December 2017 – Page 4 – Morning Dew by Alvin Ashcraft

FREE from Manning Publications: Node.js in Motion liveVideo course

Posted on December 15, 2017 | by Alvin A. | 1 Comment

As part of their Countdown to 2018, we’ve partnered with Manning Publications to give you a FREE liveVideo course: Node.js in Motion.

Here’s how to claim it:

Go to the Node.js in Motion page and add the course to your cart.
When you check out, enter morningdew100 into the Discount Code box and click Apply. Your purchase total should now be $0.00—FREE!
Complete the checkout process to place your order.

That’s it! The Node.js in Motion liveVideo course will appear in your Manning account where you can access it at any time, on any device. Enjoy!

And don’t forget…

MEGADEAL! Half off eBooks TODAY ONLY (12/15)
Just enter dotd121517lt in the Promotional Code box when you check out. Applies to all eBooks, including MEAPs. Only at manning.com.

Sign up for daily reminders for Manning’s Countdown to 2018 here.

Cheers!

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Dew Drop – December 15, 2017 (#2625)

Posted on December 15, 2017 | by Alvin A.

Top Links

Hanselminutes – Revolutionizing remote pair programming with Live Share (Scott Hanselman)
Read the full opinions of the FCC commissioners who voted to end net neutrality – CNET (Ian Sherr)
Introducing the SmartHotel360 Reference Mobile Apps (Pierce Boggan)
The DevOps Lab Kickoff Show #1 – Connect(); 2017 Recap | The DevOps Lab (Dmitry Lyalin, Golnaz Alibeigi & Damian Brady)

Web & Cloud Development

Deploy ASP.NET Core apps on IIS – Day 15 – 24 days of “Front-end Development with ASP.NET Core, Angular, and Bootstrap” (Simone Chiaretta)
HTML 5.2 is done, HTML 5.3 is coming (Charles McCathie Nevile)
A Closer Look at Microsoft Azure’s Managed Kubernetes Service (Janakiram MSV)
Patterns in Large Scale JavaScript Applications, Part 2 (Puneet Sharma)
Get Going with Kendo UI & Vue: a GIF Guide (Tara Manicsic)
Azure Data Factory 2.0 – Next Generation of Data Integration (Tom Kerkhove)
Progressive Web Apps – My new book is available! (Dean Hume)
Announcing the Postman API Network (Abhinav Asthana)
Adapting Images to Websites (Dino Esposito)
Introduction to Web Components (Kito Mann)
Learn to combine RxJs sequences with super intuitive interactive diagrams (Maxim NgWizard K)
Build a RESTful API in Go and MongoDB (Mohamed Labouardy)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

Christmas Trees in WPF, 2017 Update (Reed Copsey)
Xamarin Release: 15.5.2 Servicing Release (Brendan Zagaeski)

Visual Studio & .NET

Python extension for Visual Studio Code version 0.9.0 now available (Dan Taylor)
ReSharper’s Extract Method refactoring with better C# 6 and C# 7 support (Maarten Balliauw)
Image Watch is now available for Visual Studio 2017 (Marian Luparu)
How to become master writing C# code (Steve Smith)
Visual Studio Updates for Office 365 APIs Tools (Keyur Patel)
Are lock and Monitor the same in C#? (Gunnar Peipman)
Advent of Code Day 14-Counting Bits and Regions (Mark Heath)

Design, Methodology & Testing

Using Agile Principles with Scrum Studio to Increase Organizational Responsiveness (Ben Linders)
What Scrum Gets Wrong About Kanban and Vice Versa (Steve Porter)
Testing Data-Intensive Code With Go, Part 4 (Gigi Sayfan)
Automated Test Pyramid in our Typical Development Stack (Jeremy D. Miller)

Mobile & IoT

LoWPAN on Android Things (Dave Smith)
Android Studio tip of the day – #1 (Francisco González)
Announcing New Test Simulator (Beta) for Alexa Skills (Shiraz Datta)
How to convert an Android app to iOS, and vice versa (ThinkMobiles)
How to enable Spatial Sounds for your Holographic Application? (Abhijit Jana)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

Windows Central Podcast 76: ARMing the future (Zac Bowden)
The Xamarin Show Episode 34: The New Xamarin Getting Started Experience with Amy Burns (James Montemagno)
SSW TV – Building Single Page Applications with ASP.NET Core 2.0 | Jason Taylor @ DDD Brisbane 2017 (Sophie Belle)
Azure Podcast Episode 208 – From College to Azure (Sujit D’Mello)
Microsoft Cloud Show Episode 230 | FCC and Net Neutrality (Andrew Connell & Chris Johnson)
SQL Data Partners Podcast Episode 121: What makes a good manager? (Carlos L. Chacon)
This Week on Windows: News from Samsung, Mixer and more (Elana Pidgeon)
Women in Business and Technology 010 – Ambika Singh offers infinite style (Microsoft)
Rocket 153: Always Be Fact Checking (Simone De Rochefort, Christina Warren & Brianna Wu)
Software Engineering Daily – High Volume Logging with Steve Newman (Jeff Meyerson)
Developer Tea 3X3: Anti-Resolutions To Kick Off Your 2018 (Jonathan Cutrell)

Community & Events

Meet Alex Vakrilov, December’s Featured Engineer (Jen Looper)

Database

Free Database Unit-Testing for SQL Server Data Tools (Haroon Ashraf)
Replicate NoSQL Data Between Datacenters with Couchbase XDCR (Nic Raboy)
SQL SERVER – Login Failed. The Login is From an Untrusted Domain and Cannot be Used with Windows Authentication (Pinal Dave)
Queries++ in RavenDB: I suggest you can do better (Oren Eini)
Managing Temporal Data in SQL Server 2016 and Azure SQL Database (Peter Vogel)

SharePoint

Angular, React or Vue – Which Web Framework to Focus on for SPFx? (Andrew Connell)

PowerShell

PowerShell Core Master Install Script! Get started with just one command! (Jessica Deen)

Miscellaneous

Cortana is coming to Microsoft Launcher and Cheetah CM Launcher on Android (Arif Bacchus)
The Top 10 Programming Languages To Learn In 2018 (JavaScript, C++, Python & More!) (John Sonmez)
Deal Tomorrow – Manning giving 50% off all eBooks, Friday 12/15 (Me) – Today!
Top 10 .NET Development Tweets that Broke the Internet in 2017 (Dobrin Grancharov)
Twilio on the FCC Vote to Dismantle Net Neutrality Protections (Twilio)

More Link Collections

Xamarin App Developer Links – 2017-12-15 and Windows App Developer Links – 2017-12-15 (Dan Rigby)
The Morning Brew #2487 (Chris Alcock)
Xamarin Round-Up: Top Interesting Xamarin News from January to December 2017 (Devlin Duldulao)

The Geek Shelf

Funko Pop! DC Heroes Wonder Woman and Steve Trevor (2-pack Exclusive): Toys & Games

ASIN: B06Y5XGGC8

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Deal Tomorrow – Manning giving 50% off all eBooks, Friday 12/15

Posted on December 14, 2017 | by Alvin A.

Another Friday deal from Manning books leading up to the holidays…

Every day in December our partner Manning is offering a fantastic deal on their books and video courses as they countdown to 2018. They’ve given us another heads up that tomorrow they’re having a 50% off sale on all of their eBook titles for 24 hours, and we thought you’d want to know!

All you have to do to get the offer is go to their Countdown to 2018 calendar and register your email address in the box at the top. After that, you’ll be sent the code at 12:00am EST directly to your email inbox. There’s a new deal every day, with each Friday holding the biggest deals of all.

They’re also offering a quiz on the calendar page for a chance to win a copy of every new book and video they release in 2018!

Go check out the deals here.

Happy holidays!

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