Dew Drop – October 26, 2017 (#2590)

Top Links

• Android Studio 3.0 (Jamal Eason)
• Introducing the Android SDK Manager (Cody Beyer)
• Android 8.1 Developer Preview (Dave Burke)
• Windows Application Driver is no longer in Beta! (Yosef Durr)
• sonar: Linting the web forward (Anton Molleda)

Web & Cloud Development

• Testing a Node.js API (Chinedu Izuchukwu)
• Short Intro to jQuery Inbuilt Methods for Creating Animation (jQuery by Example)
• DefautFiles and FileServer in ASP.NET Core (K. Scott Allen)
• Angular CDK Portals (Chaz Gatian)
• One Hour to your First Cortana Skill! (Greg Duncan) – Thanks for the shout-out, Greg!
• ES6: Default arguments (Remy Sharp)
• Azure Tips and Tricks Part 40 – Upload Files from a URL with Azure Logic Apps (Michael Crump)
• Node v8.8.1 (Current) (Colin Ihrig)
• Writing tests in Postman (Joyce)
• One-click replication for Azure Virtual Machines with Azure Site Recovery (Sujay Talasila)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

• Xamarin.iOS RKNotificationHub NuGet Announcement! (Alex Dunn)
• #Windows10 – Disable the #SurfaceDial global menu in a UWP App (Bruno Capuano)
• Using SqlClient APIs and Dapper with Fall Creators Update SDK (Marco Minerva)

Visual Studio & .NET

• C# 7.0 and 7.1 support in ReSharper – Pattern matching with generics and Using operator overloads for concatenating file system paths in CSharp (Maarten Balliauw)
• AI for Education: Individualized Code Feedback for Thousands of Students (Matthew Calder & Ke Wang)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• The Singleton Design Pattern: Impact Quantified (Erik Dietrich)
• Code Review Etiquette (Jeff Wainwright)

Mobile & IoT

• Building a Shazam Clone Part 2— Building Android Apps Series (Elvis Chidera)
• Connecting to AT&T M2X IoT using MQTT (Intel Corporation)
• Ionic: 2017-18 Roadmap (Max Lynch)
• Alexa Skills Challenge Offers $250,000 in Prizes for Best Kid Skills (Robyn Fisher)
• Tools for React Native Development (Wernher-Bel Ancheta)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Building Web Apps using vue.js with Shawn Wildermuth (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• The Xamarin Show Episode 32: What’s new in Xamarin.Forms 2.4 with David Ortinau | The Xamarin Show (James Montemagno)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Duffer Brothers (Chris Hardwick)
• SQL Data Partners Podcast Episode 114: How do you start consulting? (Amanda Halverson)
• Developer on Fire Episode 281 | Rick Pack – Cool Scholar (Dave Rael)
• Windows Insider Podcast – The future of women in tech (Colleen O’Brien & Sonia Dara)
• Software Engineering Daily – IFTTT Architecture with Nicky Leach (Jeff Meyerson)
• Developer Tea – Your Interview is Tomorrow? Here’s Some Last Minute Advice (Jonathan Cutrell)
• Azure Podcast Episode 201 – Quantum Computing (Sujit D’Mello)

Community & Events

• Telerik UI for Xamarin for all MVPs (Sam Basu)

Database

• Bulk Copy Data from Oracle to SQL Server (Jeffrey Yao)
• Data Starvation – Balance Your SQL Server – Part 2 (Pinal Dave)

PowerShell

• Setting share permissions with WMI (Martin Schvartzman)

Miscellaneous

• Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 17025 for PC (Dona Sarkar)
• GitHub supports open source provisions in National Defense Authorization Act (Hauwa Otori)
• Recovering from the Windows 10 Insiders Fast 17017 volsnap.sys reboot GSOD/BSOD (Scott Hanselman)

More Link Collections

• Windows App Developer Links – 2017-10-26 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2017-10-26 (Dan Rigby)
• The Morning Brew #2451 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #1961 (Mike Gunderloy)
• AndroidPub Newsletter Rev. 3 (Jan-Lukas Else)
• Collective #360 (Pedro Botelho)

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