Top Links
- Watch: Anoop Kumar Introduces Docker (Jason Gaylord)
- Azure DevOps, Docker, and Angular (Sahil Malik)
- An Introduction to Templated Components in Blazor (Chris Sainty)
- Scratch 3.0 is now available (John Biggs)
Web & Cloud Development
- Upload Small Files to a Web API Using Angular (Paul D. Sheriff)
- Getting to Know the New Kendo UI MultiColumnComboBox (Carl Bergenhem)
- From Angular to Blazor: The Health App (Jeremy Likness)
- How do JavaScript Arrays Work Under the Hood? (Ryan Peden)
- Create Your First Custom Angular CLI Schematic with Nx (Sam Julien)
- Implementing Push Notifications in Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) Using Firebase (Wei-Meng Lee)
- ReportingCloud: Backend Updated to TX Text Control X16 (Bjoern Meyer)
- Creating and Managing Vue Projects with Vue UI (Peter Mbanugo)
- Composition over Inheritance in Go (K. Scott Allen)
XAML, UWP & Xamarin
- Rating swipe control in Xamarin Forms (Rendy Del Rosario)
- Using the Retry Pattern with Azure Storage from Xamarin.Forms (David Britch)
Visual Studio & .NET
- Introduction to Dependency Injection in C# (Claudio Bernasconi)
Design, Methodology & Testing
- 10 Reasons Why Unit Testing Matters (John V. Petersen)
- It’s Official: Open-Plan Offices Are Now the Dumbest Management Fad of All Time (Geoffrey James)
- On Developing Talent (Ted Neward)
- How to Keep Team Meetings on Track When 1 Person Won’t Stop Talking (Elise Keith)
- What’s Microproductivity? The Small Habit That Will Lead You To Big Wins (Kat Boogaard)
- How to Level up Dev Teams (Tyler Treat)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- New Alexa Skill Sample: Learn Multimodal Skill Design with Space Explorer (Jon Mongan)
- New AWS Certification and Training Opportunities for Alexa Developers (Paul Cutsinger)
- Using Protocol Buffers with Azure IoT Edge (Jared Rhodes)
Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos
- GCast – Introducing Cognitive Services and Computer Vision (David Giard)
- Visual Azure Provisioning From a Whiteboard | The Xamarin Show (James Montemagno)
- IPFS in Azure | Block Talk (Blocktalkadmin)
- Live demo of BeSense, an application built by Winvision on Azure Digital Twins | Internet of Things Show (Olivier Bloch)
- NSScreencast #370 – Scripting in Swift with Marathon – Part 2 (Ben Scheirman)
- Rocket 208: Stop Drocks (Brianna Wu, Christina Warren & Simone De Rochefort)
- Hanselminutes – Regine Gilbert on the Essence of Accessibility (Scott Hanselman)
- Software Engineering Daily – Kong API Platform with Marco Palladino (Jeff Meyerson)
- Developer Tea – Expectations vs. Reality (Jonathan Cutrell)
Community & Events
- MOSS 2018 Year in Review (Mozilla)
- 2018 in Review: Reading and Writing Highlights (Richard Seroter)
- Adios to Winter Bash 2018 (Juan M.)
Database
- Using SQL Server Integration Services to Generate Excel Files Based on Criteria (Ron L’Esteve)
- UPDATE Statement Performance in SQL Server (Bhavesh Patel)
- An Idea For Improving DBCC CHECKDB and Database Design Choices To Consider When You’re Worried About Scale (Erik Darling)
SharePoint
- SharePoint Modern Site Strategies: Designing Pages (Part 3) (Adam Krueger)
PowerShell
Miscellaneous
- Get Python 3.7 on the Windows Store! (Windows Store)
- Chocolatey on Windows (Daniel Franciscus)
- Imposter’s Handbook, Season 2 is Released (Rob Conery)
- My Thoughts on NPR’s Top 100 Science Fiction and Fantasy Books (David Giard)
- Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 18309 (Dona Sarkar)
- Preparing For A Coding Interview: My Best Tips! (John Sonmez)
More Link Collections
- Double Shot #2250 (Mike Gunderloy)
- Roundup #30: ProxyKit, BeeHive, Nullable Ref Types, Close Loops & Opening Minds (Derek Comartin)
- Today in Tech – Friday, Jan 04, 2019 (Dirk Strauss)
- Collective #480 (Pedro Botelho)
- Xamarin & Windows App Developer Links – 2019-01-04 (Dan Rigby)
The Geek Shelf
The Art of Unit Testing: with examples in C# (Roy Osherove)