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Dew Drop – January 24, 2019 (#2884)

Top Links

.NET Rocks! – UX Design for Developers with Billy Hollis (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
Introducing Ionic 4: Ionic for Everyone (Max Lynch)
Announcing the PowerShell Preview Extension in VSCode (Sydney Smith)
What’s New for Xamarin Developers in Visual Studio 2019 Preview 2 (Pierce Boggan)

Web & Cloud Development

Build a Cryptocurrency Dashboard with Kendo UI – Part 1 (Alberta Williams)
Do you know how Angular transforms your code? (Alexey Zuev)
Running .NET Core React App on OSX, Docker and Zeit’s Now (Bobby Johnson)
Make Your React Apps Pop with Data Visualizations (Carl Bergenhem)
10 Lessons Learned in Enterprise Angular Development (Chaz Gatian)
Passing Javascript values to ASP.NET Core View components (Damien Bowden)
React 16.6.0 Goodies (Kingsley Silas)
Developing AWS Lambda Functions with Golang and Couchbase NoSQL (Laura Czajkowski)
Announcing the preview of OpenAPI Specification v3 support in Azure API Management (Mike Budzynski)
PhpStorm 2019.1 Early Access Program is now Open (Roman Pronskiy)
Managed Identity in Azure Government (Steve Michelotti)
Routing Your Locally Hosted Bot Using Azure Service Bus Relays (Bot Framework Team)
HDInsight Tools for Visual Studio Code now generally available (Jenny Jiang)
Introducing the Preview Release of .Net Teams Bot Builder v4 SDK (Andrew Clear)
WebExtensions v3 considered harmful (glazou)
Layer Motion Slideshow (Mary Lou)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

My 10-Year Challenge – WriteableBitmapEx turns 10 with v1.6 (Rene Schulte)

Visual Studio & .NET

21 New Tools and Extensions for Visual Studio 2017 (Terrence Dorsey)
What Do These …+c… Classes Do in my Memory Snapshots? (Alexey Totin)
What Was New for .NET Developers in 2018 & the Road Ahead (Damir Arh)
Correctly reading encoded text with the StreamReader in .NET (Jeremy Lindsay)

Design, Methodology & Testing

My road to an open source project: Azure Traffic Manager extension for Azure DevOps (Matteo Emili)
Pesky code review comments (Oren Eini)
How CI/CD Works (Alex Hisaka)
TeamCity 2018.2.2 is released (Julia Alexandrova)
Using containerized services in your pipeline (Matt Cooper)
GitHub Classroom now supports multiple classrooms per organization (Vanessa)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Query A GraphQL API On Android And iOS With NativeScript And Angular (Nic Raboy)
Using AWS Lambda to Bring the Space Explorer Sample Skill to Life (Jon Mongan)
Flutter State Management: setState(fn) is the easiest and the most powerful (Mellati Meftah)
Flutter Animated Series : Animated Containers (Poojã Bhaumik)
Introducing IoT Hub device streams in public preview (Reza Sherafat)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

GCast 32: Handwriting OCR with Cognitive Services (David Giard)
Best Practices for Building Async APIs with ASP.NET Core – Webinar Recording (Maarten Balliauw)
Verifying your Database Deployment with Azure DevOps | The DevOps Lab (Damian Brady)
Diagnosing ASP.NET Core performance issues (Rich Lander & Mike Russo)
Syntax Podcast – The Freelance Client Lifecycle – Part 1 (Wes Bos)
Complete Developer Podcast – Learning From Failure (BJ Burns & Will Gant)
Five Reasons Why You Should Check Out Cosmos DB | Five Things (Burke Holland)
SQL Data Partners Podcast Episode 158: Gateways (Carlos L. Chacon)
The Changelog 331: GitHub Actions is the next big thing (Jerod Santo & Adam Stacoviak)
Talk Pythong to Me #196 – Datalore: Hosted smart notebooks (Michael Kennedy)
Learn by Doing: A Look at Samples | AI Show (Noelle LaCharite)
Radio TFS – Welcoming 2019 with Donovan Brown (Martin Woodward & Greg Duncan)
Software Engineering Daily – TiDB: Distributed NewSQL with Kevin Xu (Jeff Meyerson)
Azure Podcast Episode 263 – Partner Spotlight – Aqua Security (Sujit D’Mello)
App In The Cloud: The news in Xamarin.Forms with David Ortinau (Daniel Hindrikes)

Community & Events

Grow with Google Pennsylvania (Jason Gaylord)
GitHub 2018 Transparency Report (Abby Vollmer)
Google Mobile Developer Day is coming to GDC 2019 (Kacey Fahey)
Empowering people with AI with Dr. Cecily Morrison (Emily Maryatt)
Stack Overflow – Our 2019 Developer Survey is Open to Coders Everywhere! (Khalid El Khatib)
Gender gap: Women-led companies make up 8% of the GeekWire 200 startup list (Taylor Soper)

Database

Learn how to build a multithreading .NET Application to work with SQL Server (Artemakis Artemiou)
SQL SERVER – Always On Availability Group Listener Missing in SSMS but Working Fine in Failover Cluster Manager (Pinal Dave)

MS Teams

Introducing Microsoft Teams Rooms (Christian Schacht)

PowerShell

The PowerShell-Docs repositories have been moved (Sean Wheeler)
Using PowerShell to import and export Azure Blueprints (Sonia Cuff)

Miscellaneous

How to Create a Microsoft ToDo Task from a Liked Tweet using IFTTT (Jon Gallant)
Microsoft Edge mobile browser will warn users about fake news (Rachel Kraus)
Developer Marketing Resolution 3: Put Brand Awareness First (Yolanda Fintschenko)

More Link Collections

Double Shot #2264 (Mike Gunderloy)
Xamarin & Windows App Developer Links – 2019-01-24 (Dan Rigby)

The Geek Shelf

The Book of F#: Breaking Free with Managed Functional Programming (Dave Fancher)

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Dew Drop – August 7, 2018 (#2782)

Top Links

Introducing Android 9 Pie (Dave Burke)
.NET Rocks! – Learning UX with Jessica Engstrom (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
PWA on Windows: File Type Association (Alan Mendelevich)
TechBash Discount Code (Jared Rhodes)

Web & Cloud Development

The best Vue.js Admin Dashboards (MadeWithVueJS)
Azure Tips and Tricks Part 147 – Run TSQL on an Azure SQL database with Azure Functions (Michael Crump)
New inspections in PhpStorm 2018.2 (Anton Monakov)
Sublime Text and Sed for a winning combo on HTML tags. (Joshua Otwell)
How To Do Microservices Integration Testing in the Cloud (Alex Handy)
What’s New in Deep Learning Research: Microsoft’s TextWorld is the OpenAI Gym of Language Learning… (Jesus Rodriguez)
Learn how to orchestrate serverless functions by scraping APIs in 8 minutes (Maxime Rouiller)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

Switching Your Xamarin Project to Standard Class Projects (Peter Vogel)
Xamarin Preview Release: Xcode 10 Beta 5 (Bri Brothers)

Visual Studio & .NET

Handling a new era in the Japanese calendar in .NET (Ron Petrusha)

Design, Methodology & Testing

Excluding Events from User Flows in Application Insights (Abhijit Jana)
Super SuperClasses – Code smells series (Dino Esposito)
Jealous of Your Friend’s Success? Why Healthy Competition Can Be A Good Thing (Kat Boogaard)
Why Tech Projects Fail: Management, Planning, Process (Rob Waller)
Building a Serverless CI/CD Pipeline with Jenkins (Tracy Miranda)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Android 9 Pie: Powered by AI for a smarter, simpler experience that adapts to you (Sameer Samat)
Hear It from a Skill Builder: 4 Ways to Uplevel Your Skills for Customer Engagement (Jennifer King)
Introducing 50+ additional Text-to-Speech voices with Amazon Polly Integration (Kris Gutta)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

Provisioning Kubernetes clusters on AKS using HashiCorp Terraform | Azure Friday (Scott Hanselman & Rob Caron)
Getting Started with Visual Studio Code (Codepunk)
AFH 097: PSM II An Advanced Scrum Master Course (Ryan Ripley)
Mocking in C# Unit Tests – Video and Resources (Tim Corey)
Syntax Podcast – Hasty Treat – JSON, JSONP and CORS (Wes Bos)
Defrag Tools #195 – Console Command Favorites | Defrag Tools (Andrew Richards & Cameron Tomisser)
The Amp Hour #402 – An Interview with Ben Einstein (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
Revision Path 254: Goldi Gold (Maurice Cherry)
Three Devs and a Maybe 153: The Mouse in the House (Michael Budd, Fraser Hart, Lewis Cains & Edd Mann)
Software Engineering Daily – Future Architecture with Chad Fowler (Jeff Meyerson)

Community & Events

Meet Abbie Turner: student, chihuahua owner and Android developer (Noa Havazelet)
Mind the Product SF 2018, The Road to Sponsorship and What We Learned (Glenn Block)
26 Spectacular Things To Do In Philadelphia This Week, August 6-12 (Kelly Bucci)
Stack Overflow – Get to Know Our New Code of Conduct (Tim Post)
Investing in Lifelong Learners (Karen McCavitt)
How to Successfully Champion Your Developer Community Initiative (Colin Bish)

Database

SQL Server Function to Generate Random Numbers (Eli Leiba)
Two Important Differences Between SQL Server and PostgreSQL (Brent Ozar)
Eventing: Notification with Couchbase Functions (Matthew Groves)
SQL SERVER – Setting ARITHABORT ON for All Connecting .Net Applications (Pinal Dave)

MS Teams

Microsoft: Hit the road, Slack (Mary Jo Foley)

PowerShell

PowerShell Standard Library: Build single module that works across Windows PowerShell and PowerShell Core (Steve Lee)

Miscellaneous

Redstone 5, Phone work points to…? (Steve Litchfield)
Bring your film libraries together through Movies Anywhere, now available on Xbox and Windows 10 (Athima Chansanchai)
Apple adds improved Windows Migration Utility to macOS Mojave (Nick Statt)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #2638 (Chris Alcock)
Double Shot #2149 (Mike Gunderloy)
Xamarin & Windows App Developer Links – 2018-08-07 (Dan Rigby)
Professional Development 7/30/2018 – 8/05/2018 (Cameron Presley)
Collective #439 (Pedro Botelho)
Interesting links of the week (07/30 – 08/05, 2018) (Michael Eaton)
Reading Notes #339 (Frank Boucher)

The Geek Shelf

Building Progressive Web Apps: Bringing the Power of Native to the Browser: Tal Ater: 9781491961650: Books

ISBN: 1491961651
ISBN-13: 9781491961650

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Dew Drop – December 21, 2017 (#2629)

Happy Winter Solstice, everyone.

Top Links

All About Span: Exploring a New .NET Mainstay (Stephen Toub)
Debugging third-party code with Rider (Maarten Balliauw)
Must use, must know WinDbg commands, my most used (Benjamin Perkins)
Azure Tips and Tricks Part 72 – Sentiment Analysis with Cognitive Service and Azure (Michael Crump)

Web & Cloud Development

Entity Framework Core migration – Day 20 – 24 days of “Front-end Development with ASP.NET Core, Angular, and Bootstrap” and How to seed your database with EF Core – Day 21 – 24 days of “Front-end Development with ASP.NET Core, Angular, and Bootstrap” (Simone Chiaretta)
Chatbot on Azure and Couchbase for Viber (Matthew Groves)
WebAssembly: Calling Into JavaScript From Bare-Bones C Code (Gerard Gallant)
CSS Glitch Effect (Mary Lou)
Writing Shorter React-Redux Containers (Nick Sweeting)
How should we resolve percentage margins and padding on grid and flex items? (Rachel Andrew)
Developing NPM Packages (Bruno Krebs)
REST API Calls Using Server Side Swift on the Mainframe (Igor Todorovski)
Kubernetes 1.9 Supports Workloads API, Container Storage Enhancements and Windows Beta Support (Srini Penchikala)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

Xamarin Forms 101: How to put an Entry or Search View in the Navigation Bar (Devlin Duldulao)
CSS In Xamarin.Forms (Adam Pedley)
Fluent Theme for WPF & WinForms Apps Are Coming in 2018 (Dobrin Grancharov)
Breaking Down WPF Grid View vs. Virtual Grid (Stefan Stefanov)
Baby Steps in Writing Libraries for UWP and the Unity Editor (Mike Taulty)

Visual Studio & .NET

#VS2017 – Releasing #Qubits using Reset() and ResetAll() in Q# on Microsoft Quantum Development Kit (Bruno Capuano)
Reverse Engineering Existing Databases in Entity Framework Core 2 (Shawn Wildermuth)
Help! My TFS automatically redirects HTTPS to HTTP! (Matteo Emili)
Advent of Code Day 20–The Long Run (Mark Heath)
The moment I came to play with .NET Standard 2.0… (Dominique St-Amand)

Design, Methodology & Testing

The Unit Test Effect Study, Refined (Erik Dietrich)
Favor Readable Code Over Idiomatic Code (Ben Nadel)
How Technical Practices Support Evolutionary Architecture and Continuous Delivery (Ben Linders)
Getting to Working Software: Code Reviews – Benefits (Gil Zilberfeld)
No, I Didn’t Automate That Test (Jim Holmes)

Mobile & IoT

Is VueJS’ Weex a Suitable Alternative to React Native? (Sam Landfried)
Get Started With Natural Language Processing in iOS 11 (Doron Katz)
Resource Roundup: Top Alexa Tips and Tutorials for New Skill Builders (Jennifer King)
Creating a Task Manager App Using Ionic: Part 2 (Roy Agasthyan)
The Google Assistant SDK – new languages, API updates, and Device Actions (Glen Shires)
Running a .NET Core Web Crawler on a Raspberry Pi (Farooq Ahmad)
Announcing the Release of NativeScript 3.4 (Rob Lauer)
Dev Center’s Year in Review: 2017 (MS Dev Center Team)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

.NET Rocks! – UX Design Rants with Billy Hollis (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
Software Engineering Daily – React Components with Max Stoiber (Jeff Meyerson)
Neuroscience with Azure Machine Learning | AI Show (Golnaz Alibeigi & Sonya Koptyev)
Use the Azure portal to answer your billing questions (Scott Hanselman & Rob Caron)
Syntax Podcast – All About CSS BEM! (Wes Bos)
Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – How to develop high-performing teams | Susan McIntosh (Vasco Duarte)
AAWP Insight #240: Wileyfox Pro, Security, Surface Mobile (Steve Litchfield)
Developer on Fire Episode 297 | Howie Ross – Unlocking Potential (Dave Rael)
Under the Radar 111: Universal Mac Apps? (David Smith & Marco Arment)
All Things Git Podcast – GitKraken with Hamid Shojaee (Edward Thomson & Martin Woodward)
Talk Python to Me #143 – Tuning Python Web App Performance (Michael Kennedy)
#ifdef DEV_CENTER_ANALYTICS | #ifdef WINDOWS (Nikola Metulev)

Community & Events

Webinar Q&A: How to Create Apps with Syncfusion and Azure (Jacqueline Bieringer)
Thinking Of Organizing An Event? Check Out How These MVPs Planned Belgium’s Dev Day Conference (MVP Award Program)

Database

Implement SQL Server High Availability and Disaster Recovery on Amazon EC2 – Part 3 (Pinakin Patel)
Querying SQL Server Temporal Table MetaData (Ameena Lalani)
RavenDB 4.0 is ready! (Oren Eini)

PowerShell

DSC Resource Kit Release December 2017 (Katie Keim)

Miscellaneous

Apple Confirms It Deliberately Slows Down Old iPhones, Calls It A Feature, Here’s Why (Oliver Haslam)
Firefox is Now on Amazon Fire TV – Happy Holiday Watching (Barbara Bermes)
Photosynth returns as part of Microsoft Pix alongside new ‘Comix’ feature (Dan Thorp-Lancaster)
Fixing Data Breaches Part 4: Bug Bounties (Troy Hunt)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #2491 (Chris Alcock)
Double Shot #1998 (Mike Gunderloy)
Collective #376 (Pedro Botelho)
Final Coding4Fun Round-up (Greg Duncan)

The Geek Shelf

Coding iPhone Apps for Kids: A Playful Introduction to Swift: Gloria Winquist, Matt McCarthy: 9781593277567: Books

ISBN: 1593277563
ISBN-13: 9781593277567

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