Top Links
- Microsoft 365 adds modern desktop on Azure (Julia White & Brad Anderson)
 - SQL Server 2019 preview combines SQL Server and Apache Spark to create a unified data platform (Jenny Erie)
 - Office 2019 is now available for Windows and Mac (Jared Spataro)
 - Introducing Microsoft.com/Learn (Jeff Sandquist)
 
Web & Cloud Development
- Defining Web API Services and Clients with NSwag (Peter Vogel)
 - JavaScript Standardization – An Interview with Jory Burson (Brian Rinaldi)
 - React For Beginners (Part 2) (Emma Wedekind)
 - How to Build a Login UI with Angular and Material Design (Esther Vaati)
 - Are you an Azure Developer? Take the New Job-Role Based Certification Exams Today! (Liberty Munson)
 - Shrink your Tensorflow.js Web Model Size with Weight Quantization (Vincent Mühler)
 - Why async code is so damn confusing (and a how to make it easy) (joelnet)
 - TypeScript 3.1 Release Candidate Out for Microsoft Ignite (Jacqueline Bieringer)
 - Microsoft Search—cohesive search that intelligently helps you find, discover, command, and navigate (Jeff Teper)
 - Integrate end-to-end speech translation into your products with Microsoft Speech services (Microsoft Translator Team)
 - What’s New in Vue Devtools 5.0 Beta (Peter Mbanugo)
 - Announcing Bring your own Storage to App Service (Ranjith Ramachandra)
 - Using Scrutor to automatically register your services with the ASP.NET Core DI container (Andrew Lock)
 
XAML, UWP & Xamarin
- Transparent Navigation Bar in Xamarin Forms (Charlin Agramonte)
 - WPF Controls with MVVM: ItemsControl – Video and Resources (Tim Corey)
 
Visual Studio & .NET
- Exploring MoreLINQ Part 19 – Generating sequences (Mark Heath)
 - Software Development How To Check For Nulls In C# a.k.a. How To Thwart A Super V… (Cameron Presley)
 - Roslyn Analyzer Rulesets and stylecop.json support in Rider 2018.2 (Matthias Koch)
 
Design, Methodology & Testing
- Navigation Update for Azure DevOps (Aaron Bjork)
 - Azure DevOps Reporting – What reports do you want? (Gregg Boer)
 - Versioning and publishing NuGet packages automatically using Azure DevOps Pipelines (Louis DeJardin)
 - Deliberate Practice for Software Developers (Dave Nicolette)
 - Fixing NUnit Slow Test Execution (Indy Singh)
 - Continuous Improvement Tools vs. Project Management Tools (John Cutler)
 - A First Timers Guide to an Open Source Project (Luke Oliff)
 - Gold Plating – The Daily Software Anti-Pattern (Matthew Jones)
 
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- Android Studio 3.2 (Jamal Eason)
 - Microsoft Ignite 2018: Build and secure next-generation IoT and edge solutions at scale (Sam George)
 
Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos
- Routing Messages in Azure IoT Hub based on Device Twin | Internet of Things Show and First Anniversary for Azure IoT Hub Device Provisioning Service | Internet of Things Show (Olivier Bloch)
 - Syntax Podcast – Hasty Treat – Positivity and Web Development (Wes Bos)
 - No Dogma Podcast #105 – Jon Smith, Entity Framework Core 2.1 and Domain Driven Design (Bryan Hogan)
 - Revision Path 261: Marcus Mosby (Maurice Cherry)
 - Software Engineering Daily – Unity and WebAssembly with Brett Bibby (Jeff Meyerson)
 - Microsoft 365 Podcast – The Microsoft Graph Security API with Sarah Fender & Jason Wescott (Jeremy Thake & Paul Schaeflein)
 
Community & Events
- Creating a more secure, intelligent and connected enterprise at Ignite 2018 (Frank X. Shaw)
 - Live Streams from Microsoft Ignite 2018 and Ubuntober! (Jeff Fritz) – Catch Jeff at TechBash 2018 next week!
 - Join me at SQL in the City to capture the value of DevOps (Kendra Little)
 - Celebrate Hacktoberfest 2018 with Auth0! (Kim Noel)
 - Pivotal Announces Winners of the 2018 Partner Awards and Leveling Up; Day 1 at SpringOne Platform 2018 (Pivotal Team)
 - Ladies That UX: Meet Lola Oyelayo-Pearson, an Advocate for Increased Diversity in Design (Sheena Lyonnais)
 
Database
- Simple DBCC CHECKDB process to report on database corruption for all SQL Server databases (Alejandro Cobar)
 - What’s New in SQL Server 2019: Adaptive Memory Grants and What’s New in SQL Server 2019: Faster Table Variables (And New Parameter Sniffing Issues) (Brent Ozar)
 - SQL Authority News – Microsoft Released SQL Server 2019 Preview (Pinal Dave)
 
Miscellaneous
- Bringing AI to Excel—4 new features announced today at Ignite (Jared Spataro)
 - Pandora is being purchased by SiriusXM for $3.5 billion (Joe Maring)
 - Free Mojave macOS update is now available to download (Jon Porter)
 - How To Set Up A Truly Notification-Free Vacation (And Why It’s Important To Detach) (Kat Boogaard)
 - 10 new ways for everyone to achieve more in the modern workplace (Ron Markezich)
 - Microsoft brings OneDrive Files On-Demand to the Mac (Tom Warren)
 
More Link Collections
- The Morning Brew #2671 (Chris Alcock)
 - Double Shot #2180 (Mike Gunderloy)
 - Xamarin & Windows App Developer Links – 2018-09-25 (Dan Rigby)
 - Collective #453 (Pedro Botelho)
 - Interesting links of the week (09/17 – 09/23, 2018) (Michael Eaton)
 
The Geek Shelf
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