Day: December 19, 2017

Top Links

• Introducing VSTS Mobile App Tasks Extension for iOS and Android (James Montemagno)
• Getting started with the Star Wars API in Node.js using Twilio Functions (Sam Agnew)
• WinDbg Preview 1.1712.15003 Release Notes (Andy Luhrs)
• Dream.Build.Play December Update & Azure for Game Developers | Level Up (MrAndyPuppy, Stacey Haffner & Adam Tuliper)

Web & Cloud Development

• Omnisharp: the tooling behind the C# integration in VS Code – Day 18 – 24 days of “Front-end Development with ASP.NET Core, Angular, and Bootstrap” (Simone Chiaretta)
• Azure Tips and Tricks Part 70 – Text Analysis with Cognitive Service and Azure (Michael Crump)
• Angular Cross Field Validation (Dave M. Bush)
• How to Create Your First Angular Reactive Form (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Audit your AWS infrastructure with Postman (Kunal)
• Introduction to Forms in Angular 4: Template-Driven Forms and Introduction to Forms in Angular 4: Reactive Forms (Manjunath M)
• The ultimate guide to sending bulk SMS with Twilio and Node.js (Phil Nash)
• Producing my First ASP.NET Video (Steve Gordon)
• Beat the Rush on Exclusive Twitter Deals with Node.js and Twilio SMS (Wesley Handy)
• Web Designer’s Color Guide (Shuild UI Team)
• ebook deal of the week: Programming the Microsoft Bot Framework (Kim Spilker)
• He who thinks change detection is depth-first and he who thinks it’s breadth-first are both usually… (Maxim NgWizard K)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

• MFractor 3.3 out now! (Matthew Robbins)

Visual Studio & .NET

• .NET Core Support in Visual Studio for Mac 7.3 (Matt Ward)
• Boost your productivity with Visual Studio’s DebuggerAttributes (Moaid Hathot)
• Advent of Code Day 18-Parallel Programs (Mark Heath)
• 5 .NET Standard Features You Shouldn’t Miss (Ed Charbeneau)
• 0 to Analyzing, Writing a .NET Standard Roslyn Analyzer (Greg Duncan)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• Microservices: using resources and business services as extensibility strategy (Bruno Quaresma)
• 9 Reasons to Choose a Bundle Over an Individual Product (Erik Dietrich)
• Mastering the Small Meeting for Maximum Productivity (Kalahari Meetings)

Mobile & IoT

• Quick Boot & the Top Features in the Android Emulator (Jamal Eason)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• .NET Rocks! – DotVVM 2.0 with Tomáš Herceg (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• The Best (Non-Programming) Podcasts for Developers (Matthew Jones)
• Meet the new Remote Monitoring accelerator for Azure IoT | Internet of Things Show (Olivier Bloch & Golnaz Alibeigi)
• Gone Mobile 65: React Native with Bonnie Eisenman (Greg Shackles & Jonathan Dick)
• Functional Geekery Episode 118 – Scott Nimrod (Steven Proctor)
• Revision Path 222: John Jennings (Maurice Cherry)
• no dogma podcast #86 – Tomas Petricek, Software Correctness (Bryan Hogan)
• Apache Kafka on HDInsight (Scott Hanselman & Rob Caron)
• SE-Radio Episode 313: Conor Delanbanque on DevOps Hiring and Retaining DevOps (Kishore Bhatia)
• Software Engineering Daily – Hacker Noon with David Smooke (Jeff Meyerson)

Community & Events

• 25+ Festive Things To Do In Philadelphia This Holiday Week, December 18-25 (Michael Butler)
• 6 Awesome Projects We Discovered At Community Connection Events Worldwide (MVP Award Program)
• Top 7 Tech Conferences to Attend in 2018 (Sara Breeding)
• Diversity opportunity: “Building Solid Systems in F#” workshop (F# Software Foundation)

Database

• Learn how to Migrate a SQL Server database to SQL Azure server (Vitor Montalvao)
• How To Create Multi-Object JSON Arrays in SQL Server (Bert Wagner)
• SQL Server DBCC CHECKDB – Going Parallel (Arun Sirpal)
• Scaling Couchbase Server on Azure (Matthew Groves)
• Rebuilding Indexes Can Slow Queries Down (Brent Ozar)

Miscellaneous

• Rocky on Android (Rockford Lhotka)
• Most Popular and Influential Programming Languages of 2018 (Ben Putano)
• paint.net 4.0.20 Beta released (with Dark Theme) (Rick Brewster)
• Fixing Data Breaches Part 2: Data Ownership & Minimisation (Troy Hunt)

More Link Collections

• Xamarin App Developer Links – 2017-12-19 and Windows App Developer Links – 2017-12-19 (Dan Rigby)
• The Morning Brew #2489 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #1996 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Reading Notes #309 (Frank Boucher)

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