Dew Drop – December 11, 2017 (#2621)

Top Links

• TWC9: Always On, Visual Studio 2017 15.5, Channel 9 on YouTube, DNR #1500 and more… | This Week On Channel 9 (Greg Duncan & Christina Warren)
• New Git Features in Visual Studio 2017 Update 5 (Kayla Ngan)
• Tis’ The Season of Stickers (Den Delimarsky)
• An Open Source Etiquette Guidebook (Kent C. Dodds & Sarah Drasner)

Web & Cloud Development

• JavaScriptServices – Day 8 – 24 days of “Front-end Development with ASP.NET Core, Angular, and Bootstrap” and Bootstrap Responsive Grid System – Day 9 – 24 days of “Front-end Development with ASP.NET Core, Angular, and Bootstrap” and Bootstrap Snippet Pack for Visual Studio – Day 10 – 24 days of “Front-end Development with ASP.NET Core, Angular, and Bootstrap” (Simone Chiaretta)
• Create Precompiled Azure Functions With Azure Event Grid Triggers (Jason Roberts)
• Docker Container with .NET Core 1 and 2 for Cake builds (Adam Hathcock)
• WSL Interoperability with Docker (Craig Wilhite)
• Automated SMS Notifications with AWS Lambda, JavaScript and Twilio SMS (Luciano Mammino)
• Chatbot on Azure and Couchbase for Viber (Matthew Groves)
• Azure Tips and Tricks Part 65 – Use Visual Studio Code to work with Cosmos DB (Michael Crump)
• Small Azure EventGrid + Azure Functions Demo (Sacha Barber)
• Kompose – Docker-Compose to Kubernetes with ease! (Shayne Boyer)
• Embedding a Dashboard in a Webpage (Syncfusion Dashboard Team)
• TypeScript 2.4: Spelling Correction (Marius Schulz)
• Laravel Mix and Path Settings (Vijay)
• Node v9.2.1 (Current) (Evan Lucas)
• Querying across mulitple Application Insights apps/resources with Log Analytics (Iris Classon)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

• Xamarin Forms 101: How to consume REST API in Xamarin Forms and Xamarin Forms 101: 5 Public APIs for practicing REST in your Xamarin Forms (Devlin Duldulao)
• Native Forms is Polished and Shiny in Xamarin.Forms 2.5.0 (E.Z. Hart)
• Programmatic AutoLayout Constraints Basics for Xamarin (Larry O’Brien)
• Embedded Xamarin Forms changes the playing field (Robert Hedgate)
• Xamarin.Android – Gesture Overlay View (Ahsan Siddique)
• Disabled Button Foreground (Jan Karger)
• ListView Adventures – Auto-sizing Uneven Rows (Peter Freeman Foot)
• Dock Panel Control In UWP (Vijayaragavan S)
• Store user data in an secure way (Daniel Hindrikes)

Visual Studio & .NET

• NuGet Support in Visual Studio for Mac 7.3 (Matt Ward)
• Can I Have My CPU Back Visual Studio? (Rion Williams)
• Advent of Code Day 8–More Regex, Maps and Destructuring and Advent of Code Day 9–Order is important and Advent of Code Day 10–Destructuring and Batching (Mark Heath)
• How do I respond to the WM_MENUCHAR message? (Raymond Chen)
• Losing Our Memory (Rush Frisby)
• C++17 Feature Removals And Deprecations (Stephan T. Lavavej)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• Professional Scrum teams build software that works and You are doing it wrong if you are not using test first and A better way than staggered iterations for delivery (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Handling user-initiated actions in an asynchronous, message-based architecture (Arti Garg & Jon Powell)
• Todo lists: The right way (Dan Clarke)
• An Exercise in Refactoring – Specification Pattern (James Curran)
• Getting the most out of shared postmortems — CRE life lessons (Adrian Hilton, Gwendolyn Stockman & Dave Rensin)
• The Pitfalls of the Phrase “That’s Not My Job!” (Janet Mesh)
• Build Respect in Organizations, Not Families, Part 2 (Johanna Rothman)

Mobile & IoT

• Virtual Reality (VR) – Augmented Reality (AR) – Mixed Reality (MR) – A Quick Understanding (Abhijit Jana)
• Oreo Notifications: Channels – Part 2 (Mark Allison)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• Technology & Friends – Keith Casey on The Tech Events Network (David Giard)
• InfoQ Podcast: Fast Data with Dean Wampler (Dean Wampler)
• Azure Availability Zones (Scott Hanselman & Rob Caron)
• CodeNewbie S2:E7 – How to get started in Augmented Reality (Zach Lieberman, Molmol Kuo) (CodeNewbie Team)
• Developer on Fire Episode 294 | Reid Evans – Connected Mindset (Dave Rael)
• Merge Conflict Episode 75: The Hello World of Video Production (Frank Krueger & James Montemagno)
• Overview of the Microsoft AI School | AI Show (Golnaz Alibeigi & Sonya Koptyev)
• Software Engineering Daily – Scalable Multiplayer Games with Yan Cui (Jeff Meyerson)
• Weekly Dev Tips 014: Smarter Enumerations (Steve Smith)
• Azure Podcast Episode 207 – Functions & Serverless (Sujit D’Mello)

Community & Events

• Enter the Merry Tales of Digital Transformation Sweepstakes (Kyle Elliott)

Database

• Monitoring SQL Server Blocked Sessions with SQLCMD (Daniel Farina)
• Deploy Multiple SQL Server Integration Services SSIS Projects Using C# (Nat Sundar)
• How to Identify Session Used by SQL Server Management Studio? – Interview Question of the Week #151 (Pinal Dave)
• Queries++ in RavenDB: Gimme more like this (Oren Eini)
• BlockChain- New way to store data (Sachit Wadhawan)

PowerShell

• DSC Resource Naming Guidelines (Michael Greene)

Miscellaneous

• GUI Designer – Small Basic Featured Program (Nonki Takahashi)
• Minecraft: Education Edition and STEAM Training (Sam McNeill)
• The 2017 Christmas List of Best STEM Toys for kids (Scott Hanselman)

More Link Collections

• Xamarin App Developer Links – 2017-12-11 and Windows App Developer Links – 2017-12-11 (Dan Rigby)
• The Morning Brew #2483 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #1991 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Azure Weekly: Dec 11, 2017 (Chris Pietschmann)
• Top stories from the VSTS community – 2017.12.08 (Willy-P. Schaub)
• Windows Weekly Dockerfile #14: Environment Variables (Elton Stoneman)
• Weekly C# Digest Issue #184 (Jakub Chodounsky)
• F# Weekly #50 – Ionide docs, VS 2017 15.6 and dependent types for F# (Sergey Tihon)
• Reading Notes #308 (Frank Boucher)
• Collective #373 (Pedro Botelho)
• Friday Five: Threat Analytics, The Future Of Financial Services, Citizen Developers and More (MVP Award Program)
• Last Week on Channel 9: December 4th – December 10th, 2017 (Greg Duncan)

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