Dew Drop – April 3, 2018 (#2697)

Top Links

• The Decline of the Client OS (Rockford Lhotka)
• Successfully Running an xUnit Suite in Parallel (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Introduction to Redux in Flutter (Xavi Rigau)
• Iron Man’s Arc Reactor Using CSS3 Transforms and Animations (Kunal Sarkar)

Web & Cloud Development

• Tracking Image Error Events Using Event Delegation In JavaScript (Ben Nadel)
• Azure Tips and Tricks Part Part 111 – Deployment Slots for Web Apps using the Azure CLI (Michael Crump)
• SparkyTestHelpers: ASP.NET MVC ViewComponents and Async (Brian Schroer)
• Webscraping using Regular Expression and HtmlAgility (Eric M. H. Goh)
• 8 Things That Make Jest the Best React Testing Framework (Gigi Sayfan)
• How to Setup OWASP Juice Shop on Azure (Part 1 of 3) and Setup OWASP Juice Shop in Web App for Containers (Part 2 of 3) and Setup OWASP Juice Shop in Azure Container Instances (Part 3 of 3) (Jason Haley)
• The API Stack Profiling Checklist and My API Stack Profiling Process (Kin Lane)
• Aurelia 2018 Q1 Report (Rob Eisenberg)
• Creating a REST API: Web Server Basics (Dan McGhan)
• How to run Windows Containers on Compute Engine (Mete Atamel)
• Reminder: The Bot Framework State service has been retired – what you need to know (Azure Bot Service Team)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

• Tue 3: Multiple instances of the same ViewModel (Marcos Cobeña Morián)

Visual Studio & .NET

• Challenge: The invisible concurrency bug–Answer (Oren Eini)
• How to optimize .net development using .net Core 2.1 and C# 7.2 (Loïc Baumann)
• Inheriting from Generics: Set the Datatype … Or Not (Peter Vogel)
• Depending on Functions Instead of Interfaces – Why and How (Scott Hannen)
• Creating a .NET Core global CLI tool for squashing images with the TinyPNG API (Andrew Lock)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• Design Patterns: Open Closed Principle – Video and Resources (Tim Corey)
• The 4 focus areas of DevSecOps. (Clemens Reijnen)
• Position the Cue Ball (Scott Hannen)
• 5 challenges to scaling DevOps at enterprise level (DevOpsGuys)
• The Who, What, When, and How of Pair Testing (Simon Schrijver)
• Do you procrastinate? (Swizec Teller)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• Using Kotlin in Android Studio 3.0 (Part 5) (Ngoc Minh Tran)
• Introduction to Unity VR Development (Davor Gasparevic)
• How to detect your Windows Mixed Reality app is actually running on a head set (Joost van Schaik)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• .NET Rocks! – The Microsoft Business Application Platform with Vishwas Lele (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Windows Central Podcast 86: The Big Reorg (Zac Bowden)
• Part 4 of 4: Use Azure Container Registry | The Open Source Show (Golnaz Alibeigi, Cameron Tomisser & Alena Hall)
• Agile Coffee Podcast, episode 58 – podcast – Agile Coffee (Vic Bonacci)
• Coding Blocks.NET 78 – Deliberate Practice for Programmers (Allen Underwood, Michael Outlaw & Joe Zack)
• Building distributed applications with Akka.NET | On .NET (Cecil Phillip, Kathy Hickman & Rich Lander)
• Revision Path 236: Eddie Opara (Maurice Cherry)
• Software Engineering Daily – Gitcoin: Open Source Bounties with Kevin Owocki (Jeff Meyerson)
• SSW TV – Facebook and Cambridge Analytica – Adam Cogan’s Analysis (Sophie Belle)

Community & Events

• Find Local Xamarin and .NET Developer Events This April (Jayme Singleton)
• Maker Spotlight: Jessica Koe (Caleb Kraft)
• 18 Magnificent Things To Do In Philly This Week, April 2-8 (Kelly Bucci)
• Women Living on the Edge Event (Karen Casella, Sangeeta Narayanan, Kim Trott, Gaya Varadarajan & Haripriya Murthy)

Database

• Using SQL Server Integration Services to Export Data in JSON Format (Parvathy Natraj)
• ebook deal of the week: SQL Server 2017 Administration Inside Out (Microsoft Press)
• Primary Replica Jobs (Wayne Sheffield)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft releases HTML5-based Remote Desktop web client preview (Mihăiță Bamburic)
• Xbox Live Rewards will transition to Microsoft Rewards in June (Dan Thorp-Lancaster)
• Windows 10 Tip: Five expert tips to help you master ink in OneNote (William Devereux)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #2555 (Chris Alcock)
• Xamarin & Windows App Developer Links – 2018-04-03 (Dan Rigby)
• Collective #403 (Pedro Botelho)
• Interesting links of the week (03/26 – 04/01, 2018) (Mike Eaton)
• Reading Notes #321 (Frank Boucher)

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