Dew Drop – July 24, 2017 (#2526)

Top Links

• What we’ve learned from .NET Core SDK Telemetry (Rich Lander)
• Diagnostic Improvements in Visual Studio 2017 15.3.0 (Yuriy Solodkyy)
• TWC9: Windows Community, Open Source @ Microsoft, NuGet gets a New Look and much more… | This Week On Channel 9 (Greg Duncan, Robert Green & Scott Klein)
• Windows Template Studio 1.2 released! (Clint Rutkas)

Web & Cloud Development

• Saving State data with BotBuilder-Azure in Node.js (Matthew Shim)
• Kendo UI DevChat: Export HTML and UI Widgets to PDF with JavaScript Recap (Carl Bergenhem)
• Customizing query string parameter binding in ASP.NET Core MVC (Filip W.)
• Article: 4 Tips for Working With Angular Components (Jonathan Saring)
• A Collection of Interesting Facts about CSS Grid Layout (Manuel Matuzovic)
• Setting up Angular 2 in ASP.NET Core using Webpack (Member 10407916)
• JWT RSA & HMAC + ASP.NET Core (Piotr Gankiewicz)
• Health checks for building services (Brad Wilson)
• Composing regular expressions via re-template-tag (Axel Rauschmayer)
• Trends in Cloud Computing: Who Uses AWS, Who Uses Azure? (David Robinson)
• Build and Deploy a .NET Core Web App from Linux to a Linux Web App Service on Azure (Jeremy Likness)
• MEAN and Cosmos DB – Part 5: Querying Cosmos DB (John Papa)
• Docker Basics, Part Zero: Why Should I Care about Containers (and Microservices) Anyway? (Michelle Gienow)
• Three Ways to Provide (TypeScript) Type Definitions to Open-Source Libraries (Tatu Tamminen)
• RxJS Advanced Techniques: Testing Race Conditions Using RxJS Marbles (Victor Savkin)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

• Tracking Memory Leaks In Xamarin With The Profiler – Part 2 (Adam Pedley)

Visual Studio & .NET

• PR Review: Is your error handling required? (Oren Eini)
• The perils of async void (Raymond Chen)
• NAudio 1.8.1 Released (Mark Heath)
• Small Basic – Graduate with VS2017 (Nonki Takahashi)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• Wikis are coming to Visual Studio Team Services (Gunnar Peipman)
• Fixing Commit Mistakes with Git Reset (Mark Heath)
• A look inside: Core Foundation team and improving Unity’s testing practices (Gino Galotti)
• Integration: API Design and Management (Julian Morris)
• What type of integration do you do? (Michael Stephenson)
• 80 Percent of Businesses Miss Out on Full Benefits of Continuous Testing (Tom Smith)

Mobile & IoT

• Maker Code with MakeCode! (Greg Duncan)
• Running a .NET Core 2 app on Raspbian Jessie, and deploying to the Pi with Cake (Jeremy Lindsay)
• Rethinking User Interface Design for the TV Platform (Pascal Potvin)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• Hanselminutes Technology Podcast: Fresh Air for Developers – Live Coding on Twitch for a year with Suz Hinton (Scott Hanselman)
• Cross Cutting Concerns Podcast 051 – Ed Finkler on Open Sourcing Mental Illness (Matthew Groves)
• InfoQ Podcast: Martin Hadley on R and the modern R ecosystem (Martin Hadley)
• Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 238 #OTP (Richard Hay)
• Agile Uprising Podcast – BONUS EPISODE – Agile and Music (Jason Hrcsko)
• Agile Uprising Podcast – Agile and Lean Outside of IT, featuring Arlen Bankston (Ryan Lockard)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Jim Jefferies #3 (Chris Hardwick)
• Developer on Fire Episode 254 | Paul Rayner – Explore DDD (Dave Rael)
• Merge Conflict 55: Mac vs PC (Frank Krueger & James Montemagno)
• no dogma podcast #77 Laurent Bossavit, Software Myths (Bryan J. Hogan)
• Software Engineering Daily – Reinforcement Learning with Michal Kempa and Software Engineering Daily – Container Networking with Dan Williams (Jeff Meyerson)
• Developer Tea – Strong Opinions Weakly Held (Jonathan Cutrell)
• Azure Machine Learning Studio For The Non Data Scientist (Video) (Michael Washington)

Community & Events

• I’m Not a Ninja (Ashley Grant)
• The Windows Insider Program has lost its way and Follow-up: The Windows Insider Program has lost its way (studio384)
• 10 Questions with Rene Schulte (James Ashley)

Database

• Long Term Storage for Azure SQL Database Backups (John Miner)
• How to Count Week Days Between Two Dates? – Interview Question of the Week #132 (Pinal Dave)
• MongoDB Basics – part 1. (Nikola Živković)

Miscellaneous

• Should Go 2.0 support generics? (Dave Cheney)
• Elon Musk Wants to Build a Hyperloop From New York City to DC (Joel Hruska)
• Verizon’s ‘video optimization’ test throttles Netflix and YouTube (Mark Wyciślik-Wilson)
• GPUs in the task manager (Bryan Langley)

More Link Collections

• Xamarin App Developer Links – 2017-07-24 and Windows App Developer Links – 2017-07-24 (Dan Rigby)
• The Morning Brew #2389 (Chris Alcock)
• Weekly C# Digest Issue #164 (Jakub Chodounsky)
• F# Weekly #30, 2017 – Happy 2nd anniversary @jet (Sergey Tihon)
• Top stories from the VSTS community – 2017.07.21 (Willy-P. Schaub)
• Reading Notes #290 (Frank Boucher)
• Collective #334 (Pedro Botelho)
• Here’s To Finishing Off A Great Week! Have A Look At The Friday Five. (MVP Award Program)
• Last Week on Channel 9: July 17th – July 23rd, 2017 (Greg Duncan)
• Azure Weekly: July 24, 2017 (Chris Pietschmann)

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