Day: December 8, 2017

Top Links

• Herding Code 226: Jon Skeet on .NET at Google and Feminism for Geeks (Jon Galloway & K. Scott Allen)
• Testing ASP.NET Core MVC web apps in-memory (Daniel Roth)
• Even Easier iOS App Provisioning in Visual Studio for Mac (Amy Burns)
• Visual Studio 2017 Version 15.6 Preview (Christine Ruana)

Web & Cloud Development

• Continuous Deployment of Azure Functions with Slots (Thomas Ardal)
• Getting Started with Azure Event Grid (Jason Roberts)
• JavaScriptServices – Day 8 – 24 days of “Front-end Development with ASP.NET Core, Angular, and Bootstrap” (Simone Chiaretta)
• How to check if Azure App Service is on 2016, what version of IIS (Benjamin Perkins)
• Partners enhance Kubernetes support for Azure and Windows Server Containers (Brendan Burns)
• A Solution To The React className Controversy (Burke Holland)
• Open Office XML shading patterns for JavaScript (glazou)
• Azure Application Architecture Guide (Mike Wasson)
• POST Tunneling Middleware for ASP.NET Core (Tomasz Pęczek)
• Introducing metaparticle.io – making Kubernetes and Docker idiomatic for developers (Shayne Boyer)
• Get Going with Kendo UI & React (Tara Manicsic)
• Securing .NET Core 2.0 Applications with JWTs (Andrea Chiarelli)
• Microsoft Announces Simplygon Cloud; Optimizes Mixed Reality Development (Lorraine Bardeen)
• Microsoft Cognitive Services: “The real magic is in the API.” –Scott J. Peterson (Matthew Calder)
• Twilio Proxy is Now Available in Beta (Nupur Vilas Bhade)
• Building a great touchpad experience for the web with Pointer Events (Scott Low)
• JWT refresh tokens and .NET Core (Piotr Gankiewicz)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

• Getting Started with Augmented Reality in iOS 11 (Greg Shackles)
• Xamarin Release: 15.5.1 with Xcode 9.2 Support (Brendan Zagaeski)

Visual Studio & .NET

• 5th Update to Visual Studio 2017 Expands Debugging Tools (Jeff Martin)
• What’s new for Python in Visual Studio 2017 15.6 Preview 1 (Steve Dower)
• Advent of Code Day 7-Regex,Depth First, and Recursion (Mark Heath)
• Find MediatR Requests without Handlers (Derek Comartin)
• GlobalExceptionHandler.NET version 2 released (Joseph Woodward)
• Knowing just enough about debugging IRPs to chase the problem out of the I/O stack (Raymond Chen)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• How Do We Automate Testing? (Ben Linders)
• DevOps for Data Science – Continuous Integration (Buck Woody)
• Relearning to Learn (Don Denoncourt)
• Decorator pattern in Pagination UI component (Hrvoje Hudo)
• Organizations Are Not Families, Part 1 (Johanna Rothman)

Mobile & IoT

• Join the Alexa Pioneers Who Are Changing the World with Voice (Jennifer King)
• Kinecting to a Post-Kinect World (Greg Duncan)
• Default ColorSpaces (Miguel de Icaza)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• Hanselminutes – Progressive Web Apps with Tara Manicsic (Scott Hanselman)
• Scurm Master Toolbox Podcast – The 3 Pillars of Scrum | Barry Overeem (Vasco Duarte)
• Database DevOps with RedGate ReadyRoll | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green)
• A Pre-Release of the EpicBuildMusic extension for Visual Studio (Jeff Fritz) – Jeff continues his adventures in live coding.
• All Things Git Podcast – Git Sprint Weekend by Bloomberg (Edward Thomson & Martin Woodward)
• Talk Python to Me #141 – Python tricks (Michael Kennedy)
• Rocket 152: One Woman Show (Simone De Rochefort, Christina Warren & Brianna Wu)
• Software Engineering Daily – Decentralized Objects with Martin Kleppman (Jeff Meyerson)
• Developer Tea – Interview with Joshua Aziz (Part 2) (Jonathan Cutrell)
• This Week on Windows: Microsoft Store’s 12 Days of Deals, Always Connected PCs and more (Elana Pidgeon)

Community & Events

• Upcoming Deal – All Manning MEAP Titles 50% Off – Friday, Dec. 8th (Me) – Today!
• Post-Connect(); 2017 Visual Studio Partner Webinar Series (Laura Quest)
• How to engage your audience on social media (Kyle Elliott)
• A Future For Children: How This MVP Uses Access To Help Children Living In Poverty (MVP Award Program)
• NativeScript Community Survey is Live (Rob Lauer)

Database

• Debugging T-SQL Code in SQL Server Management Studio (Sergey Gigoyan)
• SQL SERVER – Puzzle – Brain Teaser – Changing Data Type is Changing the Default Value (Pinal Dave)
• How to Transfer a MySQL Database Between Two Servers (Tomer Shimshilashvili)
• How to Update @@SERVERNAME to Actual Machine Name? (Eitan Blumin)

MS Teams

• How I spend my day in Microsoft Teams (#Teamwork) (Matt Soseman)

PowerShell

• PowerShell nvm v2 (Aaron Powell)

More Link Collections

• Windows App Developer Links – 2017-12-08 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2017-12-08 (Dan Rigby)
• The Morning Brew #2482 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #1990 (Mike Gunderloy)
• What’s brewing in Visual Studio Team Services: December 2017 Digest (Buck Hodges)

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