Day: August 7, 2017

Top Links

• Embeddinator-4000 for Android, iOS: Available on NuGet (Jonathan Peppers)
• TWC9: XAML Standard Demystified, Eye Tracking, Project Snowflake, Yugioh in RL AR and more… | This Week On Channel 9 (Greg Duncan, Vlad Kolesnikov & Nikola Metulev)
• A Beginner’s Guide for Contributing to Xamarin.Forms (David Ortinau)
• Creating Materials and Lights in the Visual Layer (Windows UI Team)

Web & Cloud Development

• Building a simple component in React.js v2 (Carl Rippon)
• How To Work With Dropdown In Angular 2, 4 Using Visual Studio Code (Bikesh Srivastava)
• Easy JavaScript Part 3: What is a Default Parameter in a Function? (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Visual Studio Code Knows OData (Michael Pizzo)
• Converting C# enums to JavaScript (Gunnar Peipman)
• JetBrains Web UI components open-sourced (Natasha Katson)
• ESLint v4.4.0 released (ESLint Team)
• Building MEAN Apps with Cosmos DB – Part 6: POST, PUT and DELETE with Cosmos DB (John Papa)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

• Exrin Isolates and Feature Grouping Code (Adam Pedley)
• UWP Tip #4 – UWP Community Toolkit – Part 2, Consuming the Services (Me)

Visual Studio & .NET

• Production postmortem: 30% boost with a single line change (Oren Eini)
• Did you know – “Attach to Process” dialog window now has a “Process Filtering” option in Visual Studio 2017 ? (Abhijit Jana)
• Using Generics in C# to Improve Application Maintainability (Yacoub Massad)
• How to Clean up a Document Image (Greg)
• Getting Started with Paket – Part 1 (Isaac Abraham)
• Adventures in Desktop App Conversion (Peter Freeman Foot)

Design,  Methodology & Testing

• C++ Unit Testing Updates: Announcing Boost.Test Adapter and Improved Google Test Support (Augustin Popa)
• Infrastructure Deployment Pipelines: Deploying Infrastructure in Azure with VSTS (Tarun Arora)
• My first impressions of K8 (Donovan Brown)
• What I Mean by CLEAN (David Bernstein)
• UX Process: What It Is, What It Looks Like and Why It’s Important (Nick Babich)
• Accelerated Continuous Testing with Test Impact Analysis – Part 4 (Pratap Lakshman)

Mobile & IoT

• JS Hardware – Getting started with Nodebots and Johnny-Five (Dominik Kundel)
• Sustainable agriculture grows smarter with IoT (Microsoft IoT)
• How to Build Multi-Modal Voice Experiences Using Display Cards for AVS (Satish Iyer)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• Cross Cutting Concerns Podcast 053 – William Straub on Recruiting (Matthew Groves)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Jane Lynch (Chris Hardwick)
• ngAir 124 – Flex-Layout with Thomas Burleson (Justin Schwartzenberger)
• RiYL Episode 227: Annalee Newitz (Brian Heater)
• Developer on Fire Episode 258 | Jeff Atwood – Sharing the House (Dave Rael)
• The Amp Hour #354 – A Meeting Of The Davids (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
• One Dev Question with Raymond Chen – Why are some Keyboard Shortcuts specific to the US Keyboard? (keantonc & Rosshe)
• Software Engineering Daily – Serverless Continuous Delivery with Robin Weston (Jeff Meyerson)
• Developer Tea – Interview with Chris Ferdinandi (Part 1) and Developer Tea – Interview with Chris Ferdinandi (Part 2) (Jonathan Cutrell)

Community & Events

• Here’s The Full 10-Page Anti-Diversity Screed Circulating Internally at Google [Updated] (Kate Conger)
• 10 Questions with Marek Czarzbon (James Ashley)
• Girls make games and get an intro to STEAM at Microsoft-hosted summer camp (Steve Clarke)

Database

• Develop machine learning models for predictive analysis in SQL Server 2017 (Siddharth Mehta)
• Practice of Using Privileged Accounts to Access SQL Server (K. Brian Kelley)
• Guide to Data Synchronization in Microsoft SQL Server (Andrej Gajdos)
• SQL Server Migration Assistant (SSMA): Export Data Type Mappings (Johann Hackl)
• SQL SERVER – FIX: The Log for Database Cannot be Shrunk Until All Secondaries Have Moved Past the Point Where the Log was Added and SQL SERVER – How to Convert CollationID to Collation Name? (Pinal Dave)

PowerShell

• Using PowerShell to Setup Spectator View (Joel Ivory-Johnson)

Miscellaneous

• Get started on the road to coding with Java (Matthew Calder)
• Wrapping some other scripting language inside a batch file (Raymond Chen)

More Link Collections

• Xamarin App Developer Links – 2017-08-07 and Windows App Developer Links – 2017-08-07 (Dan Rigby)
• The Morning Brew #2398 (Chris Alcock)
• Weekly C# Digest Issue #166 (Jakub Chodounsky)
• Collective #338 (Pedro Botelho)
• Relaxing This Summer? Kick Your Feet Up With The Friday Five. (MVP Award Program)
• Last Week on Channel 9: July 31st – August 6th, 2017 (Greg Duncan)
• Top stories from the VSTS community – 2017.08.04 (Martin Woodward)
• Reading List (Bruce Lawson)
• Azure Weekly: Aug 7, 2017 (Chris Pietschmann)

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