Top Links
- Microsoft 365 adds modern desktop on Azure (Julia White & Brad Anderson)
- SQL Server 2019 preview combines SQL Server and Apache Spark to create a unified data platform (Jenny Erie)
- Office 2019 is now available for Windows and Mac (Jared Spataro)
- Introducing Microsoft.com/Learn (Jeff Sandquist)
Web & Cloud Development
- Defining Web API Services and Clients with NSwag (Peter Vogel)
- JavaScript Standardization – An Interview with Jory Burson (Brian Rinaldi)
- React For Beginners (Part 2) (Emma Wedekind)
- How to Build a Login UI with Angular and Material Design (Esther Vaati)
- Are you an Azure Developer? Take the New Job-Role Based Certification Exams Today! (Liberty Munson)
- Shrink your Tensorflow.js Web Model Size with Weight Quantization (Vincent Mühler)
- Why async code is so damn confusing (and a how to make it easy) (joelnet)
- TypeScript 3.1 Release Candidate Out for Microsoft Ignite (Jacqueline Bieringer)
- Microsoft Search—cohesive search that intelligently helps you find, discover, command, and navigate (Jeff Teper)
- Integrate end-to-end speech translation into your products with Microsoft Speech services (Microsoft Translator Team)
- What’s New in Vue Devtools 5.0 Beta (Peter Mbanugo)
- Announcing Bring your own Storage to App Service (Ranjith Ramachandra)
- Using Scrutor to automatically register your services with the ASP.NET Core DI container (Andrew Lock)
XAML, UWP & Xamarin
- Transparent Navigation Bar in Xamarin Forms (Charlin Agramonte)
- WPF Controls with MVVM: ItemsControl – Video and Resources (Tim Corey)
Visual Studio & .NET
- Exploring MoreLINQ Part 19 – Generating sequences (Mark Heath)
- Software Development How To Check For Nulls In C# a.k.a. How To Thwart A Super V… (Cameron Presley)
- Roslyn Analyzer Rulesets and stylecop.json support in Rider 2018.2 (Matthias Koch)
Design, Methodology & Testing
- Navigation Update for Azure DevOps (Aaron Bjork)
- Azure DevOps Reporting – What reports do you want? (Gregg Boer)
- Versioning and publishing NuGet packages automatically using Azure DevOps Pipelines (Louis DeJardin)
- Deliberate Practice for Software Developers (Dave Nicolette)
- Fixing NUnit Slow Test Execution (Indy Singh)
- Continuous Improvement Tools vs. Project Management Tools (John Cutler)
- A First Timers Guide to an Open Source Project (Luke Oliff)
- Gold Plating – The Daily Software Anti-Pattern (Matthew Jones)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- Android Studio 3.2 (Jamal Eason)
- Microsoft Ignite 2018: Build and secure next-generation IoT and edge solutions at scale (Sam George)
Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos
- Routing Messages in Azure IoT Hub based on Device Twin | Internet of Things Show and First Anniversary for Azure IoT Hub Device Provisioning Service | Internet of Things Show (Olivier Bloch)
- Syntax Podcast – Hasty Treat – Positivity and Web Development (Wes Bos)
- No Dogma Podcast #105 – Jon Smith, Entity Framework Core 2.1 and Domain Driven Design (Bryan Hogan)
- Revision Path 261: Marcus Mosby (Maurice Cherry)
- Software Engineering Daily – Unity and WebAssembly with Brett Bibby (Jeff Meyerson)
- Microsoft 365 Podcast – The Microsoft Graph Security API with Sarah Fender & Jason Wescott (Jeremy Thake & Paul Schaeflein)
Community & Events
- Creating a more secure, intelligent and connected enterprise at Ignite 2018 (Frank X. Shaw)
- Live Streams from Microsoft Ignite 2018 and Ubuntober! (Jeff Fritz) – Catch Jeff at TechBash 2018 next week!
- Join me at SQL in the City to capture the value of DevOps (Kendra Little)
- Celebrate Hacktoberfest 2018 with Auth0! (Kim Noel)
- Pivotal Announces Winners of the 2018 Partner Awards and Leveling Up; Day 1 at SpringOne Platform 2018 (Pivotal Team)
- Ladies That UX: Meet Lola Oyelayo-Pearson, an Advocate for Increased Diversity in Design (Sheena Lyonnais)
Database
- Simple DBCC CHECKDB process to report on database corruption for all SQL Server databases (Alejandro Cobar)
- What’s New in SQL Server 2019: Adaptive Memory Grants and What’s New in SQL Server 2019: Faster Table Variables (And New Parameter Sniffing Issues) (Brent Ozar)
- SQL Authority News – Microsoft Released SQL Server 2019 Preview (Pinal Dave)
Miscellaneous
- Bringing AI to Excel—4 new features announced today at Ignite (Jared Spataro)
- Pandora is being purchased by SiriusXM for $3.5 billion (Joe Maring)
- Free Mojave macOS update is now available to download (Jon Porter)
- How To Set Up A Truly Notification-Free Vacation (And Why It’s Important To Detach) (Kat Boogaard)
- 10 new ways for everyone to achieve more in the modern workplace (Ron Markezich)
- Microsoft brings OneDrive Files On-Demand to the Mac (Tom Warren)
More Link Collections
- The Morning Brew #2671 (Chris Alcock)
- Double Shot #2180 (Mike Gunderloy)
- Xamarin & Windows App Developer Links – 2018-09-25 (Dan Rigby)
- Collective #453 (Pedro Botelho)
- Interesting links of the week (09/17 – 09/23, 2018) (Michael Eaton)
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