July 2019 – Morning Dew by Alvin Ashcraft

Dew Drop – July 31, 2019 (#3001)

Top Links

How to develop React apps like Facebook, Microsoft, and Google (Victor Savkin)
Exploring the Visual Studio Test Platform | On .NET (Cecil Phillip & Kendra Havens)
Create your own image classifier with Angular and Tensorflow.js (Eliran Eliassy)
Xamarin.Forms 101: OnIdiom (Adjusting UI Based on Device Type) | The Xamarin Show (James Montemagno & Maddy Leger)
Authentication and authorization in gRPC for ASP.NET Core (James Newton-King)
Find your perfect coding style using Rider (Rachel Appel)

Web & Cloud Development

Azure Tips & Tricks – Tip 212 – How to restore accidental deletion of your Azure Storage Blobs (Michael Crump)
Understanding Azure Durable Functions – Part 4: Passing Input To Orchestrations and Activities (Jason Roberts)
Top 4 Tactics To Keep Node.js Rockin’ in Docker (Bret Fisher)
Next.js Practical Introduction: Navigation and Routing (Dan Arias)
ASP.NET Gridview in Web Forms using Bootstrap 4 (Don Hoang)
WebStorm 2019.1.4 is available (Ekaterina Prigara)
Building Messaging Endpoints in Azure: A Generic Host (Jimmy Bogard)
Enabling Password-Less Sign-In for Azure Active Directory (Russell Smith)
Why React Hooks? (Tyler McGinnis)
SAML: What’s Behind SSO (Joël Franusic)
Electron 6.0.0 Release (Sofia Nguy, Charles Kerr & Shelley Vohr)
Deploy your machine learning models with Kubernetes (Itay Ariel)
Amazon Polly Introduces Neural Text-To-Speech and Newscaster Style (Julien Simon)
Evolution of Netflix Conductor: (Anoop Panicker & Kishore Banala)
Using “replace” in go.mod to point to your local module (Pam Selle)
Spring Cloud Data Flow 2.2 Delivers Value-Adds for Ephemeral Microservices on Cloud Foundry and Kubernetes (Sabby Anandan)
Ruby on Rails on Windows is not just possible, it’s fabulous using WSL2 and VS Code (Scott Hanselman)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

Build, Notarize, Repeat: Some tips to avoid endlessly failing to notarize your Xamarin Mac app. (Damian Mehers)
Windows 10 SDK Preview Build 18945 available now! (Kevin Larkin)

Visual Studio & .NET

C# If Else Statement (Mahesh Chand)

Design, Methodology & Testing

Azure DevOps and Telerik NuGet Packages (Lance McCarthy)
Managing Remote Developer Teams: How Buffer Set the Gold Standard – Interview with Katie Womersley (Tamás Török)
Successful Software Rewrites: The Slack for Desktop Case (Bruno Couriol)
Give me feedback that is qualitative, broad, and random (Jessica Kerr)
How To Have Radically Candid Career Conversations Like a Boss (Kim Scott)
Find Help Online Mindfully — and Effectively! (Max Pekarsky)
GitLab Patch Release: 12.1.3 (Robert Speicher)
The traits of serverless architecture (Wisen Tanasa)
Improvements for enterprises signing MSIX packages (Insider Preview) (John Vintzel)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

React Native vs Flutter (Anton Shaleynikov)
Click the Azure IoT Button – Part 1 (Christian Nagel)
Make stronger decisions with new Google Play Console data (Tom Grinsted)
Getting Your Route On with NativeScript-Vue: Episode Two (Rob Lauer)
Here’s what’s in the brand-new Unity 2019.2 (Thomas Krogh-Jacobsen)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

Software Engineering Daily – TechPrimers: Software Engineering YouTube with Ajay Kumar (Jeff Meyerson)
Developer Tea 3×3 – Relating Better With Difficult Coworkers (Jonathan Cutrell)
2019-07-22 (VOD) Learning Blazor on Linux running SKD in a Docker Container (Frank Boucher)
Kubernetes Podcast from Google – Cloud Code, with Sarah D’Angelo and Patrick Flynn (Craig Box & Adam Glick)
Microsoft Cloud Show Episode 313 | Solo CJ and the News! (Andrew Connell & Chris Johnson)
RunAs Radio – Does Windows Still Matter with Paul Thurrott (Richard Campbell & Greg Hughes)
Real Talk JS Episode 43: VS Live Share – Jonathan Carter (John Papa, Ward Bell & Dan Wahlin)
Talk Python to Me #223 – Fun and Easy 2D Games with Python (Michael Kennedy)

Community & Events

TechBash 2019 Tickets On Sale Now! (Jason Gaylord)
In Conversation: James Watters on Pivotal’s Future with Kubernetes and Partnership with VMware (James Watters)
How to get the GitHub Student Developer Pack without a student ID (Scott Sanicki)

Database

Data Exploration with Python and SQL Server using Jupyter Notebooks (Maria Zakourdaev)
Data Analysis of SQL Server Tables using T-SQL for Machine Learning Exploration (Pablo Echeverria)
Design exercise: File system abstraction in RavenDB (Oren Eini)
Migrating Data from MongoDB to Couchbase (Douglas Bonser)

SharePoint & MS Teams

Enhanced Quick Edit for SharePoint lists and libraries (Chris McNulty)

PowerShell & Command Line

Cyberpunk Theme for your Hyper Terminal (Michael Szul)
Control Bluetooth on Apple MacBook Pro from the Command Line (Trevor Sullivan)

Miscellaneous

Announcing Windows Server vNext Insider Preview Build 18945 (Brandon LeBlanc)
How to build a marketing services platform: learnings from our Microsoft journey (Valerie Beaulieu)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #2799 (Chris Alcock)

The Geek Shelf

Programming TypeScript: Making Your JavaScript Applications Scale (Boris Cherny)

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Dew Drop – July 30, 2019 (#3000)

Welcome to Dew Drop post #3000! Thank you for continuing to follow.

Top Links

RELEASE: ASP .NET Core A-Z eBook (Shahed Chowdhuri)
Announcing docs.microsoft.com/samples (Den Delimarsky)
A piece of Windows 10 is now running on WebAssembly, natively on iOS and Android (Jérôme Laban)
TechBash 2019 – Early Bird Tickets are Now Available (TechBash Team)

Web & Cloud Development

Using CSS Custom attributes generated by JavaScript as a handover mechanism (Chris Heilmann)
An alternative way to build and bundle Javascript, CSS in ASP.NET Core MVC and Razor Page projects (Damien Bowden)
ASP.NET Core 3.0 Exception Handling (Dino Esposito)
Indexing and searching NuGet.org with Azure Functions and Search (Maarten Balliauw)
Real-time streaming transcription with the AWS C++ SDK (Marco Magdy)
Getting Started with Entity Framework Core in ASP.NET Core – Models, DbContext, Configuration (Marinko Spasojevic)
A little trick with Angular forms and directives (Tim Deschryver)
Using Twilio to build the internet (Alexandra Sunderland)
Configuring Policy-based Authorization with Blazor (Chris Sainty)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

Easily Edit Your Images with an ImageEditor for Xamarin.Forms (Dobrinka Yordanova)
Frequency filtering with Xamarin.Forms and SkiaSharp (David Britch)

Visual Studio & .NET

Using the ReferenceAssemblies NuGet package to build .NET Framework libraries on Linux, without installing Mono (Andrew Lock)
MSVC Backend Updates in Visual Studio 2019 version 16.2 (Daniel Donenfeld)
Inlining Decisions in Visual Studio (Terry Mahaffey)
Building .NET libraries – Enhanced multi-targeting with .NET Standard (James Croft)
Shell Sort – The Sorting Algorithm Family Reunion (Matthew Jones)
Smarter Member List Filtering for C++ (Nick Uhlenhuth)
Global Query Filters for Interfaces (Phil Haack)

Design, Methodology & Testing

How To Make 1:1 Meetings A Win-Win For Everyone Involved (Barry Clark)
Clean up your code with destructuring (Carl Rippon)
It Takes All Types: What Type of Product Manager Are You? (David Hallinan)
What’s new in the GitHub and Slack integration (Janey Jack)
Yes, Data Privacy Applies to You (Jenny O’Brien)
Rediscovering Lean (Kevin Duggan)
Approval Tests (Nigel Sampson)
SOLID Design: The Open-Close Principle (OCP) (Patrick Smacchia)
Hashing Techniques for Password Storage (William Dawson)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Turning LED on and off with ASP.NET Core 3.0 on RaspberryPi (Gunnar Peipman)
Announcing general availability for the Azure Security Center for IoT (Michal Braverman-Blunmenstyk)
Minimal required software for MRTK2 development for HoloLens 2 and Immersive headsets (Joost van Schaik)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

Syntax Podcast – Hasty Treat – VSCode Treats Part 2 (Wes Bos)
freeCodeCamp Podcast: From biochemical engineer to software engineer at LEGO (Abbey Rennemeyer)
Revision Path 305: Sarah Huny Young (Maurice Cherry)
Software Engineering Daily – WebAssembly on IoT with Jonathan Beri (Jeff Meyerson)
ASP.NET Monsters #123: Background Services (David Paquette)
Microsoft 365 Dev Podcast – Azure Functions and SharePoint with Rob Windsor (Jeremy Thake & Paul Schaeflein)
DevTalk 16: Cross-platfom apps using F# and Fabulous. With Mark Allibone (Kerry W. Lothrop)
MJS 117: The Devchat.tv Mission and Journey with Charles Max Wood (Charles Max Wood)
FreeCodeSession – Episode 83 (Jason Bock)
Solving business problems at scale with IoT and context data | Internet of Things Show (Olivier Bloch)
The 6 Figure Developer Episode 102 – Application Insights with Isaac Levin (John Callaway)

Community & Events

Philly Food & Drink Picks: Night Market Fairmount, Peach Fests & A New Philly Brewery, July 29 – August 18 (Shannon Wink)

SharePoint & MS Teams

Microsoft Teams app updates on Android with emoji reactions and more (Brad Stephenson)

PowerShell

Quick tip: uninstall a driver (Emin Atac)

Miscellaneous

Windows 10 Tip: Emoji 12 ✨ (Athima Chansanchai)
Microsoft acquires BlueTalon, simplifying data privacy and governance across modern data estates (Rohan Kumar)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #2898 (Chris Alcock)
Interesting links of the week (2019 #26) (Michael Eaton)
Azure Weekly: July 29, 2019 (Chris Pietschmann)
Collective #536 (Pedro Botelho)
Professional Development – 7/22/2019 – 7/28/2019 (Cameron Presley)

The Geek Shelf

Blazor Revealed: Building Web Applications in .NET (Peter Himschoot)

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TechBash 2019 Early Bird Tickets are Now Available

Reposted from the TechBash blog.

Are you ready for TechBash 2019? Many of you have been asking when tickets will be available, and now is the time.

If you want to save up to 20% on TechBash tickets for you and your team, Early Bird tickets will be available thru midnight EDT on August 23rd (or until they sell out). Visit our EventBrite page and choose a 3-day or 4-day ticket to join us on November 12th thru 15th at the Kalahari Resort in the Poconos. Get more registration info on our site.

Selecting either ticket type gets you tons of great content on Wed/Thu/Fri. We’ll have sessions from world-class speakers. Some names will be familiar to those of you who have attended in previous years, and we’re also welcoming some fantastic speakers to their first-ever TechBash event. If you select a 4-day ticket, you will also be able to attend one of our deep-dive, full-day workshops on Tuesday, Nov 12. Select one of these workshops during the checkout process on EventBrite:

From Zero to Hero with Azure DevOps – Paul Hacker, Microsoft & Daniel Redman, Microsoft
Intro to Web Components – Chris Lorenzo, Comcast & John Riviello, Comcast
Doing More with Serverless on Azure – Rich Ross, Microsoft
Modernizing Your Apps to .NET Core / .NET 5 – Sean Killeen, Excella

Get more info about our workshops and other speakers on the TechBash home page. And we are still finalizing speakers and sessions so be sure to check back often to see who else we’re adding!

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