Top Links
- A Year of Q# (Mariia Mykhailova)
- New Benefits in Visual Studio Subscriptions (Lan Kaim)
- Visual Studio App Center’s GitHub App: The Ultimate Stocking Stuffer (Nilofer Rajpurkar)
- Redesigned Search Everywhere, Plugins, Templates and more in Rider 2018.3 EAP (Chris Woodruff)
Web & Cloud Development
- Creating a Side Menu for ASP.NET Core using a View Component (Chris A. Johnson)
- Zero Config JavaScript App Prototyping with ParcelJS (Dan Arias)
- AWS Lambda Layers and Runtime API: beyond JavaScript (Dylan Schiemann)
- Razor Components for a JavaScript-Free FrontEnd in 2019 (Ed Charbeneau)
- KendoReact: What Can It Do for You? (Eric Bishard)
- Azure Monitor for containers now generally available (Keiko Harada)
- Alternative approach to HttpClient in Azure Functions 2.0 – bringing in HttpClientFactory (Tomasz Pęczek)
- Improved UX with Ghost Elements + Angular Animations (Thomas Burleson)
- Angular Smart 404 Page (Vitaliy Bobrov)
- Chrome Dev Tools – More Advanced Tips for Better Debugging (Dirk Strauss)
- REST vs. RESTful: The Difference and Why the Difference Doesn’t Matter (Eric Goebelbecker)
- Modernizing the Web Playback UI (Corey Grunewald & Matt Jaquish)
- Steal My Blog Design (Phil Haack)
- Achieve workload compliance and scale-to-zero with new Kubernetes open source projects (Ria Bhatia & Lachlan Evenson)
- A hybrid approach to Kubernetes (Ricardo Mendes)
- Prototypes and production (Robin Rendle)
- Postman Supports OpenAPI 3.0 (Stacee)
- Analyzing 404s with Google Analytics (Steve Smith)
- Amazon Web Services reveals a public road map for its cloud container services (Tom Krazit)
Visual Studio & .NET
- Visual Studio IntelliSense Not Working? What To Do. (Carlos Schults)
- F# Fantasy Football (Dave Lowe)
- Installing Visual Studio 2019 (Joseph Reynolds)
- .NET Framework December 2018 Security and Quality Rollup (Tara Overfield)
- Why is string.GetHashCode() different each time I run my program in .NET Core? (Andrew Lock)
Design, Methodology & Testing
- Writing xUnit Tests in .NET Core (Peter Vogel)
- Hidden Business Rules in Legacy Code (Dave Nicolette)
- Help Managers Visualize Their Problems (Johanna Rothman)
- Why don’t we nurture our DevOps teams as professional sports teams do? (Willy-Peter Schaub)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- Effective foreground services on Android (Keith Smyth)
- 2 New Ways to Enhance Alexa Skill Accuracy and Deliver More Natural Customer Engagements (Drew Meyer)
- Tweetstorm: Ionic is Web Native and Why That Matters (Max Lynch)
- ARCore and Unity: A look at 2018 and the road ahead (Dustin Burg)
- BLoC Architecture — Why so important? (Fellipe Malta)
- Splitting widgets to methods is a performance antipattern (Iiro Krankka)
- Internationalization — Localizing your Action (Jessica Dene Earley-Cha)
Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos
- RunAs Radio – SQL Server 2019 with Brent Ozar (Richard Campbell & Greg Hughes)
- Azure IoT TypeEdge : a strongly-typed development experience for Azure IoT Edge | Internet of Things Show (Olivier Bloch)
- Python on Azure: Part 1—Building Django apps with Visual Studio Code | Azure Friday (Rob Caron & Nina Zakharenko)
- Building Web APIs Part 3 | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green)
- Kubernetes Podcast – Envoy, with Matt Klein (Craig Box & Adam Glick)
- Microsoft Cloud Show Episode 282 | Microsoft Connect(), Microsoft Flow Licensing Changes & Microsoft Ditches Edge (Andrew Connell & Chris Johnson)
- Microsoft Bot Framework v4 Node #10: Adding LUIS to Your Chatbot (Michael Szul)
- Real Talk JS Episode 11: Web Accessibility with Jen Luker (John Papa, Ward Bell & Dan Wahlin)
- Meta Cast Episode 139 – The Dynamics of New Teams (Josh Anderson)
- React Podcast 32 – Steal the Platform with Vincent Riemer (Michael Chan)
- Talk Python to Me #190 – Teaching Django (Michael Kennedy)
- Machine Learning on Code | The Open Source Show (Rob Caron, Lacey Butler & Allison Cordle)
- SSW TV – How to be a good Manager or Boss and lead your team to success (Sophie Belle)
Community & Events
- And Now a Word from Our AWS Heroes… (Jeff Barr)
- Winter Bash 2018 (Juan M.)
- Phippy and friends join the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (Karen Chu)
- Announcing the Female Founders Competition winners (Peggy Johnson)
- Friends of Redgate 101 (Roseanna Whitelegg)
Database
- Auto Generate NetBackup script to backup SQL Server databases (Alejandro Cobar)
- SQL Server I/O (Arun Sirpal)
- Detect and Diagnose SQL Server Performance Issues with Spotlight Cloud (Pinal Dave)
- Create custom T-SQL code snippets with Azure Data Studio (Eduardo Pivaral)
SharePoint
- It’s time for reminders in SharePoint (Chris McNulty)
PowerShell
- Announcing New REST based Service Fabric PowerShell Module (Service Fabric Team)
Miscellaneous
- Rust 2019: Think Bigger (Nick Fitzgerald)
- Windows Server 2019 Includes OpenSSH (Danny Maertens)
- Organisation-wide teams in Microsoft Teams: what and how (Loryan Strant)
More Link Collections
- Double Shot #2234 (Mike Gunderloy)
- Xamarin & Windows App Developer Links – 2018-12-12 (Dan Rigby)
- Today in Tech – Wednesday, Dec 12, 2018 (Dirk Strauss)
The Geek Shelf
Seven Mobile Apps in Seven Weeks: Native Apps, Multiple Platforms (Pragmatic Programmer) (Tony Hillerson)
React Quickly: Painless web apps with React, JSX, Redux, and GraphQL: Azat Mardan: 9781617293344: Books
Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship: Robert C. Martin: 9780132350884: Books