Top Links
- New Experimental Console Features (Rich Turner)
 - New in Angular v7.1: Updates to the Router (Nate Lapinski)
 - Blazor Fiddle (Vladimir Samoilenko & Eugene Shmakov)
 - Python at Microsoft: flying under the radar (Steve Dower)
 - Open Sourcing XAML Behaviors for WPF (Karan Nandwani)
 
Web & Cloud Development
- Prevent Kestrel from logging to Console in ASP.NET Core 2.2 and Flipping the static site switch for Azure Blob Storage programmatically (Maxime Rouiller)
 - Official Jenkins image to use from Docker Hub (Baptiste Mathus)
 - Managing State in Functional React Components with useReducer (Carl Rippon)
 - KendoReact: Getting Started Blog Series (Eric Bishard)
 - An Introduction and Guide to the CSS Object Model (CSSOM) (Louis Lazaris)
 - AWS Serverless applications with multiple .NET Core projects (Norm Johanson)
 - AWS : ElastiCache (Sacha Barber)
 - Build and deploy microservices on Azure Service Fabric Mesh (Jason Haley)
 - Ignite UI for Angular 7 (Slav Karaslavov)
 - Announcing the Content Attachments API (beta) (Wilhelm Klopp)
 - Microsoft confirms that Chrome extensions will run on new Edge browser (Liam Tung)
 - Google Labs Web Components (Chris Coyier)
 - Microsoft Introduces New API Management Tier for Serverless Architectures (Kent Weare)
 - Best Practices for Designing and Building Containers for Kubernetes (Mark Ramm)
 - Motion Transition Effect (Mary Lou)
 - Our learnings from adopting GraphQL (Artem Shtatnov & Ravi Srinivas Ranganathan)
 
XAML, UWP & Xamarin
- Using WPF RichTextBox using C# and XAML (Mahesh Chand)
 - Refresh Indicator for ListView Color in Xamarin.Forms (Gerald Versluis)
 - Xamarin Apps Get Second Major Security Boost With Dotfuscator Pro 4.39 (Sebastian Holst)
 - SVGImage Control for WPF (Jochen Kühner)
 
Visual Studio & .NET
- Six Opinionated Tips to be a Better .NET Developer (Isaac Levin)
 - Why is string.GetHashCode() different each time I run my program in .NET Core? (Andrew Lock)
 - Introducing EntityFramework.Exceptions (Giorgi Dalakishvili)
 - Code Vision in Rider: Enriching the editor with contextual information and navigation (Maarten Balliauw)
 - Finding your next .NET Open Source project using the command line (Shayne Boyer)
 
Design, Methodology & Testing
- GitHub Learning Lab: your new corporate trainer (Cynthia Rich)
 - The Shift-Left Approach to Software Testing (Arthur Hicken)
 - The Problem with Story Points (Dave Nicolette)
 - Trello Acquires Butler To Bring You The Power Of Automation (Michael Pryor)
 - Jump Start Your Designs This New Year with These Free Adobe XD UI Kits for 2019 (Patrick Faller)
 
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- 5 Resources for Making Alexa Skills More Discoverable (Paul Cutsinger)
 - Deck the Halls with an Improved Visual Studio App Center Portal UI (Bo-ying Fu)
 - Building Places & Location Search with Map View Using Flutter 1.0 (Alfian Losari)
 - Implementing auto-complete search list (Darshan Kawar)
 - How to get the most out of the flutter documentation (Raouf Rahiche)
 
Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos
- MS Dev Show – Quantum Computing & Q# with Bettina Heim (Jason Young & Carl Schweitzer)
 - .NET Rocks! – IoT and Edge Computing with Jared Rhodes (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
 - InfoQ Podcast: Sangeeta Narayanan of Netflix on Improving the Developer Experience (Sangeeta Narayanan)
 - Block Scope Functions in JavaScript (Bill Ahern)
 - Future of Agile Podcast with Agile Uprising (Johanna Rothman)
 - AFH 103: Respecting Your Scrum and Agile Teams (Ryan Ripley)
 - Syntax Podcast – Hasty Treat – Costs of Running a Business (Wes Bos)
 - Gone Mobile 81: Shiny and New at Microsoft Connect 2018 (Greg Shackles & Jonathan Dick)
 - Decentralized Identity and Blockchain | Block Talk (JT Rose)
 - Revision Path 272: Analise Cleopatra (Maurice Cherry)
 - Flutter Animation: Ep 3 || Animation Series || Brick Animations (MTechViral)
 
MS Teams
- Microsoft Teams usage passes Slack in new survey; IT pros expect its presence to double by 2020 (Nat Levy)
 
Database
- SQL Server I/O (Arun Sirpal)
 - Availability Groups on Kubernetes in SQL Server 2019 preview (Sourabh Agarwal)
 - Announcing SQL Server 2019 community technology preview 2.2 (SQL Server Team)
 
SharePoint
- Enable Jest testing of SharePoint Framework Projects in One Simple Step (Andrew Connell)
 - SharePoint Dev Ecosystem / SharePoint PnP – December 2018 update now available (Vesa Juvonen)
 
Miscellaneous
- Windows 10 Tip: SwiftKey (Athima Chansanchai)
 - Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 18298 (Dona Sarkar)
 
More Link Collections
- Double Shot #2233 (Mike Gunderloy)
 - Azure.Source – Volume 61 (Rob Caron)
 - Collective #475 (Pedro Botelho)
 - Xamarin & Windows App Developer Links – 2018-12-11 (Dan Rigby)
 - Interesting links of the week (12/03 – 12/09, 2018) (Michael Eaton)
 - Professional Development 12/03/2018 – 12/09/2018 (Cameron Presley)
 - Today in Tech – Tuesday, Dec 11, 2018 (Dirk Strauss)
 
The Geek Shelf
 Mastering Entity Framework Core 2.0: Dive into entities, relationships, querying, performance optimization, and more, to learn efficient data-driven development (Prabhakaran Anbazhagan)
