Day: May 7, 2018

Top Links

• Help Me Finish ‘Hello World: The Film’ (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Better null checks, string formatting and path completion with JetBrains Annotations (Maarten Balliauw)
• Xamarin.Forms Theming with CSS and Telerik UI (Sam Basu)
• dotnet-script – now on .NET Core 2.1 runtime, with C# 7.3 support and more! (Filip W.)

Web & Cloud Development

• The Angular Framework Forces You To Learn More JavaScript, Making You A Better JavaScript Programmer (Ben Nadel)
• Create Azure Functions using Visual Studio and deploy it to Azure and Using Deployment slots for Azure Function (Abhijit Jana)
• Reactive Apps with Model-View-Intent – Part 8 – Navigation (Hannes Dorfmann)
• What’s New with Request Handling in the Alexa Skills Kit SDK for Node.js (Jennifer King)
• Pug and JavaScript Functions (John M. Wargo)
• Docker Compose and Kubernetes with Docker for Desktop (Mike Coleman)
• The Little ASP.NET Core Book, revised (Nate Barbettini)
• Dockerizing ASP.NET Core Application With Dockerfiles (Vladimir Pecanac)
• Syntax is going to depend on the structure of the js file you are importing. (Dave Bush)
• Getting started with TypeScript — Building your first HelloWorld application (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Getting Started With Redux: Why Redux? (Manjunath M)
• Inspecting Animations in DevTools (Robin Rendle)
• Cloud Architect Master Class (Vishwas Lele)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

• Building mobile apps in F# using Xamarin.Forms and Elmish (Jim Bennett)
• Xamarin.Forms, Akavache and I: Initial setup (new series) (Marco Siccardi)
• ImmutableUI and TDD with Xamarin.Forms (Adam Pedley)
• MVX+1 Update (Nick Randolph)

Visual Studio & .NET

• Did you know – There is a “Solution” drop-down option in New Project Dialog Window in Visual Studio? (Abhijit Jana)
• Fix for Blazor error BL9986: Component attributes do not support complex content (mixed C# and markup) (Talking Dotnet)
• How I resolved the error ‘The reference assemblies for framework “v4.5.1” were not found’: My DevOps journey (Neel Bhatt)
• Avoiding deadlocks when cancelling a thread pool callback, part 2: Referring back to the containing object (Raymond Chen)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• Load Testing with Azure and Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) (Gouri Sohoni)
• How To Use Trello For Customer Support Teams (Brian Cervino)
• Why Testers, Developers, and Managers Need Better Communication: An Interview with Marcia Buzzella (Jennifer Bonine)
• Five Things That Every Leader Could Use to be a Better Leader (Joan Pepin)
• The Challenges of Leading a Distributed Test Team (Kayleigh Oliver)
• 10 strategies you should apply when fixing bugs (Michael Shpilt)
• Continuous Delivery for OSS Projects (Nick Randolph)
• Reaching Peak Meeting Efficiency (Steven Sinofsky)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• Android App – Free PacktPub Ebook Notifier (Weekend Project) (Jeeva Subburaj)
• Working with Xcode Auto Layout in Swift and iOS Projects (Rose Maina)
• Image Decoder – Post Processing and Masks (Mark Allison)
• Running Mixed Reality apps on Windows 10 on ARM PCs–get ready for a surprise (Joost van Schaik)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• MS Dev Show – Practical Unit Testing with John Callaway & Clayton Hunt (Jason Young & Carl Schweitzer)
• Cross Cutting Concerns Podcast 081 – Calvin Allen on a potpourri of topics (Matthew Groves)
• Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 265 #OTP (Richard Hay)
• #codepunk 032: Serverless and Azure Functions (Bill Ahern)
• ID10T Podcast – David Tennant Returns (Chris Hardwick)
• Developer on Fire Episode 336 | Poornima Vijayashanker – Maker In Service (Dave Rael)
• Eat, Sleep, Code Podcast – Getting Started With Live Streaming (Ed Charbeneau)
• The Amp Hour #391 – Only A Transmitter (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
• Talk Python to Me #160 – Lektor: Beautiful websites out of flat files (Michael Kennedy)
• Flutter: Signature View And Custom Painter Implementation | Drawing App and Flutter: Pull to Refresh | ListView | and Flutter: Internet Connectivity | Stay Connected and Flutter: Access Camera | Adding Camera Functionality to WhatsApp Clone (MTechViral)
• StarTalk Radio – Cosmic Queries – Climate Science, with Bill Nye (Neil deGrasse Tyson)
• Software Engineering Daily – Affirm Engineering with Libor Michalek (Jeff Meyerson)
• Developer Tea – Ep. 1 Problem Solving Series: Starting By Making It Worse (Jonathan Cutrell)

Community & Events

• Meet Microsoft’s Abolade Gbadegesin, ‘fixer of things that are broken’ and a driving force behind Windows’ evolution (Nat Levy)
• Mobile Development at Microsoft Build 2018 (Jayme Singleton)
• Microsoft Build 2018: Your resource for new TechNet article ideas! (Ken Cenerelli)
• Amazon’s Mobile Masters Tournament Powered by GameOn (Laura Pezdek)
• 7pace announces Timetracker smartphone client at Microsoft Build 2018 – meet us in Seattle! (Marc Schaeffler)
• My name is Wil Wheaton. I live with chronic Depression, and I am not ashamed. (Wil Wheaton)
• Identity Expert Vittorio Bertocci Joins Auth0 (Jeana Tahnk)

Database

• Simultaneous Data Queue Polling Request Processing in SQL Server (Jeeva Subburaj)
• Issue with UNION and columns with mismatched data types in SQL Server (Aaron Bertrand)
• SQL SERVER – Restore Database Wizard in SSMS is Very Slow to Open and How to Search Special Characters in Table Column? – Interview Question of the Week #172 (Pinal Dave)
• Couchbase 5.5 Enhanced Query Plan Visualization (Denis Rosa)

MS Teams

• Focus on your code, Let Microsoft Teams worry about the UI (Kyle Kapphahn)

PowerShell

• About updating inbox PowerShell modules (Emin Atac)

Miscellaneous

• Dadding 101: Give Your Kids A Trail of Codes To Break (Leon Bambrick)
• Hyper and Hyperstart for Your Terminal Experience (Michael Szul)
• Should I say “I Don’t Know” to an Interviewer? (Tim Corey)

More Link Collections

• Double Shot #2091 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Azure Weekly: May 7, 2018 – First-class Support for CloudEvents on Azure (Chris Pietschmann)
• Xamarin & Windows App Developer Links – 2018-05-07 (Dan Rigby)
• Weekly C# Digest Issue #205 (Jakub Chodounsky)
• Top stories from the VSTS community – 2018.05.04 (Willy-P. Schaub)
• F# Weekly #18, 2018 – F# Tooling Support for AWS Lambda (Sergey Tihon)
• Collective #413 (Pedro Botelho)
• Reading Notes #326 (Frank Boucher)
• Learn How To Animate 3D Objects In PowerPoint, And More On This Week’s Friday Five (MVP Award Program)

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