojevic)
• Using .NET Hardware Intrinsics API to accelerate machine learning scenarios (Dan Moseley)
• Correct Photos of Document Images – Ambient Lighting (Gabriel Smith)
• Simplify extension development with PackageReference and the VSSDK meta package (Mads Kristensen)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• The True Agile Is Value Delivery That Never Stops (Vladimir Fedak)
• Building an open source GitHub project using Azure DevOps (Andrew Lock)
• Testing for Thrown Exceptions in NUnit (Jason Roberts)
• Important security updates for Jenkins (Daniel Beck)
• The Urge to Strangle(The Strangler Pattern) (Dave Nicolette)
• Software Team Maturity Matrix (Dean Hume)
• The Introvert’s Guide to Professional Development (Jenn)
• Deploying TeamCity to Kubernetes using Octopus Deploy (Bob Walker)
• Why You Need Continuous Testing in DevOps (Tom Alexander)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• Control Flow Integrity in the Android kernel (Sami Tolvanen)
• How to Localize Your Alexa Skills (Andrea Muttoni)
• I love you Flutter (Shalom Yerushalmy)
• NativeScript Hot Module Replacement (Stanimira Vlaeva)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Embedding Power BI with Peter Myers (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Meta Cast Episode 134 – Fear In The Agile World (Josh Anderson)
• SSW TV – Infrastructure as Code with Terraform on Azure | Tom Harvey and SSW TV – When Serverless Meets Containers | Justin Yoo at DDD Sydney 2018 (Sophie Belle)
• S02 E02: Five Reasons Why JavaScript Developers Should EVEN Care About .NET Core | Five Things (Burke Holland)
• Syntax Podcast – Top 18 New Things in JS – Part 2 (Wes Bos)
• The Changelog 318: A call for kindness in open source (Adam Stacoviak & Jerod Santo)
• Inversion of Control (BJ Burns & Will Gant)
• Developer on Fire Episode 381 | Abhinav Asthana – Big Impact (Dave Rael)
• SQL Server Radio – Show 100! (Matan Yungman & Guy Glantser)
• Software Engineering Daily – Generative Models with Doug Eck (Jeff Meyerson)
• Test-launching a video blog, the Palermo Pamphlet (Jeffrey Palermo)

Community & Events

• Philly Code Camp Workshop – Angular 101: Angular from Start to Finish and Philly Code Camp Workshop – React vs Angular vs Vue and Philly Code Camp Workshop – A Full Day with Bots, AI, and Machine Learning on Azure and Philly Code Camp Workshop – Building Wi-Fi Connected IoT Solutions with Arduino and Azure and Philly Code Camp Workshop – Rock Your Technical Interview (Bill Wolff)
• Leading labs with Dr. Jennifer Chayes (Emily Maryatt)
• Meet the Experts: Carlos Mostek (Jennifer O’Brien)
• Introducing the 2018 Adobe MAX Insiders (Lindsay Munro)
• Announcing a Competition for Ethics in Computer Science, with up to $3.5 Million in Prizes (Mozilla)
• Meet the Developer: Introducing Michael “Show Me the Info“ Washington (Yolanda Fintschenko)

Database

• Linux commands to assist with importing a CSV file into SQL Server (Graham Okely)
• Discovering New System Objects and Functions in SQL Server 2019 (Jeffrey Yao)
• Auto-Scaling Azure SQL DB (Arun Sirpal)

Miscellaneous

• #SnagIt – From the same team who created #Camtasia, a great tool for screen capture on scrolling windows (Bruno Capuano)
• Microsoft prepares ‘re-release’ of the Windows 10 October 2018 Update (Zac Bowden)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #2683 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #2190 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Xamarin & Windows App Developer Links – 2018-10-11 (Dan Rigby)

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