The Morning Dew

Top Links

• Visual Studio 2017 version 15.9 Preview 3 (Angel Zhou)
• Unit testing memory leaks using dotMemory Unit (Maarten Balliauw)
• Announcing Babylon.js 3.3! (David Catuhe)
• LINQ Stinks – code smells in your LINQ (Mark Heath)

Web & Cloud Development

• The Way We Talk About CSS (Rachel Andrew)
• Microsoft Azure: Setting Up Premium Machine Learning Studio (Asma Khalid)
• 3 ways to create and debug Azure Functions – CLI, VS Code and Visual Studio (Chris O’Brien)
• WebStorm 2018.2.4 is now available (Ekaterina Prigara)
• Scaling React – Real Talk JavaScript Episode 1 (John Papa)
• Material Dashboard Using Angular 6 (Manav Pandya)
• Exploring the Docker Extension for VS Code and .NET Core (Shayne Boyer)
• Microsoft Announces the General Availability of Azure Functions 2.0 (Steef-Jan Wiggers)
• Secure Development on Azure Government – Part 2 (Steve Michelotti)
• What’s New in the Splunk Machine Learning Toolkit 4.0 (Part 2) and What’s New in the Splunk Machine Learning Toolkit 4.0 (Part 1) (Manish Sainani)
• TypeScript 3.1 Adds Mappable Tuple and Array Types (Dylan Schiemann)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

• Testing Xamarin Applications with Visual Studio App Center (Slava Chernikoff)

Visual Studio & .NET

• .NET Tip: Testing Private Fields (Peter Vogel)
• std::any: How, when, and why (Casey Carter)
• The Pitfalls of C++ (Eric Goebelbecker)
• LeadTools common.mk as CMake (Jared Rhodes)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• Trouble in Scrum City (Dave Nicolette)
• Unit Testing and GUI Testing- When should you use what? (Harshit Malpani)
• Unit Testing your Web App with Structure (Richard Reedy)
• Introducing the Non-Code Contributor’s Guide (Noah Abrahams, Jonas Rosland & Ihor Dvoretskyi)
• Announcing the new GitHub and Jira Software integration (Andy McKay)
• Radical Candor is Growing Because Relationships May Not Scale, But Culture Does (Kim Scott)
• So You Just Signed Up For Trello. What Now? (Rani Shah)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• [Part 1 ] Code generation in Dart: the basics (Jorge Coca)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Reading Other People’s Code with Patricia Aas (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• GCast – Azure CosmosDB with SQL API (David Giard)
• S02 E01: Five Things About Azure DevOps | Five Things (Burke Holland & Damian Brady)
• Full-stack end-to-end monitoring with Azure Monitor | Azure Friday (Rob Caron & Lara Rubbelke)
• SQL Server 2019 meets AI and Big Data | Microsoft Ignite 2018 (Microsoft Mechanics)
• Complete Developer Podcast – Selecting A Stack For Your Side Hustle (BJ Burns & Will Gant)
• Developer on Fire Episode 379 | Richard Rodger – Conscious Decisions (Dave Rael)
• 2FD 097: Pursuing FIRE While Traveling Full-time (Kevin Griffin & Sean Merron)
• SE-Radio Episode 340: Lara Hogan and Deepa Subramaniam on Revitalizing a Cross-Functional Product Organization (Travis Kimmel)
• Software Engineering Daily – Database Performance and Optimization with Andrew Davidson (Jeff Meyerson)
• Azure Podcast Episode 249 – Managed Identities (Sujit D’Mello)
• What’s new in the IoT Toolkit extension for VS Code | Internet of Things Show (Olivier Bloch)

Community & Events

• Kendo UI R3 2018 Webinar Recap (John Bristowe)
• The future is fusion with Asta Roseway (Alyssa Hughes)
• Webinar – Refactor Now or Never (Daria Dovzhikova)
• Microsoft joins LOT Network, helping protect developers against patent assertions (Erich Andersen)

Database

• Execute a Command in the Context of Each Database in SQL Server using sp_ineachdb (Aaron Bertrand)
• Giant Azure SQL Databases (Arun Sirpal)
• SSMS 18.0 public preview released (Jenny Erie)

PowerShell

• Free (beta) eBook: PowerShell.org, History of a Community (Don Jones)

Miscellaneous

• Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 18252 (Dona Sarkar)
• Taking a job in one role so you can transition to another (Glenn Block)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #2678 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #2185 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Xamarin & Windows App Developer Links – 2018-10-04 (Dan Rigby)
• Collective #456 (Pedro Botelho)

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