Day: December 28, 2017

Top Links

• Rider 2017.3 is released (Jura Gorohovsky)
• fun-ny Faces : Face-based Augmented Reality with F# and the iPhone X (Larry O’Brien)
• The 25 most popular TED talks of all time and TED Talks to inspire you to go to bed and get a good night’s sleep (TED Talks)
• Making MvvmCross with Xamarin Forms Friction Free (Nick Randolph)

Web & Cloud Development

• How to capture an ASP.NET Core memory dump on Azure App Service and Deploy to an Azure App Service using KUDU and a zip file (Benjamin Perkins)
• An Introduction to Azure Event Grid (Christos Matskas)
• What are @HostBinding() and @HostListener() in Angular? (Dhananjay Kumar)
• WebStorm 2017.3.2 is available (Ekaterina Prigara)
• Mastering the React Lifecycle Methods (Gigi Sayfan)
• React, Redux, and Redux Observables (Jason Farrell)
• A Sliding Nightmare: Understanding the Range Input (Ana Tudor)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

• Xamarin.Tip – Xamarin.Forms Long Press Effect (Alex Dunn)
• UWP Tip #13 – 2017 Wrap-Up, Free Resources for #UWP Developers (Me)

Visual Studio & .NET

• Why do I have to pass a valid page protection value to VirtualAlloc even if it ignores it? (Raymond Chen)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• Supporting Digital Leadership with Agile (Ben Linders)
• How to make a local deployment and create a zip file for drag and drop deployment (Benjamin Perkins)
• Yes, Remote Teams Can Be High Performing. Here’s How to Make Them Work (Bruce Eckfeldt)
• DevOps for Data Science – Automated Testing (Buck Woody)
• The Value of Test-Driven Development when Writing Changeable Code (David Bernstein)
• Cargo Cult Programming Is the Art of Programming by Coincidence (Erik Dietrich)
• 2018 Is the Year of the Employee Experience (Jeff Miller)
• Never, Ever Joke About Your Teams’ Career Safety (Jim Holmes)
• Magmas (Mark Seemann)
• Why You Should Keep That Passion Project (Even If It Doesn’t Pay) (Scott Atkinson)
• Smarter, Faster Builds with Nrwl Nx (Victor Savkin)

Mobile & IoT

• Unity game engine gets Xbox One X support (Asher Madan)
• Over-The-Air Firmware: The Critical Driver of IoT Success (Jeffrey Lee)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Laudato Si Challenge with Stephen Forte (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Syntax Podcast – Dealing With Email Overload && Prettier Setups (Wes Bos)
• AiA 169: NGRX Entities with Jesse Sanders (Ward Bell, Alyssa Nicoll, Joe Eames, John Papa & Charles Max Wood)
• JSJ 293: Big Data with Nishant Thacker (Charles Max Wood)
• Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – BONUS: Barry O’Reilly on What is Hypothesis-driven Development, and why that matters for Agilists (Vasco Duarte)
• Complete Developer Podcast – Resolutions 2018 (BJ Burns & Will Gant)
• Developer on Fire Episode 299 | Bill Sourour – Paying It Forward (Dave Rael)
• Windows Weekly 550: The Best of 2017 (Paul Thurrott)
• Software Engineering Daily – Language Design with Brian Kernighan Holiday Repeat (Jeff Meyerson)

Community & Events

• How To Do The New Year’s Day Mummers Parade In Philadelphia 2018 (Grace Dickinson)
• Stack Overflow Gives Back 2017 (Robert Cartaino)

Database

• SQL Server Stored Procedure to Calculate Database Backup Compression Ratio (Eli Leiba)
• SQL SERVER – Linked Server Error: TCP Provider: No Connection Could be Made Because the Target Machine Actively Refused It (Pinal Dave)
• Scaling Couchbase Server on Azure (Matthew Groves)
• Azure SQL Database Backup and Restore Overview (Vitor Montalvao)
• Deploying Couchbase on AWS in less than 3 minutes (Denis Rosa)

PowerShell

• Running PowerShell Core on Raspberry Pi 2 (Stefan Stranger)

Miscellaneous

• 7 Reasons We’ve Fallen Out of Love with Apple (Geoffrey James)

More Link Collections

• Xamarin App Developer Links – 2017-12-28 and Windows App Developer Links – 2017-12-28 (Dan Rigby)
• The Morning Brew #2494 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #2002 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Azure Weekly: Dec 25, 2017 (Chris Pietschmann)
• Collective #378 (Pedro Botelho)

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