Dew Drop – July 31, 2017 (#2531)

Top Links

• I Almost Left Tech Today, Here’s Why (Clémentine Pirlot)
• TWC9: Bug Bounty, Fast and Easy Containers, Edge Summit, We Still Love MS Paint and more… | This Week On Channel 9 (Greg Duncan & Christina Warren)
• How to Restart your App Programmatically (Andrew Whitechapel)

Web & Cloud Development

• New Inspections in PhpStorm 2017.2 (Gary Hockin)
• AWS Web Application Firewall: Bolt-on Security for Insecure Websites (Elton Stoneman)
• 10 React Applications for You to Use, Study, and Apply (Eric Dye)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

• Xamarin.Tip – Borderless Inputs (Alex Dunn)
• Text-To-Speech with Windows 10 Iot Core & UWP on Raspberry Pi (Andrej Tozon)
• Transient Fault Handling in Xamarin.Forms using Polly (David Britch)
• Build Grid-like UI in Xamarin.Forms with Telerik ListView! (Rossitza Fakalieva)
• Mobile Database Bi-Directional Synchronization with a REST API (Adam Pedley)
• Exploring Windows Mixed Reality, switching between 2D / 3D views and embedding Web Views (Davide Zordan)
• #WINDOWS10 – UWP Community Toolkit 1.5. New BlueTooth LE features, new controls and more … (Bruno Capuano)

Visual Studio & .NET

• Directly throw Exception as an Expression – Throw expressions in C# 7.0 (Abhijit Jana)
• Practical C# – Implementing Equality (Andrea Angella)
• Small tip for Win10 Ubuntu and access GIT local repo with Visual Studio Code (Clemens Reijnen)
• Can I throw a C++ exception from a structured exception? (Raymond Chen)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• 7 Benefits of Unit Testing (Leah Grantz)

Mobile & IoT

• What’s new for shortcuts and widgets in Android O (Gloria Liou)
• Login with Amazon Integrations: Amazon Cognito (Serena McIntire)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• Preparing a city for self-driving cars with Leslie Caceda on the Hanselminutes Technology Podcast: Fresh Air for Developers (Scott Hanselman)
• Cross Cutting Concerns Podcast 052 – Angie Buccilli on Recruiting Secret Sauce (Matthew Groves)
• Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 239 #OTP (Richard Hay)
• Xamarin Podcast: Building Apps with iOS 11, Visual Studio for Mac, and Mobile Center (Pierce Boggan)
• Developer Tea – Episode 256 | Episode 0x100 (Dave Rael)
• Merge Conflict 56: Take on ARKit (Frank Krueger & James Montemagno)
• Becoming a software developer – episode XXIII (Piotr Gankiewicz)
• AFH 073: #NoEstimates on The Deliver It Cast (Ryan Ripley)
• Software Engineering Daily – Health Wearables with Haiyan Zhang (Jeff Meyerson)
• Developer Tea – Idea Portfolio (Jonathan Cutrell)

Community & Events

• Once Upon a Time, Microsoft Opposed Open Source Development (Michael Domingo)
• 10 Questions with Aileen McGraw and 10 Questions with Cameron Vetter (James Ashley)
• Why I Support Diversity (Rockford Lhotka)

Database

• SQL SERVER – How to Check if a Column Exists in SQL Server Table? and How is Oracle Temporary Table Different from SQL Server? – Interview Question of the Week #133 and SQL SERVER – Find Out Column Name Using COL_NAME() Function (Pinal Dave)

PowerShell

• PowerShell Documentation Migration (Zachary J. Alexander)

Miscellaneous

• Researchers shut down AI that invented its own language (James Walker)
• Zune-era music visualizer set to return to Groove Music for Windows 10? (Daniel Rubino)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #2394 (Chris Alcock)
• Weekly C# Digest Issue #165 (Jakub Chodounsky)
• F# Weekly #31, 2017 – All new Microsoft. Loves Open Source. (Sergey Tihon)
• Reading List (Bruce Lawson)
• Top stories from the VSTS community – 2017.08.28 (Willy-P. Schaub)
• Azure Weekly: July 31, 2017 (Chris Pietschmann)
• Check Out What’s Up On This Week’s Friday Five (MVP Award Program)
• Collective #336 (Pedro Botelho)
• Last Week on Channel 9: July 24th – July 30th, 2017 (Greg Duncan)

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