Day: February 27, 2018

Top Links

• Coming in ASP.NET Core 2.1 – top-level MVC parameter validation (Andrew Lock)
• Differences Between BlueMilk and StructureMap (Jeremy D. Miller)
• MS Dev Show – PowerShell Core with Jeffrey Snover (Jason Young & Carl Schweitzer)
• Easy Forms Over Data for Xamarin.Forms Apps (Sam Basu)

Web & Cloud Development

• Azure Tips and Tricks Part 98 – Creating an Email Subscription with Azure Functions – Storing Emails (Michael Crump)
• Serverless .Net Core(2.0) application with AWS Lambda: Step by step guide (Neel Bhatt)
• Azure Blob Storage as a Network Drive (Aaron Roney)
• Azure Service Bus now integrates with Azure Event Grid! (Christian Wolf)
• Quickly review changed functions in your PHP pull requests (Josh Vera)
• A Gentle Introduction to Higher-Order Components in React (Manjunath M)
• Serverless Containers with Azure Container Instances (Mark Heath)
• Postman Workspaces == Better Collaboration (Belinda)
• Web developer tools in Rider 2017.3: HTTP client and SVG editing (Maarten Balliauw)
• Webpack 4.0 Release: What’s New? (Prosper Otemuyiwa)
• Microsoft Opens its Quantum Development Kit to macOS and Linux (Sergio De Simone)
• I Wanna Go Fast: Why Searching Through 500M Pwned Passwords Is So Quick (Troy Hunt)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

• PWAs vs Xamarin.Forms (Adam Pedley)
• Announcing new Ad Monetization policies and updates to Ad unit management UX (Raja Perumal)
• New Xamarin University Course: Navigation Patterns in Xamarin.Forms (XAM205) (Karina Ung)
• Identifying my daughters toys using AI – Part 5, Plugin for on-device models (Jim Bennett)
• An Extended Splash Screen with Lottie Animations in UWP (Diederik Krols)

Visual Studio & .NET

• VSTS/TFS Roadmap update for 2018 Q1 and Q2 (Alex Nichols)
• How to upgrade project’s language version using quick actions in Visual Studio? (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Json.NET No Longer Has Over 120 Dependencies (Jonathan Allen)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• UI and End-to-End tests (Martin Fowler)
• Introducing Kanban for Professional Scrum Teams (Martin Hinshelwood)
• 5 Tips for Being an Effective Tech Lead (Patrick Kua)
• Properly getting into jail: Introduction & architecture (Oren Eini)
• Running an OSS Community Sprint (Adam Pedley)
• What is UI Design: User Interface Design Fundamentals (Bogdan Sandu)
• Slack and GitHub: Your Ultimate Productivity Pair (Brandon Keepers)
• GitHub Desktop 1.1 is now available (Brendan Forster)
• Senior Software Developers as Mentors (Dave Nicolette)
• The Distributed Monolith (Justin Etheredge)
• xUnit & SQLite (Marcos Cobeña Morián)
• Commit with confidence with new teacher training from GitHub (Vanessa)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• Code a Widget for Your Android App: Updating the Widget (Jessica Thornsby)
• New XMOS Development Kit for Integrating Alexa into Slim Profile and Wall-Mounted Devices (Rachel Bennett)
• New eBook: How to Develop Media Streaming Apps for Amazon Fire TV (Peter Heinrich)
• Why Flutter Uses Dart (Wm Leler)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• .NET Rocks! – The Docker Stack with Rob Richardson (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Brandon Minnick – Async/Await Best Practices | On .NET (Cecil Phillip, Rich Lander & Brandon Minnick)
• Merge Conflict 86: Containerized Pod Development (Frank Krueger & James Montemagno)
• Revision Path 231: Five Years of Revision Path (Maurice Cherry)
• Quantum Development Kit updates: support for macOS, Linux, plus Python and Q# interoperability (Microsoft Mechanics)
• no dogma podcast #90 – Kjersti Sandberg and Charlotte Lyng, Norwegian Developer Conferences (Bryan Hogan)

Community & Events

• Extendee — meet like-minded people on your way to conferences (Alan Mendelevich)
• 15 Fantastic Things To Do In Philly This Week, February 26-March 4 (Jillian Wilson)
• Go 2017 Survey Results (Steve Francia)
• Join me on March 2, 2018 for a Developer Tools AMA (Miguel de Icaza)

Database

• ebook deal of the week: Tabular Modeling in Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services, 2nd Edition and New book: SQL Server 2017 Administration Inside Out (Microsoft Press)
• SQL SERVER – Empty Startup Parameter in SQL Cluster on One Node (Pinal Dave)
• How to setup Azure SQL Analytics (Arun Sirpal)
• Finding Spreads in Data Ranges Using T-SQL (Tim Smith)
• Fifteen Things I Hate About ISNUMERIC (Erik Darling)

MS Teams

• Free version of Microsoft Teams may be on the way to challenge Slack (Dan Thorp-Lancaster)

PowerShell

• Powershell update docker container images (Daniel Sack)

Miscellaneous

• Neural Network Dropout Using Python (James McCaffrey)
• One more vote for net neutrality and beyond (Mike Linksvayer)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #2536 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #2042 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Collective #393 (Pedro Botelho)
• Interesting links of the week (02/19 – 02/25, 2018) (Mike Eaton)

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