Month: July 2017

Top Links

• TWC9: 7++ 4 C++, UWP Community Toolkit v1.5, EditorConfig Reference, Dream.Build.Play 2017 and more… | This Week On Channel 9 (Greg Duncan, Vlad Kolesnikov & Nikola Metulev)
• URLs are UI (Scott Hanselman)
• ASP.NET Core 2 + VS2017 + Angular-CLI? (Shawn Wildermuth)
• The Alarming Prevalence of Data Breach Cover-Ups (Troy Hunt)

Web & Cloud Development

• ES6 Function Argument Defaults Don’t Have To Be Trailing Arguments and Using Static Class Methods To Generate Concrete Instances Of Abstract Classes In JavaScript And Node.js (Ben Nadel)
• 19 Efficient jQuery Lightbox Plugins (Bogdan Sandu)
• How to Crack ASP.NET MVC Interviews? (Ashwin Venugopal)
• Ngrx and Angular 2 Tutorial: Building a Reactive Application (Simon Boissonneault-Robert)
• ASP.NET Core 2: New single page application templates (Gunnar Peipman)
• An update on disabling VBScript in Internet Explorer 11 (Brent Mills)
• Glimpse from the TagHelpers Future – Adding TagHelpers via Dependency Injection and Customize Razor Pages Handlers (Hisham Bin Ateya)
• ESLint v4.2.0 released (ESLint Team)
• Securing an Azure Functions App with EasyAuth and AD B2C (Mark Heath)
• Kubernetes: Monitoring Resources (Denis Gladkikh)
• How to Get Started With Containerization (Amir Jerbi)
• Microsoft Cognitive Service – Starting with Face API (Andrej Tozon)
• How the Blockchain Could Change The Idea of Identity (Diego Poza)
• Kubernetes 1.7 Includes API Aggregation at Runtime (Eric Carter)
• Hosting Docker images on Azure Container Registry (Piotr Gankiewicz)
• Brackets 1.10 is now available (Rajnish Bharti)
• Raw Input with Azure Functions HTTP Triggers (Scott Banwart)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

• Finding system fonts for use with XAML UWP app #uwpdev (Hermit Dave)
• UWP Tip #2 – Windows Template Studio – Examining the Project and WPF Tip #15 – Extended WPF Toolkit – The DataGrid Control (Me)
• From WinForms to Xamarin: One Developer’s Journey (Joth Pigott)
• Troubleshooting the default install of Xamarin with Visual Studio 2017 and Windows 10 Creators Update (Jeremy Lindsay)
• Difference between Xamarin.Forms and Xamarin Traditional (Almir Vuk)
• Replace a RepositionThemeTransition with an ImplicitAnimation (Fons Sonnemans)
• Things I Think Are Cool: Behaviors Library (Matthew Soucoup)

Visual Studio & .NET

• Azure via C# – Working with Azure Files in C# (Andrea Angella)
• Working with “Big Data” in .NET (Eric Lawrence)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• 3 Agile Retrospectives Anti-Patterns to Avoid (Soumyajit Chakraborty)
• Make your own C# snippet to stub out Unit Tests (Mario Alejandro Loza Armand Ugon)
• A Whole Team Approach to Product Vision (An exercise) (Troy Lightfoot)
• I am not a Resource (Dave Nicolette)
• Running one-off scripts remotely on deployment targets in Octopus Deploy (Iris Classon)
• The Golden Yak (Jessica Kerr)
• Architect Distributed Cloud Apps with the Right Developer Mindset (Matthew Calder)
• The Code Review: The Most Important Developer Practice (Michael Dowden)

Mobile & IoT

• Sending Notifications to Mobile Apps from Azure Function Apps (Uma Narayanan)
• Using Paint 3D to design 3D models for your Holographic applications (Abhijit Jana)
• Entity Resolution in Skill Builder (Jeff Blankenburg)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• MS Dev Show – Software Quality and Performance with John-Daniel Trask (Jason Young & Carl Schweitzer)
• Cross Cutting Concerns Podcast 049 – Brett Whittington on Secure Data in Motion (Matthew Groves)
• Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 236 #OTP (Richard Hay)
• InfoQ Podcast: Pony Language Designer Sylvan Clebsch on Pony’s Design, Garbage Collection, and Formal Verification (Sylvan Clebsch)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Andy Samberg #3 (Chris Hardwick)
• CodingBlocks.NET Episode 63 – Software Architecture – Explicit Constraints, Processes, Specification Pattern, and more (Allen Underwood, Michael Outlaw & Joe Zack)
• Developer on Fire Episode 250 | Steve Elliott – The Right People (Dave Rael)
• Merge Conflict 53: Document All The Things (Frank Krueger & James Montemagno)
• StarTalk Radio – Cosmic Queries: Primatology (Neil deGrasse Tyson)
• The Future of Universal Windows Platform – What The Tech Ep. 361 (Paul Thurrott)
• Rocket 130: Princess Christina (Simone De Rochefort, Christina Warren & Brianna Wu)
• Software Engineering Daily – Kafka in the Cloud with Neha Narkhede (Jeff Meyerson)
• Developer Tea – Interview with David Hoffeld (part 1) and Developer Tea – Interview with David Hoffeld (part 2) (Jonathan Cutrell)

Community & Events

• TechBash 2017 – Speakers, Sessions and Discounted Ticket Info (Me)
• Small Basic: Teaching Girls to Code! — What are we doing and where are we headed? (Ed Price)
• Spotlight on Engineering: Numaan Ashraf (Joyce)

Database

• 7 Things Every SQL Server DBA Should Know About Linux (John Grover)
• SQL SERVER – An Error Occurred While Obtaining the Dedicated Administrator Connection (DAC) Port and SQL SERVER – Running CHECKDB with Minimum Repair Level and What does BACKUP WITH NAME Command do? – Interview Question of the Week #130 (Pinal Dave)
• Running SSIS in an Azure VM (Tim Mitchell)
• RavenDB 4.0: Securing the keys to the kingdom (Oren Eini)

Miscellaneous

• Learning From the Atari 2600 (Eric Potter)
• The Adventures of Ninja Cat continue with new ‘Beyond’ theme for Windows 10 (Daniel Rubino)
• Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 16237 for PC (Dona Sarkar)
• Paint.NET on the Windows Store (Rick Brewster)

More Link Collections

• Xamarin App Developer Links – 2017-07-10 and Windows App Developer Links – 2017-07-10 (Dan Rigby)
• The Morning Brew #2379 (Chris Alcock)
• Weekly C# Digest Issue #162 (Jakub Chodounsky)
• F# Weekly #28, 2017 – Fable Conf 2017 (Sergey Tihon)
• Azure Weekly: July 10, 2017 (Chris Pietschmann)
• Collective #330 (Pedro Botelho)
• Last Week on Channel 9: July 3rd – July 9th, 2017 (Greg Duncan)
• Happy July! Here Is This Week’s Friday Five (MVP Award Program)
• Reading Notes #288 (Frank Boucher)
• Top stories from the VSTS community – 2017.07.07 (Willy-P. Schaub)

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