Dew Drop – July 17, 2017 (#2521)

Top Links

• Angular 4.3 Now Available (Stephen Fluin)
• Prism Quickstart Templates (Dan Siegel)
• Learning Xamarin.Forms – Part 3: Navigation (Jesse Liberty)
• TWC9: Babylon.js 3.0, Paint 3D Holographic Models, Peek Inside the AI Labs and more… | This Week On Channel 9 (Greg Duncan & Nikola Metulev)

Web & Cloud Development

• Parsing And Pretty-Printing JSON Values On-The-Fly In Loggly Using Bookmarklets (Ben Nadel)
• Up and running with Asp.Net Core on an Ubuntu server (Nick Coetzee)
• Set User identity and IsAuthenticated in ASP.NET MVC Core controller tests (Hrvoje Hudoletnjak)
• Tell stories with friends with Programmable Chat and JavaScript (Kevin Lewis)
• How to get the correct Request.Url when behind a load balancer (Simone Chiaretta)
• Implementing Two-factor authentication with IdentityServer4 and Twilio (Damien Bowden)
• Kubernetes 1.7 Released with Security Hardening, StatefulSet Updates and Extensibility Features (Daniel Bryant)
• Cluster Management and Orchestration of Docker Containers at Scale with Azure Container Service (Jeremy Likness)
• 776: Performing Big Data Engineering on Microsoft Cloud Services Beta Exam Now Available (Liberty Munson)
• Push your images to Azure CDN on publish with gulp (Shayne Boyer)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

• Xamarin Forms, the MVVMLight Toolkit and I: EventToCommandBehavior (Marco Siccardi)
• 2000 WPF Things #1,213 – Why You May Want to Name XAML Elements (Sean Sexton)
• Xamarin.Control – Xamarin.Forms MaterialEntry (Alex Dunn)
• Dynamically Changing Xamarin.Forms Tab Icons When Selected (James Montemagno)
• Styles in Xamarin Forms don’t work properly in UWP .NET Native – here is how to fix it (Joost van Schaik)
• Exrin 2.0.0 Quick Start and Exrin Inspector Preview (Adam Pedley)

Visual Studio & .NET

• Reviewing Resin: Part III (Oren Eini)
• All you need to know to master C# 7 and Practical C# – Async Main in C# 7.1 (Andrea Angella)
• Microsoft Cognitive Services – playground app (Andrej Tozon)
• Use this helper CLI for switching .NET Core SDK versions (Fanie Reynders)
• Blazor Brings .NET Back to the Browser (Jonathan Allen)
• Injecting content into your head or body tags via dependency injection using ITagHelperComponent (Joseph Woodward)
• The fastest path to a new Team Services extension (Will Smythe)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• Agile Methods for Tackling Technical Debt (Matt Surabian)
• How to Understand and Solve Software Estimation Struggles (Pratik Kothari)
• Getting a Competitive Edge with a Microservices Based Architecture (Ado Kukic)
• cla-bot a GitHub bot for automating Contributor Licence Agreements by Colin Eberhardt (Colin Eberhardt)
• Calling a custom executable from Cake using StartProcess and ProcessSettings (Jeremy Lindsay)
• the sweet spot: Local Automation (Jessica Kerr)
• Improved alternate authentication experience (Justin Marks)
• Strategy Deployment and Playing to Win (Karl Scotland)

Mobile & IoT

• Android O: Phone Number Verification With SMS Tokens (Chike Mgbemena)
• Take Picture With Android Camera Using Xamarin Native Application (Ravi Shankar)
• Visual Studio Code Your Arduino (Greg Duncan)
• Visual Studio Tools for Tizen (Gunnar Peipman)
• Experiments with Shared Holographic Experiences and Photon Unity Networking (Mike Taulty)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• Hanselminutes – Making your path to development with Anjana Vakil on the Hanselminutes Technology Podcast: Fresh Air for Developers (Scott Hanselman)
• Cross Cutting Concerns Podcast 050 – Peter Piekarczyk on Burnout (Matthew Groves)
• Technology & Friends – Peter Leeson on Quality (David Giard)
• Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 237 #OTP (Richard Hay)
• Merge Conflict 54: Dropping in on the iPad (Frank Krueger & James Montemagno)
• Video- what is let statement in JavaScript (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Developer on Fire Episode 252 | Felienne – It Doesn’t Have to be Painful (Dave Rael)
• This Week on Windows: Skype, Mixer and Ghost in the Shell (Elana Pidgeon)
• StarTalk Radio – The Science Behind “Game of Thrones” (Neil deGrasse Tyson)
• Becoming a software developer – episode XXII (Piotr Gankiewicz)
• Away From the Keyboard Episode 69: Bradley Ball on TV, Film, the World Series, and Data (Richie Rump)
• Developer Tea – The Value of The Third Option (Jonathan Cutrell)

Community & Events

• 10 Questions with Gianni Rosa Gallina and 10 Questions with Joost van Schaik and 10 Questions with Kyle “G” (James Ashley)

Database

• Installing SQL Server Agent on Red Hat Linux based SQL Servers (Manvendra Singh)
• Simple Image Import and Export Using T-SQL for SQL Server (Eli Leiba)
• SQL SERVER – Missing Columns and Other Folders in SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) in Object Explorer and SQL SERVER – Why Edition Upgrade is Not Upgrading Edition of SQL Server? and What is the Default Datatype of NULL? – Interview Question of the Week #131 (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Data Mask: new masking features, constants and composition (Santiago Arias)

PowerShell

• PowerShell 6.0 Roadmap: CoreCLR, Backwards Compatibility, and More! (Joey Aiello)

Miscellaneous

• Doctor Who Announces Jodie Whitaker As Thirteenth Doctor (Jamie Lovett)
• Contain your excitement – the first fidget spinner app is here for Xbox One (Jez Corden)
• The Senate health care plan is a disaster for workers in the gig economy (Keith Wagstaff)
• Prime Day is a big deal for Amazon — but is it a good deal for Prime members? (Todd Bishop)

More Link Collections

• Xamarin App Developer Links – 2017-07-17 and Windows App Developer Links – 2017-07-17 (Dan Rigby)
• The Morning Brew #2384 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #1889 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Weekly C# Digest Issue #163 (Jakub Chodounsky)
• F# Weekly #29, 2017 – The @openfsharp conf is in Sept (Sergey Tihon)
• Reading List (Bruce Lawson)
• Top stories from the VSTS community – 2017.07.14 (Willy-P. Schaub)
• How Microsoft Bot Framework Can Help You Choose A Restaurant, And More On This Week’s Friday Five (MVP Award Program)
• Reading Notes #289 (Frank Boucher)
• Collective #332 (Pedro Botelho)
• Last Week on Channel 9: July 10th – July 16th, 2017 (Greg Duncan)

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