Dew Drop – January 12, 2018 (#2642)

Top Links

• Hanselminutes – Staying Secure and “Getting Pwned” with Troy Hunt (Scott Hanselman)
• Windows Community Standup on January 18th, 2018 (Clint Rutkas)
• Building High Performance Extensions Part 1 | Visual Studio Toolbox and Building High Performance Extensions Part 2 | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green & Omer Raviv)
• Upcoming Webinar | Xamarin University Presents: Ship Better Apps with Visual Studio App Center (Courtney Witmer)

Web & Cloud Development

• 8 practical tips for learning ASP.NET Core MVC (Jon Hilton)
• Going surfing – Protect your Node.js app from Cross-Site Request Forgery (Dominik Kundel)
• The Brutal Lifecycle of JavaScript Frameworks (Ian Allen)
• Styling Social Media Icon Lists in CSS (Mark Heath)
• Building a Let’s Encrypt ACME V2 client (Oren Eini)
• API Life Cycle Basics: Documentation and API Life Cycle Basics: Clients (Kin Lane)
• Fixing Assembly BindingRedirects when using NServiceBus.Host (Philipp Dolder)
• Why Consider a Website Redesign – Tips and Recommendations (Daniel Schwarz)
• Building and testing APIs with LoopBack and Postman (Joyce)
• Versions & Revisions – General Availibility (Matt Farmer)

XAML

• Xamarin.Android Now Double Stuffed with Oreo 8.1 (Jon Douglas)

Visual Studio & .NET

• New Visual Studio Code Extensions for Java Developers: Maven, Tomcat, and Checkstyle (Xiaokai He)
• Soft Deletes with Entity Framework Core 2 (Ricardo Peres)
• Interview Question- Create Triangle of X’s (Anthony Grace)
• Jasper’s Roslyn-Powered “Special Sauce” (Jeremy D. Miller)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• Take To-Do’s To Trello: All The Ways To Send Tasks To Your Board (Brian Cervino)
• DevOps for Data Science – Release Management (Buck Woody)
• Concepts behind the Functional Programming Paradigm Explained (Maxime Laboissonniere)
• Power BI and VSTS Analytics (Gregg Boer)
• Create your own path to Organisational Agility (Martin Hinshelwood)

Mobile & IoT

• Building for Echo Show and Echo Spot: VUI & GUI Best Practices (Cami Williams)
• VectorDrawable Gradients – Part2 (Mark Allison)
• Getting Started with Augmented Reality in NativeScript (TJ VanToll)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• Corey is all in on Azure Policy | Tuesdays With Corey (RicksterCDN)
• Azure Podcast Episode 211 – Azure Monitor (Sujit D’Mello)
• Talk Python to Me #146 – Building Alexa Skills with Python and Flask (Michael Kennedy)
• Snack Pack 25: New .NET Standard Mobile App Templates in Visual Studio 2017 (James Montemagno)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Paul Thomas Anderson (Chris Hardwick)
• This Week on Windows: CES, the Harman Kardon Invoke with Cortana and more (Elana Pidgeon)
• SQL Server Radio – Getting Things Done (Matan Yungman & Guy Glantser)
• Developer Things #7: Making the Lives of IT Easier and More Chocolatey with Rob Reynolds (Matt Watson)
• Rocket 157: Joe Kodak (Simone De Rochefort, Christina Warren & Brianna Wu)
• Software Engineering Daily – Kubernetes Vision with Brendan Burns (Jeff Meyerson)
• Developer Tea – Deconstructing The Lies We Tell Ourselves (Jonathan Cutrell)

Community & Events

• TSConf 2018 – Seattle (TSConf)
• Microsoft’s Performance Contributions to Git in 2017 (Derrick Stolee)
• An Inside Look at Microsoft’s Customer Experience Center (Kyle Elliott)

Database

• SQL Server 2017 CU3 adds tempdb spill diagnostics in DMVs and Extended Events (Erik Darling)
• SQL SERVER – How to Change Column Property From NULL to NOT NULL Value? (Pinal Dave)
• Test Drive: Trying Couchbase on Azure for Free (Matthew Groves)
• Test Driven Development with Modern Database Tools using tSQLt (Haroon Ashraf)
• Block Select/Replace (Day 11) (Wayne Sheffield)

PowerShell

• AWS Support for PowerShell Core 6.0 (Steve Roberts)

Miscellaneous

• Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 17074 for PC (Dona Sarkar)
• Windows 10 Fall Creators Update (1709) fully available (John Cable)
• Building 0verkill on Windows 10 Subsystem for Linux – 2D ASCII art deathmatch game (Scott Hanselman)

More Link Collections

• Windows App Developer Links – 2018-01-12 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2018-01-12 (Dan Rigby)
• The Morning Brew #2504 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #2012 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Collective #381 (Pedro Botelho)

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