Happy Winter Solstice, everyone.
Top Links
- All About Span: Exploring a New .NET Mainstay (Stephen Toub)
 - Debugging third-party code with Rider (Maarten Balliauw)
 - Must use, must know WinDbg commands, my most used (Benjamin Perkins)
 - Azure Tips and Tricks Part 72 – Sentiment Analysis with Cognitive Service and Azure (Michael Crump)
 
Web & Cloud Development
- Entity Framework Core migration – Day 20 – 24 days of “Front-end Development with ASP.NET Core, Angular, and Bootstrap” and How to seed your database with EF Core – Day 21 – 24 days of “Front-end Development with ASP.NET Core, Angular, and Bootstrap” (Simone Chiaretta)
 - Chatbot on Azure and Couchbase for Viber (Matthew Groves)
 - WebAssembly: Calling Into JavaScript From Bare-Bones C Code (Gerard Gallant)
 - CSS Glitch Effect (Mary Lou)
 - Writing Shorter React-Redux Containers (Nick Sweeting)
 - How should we resolve percentage margins and padding on grid and flex items? (Rachel Andrew)
 - Developing NPM Packages (Bruno Krebs)
 - REST API Calls Using Server Side Swift on the Mainframe (Igor Todorovski)
 - Kubernetes 1.9 Supports Workloads API, Container Storage Enhancements and Windows Beta Support (Srini Penchikala)
 
XAML, UWP & Xamarin
- Xamarin Forms 101: How to put an Entry or Search View in the Navigation Bar (Devlin Duldulao)
 - CSS In Xamarin.Forms (Adam Pedley)
 - Fluent Theme for WPF & WinForms Apps Are Coming in 2018 (Dobrin Grancharov)
 - Breaking Down WPF Grid View vs. Virtual Grid (Stefan Stefanov)
 - Baby Steps in Writing Libraries for UWP and the Unity Editor (Mike Taulty)
 
Visual Studio & .NET
- #VS2017 – Releasing #Qubits using Reset() and ResetAll() in Q# on Microsoft Quantum Development Kit (Bruno Capuano)
 - Reverse Engineering Existing Databases in Entity Framework Core 2 (Shawn Wildermuth)
 - Help! My TFS automatically redirects HTTPS to HTTP! (Matteo Emili)
 - Advent of Code Day 20–The Long Run (Mark Heath)
 - The moment I came to play with .NET Standard 2.0… (Dominique St-Amand)
 
Design, Methodology & Testing
- The Unit Test Effect Study, Refined (Erik Dietrich)
 - Favor Readable Code Over Idiomatic Code (Ben Nadel)
 - How Technical Practices Support Evolutionary Architecture and Continuous Delivery (Ben Linders)
 - Getting to Working Software: Code Reviews – Benefits (Gil Zilberfeld)
 - No, I Didn’t Automate That Test (Jim Holmes)
 
Mobile & IoT
- Is VueJS’ Weex a Suitable Alternative to React Native? (Sam Landfried)
 - Get Started With Natural Language Processing in iOS 11 (Doron Katz)
 - Resource Roundup: Top Alexa Tips and Tutorials for New Skill Builders (Jennifer King)
 - Creating a Task Manager App Using Ionic: Part 2 (Roy Agasthyan)
 - The Google Assistant SDK – new languages, API updates, and Device Actions (Glen Shires)
 - Running a .NET Core Web Crawler on a Raspberry Pi (Farooq Ahmad)
 - Announcing the Release of NativeScript 3.4 (Rob Lauer)
 - Dev Center’s Year in Review: 2017 (MS Dev Center Team)
 
Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos
- .NET Rocks! – UX Design Rants with Billy Hollis (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
 - Software Engineering Daily – React Components with Max Stoiber (Jeff Meyerson)
 - Neuroscience with Azure Machine Learning | AI Show (Golnaz Alibeigi & Sonya Koptyev)
 - Use the Azure portal to answer your billing questions (Scott Hanselman & Rob Caron)
 - Syntax Podcast – All About CSS BEM! (Wes Bos)
 - Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – How to develop high-performing teams | Susan McIntosh (Vasco Duarte)
 - AAWP Insight #240: Wileyfox Pro, Security, Surface Mobile (Steve Litchfield)
 - Developer on Fire Episode 297 | Howie Ross – Unlocking Potential (Dave Rael)
 - Under the Radar 111: Universal Mac Apps? (David Smith & Marco Arment)
 - All Things Git Podcast – GitKraken with Hamid Shojaee (Edward Thomson & Martin Woodward)
 - Talk Python to Me #143 – Tuning Python Web App Performance (Michael Kennedy)
 - #ifdef DEV_CENTER_ANALYTICS | #ifdef WINDOWS (Nikola Metulev)
 
Community & Events
- Webinar Q&A: How to Create Apps with Syncfusion and Azure (Jacqueline Bieringer)
 - Thinking Of Organizing An Event? Check Out How These MVPs Planned Belgium’s Dev Day Conference (MVP Award Program)
 
Database
- Implement SQL Server High Availability and Disaster Recovery on Amazon EC2 – Part 3 (Pinakin Patel)
 - Querying SQL Server Temporal Table MetaData (Ameena Lalani)
 - RavenDB 4.0 is ready! (Oren Eini)
 
PowerShell
- DSC Resource Kit Release December 2017 (Katie Keim)
 
Miscellaneous
- Apple Confirms It Deliberately Slows Down Old iPhones, Calls It A Feature, Here’s Why (Oliver Haslam)
 - Firefox is Now on Amazon Fire TV – Happy Holiday Watching (Barbara Bermes)
 - Photosynth returns as part of Microsoft Pix alongside new ‘Comix’ feature (Dan Thorp-Lancaster)
 - Fixing Data Breaches Part 4: Bug Bounties (Troy Hunt)
 
More Link Collections
- The Morning Brew #2491 (Chris Alcock)
 - Double Shot #1998 (Mike Gunderloy)
 - Collective #376 (Pedro Botelho)
 - Final Coding4Fun Round-up (Greg Duncan)
 
The Geek Shelf
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 ISBN: 1593277563  | 
Coding iPhone Apps for Kids: A Playful Introduction to Swift: Gloria Winquist, Matt McCarthy: 9781593277567: Books
Battlestar Galactica: Corey Konieczka: Toys & Games
Designing Bots: Creating Conversational Experiences 1, Amir Shevat, eBook – Amazon.com