Dew Drop – October 16, 2018 (#2824)

Top Links

• Talkin’ ‘bout my generation: How the Uno Platform generates code, part 2 — Under the hood (Uno Platform)
• Guidance for library authors (James Newton-King)
• Prism 7.1.0 RTM (Release Notes) (Dan Siegel)
• Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella’s statement on the passing of Paul Allen and Microsoft mourns the passing of co-founder Paul Allen (Microsoft)

Web & Cloud Development

• Emulated Encapsulation Host And Content Attributes Are Calculated Once Per Component Type In Angular 6.1.10 (Ben Nadel)
• Profiling React Components with the User Timing API (Blanca Mendizábal Perelló)
• Use Azure CLI…I Beg You. (Kellyn Pot’Vin-Gorman)
• New ConvertBarcodeSplit Web API Method for LEADTOOLS Cloud Services (Greg Kieslich)
• Lazy Loading Images with Vue.js Directives and Intersection Observer (Mateusz Rybczonek)
• Writing a simple time server in Golang (Aniket Bhattacharyea)
• The Complete Guide to Object-Oriented Programming With PHP (Part 1) (Nico Anastasio)
• AWS Using Serveless Framework To Create A Lambda Function (Sacha Barber)
• Tackling Costs in Azure (K. Scott Allen)
• An Overview of Open Standards (Sarah Jorgenson)
• Analyze Stack Overflow Data With Golang And HTTP (Nic Raboy)
• TypeScript Tutorial: How to Make Code Reusable (Chander Dhall)
• Machine Learning to prevent Future Disaster (danishwadhwaflybiz)
• Streaming Audio in Edge (Eric Lawrence)
• EventFlow: Event-driven microservices on OpenShift (Part 1) (Hugo Hiden)
• Jasper as an In-Memory Bus Part 1 (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Modernizing TLS connections in Microsoft Edge and Internet Explorer 11 (Kyle Pflug)
• The Simplest Deep Learning Program That Could Possibly Work (Larry O’Brien)
• REST vs. RPC: what problems are you trying to solve with your APIs? (Martin Nally)
• The Netflix Media Database (NMDB) (Rohit Puri, Shinjan Tiwary, Sreeram Chakrovorthy, Subbu Venkatrav, Arsen Kostenko & Yi Guo)
• Run in Postman is now available for Linux (Nikita)
• Give REST a Rest with RSocket (Robert Roeser)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

• Introducing the Crystal Theme for WPF and WinForms—Get Started in Minutes (Viktoria Grozdancheva)
• Xamarin iOS App Settings (Peter Freeman Foot)

Visual Studio & .NET

• Working with the Dynamic Type in C# (Camilo Reyes)
• TaskLoaderView: async init made easy (Jean-Marie Alfonsi)
• Configure Sounds for Builds in Visual Studio (Steve Smith)
• Microsoft xlang – Help developers create APIs that can run on multiple platforms and be used with a variety of languages (Harry Pierson, Ryan Shepherd & Kenny Kerr)
• Using multiple instances of strongly-typed settings with named options in .NET Core 2.x (Andrew Lock)
• New prescriptive guidance for Open Source .NET Library Authors (Scott Hanselman)
• Microsoft’s Developer Blogs are Getting an Update (Visual Studio Team)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• Adobe announces full Photoshop for iPad, coming in 2019 (Kareem Anderson)
• Travis CI – Windows is Available (Early Release) (Josh Kalderimis & Anna Nagy)
• Build your own Jenkins! Introducing Custom WAR/Docker Packager (Oleg Nenashev)
• How To Become A Project Management Master With Trello (Alexia)
• Value, Quality, and Craft in Software (Dave Nicolette)
• Introducing Illustrator CC 2019 (Wayne Hoang)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• Building React Native Projects with Native Code: Part 3 and Building React Native Projects with Native Code: Part 4 (John Tucker)
• New Enhancements to the Appstore Reporting Dashboard (Sreeram Krishnamachari)
• Build Responsive UIs in Flutter (Raouf Rahiche)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Securing your Dependencies with Nina Juliadotter (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Side Hustle Success Podcast Episode 5 : Mental Roadblocks that Stop us From Working (Stephen Haunts)
• Windows Central Podcast 107: Project xCloud, Cortana moves, and more (Zac Bowden)
• SSW TV – Mark Seemann & Brendan Richards – Dependency Injection, Unit Testing, & C# vs F#, an AMA! from NDC Sydney 2018 (Sophie Belle)
• Deploying .NET Web Apps to Azure | On .NET (Andrew Hall, Cecil Phillip & Jeremy Likness)
• Syntax Podcast – Hasty Treat – Old Browsers, Fallbacks and Polyfills – Part 1 (Wes Bos)
• The Changelog BONUS – Sustain Summit 2018 (Adam Stacoviak & Jerod Santo)
• Gone Mobile 78: Building a Software Business with Matthew Robbins (Greg Shackles & Jonathan Dick)
• Palermo Pamphlet 002 – How to design a state machine for workflow (Jeffrey Palermo)
• Revision Path 264: Courtney Wilburn (Maurice Cherry)
• Software Engineering Daily – Data Warehouse with Christian Kleinerman (Jeff Meyerson)
• Real Talk JS Episode 3:  Dan Wahlin on End to End Testing with Cypress.io (John Papa & Ward Bell)

Community & Events

• Amazon donates $2M to create fund to help immediate needs of Seattle school students (Frank Catalano)
• MIT is investing $1 billion in an AI college (James Vincent)

Database

• Speeding Up SQL Server: Planning for One-Time Queries (Peter Vogel)
• Create a SQL Server Performance Monitor Dashboard in the Azure Portal (Joe Gavin)

PowerShell

• Azure PowerShell – Cross-platform “Az” module replacing “AzureRM” (Mark Cowlishaw)
• Creating symbolic links with PowerShell DSC (Martin Schvartzman)

Miscellaneous

• Cortana beta debuts major UI overhaul and more on Android and iOS (Dan Thorp-Lancaster)

More Link Collections

• Double Shot #2193 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Azure.Source – Volume 53 (Rob Caron)
• Collective #459 (Pedro Botelho)
• Xamarin & Windows App Developer Links – 2018-10-16 (Dan Rigby)
• Professional Development 10/08/2018 – 10/14/2018 (Cameron Presley)
• Interesting links of the week (10/08 – 10/14, 2018) (Michael Eaton)

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