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Web & Cloud Development
- Omnisharp: the tooling behind the C# integration in VS Code – Day 18 – 24 days of “Front-end Development with ASP.NET Core, Angular, and Bootstrap” (Simone Chiaretta)
- Azure Tips and Tricks Part 70 – Text Analysis with Cognitive Service and Azure (Michael Crump)
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- Introduction to Forms in Angular 4: Template-Driven Forms and Introduction to Forms in Angular 4: Reactive Forms (Manjunath M)
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Visual Studio & .NET
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- Advent of Code Day 18-Parallel Programs (Mark Heath)
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- 0 to Analyzing, Writing a .NET Standard Roslyn Analyzer (Greg Duncan)
Design, Methodology & Testing
- Microservices: using resources and business services as extensibility strategy (Bruno Quaresma)
- 9 Reasons to Choose a Bundle Over an Individual Product (Erik Dietrich)
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- Gone Mobile 65: React Native with Bonnie Eisenman (Greg Shackles & Jonathan Dick)
- Functional Geekery Episode 118 – Scott Nimrod (Steven Proctor)
- Revision Path 222: John Jennings (Maurice Cherry)
- no dogma podcast #86 – Tomas Petricek, Software Correctness (Bryan Hogan)
- Apache Kafka on HDInsight (Scott Hanselman & Rob Caron)
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- Top 7 Tech Conferences to Attend in 2018 (Sara Breeding)
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Database
- Learn how to Migrate a SQL Server database to SQL Azure server (Vitor Montalvao)
- How To Create Multi-Object JSON Arrays in SQL Server (Bert Wagner)
- SQL Server DBCC CHECKDB – Going Parallel (Arun Sirpal)
- Scaling Couchbase Server on Azure (Matthew Groves)
- Rebuilding Indexes Can Slow Queries Down (Brent Ozar)
Miscellaneous
- Rocky on Android (Rockford Lhotka)
- Most Popular and Influential Programming Languages of 2018 (Ben Putano)
- paint.net 4.0.20 Beta released (with Dark Theme) (Rick Brewster)
- Fixing Data Breaches Part 2: Data Ownership & Minimisation (Troy Hunt)
More Link Collections
- Xamarin App Developer Links – 2017-12-19 and Windows App Developer Links – 2017-12-19 (Dan Rigby)
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- Reading Notes #309 (Frank Boucher)
Learning React: A Hands-On Guide to Building Maintainable, High-Performing Web Application User Interfaces Using the React JavaScript Library eBook: Kirupa Chinnathambi: Kindle Store
Code Your Own Games!: 20 Games to Create with Scratch: Max Wainewright: 9781454923312: Books
Mobile App Development with Ionic 2: Cross-Platform Apps with Ionic, Angular, and Cordova: Chris Griffith: 9781491937785: Books