Dew Drop – January 17, 2018 (#2645)

Top Links

• The C# Developer’s Guide to Shipping Better Apps with Visual Studio App Center (James Montemagno)
• Announcing the Ionic PWA Toolkit Beta (Justin Willis)
• Serverless ASP.NET Core 2.0 Applications (Norm Johanson)
• Introducing BlueMilk: StructureMap’s Replacement & Jasper’s Special Sauce (Jeremy D. Miller)

Web & Cloud Development

• Azure Tips and Tricks Part 80 – Adding Metadata to a file inside Azure Storage Blob Container (Michael Crump)
• Getting Azure App Services Publishing Profile inside Visual Studio itself (Abhijit Jana)
• Microsoft Flow and Azure AD – let’s automate! (Courtenay Bernier)
• Why more Angular Modules are Better than One (Dave M. Bush)
• The Brief Lifespan of a JavaScript Framework (David Iffland)
• WebStorm 2017.3.3 is now available (Ekaterina Prigara)
• New AWS Auto Scaling – Unified Scaling For Your Cloud Applications (Jeff Barr)
• Google Home, A/C, Azure: How to join this cutting edge tech (Sam Williams)
• LUIS quick start with list entities (Matthew Shim)
• View Components in RazorPages PageModel (Hisham Bin Ateya)
• The Cloud is a Small World (K. Scott Allen)
• Using and creating code snippets (Ekaterina Prigara)
• Introducing Custom Domains (Preview) with Auth0 (Justin Hinerman)

Visual Studio & .NET

• How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Visual Studio Team Services (Tim Patrick)
• Using the NavigationService in your VSTS and TFS extension (Wouterde Kort)
• Entity Framework Core Pitfalls: No TransactionScope Support and Entity Framework Core Succinctly Released (Ricardo Peres)
• Vcpkg: Introducing the upgrade command (Eric Mittelette)
• Value Objects: A Tool for Self-Documented Code and Fewer Errors (Erik Dietrich)
• CodeRush 17.2.5 is Available (Mark Miller)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• Bliki: IntegrationTest (Martin Fowler)
• Professional Scrum is for everyone in your organization (Martin Hinshelwood)
• To TDD or not to TDD (Vladimir Khorikov)
• Should the Web Have a Universal Design System? (Ben Bate)
• Coding Best Practices When You’re Short On Time (Carlos Schults)
• New Employee Onboarding: A Success Template For Every Hire (Lauren Moon)

Mobile & IoT

• Alexa Display Template Skill Deep Dive Part 4: Mapping Alexa Skill GUI Flow (April Hamilton)
• Building A Shazam Clone Part 5 (Discover Song Feature) — Building Android Apps Series (Elvis Chidera)
• How to Create a Great TV Login Experience with Cordova (Part 2) (Paul Hampton)
• Alexa Skill Teardown: Understanding Entity Resolution with Pet Match (Justin Jeffress)
• ARKit Remote: Now With Face Tracking! (Jimmy Alamparambil)
• Accessing Relational, Big Data, and SaaS data from NativeScript (Rob Lauer)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• JSJ 296: Changes in React and the license with Azat Mardan (Aimee Knight, Charles Max Wood, Cory House & Joe Eames)
• Visually build pipelines for Azure Data Factory V2 | Azure Friday (Donovan Brown & Rob Caron)
• StreamSets on Azure HDInsight | Data Exposed and Creating custom applications on Azure HDInsight | Data Exposed (Seth Juarez)
• AiA 172: The Clarity Project at VMware with Eudes Petonnet-Vincent and Matt Hippely (Alyssa Nicoll, Charles Max Wood, Joe Eames & Ward Bell)
• Microsoft Cloud Show Episode 234 | North American Collaboration Summit (Andrew Connell & Chris Johnson)
• Interview with Jenny Lay-Flurrie, Chief Accessibility Officer, Microsoft | GALs (Kaitlin McKinnon)
• Software Engineering Daily – Kubernetes State Management with Niraj Tolia (Jeff Meyerson)
• Developer Tea – Your Angle of Approach in Problem Solving (Jonathan Cutrell)

Community & Events

• 2017 in Retrospective, 2018 in Perspective (Ricardo Peres)
• What is Developer Advocacy? (Ashley McNamara)
• 18+ Fantastic Things To Do In Philadelphia This Week, January 16-21 (Grace Dickinson)
• Q&A: MVP Rie Irish Talks To Us About Highlighting Female Voices In Tech (MVP Award Program)

Database

• Install and Configure SQL Server 2017 Availability Groups on Linux – Part 3 (Edwin Sarmiento)
• SQL SERVER – Performance Observation of TRIM Function (Pinal Dave)
• Assign a keyboard shortcut to menu items (Day 16) (Wayne Sheffield)

Miscellaneous

• Mozilla Files Suit Against FCC to Protect Net Neutrality (Denelle Dixon)
• Announcing Windows Server Insider Preview Build 17074 (Dona Sarkar)
• Windows 10 Tip: Stay in touch with My People (Elana Pidgeon)

More Link Collections

• Xamarin App Developer Links – 2018-01-17 and Windows App Developer Links – 2018-01-17 (Dan Rigby)
• The Morning Brew #2507 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #2015 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Linkbait 34 (Peter-Paul Koch)

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