Month: February 2018

Top Links

• Announcing TypeScript 2.7 (Daniel Rosenwasser)
• Entity Framework Core with .NET Core console application (Gunnar Peipman)
• Twilio Studio: The New Way to Build Communications (Donnie Wang)
• Hanselminutes – Empathy in Technology Product with Venture Capitalist Sarah Kunst from Proday (Scott Hanselman)

Web Development

• In Node.js, The error.stack Property Will Represent The Point In The Code At Which new Error() Was Called – Not When The Error Is Thrown (Ben Nadel)
• Getting Started with Create React App (Elijah Manor)
• Azure Tips and Tricks Part 89 – Shared Access Tokens with Azure Storage Blob Containers (Michael Crump)
• Sending Your Azure Application Insights Alerts to Team Sites using Azure Logic App (Abhijit Jana)
• 3 Essential Tips for Managing State in React Applications (Brandon Satrom)
• WebStorm 2017.3.4 is available (Ekaterina Prigara)
• New book: Exam Ref 70-533 Implementing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions, Second Edition (Lisa)
• Are you part of the new wave of Azure developers? Check out the Cortana Skills Kit! (Matthew Calder)
• Case insensitive search filter in OData ASP.NET Core 2.0 Web Api as an OWIN middleware (Pawel idzikowski)
• Jenkins on Azure: from zero to hero (Pui Chee Chan)
• 15 Simple ASP.NET Performance Tuning Tips (Simon Timms)
• ASP.NET Core Anatomy Index (Steve Gordon)
• JavaScript ES6 LINQ Equivalents (Steve Smith)
• HTML Media Capture is now a W3C Recommendation (Xueyuan Jia)
• Node v9.5.0 (Current) (Evan Lucas)
• Getting Started with Kubernetes (Graham Smith)
• Schematics — An Introduction (Hans)
• Interop’s Labyrinth: Sharing Code Between Web & Electron Apps (Machisté N. Quintana)
• Kubernetes–Installing MiniKube, Part 1 of n (Sacha Barber)
• Launching Report URI JS (Scott Helme)
• My Blog Now Has a Content Security Policy – Here’s How I’ve Done It (Troy Hunt)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

• Check out the New Button Control in Telerik UI for Xamarin (Petar Marchev)
• Intro to Xamarin Forms with F# – Part 2 (Sam Williams)
• Compiled Bindings considerations III (Pedro Lamas)

Visual Studio & .NET

• The cost of finalizers (Oren Eini)
• Setting up a MongoDB Replica Set with Docker and Connecting to It With a .NET Core App (Tugberk Ugurlu)
• LEADTOOLS Version 20 is Here! (Part 2) (Greg Ross)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• Almost, but not quite, entirely unlike TDD (Dave Nicolette)
• Reactive Architecture — Deep Dive (Dan Leonardis)
• Feedback and Feedforward for Continuous Improvement Posted (Johanna Rothman)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• Android Development: 15 Libraries You Should Be Using (Idorenyin Obong)
• #Tutorial – How to build an #Amazon #AlexaSkill using Visual Studio 2017, C# and #Azure (3 on N) (Bruno Capuano)
• Code a Measuring App With ARKit (Vardhan Agrawal)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Postgres and Curious Moon with Rob Conery (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Windows Central Podcast 80: Polaris (Zac Bowden)
• Syntax Podcast – Snack Pack – CSS Frameworks, React HOC, Render Props, Coding Designers, Early Career Advice and a sound board! (Wes Bos)
• Episode 3: Five Things About React | Five Things (Burke Holland)
• Machine Learning with Azure Notebooks | AI Show (Cameron Tomisser & Paige Bailey)
• Complete Developer Podcast – Continuous Self Improvement (BJ Burns & Will Gant)
• Developer on Fire Episode 309 | Rob Richardson – Force Multiplier (Dave Rael)
• Neural Program Synthesis and the Quest to Democratize Programming with Dr. Rishabh Singh (Emily Maryatt)
• 2FD 063: Paying Off Student Loans, 401K Early Withdrawal Concerns, Frugal Internet TV Streaming (Kevin Griffin & Sean Merron)
• Women in Business and Technology Podcast 013 – Rearchitecting the tech pipeline with Kal Viswanathan (Microsoft)
• #ifdef PROGRESSIVE_WEB_APPS | #ifdef WINDOWS (Nikola Metulev)
• Software Engineering Daily – How to Change an Enterprise’s Software and Culture with Zhamak Dehghani (Jeff Meyerson)

Community & Events

• Xamarin Developer Events in February (Jayme Singleton)
• Stack Exchange 2017 in Review (Jon Ericson)
• Nerd Nite No. 82: Public Health Disasters, E-sports, and Weed Legalization (Nerd Nite Philly Team)

Database

• Optimize for ad hoc workloads – at the database level – in SQL Server (Aaron Bertrand)
• Building Smarter Scripts for SQL Server Data Updates (Tim Smith)
• SQL SERVER – FIX: Msg 3009 – Could Not Insert a Backup or Restore History Detail Record in the MSDB Database (Pinal Dave)
• Use and Generate PUT Stored Procedures (Bonnie DeWitt)
• SSMS Activity Monitor (Day 31) (Wayne Sheffield)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #2518 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #2026 (Mike Gunderloy)

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