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Dew Drop – December 1, 2021 (#3569)

Posted on December 1, 2021 | by Alvin A. | 2 Comments

Top Links

Announcing Uno Platform 4-0. Four major components added. (Uno Platform Team)
ReSharper 2021.3 Goes Beta! (Alexander Kurakin)
New Release: Fiddler Everywhere 3.0 Is Here! (Simona Yaneva)
Rider 2021.3 Goes Beta (Alexandra Kolesova)
Cake v2.0.0 released (Mattias Karlsson)

Web & Cloud Development

PHP 8.1 Released With Enums, Read-Only Properties and Fibers (Alex Armstrong)
Polymorphic Serialization with .NET System.Text.Json (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
Best Practices to Monitor Node.js Performance (Akash Tripathi)
Build World-Class Blazor WebAssembly Apps with Globalization and Localization (Alan Sangeeth)
Thank you, Angular (Igor Minar)
Tuning your uploads and downloads with the Azure Storage client library for .NET (James Schreppler)
Adding a Dark Mode to Your KendoReact Application (Kathryn Grayson Nanz)
Leveraging Azure Cosmos DB Partial Document Update With JSON Patch in an ASP.NET Core Web API (Tomasz Pęczek)
Node v17.2.0 (Current) (Michaël Zasso)
Node v14.18.2 (LTS) (Richard Lau)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

WinUI 3 Team Asked About Delayed Open Source Plans: ‘What Happened?’ (David Ramel)
MVVM Dialogs: Showing Dialogs in an MVVM Application with a Dialog Service (Brian Lagunas)
#XFQaD: Compile XAML without code behind in Xamarin.Forms (Marco Siccardi)
WPF Best Practices 2021 (Greg Lutz)
Using Charles Proxy with Xamarin.Android (Tomasz Cielecki)

Visual Studio & .NET

Implement IResult For Custom Response In Minimal API [.NET 6] (Naveen Bommidi)
Randomizing a Collection: One Time or Forever (David McCarter)

Design, Methodology & Testing

Scaling the Practice of Architecture, Conversationally and You Can’t Buy Integration (Martin Fowler)
5 DevOps tips to speed up your developer workflow (Damian Brady)
A Deep Dive into Design Thinking with Agile Methodology (Joydip Kanjilal)
Deprecating weak cryptographic standards (TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1) in Azure DevOps (Rajesh Ramamurthy)
Overcoming Imposter Syndrome: Making Competence, Making Confidence (Craig Couden)
Signing your GitHub commits with GPG and YubiKey (Dominique St-Amand)
Bring a More Inclusive Developer Strategy to APIs (Jennifer Riggins)
Building a sustainable nursing workforce of the future (Jim Conmy)
A Project Management Team’s Guide To Successful Project Governance (Sam Milbrath)
6 Steps to Successfully Debating (Not Killing) Ideas (Kim Scott)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

Smashing Podcast Episode 44 With Chris Ferdinandi: Is The Web Dead? (Drew McLellan)
No Dogma Podcast #159 – Mark Eisenberg, DevOps in the Enterprise (Bryan Hogan)
Asp.Net Monsters #233 – Kafka (David Paquette, James Chambers & Simon Timms)
Practical AI Podcast – AI-generated code with OpenAI Codex (Natalie Pistunovich, Chris Benson & Daniel Whitenack)
FreeCodeSession – Episode 320 (Jason Bock)
RunAs Radio – IT Christmas Gifts with Joey Snow and Rick Claus (Richard Campbell)
Talk Python to Me #343: Do Excel things, get notebook Python code with Mito (Michael Kennedy)
8 Bits with Jim Bennett! (Pj Metz & Brandon Minnick)
New and Improved OWASP – Adventures in .NET 097 (Caleb Wells & Shawn Clabough)
Microsoft 365 PnP Weekly – Episode 145 – Rabeb Othmani (Microsoft) (Vesa Juvonen & Waldek Mastykarz)
Clean Architecture with ASP.NET Core (Steve Smith)

Community & Events

AWS Bug Bust Challenge Underway In World Guinness Record Attempt (Sue Gee)
MyLightDisplay.com Animated Light Show Starts Tonight! (Jason Gaylord)
GitHub Externships: enabling India’s next generation of developers (Maneesh Sharma)
How an Excel TikToker manifested her way to making six figures a day (Nilay Patel)

Database

Revisiting SQL Server certification (Kathi Kellenberger)
Multi-Tenancy with Marten (Jeremy D. Miller)

SharePoint & MS Teams

Add Teams conversations to Project tasks (Microsoft Project Team)

PowerShell

Query pull request history in Azure DevOps with PowerShell and the REST API (Steve Fenton)

Miscellaneous

Paint app for Windows 11 update for Windows Insiders brings updated dialogs and more (Brandon LeBlanc)
The single most important thing you need to know about animation (Kunal Chowdhury)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #3364 and The Morning Brew #3365 (Chris Alcock)
.NET App Developer Links – 2021-12-01 (Dan Rigby)
The Wolf Report – December 1st, 2021 (Michael Wolfenden)

The Geek Shelf

Taste: My Life Through Food (Stanley Tucci) – Referral Link

Dew Drop – January 4, 2019 (#2872)

Posted on January 4, 2019 | by Alvin A.

Top Links

Watch: Anoop Kumar Introduces Docker (Jason Gaylord)
Azure DevOps, Docker, and Angular (Sahil Malik)
An Introduction to Templated Components in Blazor (Chris Sainty)
Scratch 3.0 is now available (John Biggs)

Web & Cloud Development

Upload Small Files to a Web API Using Angular (Paul D. Sheriff)
Getting to Know the New Kendo UI MultiColumnComboBox (Carl Bergenhem)
From Angular to Blazor: The Health App (Jeremy Likness)
How do JavaScript Arrays Work Under the Hood? (Ryan Peden)
Create Your First Custom Angular CLI Schematic with Nx (Sam Julien)
Implementing Push Notifications in Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) Using Firebase (Wei-Meng Lee)
ReportingCloud: Backend Updated to TX Text Control X16 (Bjoern Meyer)
Creating and Managing Vue Projects with Vue UI (Peter Mbanugo)
Composition over Inheritance in Go (K. Scott Allen)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

Rating swipe control in Xamarin Forms (Rendy Del Rosario)
Using the Retry Pattern with Azure Storage from Xamarin.Forms (David Britch)

Visual Studio & .NET

Introduction to Dependency Injection in C# (Claudio Bernasconi)

Design, Methodology & Testing

10 Reasons Why Unit Testing Matters (John V. Petersen)
It’s Official: Open-Plan Offices Are Now the Dumbest Management Fad of All Time (Geoffrey James)
On Developing Talent (Ted Neward)
How to Keep Team Meetings on Track When 1 Person Won’t Stop Talking (Elise Keith)
What’s Microproductivity? The Small Habit That Will Lead You To Big Wins (Kat Boogaard)
How to Level up Dev Teams (Tyler Treat)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

New Alexa Skill Sample: Learn Multimodal Skill Design with Space Explorer (Jon Mongan)
New AWS Certification and Training Opportunities for Alexa Developers (Paul Cutsinger)
Using Protocol Buffers with Azure IoT Edge (Jared Rhodes)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

GCast – Introducing Cognitive Services and Computer Vision (David Giard)
Visual Azure Provisioning From a Whiteboard | The Xamarin Show (James Montemagno)
IPFS in Azure | Block Talk (Blocktalkadmin)
Live demo of BeSense, an application built by Winvision on Azure Digital Twins | Internet of Things Show (Olivier Bloch)
NSScreencast #370 – Scripting in Swift with Marathon – Part 2 (Ben Scheirman)
Rocket 208: Stop Drocks (Brianna Wu, Christina Warren & Simone De Rochefort)
Hanselminutes – Regine Gilbert on the Essence of Accessibility (Scott Hanselman)
Software Engineering Daily – Kong API Platform with Marco Palladino (Jeff Meyerson)
Developer Tea – Expectations vs. Reality (Jonathan Cutrell)

Community & Events

MOSS 2018 Year in Review (Mozilla)
2018 in Review: Reading and Writing Highlights (Richard Seroter)
Adios to Winter Bash 2018 (Juan M.)

Database

Using SQL Server Integration Services to Generate Excel Files Based on Criteria (Ron L’Esteve)
UPDATE Statement Performance in SQL Server (Bhavesh Patel)
An Idea For Improving DBCC CHECKDB and Database Design Choices To Consider When You’re Worried About Scale (Erik Darling)

SharePoint

SharePoint Modern Site Strategies: Designing Pages (Part 3) (Adam Krueger)

PowerShell

Install SMTP Server and Telnet with PowerShell (Mike Lee)

Miscellaneous

Get Python 3.7 on the Windows Store! (Windows Store)
Chocolatey on Windows (Daniel Franciscus)
Imposter’s Handbook, Season 2 is Released (Rob Conery)
My Thoughts on NPR’s Top 100 Science Fiction and Fantasy Books (David Giard)
Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 18309 (Dona Sarkar)
Preparing For A Coding Interview: My Best Tips! (John Sonmez)

More Link Collections

Double Shot #2250 (Mike Gunderloy)
Roundup #30: ProxyKit, BeeHive, Nullable Ref Types, Close Loops & Opening Minds (Derek Comartin)
Today in Tech – Friday, Jan 04, 2019 (Dirk Strauss)
Collective #480 (Pedro Botelho)
Xamarin & Windows App Developer Links – 2019-01-04 (Dan Rigby)

The Geek Shelf

The Art of Unit Testing: with examples in C# (Roy Osherove)

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Dew Drop – August 22, 2018 (#2787)

Posted on August 22, 2018 | by Alvin A.

Top Links

ReSharper Ultimate 2018.2 hits RTM (Alexander Kurakin)
TWC9: GitHub GLB-Director Goes OSS, F# 4.5, Alexa and Cortana Together, and more | This Week On Channel 9 (Cameron Tomisser & Christina Warren)
Introducing Ghost 2.0 (John O’Nolan)
Windows 10 SDK Preview Build 17738 available now! (Clint Rutkas)

Web & Cloud Development

How to Use a jQuery DropDownList UI Component in Your Web App (Alberta Williams)
Adding Segment client-side analytics to an ASP.NET Core application (Andrew Lock)
Providing a Styling API for Web Components via CSS Custom Properties (Carl Rippon)
WebStorm 2018.2.2 is now available (Ekaterina Prigara)
Angular 6: “ng test” with Jest in 3 minutes (Evgeny Barabanov)
Plan Your Next Party with an Angular Invite App Using Akita! (Inbal Sinai)
Push Off Flaws, Be Less Productive: How To Stop Making Excuses (Janet Mesh)
Azure IoT Edge – docker.sock connect: permission denied (Jared Rhodes)
Code Your First API With Node.js and Express: Understanding REST APIs (Tania Rascia)
Updated Slides and Code Samples for Creating Awesome Chat Bots with the Bot Framework and C# (Andy Schwam)
Should I use Promises or Async-Await (Gokul N K)
eBook – JavaScript for impatient programmers (Axel Rauschmayer)
TypeScript 3.0: Exploring Tuples and the Unknown Type (Dan Arias)
Running Redis on Windows 8.1 and Prior (Dave Nielsen)
DoWhy – A library for causal inference (Emily Maryatt)
Top 10 String utility methods you should know (Dart) (Jermaine Oppong)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

Getting Started with Xamarin.Forms, Refactoring MvvmCross and Services (Nick Randolph)
Xamarin.Android maps – adding high-resolution map images (Daniel Hindrikes)

Visual Studio & .NET

C# Back to Basics – Handling Exceptions in C# (Marinko Spasojevic)
Formatter comments and more in ReSharper and Rider 2018.2 (Matthias Koch)
.NET Core Dllmap design document (Anna Aniol)
ComboBox Gotcha #2 (Bonnie DeWitt)
Multi-Targeting: Where Did My Files Go? Fixing .NET Core 2.1 SDK Issues (James Montemagno)
.NET Core August 2018 Update (Lee Coward)
Generate an exe for the .Net Core console apps: .Net Core Quick posts part 5 (Neel Bhatt)
Introducing Busy Indicator in Windows Forms (Neelakandan Kannan)
App.Config: Basics and Best Practices (Peter Morlion)

Design, Methodology & Testing

Testing for Thrown Exceptions in xUnit.net (Jason Roberts)
What’s new in VSTS Sprint 138 Update (Alex Nichols)
Iterations Now Supports Vertical VSTS’ “Team” Selection (Leah Copeland)
What Is Mocking? Part 2 (Leah Grantz)
Programming to an Interface: A Simple Explanation (Sylvia Fronczak)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Pro Pattern-Matching in Swift (Nick Teissler)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

Agile Toolkit Podcast – Tammy Gretz & Wendy Jacobs – Agile2018 and Agile Toolkit Podcast – Evan Leybourn – Agile2018 (Bob Payne)
Creating Games with Unity and Visual Studio | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green)
All Things Git Podcast – Software Freedom Conservancy with Bradley Kuhn and Karen Sandler (Edward Thomson & Martin Woodward)
Gone Mobile 75: Easy Mobile App Builds with Dan Siegel (Greg Shackles & Jonathan Dick)
RunAs Radio – Storage Migration Service with Ned Pyle (Richard Campbell & Greg Hughes)
Allscripts OnCall Podcast – Bridging the Gap Between Developers and Users (Julian Mitchell)
SE-Radio Episode 335: Maria Gorlatova on Edge Computing (Edaena Salinas)
Developer Tea – Interview with Daniel Pink (Part 2) (Jonathan Cutrell)

Community & Events

Let’s give teachers a bigger voice (Bill Gates)
Decency Charter for Technical Communities (Jen Stirrup)
Learn from DevOps experts at Redgate’s SQL in the City Summits this October (Annabel Bradford)
Men, want to increase diversity in tech? Be a mentor — Part I (Glenn Block)
The Epic Made In America Music Festival Returns To The Benjamin Franklin Parkway, September 1 & 2 (Kelly Bucci)
Are Women in Technology Receiving Bad Advice? (Melissa Connors)
.NET Conf: Ways to Watch, Learn and Win (Sara Faatz)
How do you even know this crap? (Scott Hanselman)

Database

Customizing Sample Actions for the Google Assistant (Leon Nicholls)
SQL SERVER – Simple Method to Generate Fixed Digit OTP Code Using Random Function (Pinal Dave)
RavenDB 4.1 Features: MongoDB & CosmosDB Migration Wizards (Oren Eini)

Miscellaneous

15 companies that no longer require employees to have a college degree (Courtney Connley)
Xbox Game Pass Celebrates the End of Summer with Halo: The Master Chief Collection, a New Mobile App Beta and Offers You Won’t Want to Miss (Ben Decker)
Announcing Windows Server 2019 Insider Preview Build 17738 (Brandon LeBlanc)
Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 17744 (Dona Sarkar)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #2649 (Chris Alcock)
Double Shot #2161 (Mike Gunderloy)
Xamarin & Windows App Developer Links – 2018-08-22 (Dan Rigby)

The Geek Shelf

Eloquent JavaScript, 2nd Ed.: A Modern Introduction to Programming: Marijn Haverbeke: 8601410739843: Books

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