Day: October 1, 2018

Posts will be sporadic this week while I’m at TechBash 2018 in the Poconos.

Top Links

• Re-Open-Sourcing MS-DOS 1.25 and 2.0 (Rich Turner)
• AI Awesomeness! Microsoft Cognitive Services Speech Verification (Robin Osborne)
• New Phobos Release: v0.6.0 – Jaeger, Application Insights, and Akka.Cluster Sharding Support (Aaron Stannard)
• Desktop Applications with XAML. Part 1: UWP (Christian Nagel)

Web & Cloud Development

• How to Properly Copyright⚖ a Website – Legal & HTML Requirements‍ (Chris Love)
• Creating PDF files in ASP.NET Core (Damien Bowden)
• Writing to Azure Storage With F# (Larry O’Brien)
• Azure Tips and Tricks Part 160 – The BEST of Azure Tips and Tricks is now available as a FREE ebook (Michael Crump)
• Angular Flex-Layout: Flexbox and Grid Layout for Angular Component (Suguru Inatomi)
• Visual Studio Code can now convert your long chains of Promise.then()’s into async/await automagically (Ben Halpern)
• Firefox and Fiddler – Easier than Ever (Eric Lawrence)
• Introduction to Restricted Boltzmann Machines (Nikola Živković)
• Making Sense of AI: What Adobe Sensei Means for You (Tatiana Mejia)
• How to Add Images to QnA Maker Answers in Markdown (Michael Szul)

Visual Studio & .NET

• Exploring MoreLINQ Part 23 – Joining and Exploring MoreLINQ Part 24 – Flatten (Mark Heath)
• I didn’t understand why people struggled with (.NET’s) async (Dan)
• Introduction to Dependency Injection in C# using Autofac (Andrea Angella)
• VS2017 – A Few Idiosyncrasies (Bonnie DeWitt)
• Applicative functors (Mark Seemann)
• The danger of TaskCompletionSource class (Sergey Teplyakov)
• BenchmarkMockNet: Benchmarking .NET Mocking Libraries (Steve Desmond)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• Unit Testing With C++: The How and the Why (Eric Goebelbecker)
• Modeling Uncertainty With Reactive DDD (Vaughn Vernon)
• “It doesn’t work!” (aka better bug reports) (Dan Clarke)
• Balsamiq Dev Update for September 2018 (Brendan)
• Designing an Organization for a Product Approach, Part 1 (Johanna Rothman)
• That Stress You Feel? It’s A ‘Mental Load’ Of Invisible Work Your Team Needs To Talk About (Leah Ryder)
• Wrapping Up The Daily Software Anti-Pattern (Matthew Jones)
• Command Query Separation (CQS) – A simple but powerful pattern (Tim Sommer)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• How Voice and Graphics Working Together Enhance the Alexa Experience (Larry Hardesty)
• Bringing the power of Windows 10 to the Robot Operating System (Lou Amadio)
• Continuous delivery of macOS apps built with Swift (Mike James)
• The Magic of AnimatedList (Nash Ramdial)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• Cross Cutting Concerns Podcast 101 – Eric Potter on Legacy Software (Matthew Groves)
• Technology & Friends – Walt Ritscher on LinkedIn Learning (David Giard)
• Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 283 #OTP (Richard Hay)
• Developer Tea – 5 Learning Anti-Patterns (Jonathan Cutrell)
• Weekly Dev Tips 028: Applying Pain Driven Development to Patterns (Steve Smith)
• Agile Toolkit Podcast – Scott Ambler – Agile2018 (Bob Payne)
• PowerShell cross-platform scripting and AI-infused automation | Microsoft Ignite 2018 and Teamwork updates to Microsoft 365 | Microsoft Ignite 2018 (Microsoft Mechanics)
• Women in Business & Technology Podcast 030 – Amplifying inclusion at Microsoft Ignite with Startup Technical Advisor Claudia Galván (Sonia Dara & Colleen O’Brien)
• Java at Microsoft (Microsoft Developer)
• Ignite: Day 5 Intro (Christina Warren)
• Developer on Fire Episode 378 | Simon Harrer – Writing Priorities (Dave Rael)
• Confessions of Angry Programmers – Episode 0 (David McCarter)
• The Amp Hour #409 – Electronics Consultant Impedance Matching (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
• FreeCodeFriday – Episode 18 (Jason Bock)
• Microsoft 365 Dev Podcast – Microsoft Graph at Ignite 2018 with Yina Arenas and Mark Stafford (Jeremy Thake & Paul Schaeflein)
• Away From the Keyboard Podcast – Erica Peterson Founder of Moms Who Code and Science Tots (Richie Rump)
• Software Engineering Daily – Continuous Integration in Open Source with Oren Novotny (Jeff Meyerson)
• Merge Conflict 117: Getting to the Metal of Metal (James Montemagno)

Community & Events

• News from Microsoft Ignite: Bot Framework, AI, Azure and more (Sara Faatz)
• .NET Foundation September Update (.NET Foundation Team)
• Everything we announced at Minecon Earth 2018 (Tom Stone)
• MVP and RD Wall at Microsoft Ignite (Gary Ewan Park)
• 28 Outstanding Things To Do In Philadelphia, October 1-8 (Kelly Bucci)
• A recap from Microsoft Ignite 2018 (Michael Niehaus)
• 12+ Major Reasons To Visit Philly In Fall 2018 (Visit Philly)

Database

• Capturing SQL Server Deadlocks using Extended Events (Eduardo Pivaral)
• Add SQL Server Agent Management to SQL Operations Studio (Rajendra Gupta)
• How to STOP the Usage of SELECT * For Views? – Interview Question of the Week #193 (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

• David Wright, incomparable ambassador, earned every minute of his night (Ian O’Conner)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #2675 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #2182 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Azure Weekly: October 1, 2018 – Microsoft Ignite Aftermath (Chris Pietschmann)
• Xamarin & Windows App Developer Links – 2018-10-01 (Dan Rigby)
• Weekly C# Digest Issue #226 (Jakub Chodounsky)
• F# Weekly #39, 2018 – The Early History of the F# Language (Sergey Tihon)
• Roundup #20: Azure SignalR Service, MSBuild.SolutionSdk, Marten 3.0, .NET on Service Fabric (Derek Comartin)
• Reading List (Bruce Lawson)
• Sit Back, Relax, it’s The Friday Five! (MVP Award Program)

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