Dew Drop – June 26, 2017 (#2507)

Top Links

• Imagine Cup 15th Anniversary (Pablo Veramendi)
• Hyperproductive development (Jessica Kerr)
• My Essential .NET, C#, VB.NET, and Web Dev Tools and Frameworks (Spencer Schneidenbach)
• Smooth as Butter Animations in the Visual Layer with the Windows 10 Creators Update (Windows UI Team)

 

Web & Cloud Development

• Hello World With Webpack And TypeScript 2.3.4 In React 15.6.1 and Using BEM Class Names To Guide Module Structure In ReactJS 15.6.1 (Ben Nadel)
• Testing ASP.NET Core MVC Controllers: Getting Started (Jason Roberts)
• Which Azure Database Should I Use for My Serverless Application? (Mark Heath)
• ESLint v4.1.1 released (ESLint Team)
• Persistent Storage API: Building for the offline web (Dean Hume)
• How to Build a Serverless API with Amazon Web Services’ API Gateway (Eric Chou)
• Freebie: Dusk UI Icons (SVG, EPS, PDF, PNG) (Icons8)
• IdentityServer OpenID Connect Flows: Relationship between Response Types and Grant Types (Michael Freidgeim)
• Updated Chrome Debugging Tools Worth Mentioning (Rion Williams)
• Release of SDK Preview 0.9.0.0 and Runtime Preview 5.6.3.6 for Linux (Service Fabric Team)

 

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

• Handle WPF Application Exceptions all in one Place (Srinath M S)
• MVVM Cross with Xamarin.Platform – jump start (Daniel Krzyczkowski)
• WPF Tip #14 – Extended WPF Toolkit – The CalculatorUpDown Control (Alvin Ashcraft)
• Implementing Azure Push Notifications in Your Android Apps with Xamarin Forms (Uma Narayanan)
• Pre-release: Xamarin.Forms 2.3.5.253-pre5 (David Ortinau)
• Visual State Transitions in Xamarin Forms with Animations (Nick Randolph)
• Making a POST request to IdentityServer’s token endpoint from a Xamarin client (David Britch)

 

Visual Studio & .NET

• Using Bitbucket for Git in Visual Studio 2017 (Gouri Sohoni)
• StyleCop Support for F# FAKE (Stijn Moreels)
• Consuming Google.Apis.Sheets.V4 Services From C# (Tapan Kumar)
• C++ Tutorial: Debugging Overview (Eric Battalio)
• .NET Core Runtime and Base Class Library Performance (Michael Stiefel)

 

Design, Methodology & Testing

• Paying Your Software Development Tax (Jason Roberts)
• Possibilities for Managing Individual and Team Compensation (Johanna Rothman)
• 1 Sign to Immediately Know Someone Has the Gift of Leadership (Marcel Schwantes)
• Deep Learning Explained (Matthew Calder)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Layout Managers in Android: Relative and Constraint Layouts (Adrian Hall)
• Manage Swift Code Snippets With Xcode (Marco Santarossa)
• Announcement! Our Book – “HoloLens Blueprints” is Published and Now Available! (Abhijit Jana)
• Getting Started with Azure IoT (Greg Duncan)
• Everything you need to get started with Windows Mixed Reality (Russell Holly)
• How to Update Your APK, App, or Game (Serena McIntire)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Cross Cutting Concerns Podcast 047 – Seth Petry-Johnson on the Art of the Possible (Matthew Groves)
• PODCAST: “.future” – a new podcast from Microsoft about making the future happen (Kurt Shintaku)
• Observed.Tech PODCAST Episode 235 #OTP (Richard Hay)
• Agile Uprising Podcast – Music City Agile (Ryan Lockard)
• AFH 070: Refactoring Agile with Chris Murman [PODCAST] (Ryan Ripley)
• SSW TV – Simplified Unit Testing with the Entity Framework Core InMemory Provider | Jason Taylor (Sophie Belle)
• AAWP Insight #220: Apps vs Web (Steve Litchfield)
• The Changelog 254: Deploying Changelog.com with Gerhard Lazu (Adam Stacoviak & Jerod Santo)
• CodingBlocks.NET Episode 62 – Software Architecture – Strategic Design and Domain Events (Allen Underwood, Michael Outlaw & Joe Zack)
• Developer on Fire Episode 246 | Jared Smith – Research and Development (Dave Rael)
• The Amp Hour #349 – An(other) Interview with Jon Oxer (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
• Merge Conflict 51: The Core Developer Experience (Frank Krueger & James Montemagno)
• A look at the future with James Whittaker | Answers from James (Larry Larsen, James Whittaker & Cameron Tomisser)
• StarTalk Radio – Extended Classic: Cosmic Queries – The Science of Love (Neil deGrasse Tyson)
• Windows Weekly 523: The Haarlem Shuffle (Paul Thurrott)
• IoT Minute #1 (Rob Tiffany)
• Getting Started with Duality – Part 2 | .GAME (Stacey Haffner)
• Azure Podcast Episode 184 – A Good Migration Story (Sujit D’Mello)
• Episode 230: Azure Batch and Low Priority VMs | Microsoft Azure Cloud Cover Show (Thiago Almeida & Chris Risner)
• Introduction To Microsoft Cognitive Services (Video) (Michael Washington)
• Real-time voice translation with Microsoft Translator on ioProgrammo (Marco Minerva)

 

Community / Events

• Code.org gears up to get 30,000 students psyched up about computer science (Chelsey Ballarte)
• Top 10 Ways To Celebrate July 4th In Philadelphia (Grace Dickinson)
• Meet Todd Silverstein: Lead Technical Consultant on ‘Silicon Valley’ (Jennifer M. Wood)
• Oculus & Unity Launch Pad Workshops: Promoting Diversity of Thought in VR (Lydia White)
• Microsoft will host two Hour of Code groups at Inspire (Vanessa Ho)

 

Database

• What is Copy Only Backup in SQL Server? – Interview Question of the Week #128 (Pinal Dave)
• Inventory management in MongoDB: A design philosophy I find baffling (Oren Eini)
• You’re not delivering DevOps to the database (Grant Fritchey)

 

Miscellaneous

• Leveraging interfaces in golang – Part 1 (Tamizhvendan S.)
• Microsoft’s Windows 10 Shared Source Kit code leaks (Mary Jo Foley)
• SUSE brings 2 of its Linux distros to the Windows Store for Windows 10 Insiders (Jack Wilkinson)
• Imposter Syndrome (part 2) (Jon Skeet)
• What if there really are no more new Windows Mobile devices? (Richard Devine)
• Microsoft’s Whiteboard app leaks, shows the future of Windows 10 stylus support (Tom Warren)

 

More Link Collections

• Xamarin App Developer Links – 2017-06-26 and Windows App Developer Links – 2017-06-26 (Dan Rigby)
• The Morning Brew #2369 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #1875 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Weekly C# Digest Issue #160 (Jakub Chodounsky)
• F# Weekly #26, 2017 – What is Next? (Sergey Tihon)
• Collective #326 (Pedro Botelho)
• Last Week on Channel 9: June 19th – June 25th, 2017 (Greg Duncan)
• Reading List (Bruce Lawson)

 

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