Top Links
- Microsoft Virtual Academy is being retired Jan. 31, 2019 (Chris Pietschmann)
- Flutter 1.0 Launch Wrap-up (Chris Sells)
- Angular Dart Architecture (Adetu Ridwan)
- What I learned at work this year (Bill Gates)
Web & Cloud Development
- Updating to Newer React Versions (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
- Vue.js Up And Running By Callum Macrae and Creating A Vue.js Inspired Event-Modifier DOM Plug-In In Angular 7.1.4 (Ben Nadel)
- I can’t start the Azure Storage Emulator and Azure is trying to grant permissions to the wrong account (Donovan Brown)
- Broadcast Real-time Updates from Azure Cosmos DB with SignalR Service and Azure Functions (Anthony Chu)
- Gradient Borders in CSS (Chris Coyier)
- How to Test ASP.NET Core Web API (Chris Woodruff)
- Simplifying Object.assign method in JavaScript (Dhananjay Kumar)
- KendoReact: Using Charts and React Hooks (Eric Bishard)
- Connect to the Twitter API in an Angular 6 App (Esther Vaati)
- SSDP Discovery in HTML (j2inet)
- CSS Positioning: a summary (Jessica Kerr)
- Resolve to be a “learn it all” with new Azure Certifications! (Mike Lapierre, David Lipien, Leonel Mora & Doug Owens)
- Don’t let ASP.NET Core Console Logging Slow your App down (Rick Strahl)
- Writing to a Slack Channel – Node.js Edition (Ryan Peden)
- Microsoft Announces a Public Preview of Python Support for Azure Functions (Steef-Jan Wiggers)
- Cloud Storage Services for Cloud Native Applications (Jean Bozman)
- Accepting User Media Input with the Bot Framework (Michael Szul)
Visual Studio & .NET
- Less commonly used C# operators (Damir Arh)
- SOLID Principles in C# – Open Closed Principle (Marinko Spasojevic)
- ORMi – A Light-ORM for for accesing WMI (nicoriff)
- String Interpolation Functions vs. string.Format Constants (Scott Hannen)
- Import Form Fields from Adobe PDF Documents (Bjoern Meyer)
- Event-Driven TCP (Bonnie DeWitt)
Design, Methodology & Testing
- Scrum Project Management: Secrets of Effective Sprint Planning (Django Stars)
- Introducing the Cake.Recipe VS Code Extension and GitReleaseManager Release 0.8.0 (Gary Ewan Park)
- Surprises in My Switch to Remote Work (Sam Julien)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- Flutter Vs. React Native: Detailed Comparison, Similarities, And Superiority (Spec India)
- A month of Flutter: user registration refactor with reactive scoped model and A month of Flutter: the real hero animation (Abraham Williams)
- Raspberry Pi Kubernetes Cluster – Part 4 (Jason Meridth)
- Coding Flutter Apps on your Phone with Flutter, an Experiment (Norbert Kozsir)
Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos
- Technology & Friends – Elizabeth Graham on Azure Logic Apps (David Giard)
- Rocket 207: The 19th Year of 2018 (Brianna Wu, Christina Warren & Simone De Rochefort)
- Developer on Fire Episode 404 | Cassandra Faris – Learn, Meet, Help (Dave Rael)
- FreeCodeFriday – Episode 31 (Jason Bock)
- Merge Conflict 130: 2018 Retrospective & 2019 Predictions (James Montemagno)
- Developer Tea – Interview w/ Ben Orenstein (Part 1) (Jonathan Cutrell)
- Weekly Dev Tips 036: Exceptions and Guard Clauses and Presentation: Improving the Design of Existing Software (Steve Smith)
Community & Events
- 12 Awesome Concerts In Philly This January (Allie Volpe)
- A conversation about .NET, The Cloud, Data & AI, teaching software engineers and joining endjin with Ian Griffiths (Ian Griffiths)
Database
- SQL SERVER – Measuring the Length of VARCHAR and NVARCHAR Columns with COL_LENGTH and How to Sort a Varchar Column Storing Integers with Order By? – Interview Question of the Week #206 (Pinal Dave)
- A Better Way to Clean Up the SSIS Catalog Database (Tim Mitchell)
- How 4 Customers Use Autonomous Data Warehouse (Sherry Tiao)
PowerShell
Miscellaneous
- Why the FHIR standard may not get us to interoperability (Valerie Silverthorne)
- Tesla names Oracle’s Larry Ellison, Walgreens executive to board as part of SEC settlement (Kirsten Korosec)
- Introduction to Bash Scripting: Functions (Daniel Farina)
- Resolutions Ahead! What We’re Reading to Make 2019 a Better Year (Adrian Liang)
- The Verge 2018 tech report cards (Natt Garun)
- The Verge 2018 tech report card: Microsoft (Tom Warren)
More Link Collections
- Double Shot #2246 (Mike Gunderloy)
- Weekly C# Digest Issue #239 (Jakub Chodounsky)
- F# Weekly #52, 2018 – Happy New 2019 Year! (Sergey Tihon)
- Reading Notes #359 (Frank Boucher)
- Xamarin & Windows App Developer Links – 2018-12-31 (Dan Rigby)
- Today in Tech – Friday, Dec 28, 2018 (Dirk Strauss)
- Friday Five: Microsoft Kaizala, Ignite 2018, and More! (MVP Award Program)
