Day: October 29, 2018

Top Links

• Pull request successfully merged. Starting build… (Nat Friedman)
• IBM to buy Red Hat for $34B in cash and debt, taking a bigger leap into hybrid cloud (Ingrid Lunden)
• Developer Tea – Learning React – Part 1 (More than just tooling) (Jonathan Cutrell)
• ASP.NET Core 2.2 Parameter Transformers for clean URL generation and slugs in Razor Pages or MVC (Scott Hanselman)

Web & Cloud Development

• Returning Status Codes from ASP.NET Core Controllers (Peter Vogel)
• Tips for setting up a Ghost blog on Amazon AWS EC2 (Dean Hume)
• Testing with Jest in WebStorm (Ekaterina Prigara)
• New Azure Exams – My thoughts on them (Gregor Suttie)
• AWS Serverless Application Model (SAM) Command Line Interface – Build, Test, and Debug Serverless Apps Locally (Jeff Barr)
• Angular Material Navigation Menu – Complete Responsive Navigation (Marinko Spasojevic)
• Azure Tips and Tricks Part 168 – Part 1 – A quick tour around Azure DevOps Projects using Node.js and AKS (Michael Crump)
• React, Redux, and API’s Part Two: React Only (DRY) (Patrick Gordon)
• How to create an Angular 7 app with Visual Studio 2017 (Talking Dotnet)
• Mega mash-up: API testing with Postman, Azure DevOps and randomuser.me (Tom Wright)
• Proxy Testing a Mac Application with Apache (Matt Ward)
• Redis 5.0 Released (Alex Giamas)
• Progressive Web Application (PWA) — Complete Quickstart Guide (Brainhub)
• Mastering Charts in VueJS (Brian Greig)
• Testing a WebAPI in .NET Core with Integration tests (Dominique St-Amand)
• Credential Stuffing is a Persistent Threat to Your Users (Duncan Godfrey)
• Build a chat application in Dart 2 (Part 1) (Jermaine Oppong)
• Scripting with gcloud: a beginner’s guide to automating GCP tasks (Sangeetha Alagappan)
• Protocols in ASP .NET Core: HTTPS and HTTP/2 (Shahed Chowdhuri)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

• ReactiveUI v9.1.1 released (Glenn Watson)
• What’s new in XPlat v1.4 (James Croft)

Visual Studio & .NET

• Telerik UI for WinForms Demo App Revamped with Fluent Design & High DPI Support (Desislava Yordanova)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• Unit Testing Shell Scripts:Part Three (Dave Nicolette)
• Filtering Artifacts in Azure DevOps (Jason Gaylord)
• Share your Azure DevOps feature suggestions with us (Jeff Beehler)
• No more crunch time: the better way to meet your deadlines (Itamar Turner-Trauring)
• GitHub tip: You don’t need that .git extension to clone (Dave Brock)
• Management Signals (Johanna Rothman)
• The Beginners Guide to Bad UI Design (John Willoughby)
• Why you should scan your code within your pipelines (Matteo Emili)
• Service Delivery Review: The Missing DevOps Feedback Loop? (Matthew Philip)
• On aging (software) (Michael Janke)
• Why you should reinvent the wheel (Nathanael Demacon)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• New Way to Implement Firebase Push Notification — FirebaseInstanceIdService Deprecated (Android) (Danish Amjad)
• Ionic’s Hot Take: Chrome 70 & PWAs (Rachel Brown)
• Flutter + MVC at Last! (Greg Perry)
• BMI Calculator in Flutter — Part 5 — Animated Slider Hint (Marcin Szałek)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• Cross Cutting Concerns Podcast 105 – George Mauer on Tech Terms (Matthew Groves)
• Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 287 #OTP (Richard Hay)
• Palermo Pamphlet 003 – Unboxing of the Azure Sphere IoT System on a Chip board (Jeffrey Palermo)
• Azure Podcast Episode 252 – Azure DevOps in the Enterprise (Sujit D’Mello)
• CodeNewbie S6:E3 – What’s it like to code for NASA? (Jesslyn Tannady) (CodeNewbie Team)
• Developer on Fire Episode 386 | Josh Holmes – Freedom and Relationships (Dave Rael)
• The Amp Hour #413 – A House of FR4 (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
• FreeCodeFriday – Episode 22 (Jason Bock)
• Microsoft 365 Dev Podcast – Microsoft Graph data connect with Abram Jackson (Jeremy Thake & Paul Schaeflein)
• SE-Radio Episode 343: John Crain on Ethereum and Smart Contracts (Kishore Bhatia)
• Software Engineering Daily – Building a Hiring Process with Ammon Bartram (Jeff Meyerson)
• Merge Conflict 121: Real Time Communication (James Montemagno)

Community & Events

• Introducing the Cake.Discord (Gary Ewan Park)
• Family matters: for three siblings, a teasing rivalry gave way to camaraderie at the same company (Candace Whitney-Morris)
• GeekGirlCon kicks off its ninth ‘celebration of the female geek’ (Clare McGrane)
• Community Advocacy and Conference Swag? (Charles Sterling)
• 25 Things To Do In Philly, October 29 – November 4 (Kelly Bucci)
• Microsoft Ignite and the Bot Builder Community (Michael Szul)
• Women Who Tech and Mozilla Announce Winners of Women Startup Challenge Europe (Mozilla)

Database

• Compare SQL Server, MySQL and PostgreSQL Features (Maria Zakourdaev)
• What is Read Ahead Read in SQL Server? – Interview Question of the Week #197 (Pinal Dave)
• Graphs in RavenDB: Selecting the syntax (Oren Eini)
• Filtered Indexes vs Parameterization (Again) (Erik Darling)

SharePoint

• SharePoint Server 2019 (Dan Usher)

PowerShell

• PowerShell: Taking Control over CTRL-C. (Dan Sheehan)

Miscellaneous

• How Microsoft is moving LinkedIn’s 14,000 employees from Google services to Office 365 (Mary Jo Foley)
• Microsoft Research has prototyped Xbox controllers for phones and tablets (Jez Corden)
• Microsoft completes GitHub acquisition (Microsoft)
• Microsoft Surface Laptop 2 is the best laptop of 2018 (Raymond Wong)
• IBM’s $34 billion acquisition of Red Hat a bet that cloud holdouts want old-school partners (Tom Krazit)
• Microsoft Research demos prototype smartphone cover with e-ink display (Zac Bowden)

More Link Collections

• Double Shot #2202 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Weekly C# Digest Issue #230 (Jakub Chodounsky)
• Anniversary edition of F# Weekly #43, 2018 – Six years together! (Sergey Tihon)
• Xamarin & Windows App Developer Links – 2018-10-29 (Dan Rigby)
• Friday Five: Azure IaaS, Dynamics 365 and More! (MVP Award Program)
• Top Stories from the Microsoft DevOps Community – 2018.10.26 (Edward Thomson)
• Reading Notes #349 (Frank Boucher)

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