Month: June 2018

Top Links

• Announcing Flutter Release Preview 1 (Tim Sneath)
• Windows 10 SDK Preview Build 17692 available now! (Clint Rutkas)
• .NET Core 2.0 will reach End of Life on September 1, 2018 (Rich Lander)
• The RyuJIT transition is complete! (Bruce Forstall)
• Introducing WinAppDriver UI Recorder (Hassan Uraizee)

Web & Cloud Development

• Babeling in defence of JavaScript (Stephen Roughley)
• ASP.NET Core manageability and Application Insights improvements (Sergey Kanzhelev)
• ConflictJS: finding and understanding conflicts between JavaScript libraries (Adrian Colyer)
• Writing logs to Elasticsearch with Fluentd using Serilog in ASP.NET Core (Andrew Lock)
• How to read, unable to read appsettings.json values ASP.NET Core (Benjamin Perkins)
• Building a React Form Component with TypeScript: Validation (Carl Rippon)
• HTTP API Problem Details in ASP.NET Core (Derek Comartin)
• Running ASP.NET Core application as Windows service (Gunnar Peipman)
• Amazon Polly Plugin for WordPress Update – Translate and Vocalize Your Content (Jeff Barr)
• 21 Top Vue.js UI Libraries For Your App (Jonathan Saring)
• Improved JavaScript and WebAssembly performance in EdgeHTML 17 (Limin Zhu)
• Understanding the destructuring assignment syntax in Javascript (Luuk Gruijs)
• Location and Maps in Azure IoT Central powered by Azure Maps (Miriam Berhane Russom)
• A9–Building App using Angular and ASP.NET Core 2.1–Font-awesome, Pagination and Layout and A10–Building App using Angular and ASP.NET Core 2.1–Services, Events and Cross Component Communication (Mitul Suthar)
• Dependency Injection in Angular: Introduction and DI Techniques (Ravi Kiran)
• Authentication and Authorization Using Auth0 in PHP (Sajal Soni)
• Using ASP.NET Core 2.1’s HttpClientFactory with Refit’s REST library (Scott Hanselman)
• Add Bootstrap 4 to Angular 6 application (Talking Dotnet)
• Amazon GameOn Rolls Out Billing by AWS (Tess Selim)
• A Look at Vue’s Reactive Properties (Thierry Ciot)
• Build a Reusable Design System With React (Vasu)
• Using CSS to Alternate Table Row Background Colors and Using HTML Agility Pack to Parse a Web Page (David Giard)
• React with .NET Core and MySQL – Form Validation and Handling POST Request (Marinko Spasojevic)
• Increase Development Speed with Visual Studio Code Tips and Tricks (NgDevelop)
• Make Phone Calls with Twilio, Blazor & C# (Corey Weathers)
• Introducing the Splunk Machine Learning Toolkit Version 3.3 (Manish Sainani)
• How to Build A Custom Call Center with Twilio Studio and TaskRouter (David Thurston)
• Making Compose Easier to Use with Application Packages (Gareth Rushgrove)
• Containers – What Are They Good For? Crafting our Build Environments (Jimmy Bogard)
• Newman: run and test your collections from the command line (Joyce)
• HelloWorld: With Auth0 (Luke Oliff)
• Node v10.5.0 (Current) (Michaël Zasso)
• How to set up a full-stack .NET web development environment on Mac OS (Neal Patel)
• Bootstrap Framework - Best Practices (Nenad Novaković)
• Building a RSS Viewer With Vue: Part 2 (Raymond Camden)
• Create a QnA Knowledge Base using new BotBuilder Tools (Azure Bot Service Team)
• Exploring Cassandra (Jason Farrell)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

• ‘Hello World’ for Your Smartphone: Your First Xamarin Application (Peter Vogel)
• JavaScript Windows Universal Applications Part 2 (Angel D. Munoz)
• Creating Mobile Apps With Xamarin.Forms and Visual Studio For Mac Using F# (Jamie Dixon)
• What the @ – fixing weirdness in return JSON from Azure functions using F# (Jim Bennett)
• Binding a FlexLayout to a Collection II (David Britch)

Visual Studio & .NET

• 7 more reasons why C# is alive and kicking in 2018. Community edition. (Corstiaan Hesselink)
• Continuing Our Clean Architecture Example in C# (Carlos Schults)
• CodeRush – New Release (v18.1.5) for Visual Studio (Mark Miller)
• CodeIt.Right Rules Explained, Part 17 (Erik Dietrich)
• The pocket guide to metaprogramming in .NET (William Barbosa)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• Design Patterns Explained – Dependency Injection with Code Examples (Thorben Janssen)
• New Navigation for Visual Studio Team Services (Jeremy Epling)
• Visual Studio Team Services picking up Fluent Design-inspired overhaul (Dan Thorp-Lancaster)
• How Unit Testing Improves Code Quality in TDD (Hardik Shah)
• Move a VSTS work item to another team project and Quick Navigation using VSTS Keyboard Shortcuts (Abhijit Jana)
• Retrospectives are Weak – Here is How to Make Them Stronger (Bob Griffiths & Michael de la Maza)
• How To Find Trello Board Templates, Samples & Inspiration For Every Idea (Brian Cervino)
• Limits of a Self-Organizing Team (Dave Nicolette)
• Check out Timetracker 4.11.0’s Latest Improvements and Fixes (Leah Copeland)
• What A Remote Team Needs To Be Successful When Working On A Mission Critical Project (Poornima Vijayashanker)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• Using Github GraphQL Search API in Android App with Apollo (Alfian Losari)
• Ways we make the Slack iOS app accessible (Kaya Thomas)
• devilution – Diablo devolved – magic behind the 1996 computer game (galaxyhaxz)
• Google Play security metadata and offline app distribution (James Bender)
• Apple Released ResearchKit 2.0 Beta (Diogo Carleto)
• GitHub for Unity 1.0 Now Available (Eric Carter)
• GameMaker Basics: Combo Setup (Nathan Ranney)
• How to Set Expectations for What Your Skill Can Do to Ensure Customer Satisfaction (Ahmed El Araby)
• Enhance Your Skills for Fire TV Cube, a New Amazon Device Where Your Skills Can Shine (Brian Crum)
• Sketchy Experiments with HoloLens, Facial Tracking, Research Mode, RGB Streams, Depth Streams. and Placing 3D Models in the Mixed Reality Home (Mike Taulty)
• Data Management with SQLite and Vuex in a NativeScript-Vue App (Rob Lauer)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Handling Faults using Polly with Dylan Reisenberger (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Observed Tech PODCAST Now Available in the new Google Podcasts App (Richard Hay)
• Windows Central Podcast 94: The hardware roadmap (Zac Bowden)
• Kubernetes integration with Azure IoT Edge | Internet of Things Show (Olivier Bloch & Cameron Tomisser)
• More info on Azure Container Instances | Tuesdays With Corey (RicksterCDN)
• Automation options within and across services in Azure (Microsoft Mechanics)
• Microsoft Cloud Show Episode 260 | Visual Studio Team Services Live from Build (Andrew Connell & Chris Johnson)
• Getting started with Windows IoT Episode #3: Drivers, sensors, and Nuget Packages | Visual Studio Toolbox (Dmitry Lyalin & Cameron Tomisser)
• Syntax Podcast – Our Workflows: Design, Development, Git, Deployment (Wes Bos)
• The Changelog 302: Computer Science without a computer (Adam Stacoviak & Jerod Santo)
• Complete Developer Podcast – Get The Most From Conferences (BJ Burns & Will Gant)
• SQL Data Partners Podcast Episode 140: Why data types matter (Carlos L. Chacon)
• Developer on Fire Episode 349 | Eric Potter – Harness Your Enthusiasm (Dave Rael)
• DevOps for Data Science | The DevOps Lab (Dmitry Lyalin, Golnaz Alibeigi, Damian Brady & Paige Bailey)
• The Amp Hour #397.1 – An Interview with Monica Houston and Alessandra Nölting (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
• Cloud 5 minutes Introduction (Frank Boucher)
• RunAs Radio – Windows Linux Subsystem with Tara Raj and Sarah Cooley (Richard Campbell & Greg Hughes)
• How to Community: Anatomy of Successful Open Source Communities and Projects | The Open Source Show (Jessica Deen, Lacey Butler & Allison Cordle)
• 2FD 083: Timeshare Exit, Risks of Timeshares, Outsourcing Help and Putting Quality Back into Your Diet (Kevin Griffin & Sean Merron)
• Bot Framework v4 Chatdown Tutorial #3: Using Chat Files (Michael Szul)
• SE-Radio Episode 328: Bruce Momjian on the Postgres Query Planner (Robert Blumen)
• SSW TV – Developing Enterprise Apps with ASP .NET Core 2.1 (Sophie Belle)
• Developer Tea – We Become What We Get Used To (Jonathan Cutrell)
• The Developer Show — TL;DR 115 (Timothy Jordan)

Community & Events

• When Opportunity meets Momentum (Darrel Miller)
• Meet Pulumi, a Seattle-grown cloud startup that wants to be the development platform for the multicloud era (Tom Krazit)
• Women in Tech Score Symbolic Wins, But Cash Is Still Hard to Get (Bloomberg)
• Eugenio Pace of Auth0 Named EY Entrepreneur Of The Year® 2018 Award Winner in the Pacific Northwest (Jeana Tahnk)
• The Giant Manayunk Arts Festival Takes Over Main Street This Weekend, June 23-24 (Kelly Bucci)
• Internationally Speaking! (Sarah Dutkiewicz)

Database

• MySQL High Availability at GitHub (Shlomi Noach)
• RavenDB 4.1 Features: Cluster wide ACID transactions (Oren Eini)
• SQL SERVER – Unable to Install Reporting Service Add-In for SharePoint – System.ArgumentException (Pinal Dave)
• Database subsetting. What it is, what it’s for, and why we’d love to hear from you. (Alex Jeffreys)
• The Data Analysis Maturity Model – Level Two: Reliable Data Storage and Query Systems (Buck Woody)
• Driving data security is a shared responsibility, here’s how you can protect yourself and The June release of SQL Operations Studio is now available (Jenny Erie)
• SSMS reset window layout (Day 37) (Wayne Sheffield)

PowerShell

• Parsing Strings From Delimiters In PowerShell (Tim Smith)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft employees protest: ‘Stop work with ICE over cruel border policies’ and Google’s Android Messages for web is here: This is how it lets you text from PCs, Macs (Mary Jo Foley)
• Using quantitative and qualitative measurements to improve GitHub’s Editor Tools (Sarah Guthals)
• Everything Microsoft has said about the new Xbox (Ben Kuchera)
• Coming Soon: Atom Usage Metrics Improvements (Tilde Ann Thurium)
• Announcing Windows Server 2019 Insider Preview Build 17692 and Announcing Windows Admin Center Insider Preview 1806 (Dona Sarkar)
• ebook deal of the week: Windows 10 Plain & Simple, 2nd Edition (Microsoft Press)
• Windows Command-Line: Backgrounder (Rich Turner)
• Write That First Blog: Blogging for Programmers (Sander Rossel)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #2609 and The Morning Brew #2610 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #2123 and Double Shot #2124 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Xamarin & Windows App Developer Links – 2018-06-20 and Xamarin & Windows App Developer Links – 2018-06-21 (Dan Rigby)
• Interesting links of the week (06/11 – 06/17, 2018) (Mike Eaton)

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