Dew Drop – December 22, 2017 (#2630)

Top Links

• Hanselminutes – Machine Learning 101 with Paige Bailey (Scott Hanselman)
• My Angular 5 course is now Free — Merry Christmas (Asim Hussain)
• HockeyApp is now free for all developers (HockeyApp Team)
• Windows Template Studio 1.6 released! (Clint Rutkas)

Web & Cloud Development

• How to add Social Media Authentication to ASPNET Core – Day 22 – 24 days of “Front-end Development with ASP.NET Core, Angular, and Bootstrap” (Simone Chiaretta)
• The Future of jQuery UI and jQuery Mobile (Alex Schmitz)
• [Required] and [BindRequired] in ASP.NET Core MVC (Filip W.)
• AWS SDK for Go 2.0 Developer Preview (Jason Del Ponte)
• Take a Break with Azure Functions (Justin Clareburt)
• Benefits of migrating IaaS to Azure Resource Manager (Kay Singh)
• Announcing the public preview for Adaptive Application Controls (Ben Kliger)
• Librarian: building a serverless slack app using Postman and Airtable (Bhawana Agarwal)
• Prime Time for PWAs (Mike Hartington)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

• Getting a PDF from a remote host to a Xamarin.Forms Application (Jesse Liberty)
• Fluent Validation With MVVM In Xamarin Forms Application (Mohammad Irshad)

Visual Studio & .NET

• Top 10 Productive C# Videos of 2017 (Andrea Angella)
• #VS2017 – Main Namespaces to be used in Q# (Bruno Capuano)
• Announcing PostSharp 5.1 Preview – Support for .NET Standard 2.0 and .NET Core 2.0 ()
• Advent of Code Day 22-Sparse Grids (Mark Heath)
• Project templates in Rider 2017.3 (Maarten Balliauw)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• When letting the user put the system into an invalid state is a desirable property (Oren Eini)
• Microsoft Design Resources (Roland Weigelt)
• Legacy Code: What It Is and 5 Tips for Handling It (Erik Dietrich)
• Failure Is Not An Option (Karl Scotland)
• Cherry picking work is slow and unproductive (Matt Lacey)
• Planning Your API Strategy for 2018: Tools and Resources to Set Your Team Up for Success (Ryan Pinkham)
• Ego Check – Testers Are *Not* Inferior to Devs (Sarah Dutkiewicz)

Mobile & IoT

• How to Create a Great TV Login Experience (Emily Esposito Fulkerson)
• NativeScript Webpack 0.9.0—What Changed and How to Upgrade (TJ VanToll)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• Favorite Podcasts… 2017 List (Dan Usher)
• The Xamarin Show Episode 35: iOS Designer for Xamarin Updates with Alex Corrado (James Montemagno)
• Chris Gillum – Serverless workflows with Durable Functions | On .NET (Cecil, KathyHickman, Rich Lander & Cameron Tomisser)
• Developer Things #3: How Stackify Does DevOps Without an Ops Team with Jason Taylor (Matt Watson)
• Windows Weekly 549: Our Yearly Visit with Chris Capossela (Paul Thurrott)
• Rocket 154: I Don’t Regret It (Simone De Rochefort, Christina Warren & Brianna Wu)
• Software Engineering Daily – Modern War with Peter Warren Singer (Jeff Meyerson)
• The Developer Show — TL;DR 092 (Timothy Jordan)
• SQL Data Partners Podcast Episode 122: Isolation Levels (Amanda Halverson)

Community & Events

• The 12 Days of Minecraft Begin! (Marsh Davies)

Database

• Deploy SQL Server Integration Services Projects to Multiple Environments Using C# (Nat Sundar)
• Purge SQL Server MSDB Database History Tables with Partitioning (Pablo Echeverria)
• Download and Install SQL SERVER 2017 Developer Edition for FREE (Pinal Dave)
• Do Disabled Indexes Affect Missing Index Recommendations? (Brent Ozar)

PowerShell

• Keep AWS PowerShell Module Updated on Mac OS (Trevor Sullivan)

Miscellaneous

• Apple battery throttling gives customers a reason to distrust it (Troy Wolverton)
• GitHub’s global policy predictions for 2018 (Julio Avalos)
• Compose Your Own Music with Small Basic (Nonki Takahashi)
• Fixing Data Breaches Part 5: Penalties (Troy Hunt)

More Link Collections

• Xamarin App Developer Links – 2017-12-22 and Windows App Developer Links – 2017-12-22 (Dan Rigby)
• The Morning Brew #2492 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #1999 (Mike Gunderloy)

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