December 2017 – Page 2 – Morning Dew by Alvin Ashcraft

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)

The Geek Shelf

Delivering Business Intelligence with Microsoft SQL Server 2016, Fourth Edition: Brian Larson: 9781259641480: Books

ISBN: 1259641481
ISBN-13: 9781259641480

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Deal Tomorrow – Half Off All Manning liveVideos, Friday 12/22

EDIT: It looks like we got some bad intel about the Friday deal this week. Here is the correct info for today’s deal:

TODAY ONLY you can SAVE 50% when you buy any two or more eBooks, pBooks, MEAPs, and liveVideo courses! Just enter dotd122217lt in the Promotional Code box when you check out with two or more items in your cart. Expires at Midnight.

Another Friday deal from Manning leading into Christmas weekend…

Every day in December our partner Manning is offering a fantastic deal on their books and video courses as they countdown to 2018. They’ve given us another heads up that tomorrow they’re having a 50% off sale on all of their liveVideo titles for 24 hours, and we thought you’d want to know!

All you have to do to get the offer is go to their Countdown to 2018 calendar and register your email address in the box at the top. After that, you’ll be sent the code at 12:00am EST directly to your email inbox. There’s a new deal every day, with each Friday holding the biggest deals of all.

They’re also offering a quiz on the calendar page for a chance to win a copy of every new book and video they release in 2018!

Go check out the deals here.

And don’t forget to grab a free node.js liveVideo from Manning and the Morning Dew. Get the info here!

Happy holidays!

Alvin

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Dew Drop – December 21, 2017 (#2629)

Happy Winter Solstice, everyone.

Top Links

All About Span: Exploring a New .NET Mainstay (Stephen Toub)
Debugging third-party code with Rider (Maarten Balliauw)
Must use, must know WinDbg commands, my most used (Benjamin Perkins)
Azure Tips and Tricks Part 72 – Sentiment Analysis with Cognitive Service and Azure (Michael Crump)

Web & Cloud Development

Entity Framework Core migration – Day 20 – 24 days of “Front-end Development with ASP.NET Core, Angular, and Bootstrap” and How to seed your database with EF Core – Day 21 – 24 days of “Front-end Development with ASP.NET Core, Angular, and Bootstrap” (Simone Chiaretta)
Chatbot on Azure and Couchbase for Viber (Matthew Groves)
WebAssembly: Calling Into JavaScript From Bare-Bones C Code (Gerard Gallant)
CSS Glitch Effect (Mary Lou)
Writing Shorter React-Redux Containers (Nick Sweeting)
How should we resolve percentage margins and padding on grid and flex items? (Rachel Andrew)
Developing NPM Packages (Bruno Krebs)
REST API Calls Using Server Side Swift on the Mainframe (Igor Todorovski)
Kubernetes 1.9 Supports Workloads API, Container Storage Enhancements and Windows Beta Support (Srini Penchikala)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

Xamarin Forms 101: How to put an Entry or Search View in the Navigation Bar (Devlin Duldulao)
CSS In Xamarin.Forms (Adam Pedley)
Fluent Theme for WPF & WinForms Apps Are Coming in 2018 (Dobrin Grancharov)
Breaking Down WPF Grid View vs. Virtual Grid (Stefan Stefanov)
Baby Steps in Writing Libraries for UWP and the Unity Editor (Mike Taulty)

Visual Studio & .NET

#VS2017 – Releasing #Qubits using Reset() and ResetAll() in Q# on Microsoft Quantum Development Kit (Bruno Capuano)
Reverse Engineering Existing Databases in Entity Framework Core 2 (Shawn Wildermuth)
Help! My TFS automatically redirects HTTPS to HTTP! (Matteo Emili)
Advent of Code Day 20–The Long Run (Mark Heath)
The moment I came to play with .NET Standard 2.0… (Dominique St-Amand)

Design, Methodology & Testing

The Unit Test Effect Study, Refined (Erik Dietrich)
Favor Readable Code Over Idiomatic Code (Ben Nadel)
How Technical Practices Support Evolutionary Architecture and Continuous Delivery (Ben Linders)
Getting to Working Software: Code Reviews – Benefits (Gil Zilberfeld)
No, I Didn’t Automate That Test (Jim Holmes)

Mobile & IoT

Is VueJS’ Weex a Suitable Alternative to React Native? (Sam Landfried)
Get Started With Natural Language Processing in iOS 11 (Doron Katz)
Resource Roundup: Top Alexa Tips and Tutorials for New Skill Builders (Jennifer King)
Creating a Task Manager App Using Ionic: Part 2 (Roy Agasthyan)
The Google Assistant SDK – new languages, API updates, and Device Actions (Glen Shires)
Running a .NET Core Web Crawler on a Raspberry Pi (Farooq Ahmad)
Announcing the Release of NativeScript 3.4 (Rob Lauer)
Dev Center’s Year in Review: 2017 (MS Dev Center Team)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

.NET Rocks! – UX Design Rants with Billy Hollis (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
Software Engineering Daily – React Components with Max Stoiber (Jeff Meyerson)
Neuroscience with Azure Machine Learning | AI Show (Golnaz Alibeigi & Sonya Koptyev)
Use the Azure portal to answer your billing questions (Scott Hanselman & Rob Caron)
Syntax Podcast – All About CSS BEM! (Wes Bos)
Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – How to develop high-performing teams | Susan McIntosh (Vasco Duarte)
AAWP Insight #240: Wileyfox Pro, Security, Surface Mobile (Steve Litchfield)
Developer on Fire Episode 297 | Howie Ross – Unlocking Potential (Dave Rael)
Under the Radar 111: Universal Mac Apps? (David Smith & Marco Arment)
All Things Git Podcast – GitKraken with Hamid Shojaee (Edward Thomson & Martin Woodward)
Talk Python to Me #143 – Tuning Python Web App Performance (Michael Kennedy)
#ifdef DEV_CENTER_ANALYTICS | #ifdef WINDOWS (Nikola Metulev)

Community & Events

Webinar Q&A: How to Create Apps with Syncfusion and Azure (Jacqueline Bieringer)
Thinking Of Organizing An Event? Check Out How These MVPs Planned Belgium’s Dev Day Conference (MVP Award Program)

Database

Implement SQL Server High Availability and Disaster Recovery on Amazon EC2 – Part 3 (Pinakin Patel)
Querying SQL Server Temporal Table MetaData (Ameena Lalani)
RavenDB 4.0 is ready! (Oren Eini)

PowerShell

DSC Resource Kit Release December 2017 (Katie Keim)

Miscellaneous

Apple Confirms It Deliberately Slows Down Old iPhones, Calls It A Feature, Here’s Why (Oliver Haslam)
Firefox is Now on Amazon Fire TV – Happy Holiday Watching (Barbara Bermes)
Photosynth returns as part of Microsoft Pix alongside new ‘Comix’ feature (Dan Thorp-Lancaster)
Fixing Data Breaches Part 4: Bug Bounties (Troy Hunt)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #2491 (Chris Alcock)
Double Shot #1998 (Mike Gunderloy)
Collective #376 (Pedro Botelho)
Final Coding4Fun Round-up (Greg Duncan)

The Geek Shelf

Coding iPhone Apps for Kids: A Playful Introduction to Swift: Gloria Winquist, Matt McCarthy: 9781593277567: Books

ISBN: 1593277563
ISBN-13: 9781593277567

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