Top Links
- Build Visual Studio extensions using Visual Studio extensions (Mads Kristensen)
- Hanselminutes – test && commit || revert with Kent Beck (Scott Hanselman)
- PCF is Known for the Best App Deployment Experience. Now It’s Even Better with Zero Downtime Updates for Pretty Much Everything. (Jared Ruckle)
- Best Practices for User Interface Automation | The Xamarin Show (James Montemagno)
Web & Cloud Development
- ECMAScript modules in Node.js: the new plan (Axel Rauschmayer)
- Animating Performantly in CSS (Alyssa Nicoll)
- ASP.NET MVC5: Upload Image/File as File (Asma Khalid)
- NEW REFERENCE ARCHITECTURE: Build a real-time recommendation API on Azure (Ed Price)
- Microsoft Announces General Availability of Static Websites on Azure Storage (Eldert Grootenboer)
- Remote Monitoring of IoT Devices Using Azure and HoloLens (Richard Newell)
- Top 3 free resources developers need for learning Azure (Rob Caron)
- Testing .Net Core API using Auth0 with VS Tests (Baskar rao Dandlamudi)
- Updating Westwind.AspnetCore.Markdown with Markdown from Files and URLs (Rick Strahl)
- Calling a REST API from .Net Core Including Uploading Files (Michael Washington)
XAML, UWP & Xamarin
- 5 Reasons Why The Xamarin.Forms Shell Will Increase Your Productivity. (Damien Doumer)
- Two ListViews on the Same Page?!? No Way! (Matthew Soucoup)
Visual Studio & .NET
- LINQPad Tips and Tricks – Part 3 (Dan Clarke)
Design, Methodology & Testing
- Sooner, Not Faster Revisited (J.B. Rainsberger)
- MVP how minimal (Ryan Svihla)
- Code Quality Tools Support Enhancements (Anton Monakov)
- What Are Quality Tests? (Carlos Schults)
- Become A Better Programmer Than You Are Today (John Sonmez)
- New Home and Product Pages! (Peldi Guilizzoni)
- Create, test, innovate, repeat. (Sean White)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- Discover the Benefits of Android Clean Architecture (Tomasz Czura)
- A Year in Visual Studio App Center Test (Glenn Wester)
- Build and Deploy Alexa Skills Faster with New AWS Integration (Leo Ohannesian)
- IoT Security Architecture: Trust Zones and Boundaries (Chris Pietschmann)
- Managing Flutter Application State With InheritedWidgets (Hans Muller)
- Rialto: Downloadable Fonts (Mark Allison)
- Scrolling Animation in Flutter (Raouf Rahiche)
- RxVMS a practical architecture for Flutter Apps (Thomas Burkhart)
- Portable North Pole – Your Go-To NativeScript App This Holiday Season (TJ VanToll)
- 6 Resources for Building Visually Rich, Multimodal Skills (Cami Williams)
Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos
- GCast – QnAMaker (David Giard)
- Learning Azure: Part 1—Azure Docs tips and tricks | Azure Friday and Learning Azure: Part 2—Architecture and interactive APIs for .NET and REST APIs | Azure Friday (Dan Fernandez, Donovan Brown & Rob Caron)
- Rocket 206: That’s a Win! (Brianna Wu, Christina Warren & Simone De Rochefort)
- FreeCodeFriday – Episode 30 (Jason Bock)
Community & Events
- GitHub – A few of our favorite 2018 ships (Kathy Simpson)
- Predictions past and predictions future, 2018/2019 edition (Michael Coté)
- Guide To The New Year’s Day Mummers Parade In Philadelphia 2019 (Josh Middleton)
- 10 Years of Stack Giving Back (Lindsey Felcher)
- A look back at Sketch in 2018 (Sketch Team)
- Holiday Weekend Picks: Christmas In Philly, Holiday Shows, Eagles Home Game And More (Visit Philly)
Database
- SQL Server Query Performance for INSERT SELECT vs INSERT EXEC (Simon Liew)
- Resumable Online Index Create in SQL Server 2019 (Rajendra Gupta)
- Select and Edit all rows in SQL Server Management Studio (Dirk Strauss)
- SQL SERVER – How to Write Correlated Subquery? (Pinal Dave)
- Transforming your data in Azure SQL Database to columnstore format (Jovan Popovic)
- Do Functions Stop You From Using Indexes? (Brent Ozar)
MS Teams
- Why You Should Invest in Training Your Team Owners for Microsoft Teams (Melissa Hubbard)
- Your Intranet & Microsoft Teams: Striking the Balance (Adam Levithan)
PowerShell
- How to migrate from AzureRM to Az in Azure PowerShell (Madeleine Clayton)
Miscellaneous
- Managing your family’s digital life (Mouna Sidi Hida)
More Link Collections
- Double Shot #2241 (Mike Gunderloy)
- Roundup #29: AWS System Manager, System.CommandLine, AzurePipelines.TestLogger, Windows Sandbox, Ambrosia (Derek Comartin)
- Reading List (Bruce Lawson)
- Collective #478 (Pedro Botelho)
- Today in Tech – Friday, Dec 21, 2018 (Dirk Strauss)
The Geek Shelf
Learn Python the Hard Way: A Very Simple Introduction to the Terrifyingly Beautiful World of Computers and Code (3rd Ed) (Zed A. Shaw)