Dew Drop – August 27, 2018 (#2790)

Top Links

• TWC9: .NET Conf is Coming, Service Fabric vs Kubernetes, Windows 95 in Electron and more | This Week On Channel 9 (Cameron Tomisser & Christina Warren)
• Go 1.11 is released (Andrew Bonventre)
• Flutter Advanced: Async Programming | Future | Async Await (MTechViral)
• .NETConf 2018 – From developers for developers (Christos Matskas)

Web & Cloud Development

• Exploring the City of Amsterdam with Azure Durable Functions and the Custom Vision Service (Patrick van Kleef)
• VSTS and Git Integration for Deploying to Azure – Part 1 and VSTS and Git Integration for Deploying to Azure – Part 2 and VSTS and Git Integration for Deploying to Azure – Part 3 (Gregor Suttie)
• Azure Tips and Tricks 152 – Get the Record Count in Cosmos DB (Michael Crump)
• Convert your sketch to HTML code with Sketch2Code: Microsoft AI (Neel Bhatt)
• Chatdown Glob: An Example of Processing Multiple Files Using Glob (Michael Szul)
• Go 1.11 Adds WebAssembly, Experimental Module Support, and More (Sergio De Simone)
• Building a CachedRepository in ASPNET Core (Steve Smith)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

• Xamarin Forms 101: How to create a popup form in Xamarin Forms (Devlin Duldulao)
• XAML MenuBar (Fons Sonnemans)
• Using the New Xamarin.Forms Controls Toolbox (Maddy Leger)
• Localization Made Easy for Syncfusion Xamarin.Forms Components (Mohamed Samsudeen)
• Getting Started with Xamarin.Forms and Effects and Debugging Not Working for .NET Standard library in UWP Application (Nick Randolph)
• Book Review: Azure and Xamarin Forms: Cross Platform Mobile Development (David McCarter)
• Xamarin Preview Release: Xcode 10 Beta 6 (Bri Brothers)
• PSA: Android Pie Reports “9” for Release Version instead of “9.0” (James Montemagno)

Visual Studio & .NET

• C# Sharding and Multithreading – Deep Dive (Jeffrey Rennie)
• Does A Property Exist On My C# Object (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
• Exploring MoreLINQ Part 2 – Counting Elements and Exploring MoreLINQ Part 3 – MinBy and MaxBy and Exploring MoreLINQ Part 4 – Combinations and Exploring MoreLINQ Part 5 – Scan (Mark Heath)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• Step 3 of extracting a data-rich service and Step 2 of extracting a data-rich service and Refactoring 2nd Ed: Composing the Print Book (Martin Fowler)
• Kanban Board Tools Extension Now Available (Edward Fry)
• Lifelike Test Data Generation with Bogus (Jason Roberts)
• On Constructor Over-injection (Mark Seemann)
• Reinventing the Square Wheel – The Daily Software Anti-Pattern (Matthew Jones)
• Build Pipelines and Application Packaging With .NETCore (Shannon Lewis)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• Things Every Alexa Skill Should Do: Beta Testing (Jeff Blankenburg)
• Obtaining the Connection String for a Provisioned Windows IOT Device (j2inet)
• Adventures in Navigation Land – Part 1 (Mark Allison)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• Cross Cutting Concerns Podcast 096 – Sean Hunter on Aurelia (Matthew Groves)
• Technology & Friends – Heather Downing and Spencer Schneidenback on the HelloWorld Show (David Giard)
• Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 279 #OTP (Richard Hay)
• InfoQ Podcast: Uncle Bob Martin on Clean Software, Craftsperson, Origins of SOLID, DDD, & Software Ethics (Uncle Bob Martin)
• ASP.NET Monsters #118: Blazor with an ASP.NET Core Backend (Simon Timms, David Paquette & James Chambers)
• Coding Blocks 88 – What is Algorithmic Complexity? (Allen Underwood, Michael Outlaw & Joe Zack)
• PPP 220 | (Video) Look for This When Hiring People (Andy Kaufman)
• Codepunk 036: Digital Friends (Bill Ahern)
• CodeNewbie S5:E4 – Learning to code with technical books (Katel LeDû) (CodeNewbie Team)
• Developer on Fire Episode 368 | Kristoffer Rolf Deinoff – Understanding People (Dave Rael)
• The Amp Hour #404 – Proof Of Blink (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
• FreeCodeFriday – Episode 13 (Jason Bock)
• StarTalk Radio – The Spirit of Exploration, with James Cameron (Neil deGrasse Tyson)
• Software Engineering Daily – Helm with Michelle Noorali (Jeff Meyerson)
• Merge Conflict 112: Decrypting Encryption (James Montemagno)
• Developer Tea – 3 Ways to Simplify and Avoid Ego Depletion (Jonathan Cutrell)
• Weekly Dev Tips 026: Layering Patterns on Repositories (Steve Smith)

Community & Events

• Closing The Gap Between Men and Women in STEM (Anna Kucirkova)
• 28 Terrific Things To Do In Philly This Week, August 27 – September 3 (Kelly Bucci)
• Introducing Derek Campbell (Octopus Deploy)
• 15 Must-See Big Games And Sporting Events Hitting Philly This Fall (Visit Philly)
• My Journey to Windows Observer Began with Windows 95 (Richard Hay)

Database

• Customize SQL Server Notifications for DDL Changes (Aaron Bertrand)
• Choosing a SQL Server Upgrade Method – Part 1 (Ameena Lalani)
• SQL SERVER – How to DROP or DELETE Suspect Database? and What Part of the SQLDump Suggest Database Corruption? – Interview Question of the Week #188 (Pinal Dave)
• MySQL 5.7 InnoDB AUTO_INCREMENT Counters Get Reset After MySQL Service Restart (Ben Nadel)

Miscellaneous

• Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 17746 (Dona Sarkar)
• Improving the Windows Console (Graham High)
• Public Speaking – Speaking (Hadi Hariri)

More Link Collections

• Double Shot #2164 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Azure Blockchain Workbench, Object Detection, and More on The Friday Five! (MVP Award Program)
• Xamarin & Windows App Developer Links – 2018-08-27 (Dan Rigby)
• F# Weekly #34, 2018 – Ionide reached 1.000.000 of downloads! (Sergey Tihon)
• Weekly C# Digest Issue #221 (Jakub Chodounsky)
• Top Stories from the Microsoft DevOps Community – 2018.08.24 (Edward Thomson)
• Reading List (Bruce Lawson)
• Reading Notes #342 (Frank Boucher)

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