May the 4th be with you this weekend!
Top Links
- Digitizing trust: Azure Blockchain Service simplifies blockchain development (Mark Russinovich)
 - ReSharper Ultimate 2019.1.1 and Rider 2019.1.1 hotfix updates are here! (Alexander Kurakin)
 - Real Time Flight Map w/ Azure Functions, CosmosDB & SignalR (Dave Theunissen)
 - Remote Development with Visual Studio Code (Chris Dias)
 - Making AI real for every developer and every organization (Eric Boyd)
 
Web & Cloud Development
- Using JetBrains Rider to Develop ASP.NET Core Applications on Docker (Maarten Balliauw)
 - How to override styled-components styling with external CSS (August Alfredsson)
 - Using an Azure Service Bus Topic Subscription in an Azure Function (Damien Bowden)
 - The History of ASP.NET – Part III (Covers ASP.NET Core) (Daniel Jimenez Garcia)
 - Q&A on the Docker on Windows – Second Edition (Elton Stoneman & Steef-Jan Wiggers)
 - Four Things You Need to Know About JavaScript Arrays (Kotryna Kairyte)
 - Publishing a Single Image Docker Container with Secrets from VS2017 and Running it on Azure (Julie Lerman)
 - Ruby Debugger Using Visual Studio Code (Peter Grainger)
 - The Top 5 Challenges to Getting Started with Kubernetes (Alex Hisaka)
 - Enterprise Solution Offerings: Ensuring Success Across Your Entire Application Portfolio (Brandon Royal)
 - Introducing Telerik UI for Blazor 1.0.0 (Carl Bergenhem)
 - Introduction to Vue Render Functions (w/ examples) (Charles Ouellet)
 
XAML, UWP & Xamarin
- A Design Pattern for Building WPF Business Applications: Part 1 (Paul D. Sheriff)
 - Email Verification In Android And UWP Using Xamarin.Forms (Ajithkumar J)
 - Introducing Shiny (Allan Ritchie)
 - #Windows10 – Windows #VisionSkills sample UWP App (Bruno Capuano)
 
Visual Studio & .NET
- Hands-On TypeScript for C# and .NET Core Developers – Review (Garry Pilkington)
 - Immutability in C# (John V. Petersen)
 - Remote Python Development in Visual Studio Code (Dan Taylor)
 - Fixing Random, part 27 (Eric Lippert)
 - Async-Async: Consequences for ordering of multiple calls in flight simultaneously (Raymond Chen)
 - MediatR 7.0.0 Released (Jimmy Bogard)
 - Continuous Formatting v2.1.0 adds support for VS 2019 (Sergey Vlasov)
 
Design, Methodology & Testing
- GitVersion and GitHub with Azure DevOps build yaml (Rory Primrose)
 - How Pivotal Works With Customers Who Use SAFe (Bruce Strong)
 - Experiences From Getting Started as a Lead (Ben Linders)
 - Outdated Security Approaches May Be Obstructing Your Employees’ Productivity (Bill Karagounis)
 - Building Serverless Pipelines with Amazon CloudWatch Events (Forrest Brazeal)
 - Export Artboards and pages for print with this official plugin from Sketch (Sketch Team)
 - How to Add Files to a GitHub Repo You Don’t Own (Steve Smith)
 
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- Android Threads & Coroutines for Beginners (Alistair Sykes)
 - DashO 10 Beta 2: Android Support, Rebuilt From the Ground Up (Nathan Arthur)
 - Understanding Async in Flutter Tests (Anthony Bullard)
 - Microsoft and Unity announce HoloLens 2 Development Edition (Dustin Burg)
 - Intelligent edge innovation across data, IoT, and mixed reality (Julia White)
 - Couchbase Mobile 2.5 Released (Priya Rajagopal)
 - Will Flutter win the cross-platform mobile framework battle? (Sachit Wadhawan)
 
Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos
- .NET Rocks! – Identity Server Update with Dominick Baier and Brock Allen (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
 - GCast – Angular pt 5: Master Detail Components (David Giard)
 - Developer Tea – What Kind of Decisions Are You Optimizing For? (Jonathan Cutrell)
 - Time Series Forecasting with Azure Machine Learning | AI Show and MLOps for managing the end to end life cycle with Azure Machine Learning service | AI Show and Build “zero code” machine learning models with Azure Machine Learning service | AI Show and Automation to accelerate apply and outperform your machine learning models | AI Show (Seth Juarez)
 - Getting started with Azure Blockchain Service Part I: Deploy and configure your network | Block Talk (Blocktalkadmin)
 - DevOps For ASP.NET Developers Pt. 8 – Azure DevOps Integration with GitHub | On .NET (Donovan Brown, Cecil Phillip, Jeremy Likness & AbelSquidHead)
 - React Podcast 46: Progress with Houssein Djirdeh, on Progressive Web Apps and the Story of Building GitPoint with React Native (Michael Chan)
 - Simplify HTTP in Mobile Apps with Refit | The Xamarin Show and Countdown for Microsoft Build: Seafood (Formal Dining) | The Countdown to Microsoft Build 2019 (James Montemagno)
 - CppCast – Reflection TS with David Sankel (Rob Irving)
 - Rocket 225: I’ve Got A Dog Clicker (Brianna Wu, Christina Warren & Simone De Rochefort)
 - Learn about AI-powered robotic process automation with Form Recognizer | AI Show (Kaitlin McKinnon)
 - Talk Python to Me #210 – Making the most out of in-person training (Michael Kennedy)
 - Women in Businesss & Technology Podcast 044 – Exercising true allyship at Seattle’s Women in Tech Regatta (Sonia Dara & Colleen O’Brien)
 - Hanselminutes – The Problem with Software by Adam Barr (Scott Hanselman)
 - Azure Podcast Episode 277 – Automating Network Security (Sujit D’Mello)
 
Community & Events
- BCSWomen Lovelace Colloquium 2019 (Auguste Bagdonaite)
 - QCon NY (Jun 24-28): New Talks, a Focus on the Skills That Matter & Why You Should Join Us This Year (Diana Baciu)
 - Hangout, Drink Coffee, & Cycle with Me at Build 2019 (James Montemagno)
 - Smartsheet scoops up Seattle resource management startup 10,000ft, its 3rd acquisition (Nat Levy)
 - Microsoft Q# Coding Contest – Winter 2019 (Richard Miller)
 - Eight Blockbuster Street Festivals In Philly This May and Weekend Picks: South Street Spring Fest, Chinese Lantern Festival, Semana Mexicana And More (Shannon Wink)
 - Microsoft Build Kickoff 2019 (Premier Developer Team)
 
Database
- How Much Memory Does SSIS need? (Tim Mitchell)
 - (Th)Inking with data — tapping into the potential of the digital pen (Laura LoPresti)
 - RAuth0 – Our internal R package (Pablo Seibelt)
 - It’s easier than ever to create beautiful flowcharts from Data Visualizer (Sai Deepthi Kovvuru)
 
PowerShell
- Five PowerShell cmdlets for Beginners (Daniel Franciscus)
 
More Link Collections
- The Morning Brew #2738 (Chris Alcock)
 - Double Shot #2335 (Mike Gunderloy)
 - Roundup #42: Nancy, BuildXL, String Params, Rider, Infra Code (Derek Comartin)
 - Daily Links 2 May 2019 (Malcolm Jack)
 
The Geek Shelf
 Azure Serverless Computing Cookbook: Build and monitor Azure applications hosted on serverless architecture using Azure Functions (2nd Ed) (Praveen Kumar Sreeram)