Day: January 8, 2018

Top Links

• Announcing Preview 1 of ASP.NET MVC 5.2.4, Web API 5.2.4, and Web Pages 3.2.4 (Daniel Roth)
• TWC9: Happy New Year, Meltdown and Spectre, REST API or Azure Analysis Services, and more | This Week On Channel 9 (Cameron Tomisser & Christina Warren)
• Writing IL code on Visual Studio (Gunnar Peipman)
• ASP.NET Core Logging with Serilog and SQL Server (Carl Rippon)

Web & Cloud Development

• Better Decisions Through Better Analytics: Visual Studio App Center with Azure Application Insights (Blanca Delgado Parra)
• Windows Weekly Dockerfile #17: Connecting to Database Containers (Elton Stoneman)
• Introduction to Hapi.Js (Haider Malik)
• Vulnerability in phpMyAdmin Requires Immediate Patch (Lorelle VanFossen)
• Using Azure database for PostgreSQL in ASP.NET Core (with EF Core) (Mahesh Sabnis)
• Styling Striped Lists in CSS (Mark Heath)
• Azure Tips and Tricks Part 74 – Working with Azure Storage Blobs and Files through the Portal (Michael Crump)
• Considerations for Hardening API’s Built with Azure API Management + Azure Functions (Michael Stephenson)
• ConfigurationManager vs WebConfigurationManager on Azure (Andy Schwam)
• Angular Developer Survey 2018 (Stephen Fluin)
• 5 tips to learn Docker in 2018 (Victor Coisne)
• JS things I never knew existed (Nick)
• ESLint v4.15.0 released (ESLint Team)
• Creating specific themes for OIDC clients using razor views with IdentityServer4 (Damien Bowden)
• Image Placeholders: Do it right or don’t do it at all. Please. (Robin Osborne)
• Building systems in the cloud (Tom Kerkhove)
• Communicate Between Components Using Dependency Injection (Isaac Mann)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

• Custom Fonts in Xamarin.Forms (Adam Pedley)
• Xamarin Forms 101: How to create a barchart, linechart, radialchart, pointchart, or donutchart in Xamarin Forms (Devlin Duldulao)
• SearchBar View With SearchContent In Xamarin.Forms Application (Mohammad Irshad)

Visual Studio & .NET

• Troubleshooting compiled Azure Functions in F# (Szymon Warda)
• Check that Your Config Files Are Transformed Correctly (Peter Vogel)
• How do I get the computer’s serial number? Consuming Windows Runtime classes in desktop apps, part 2: C++/CX (Raymond Chen)
• Time Travel Debugging recording question (James P.)
• Building A Generic SQLite Repository (Jesse Liberty)

Mobile & IoT

• Testing Geolocation on Android (Max Lynch)
• Introducing the Amazon Alexa Premium Far-Field Voice Development Kit (Rachel Bennett)
• Apple Acquires BuddyBuild. Oh, My Xcode Server! (Shashikant Jagtap)
• Discontinuing support for MonoDevelop-Unity starting in Unity 2018.1 (Lukasz Paczkowski)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• Technology & Friends – Robert Martin on Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programming (David Giard)
• AFH 083: Create Your Successful Agile Project with Johanna Rothman (Ryan Ripley)
• Azure Advisor Updates (Scott Hanselman & Rob Caron)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Michael Rosenbaum (Chris Hardwick)
• Coding Blocks.NET 72 – Clean Architecture – How to Quantify Component Coupling (Allen Underwood, Michael Outlaw & Joe Zack)
• Developer on Fire Episode 302 | Kent Beck – Primary and Secondary Emotions (Dave Rael)
• The Amp Hour #374 – An Interview with Clifford Wolf (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
• StarTalk Radio – Predictions: This Year in Science (Neil deGrasse Tyson)
• Software Engineering Daily – Kubernetes Usability with Joe Beda (Jeff Meyerson)
• Developer Tea – Interview w/ Chris Shinkle (Part 1) (Jonathan Cutrell)
• Weekly Dev Tips 015: Maintain Legacy Code with New Code (Steve Smith)

Database

• Install and Configure SQL Server 2017 Availability Groups on Linux – Part 2 (Edwin Sarmiento)
• SQL SERVER – Log Shipping Monitor Not Getting Updated and SQL SERVER – Puzzle – Solution – Why Does UNION ALL Work but UNION Produces Error? and How to List All the Nonclustered Indexes of Your Table? – Interview Question of the Week #155 (Pinal Dave)
• The state of RavenDB (Oren Eini)
• Working with Query Files (Day 5) and Vertical Scroll Bar Map Mode (Day 6) and Template Variables (Day 7) (Wayne Sheffield)

MS Teams

• Microsoft Teams: Making meetings matter (Matt Soseman)

PowerShell

• Initialize a Byte Array in PowerShell (Trevor Sullivan)
• Get the content of the WindowsUpdate log as an object (Emin Atac)

Miscellaneous

• Meltdown and Spectre: What They Are and How to Deal with Them (Abel Avram)
• Nokia 6 (2018) is official and ships with a Snapdragon 630 (Joe Maring)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #2500 (Chris Alcock) – Congrats to Chris for 10 years and 2500 posts!
• Double Shot #2008 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Weekly C# Digest Issue #188 (Jakub Chodounsky)
• F# Weekly #1, 2018 – F# Applied II (Sergey Tihon)
• Top stories from the VSTS community – 2018.01.05 (Willy-P. Schaub)
• Reading Notes #310 (Frank Boucher)
• Welcome to 2018! Here’s the Friday Five (MVP Award Program)
• Reading List (Bruce Lawson)

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