Dew Drop – February 12, 2018 (#2663)

Top Links

• Announcing Microsoft Build 2018 (Microsoft Mechanics)
• TWC9: Build 2018 is Coming, Windows Developer Day, Deep Fakes, and more | This Week On Channel 9 (Cameron Tomisser & Christina Warren)
• Xamarin Podcast: Rapid UI Prototyping with Ink to Code, Merged Dictionaries in Xamarin.Forms, & Android Emulator Tips (Pierce Boggan)
• Whip the llama’s ass with this Javascript WinAmp emulator (John Biggs)

Web & Cloud Development

• Tips: model validation filter in MVC Core (Hrvoje Hudo)
• Creating A Dynamic Favicon Service In Angular 5.2.4 and Using Position Absolute Inside A Scrolling Overflow Container (Ben Nadel)
• ASP.NET Core WebHooks – Building repository locally ()
• Getting started with Docker & Kubernetes (Dave Voyles)
• Run Angular CLI repos directly in your browser (Eric Simons)
• Reading request body in ASP.NET Core (Gunnar Peipman)
• A Deep Dive into continuous delivery and Microservices on Azure (Jakob Ehn)
• Building a Node.js App with MongoDB Atlas and AWS Elastic Container Service, Part 1 (Jay Gordon)
• ASP.NET Web API, RestSharp and Model Error Messages (Mahesh Sabnis)
• Azure Tips and Tricks Part 93 – Part 4 – Searching an index with Azure Search with C# (Michael Crump)
• Learn how Azure’s Custom Speech Service Powers Presentation Translator (Xuedong Huang)
• Creating Your First Angular App: Implement Routing (Monty Shokeen)
• Introducing Virtual Classroom—Now Training in Telerik & Kendo UI (Sara Faatz)
• The JavaScript Supply Chain Paradox: SRI, CSP and Trust in Third Party Libraries (Troy Hunt)
• Vue.js-Plugins with TypeScript (Peter Kuhn)
• TypeScript 2.6: JSX Fragment Syntax (Marius Schulz)
• A Wee Allocator for WebAssembly (Nick Fitzgerald)
• LTFN 5: Building a ConvNet (Josh Varty)
• Getting started with A-Frame – #1 (Timmy Kokke)
• Serverless Microservice: The Backend (Jason Farrell)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

• Add List View Drop Shadow on Xamarin.Forms (Can Bilgin)
• Webinar: Introduction to XAML (WPF) & Data Binding for Modernizing Desktop Applications (Daizen Ikehara)
• Xamarin Forms Cross Platform Libraries and Dependency Services (Martyn Wiggins)
• Get unique Device Id and Application Id in UWP applications (Corrado Cavalli)
• ToastNotifier::Setting: Careful with non-UWP applications! (Rudy Huyn)

Visual Studio & .NET

• New Free eBook: C# 7.2: What’s New Quick Start (Jason Roberts)
• Quickly locate or change the custom project or Item templates locations in Visual Studio 2017 (Abhijit Jana)
• Register a file icon in Visual Studio 2017 (Daniel Fisher)
• Four LINQ methods that are similar but have important differences (Andy Schwam)
• JWT Authentication for Microservices in .NET (Mircea Oprea)
• New BuildIt Release for NetStandard 2.0 (General, States and Forms) (Nick Randolph)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• Today’s software developers are the ivory tower architects of tomorrow (Simon Brown)
• Adopt an Innovative Quality Approach to Testing (Rajini Padmanaban)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• WebSocket Connection with Ionic Application (Raj Pm)
• Learn how to flight your games with the Xbox Insider Program (David)
• Tips for Making a Twitch-Friendly Mobile Game (Part 2) (Chris Foley)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• Cross Cutting Concerns Podcast 069 – Correl Roush on Elm (Matthew Groves)
• Week In Geek Podcast: Whole Foods delivery via Amazon Prime, and a special dispatch from GeekWire HQ2 (Clare McGrane)
• Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 256 #OTP (Richard Hay)
• AFH 086: Talking Scrum with Steve Porter (Ryan Ripley)
• AAWP Insight #244: Expected app lifetimes, Wileyfox woes (Steve Litchfield)
• #codepunk 028: The State of Cyberpunk (Bill Ahern)
• Rocket 161: Wow, Remember That? (Brianna Wu, Christina Warren, and Simone De Rochefort)
• Developer on Fire Episode 312 | Chris DeMars – Doing Something with His Life (Dave Rael)
• The Amp Hour #379 – An Interview with John Saunders (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
• StarTalk Radio – The Evolution of Personal Technology, with Marques Brownlee (Neil deGrasse Tyson)
• The Future of Microsoft Windows 10 in 2018 – What The Tech Ep. 387 (Paul Thurrott)
• Software Engineering Daily – Scaling Box with Jeff Quiesser (Jeff Meyerson)
• Developer Tea – Project-Oriented Mindset (Jonathan Cutrell)
• Azure Podcast Episode 215 – Kubernetes Innovations (Sujit D’Mello)

Community & Events

• Teen Writes Children’s Book To Encourage Other Girls To Code (Taylor Pittman)
• Microsoft Build Clashes With Google I/O (Lucy Black)
• .NET Oxford Meetup XI: A Piece of Cake (Dan Clarke)
• Aurelia Users Community Space Guides (Nikolaj Ivancic)
• Hello World; Meet Alyssa Nicoll (Alyssa Nicoll)

Database

• Download Microsoft® ODBC Driver 17 for SQL Server® (MS Downloads)
• How to Schedule a Job in SQL Server? – Interview Question of the Week #160 and SQL SERVER – Full-Text Search Not Working For PDF Documents (Pinal Dave)
• RavenDB 4.0 Java Client is released (Oren Eini)
• Switched from ClearDB MySQL to Azure Database for MySQL (Esteban Garcia)
• The Annals of Hilariously Bad Code, Part 2 (Erik Darling)
• Announcing Couchbase Mobile 2.0 Beta (Sachin Smotra)

PowerShell

• Iron Scripter 2018 prequel: Puzzle 5 and Iron Scripter 2018 prequel: Puzzle 4 – a commentary (Richard Siddaway)

Miscellaneous

• HomePod + Android #ForbiddenLove (Jon Lech)
• Microsoft Research Papers Behind the Cognitive Services (Jennifer Marsman)

More Link Collections

• Xamarin App Developer Links – 2018-02-12 and Windows App Developer Links – 2018-02-12 (Dan Rigby)
• The Morning Brew #2525 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #2032 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Azure Weekly: Feb 12, 2018 (Chris Pietschmann)
• Reading Notes #315 (Frank Boucher)
• ASP.NET, Sharepoint And More On The Friday Five (MVP Award Program)
• Weekly C# Digest Issue #193 (Jakub Chodounsky)
• F# Weekly #6, 2018 – Announced Giraffe 1.0 & FsConfig (Sergey Tihon)
• Top stories from the VSTS community – 2018.02.09 (Willy-P. Schaub)

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