Month: December 2019

Top Links

• C# Language Highlights: Expression Bodied Members | On .NET (Maira Wenzel & Kendra Havens)
• Any company can become a software-driven organization. The new release of Pivotal Platform gives you the blueprint. (Jared Ruckle)
• Hanselminutes – Modern Infrastructure as Code with Pulumi’s Joe Duffy (Scott Hanselman)
• Uno Platform Part 2 | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green)

Web & Cloud Development

• Azure Functions 3.0 Goes Live (Kay Ewbank)
• How To Validate Angular Reactive Forms (Ankit Sharma)
• Global state using only React Hooks with the Context API (No Redux) (Amir Off)
• PhpStorm 2019.3.1 is released (Anton Monakov)
• Use TypeScript to Create a Secure API with Node.js and Express: Role-Based Access Control and Use TypeScript to Create a Secure API with Node.js and Express: Endpoints and Controllers and Use TypeScript to Create a Secure API with Node.js and Express: Authentication and Authorization and Use TypeScript to Create a Secure API with Node.js and Express: Data Models and Services and Use TypeScript to Create a Secure API with Node.js and Express: Getting Started (Dan Arias)
• Tips for learning Azure in the new year (Michael Crump)
• Angular 9.0.0 and Ivy improvements (Mike Hartington)
• Provisioned Concurrency: Avoiding Cold Starts in AWS Lambda (Mikhail Shilkov)
• How to Upgrade to PHP 7.4 with PhpStorm (Roman Pronskiy)
• W3C – WebAssembly Version 1.0 (Ian Elliot)
• Multi-Factor Authentication Sucks (Randall Degges)
• Making a Transaction bundle using the Mapping Language (David Hay)
• App Settings in Client-Side Blazor (Jeremy Hutchinson)
• Building an Awesome UI Component Library in 2020 (Jonathan Saring)
• Enforcing Different Kinds of Policies for Cloud Resources (Justin Van Patten)
• Extending Envoy With WebAssembly and Solo.io (K. Jonas)
• ASP.NET Core: When Environments Are Not Enough, Use Sub-Environments! (Thomas Levesque)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

• Xamarin.Forms UI Challenges – RottenUI (Kym Phillpotts)
• Get Familiar with the Latest Features of Telerik PdfViewer for Xamarin (Yana Kerpecheva)
• Exploring the Syncfusion Essential UI kit (Charlin Agramonte)

Visual Studio & .NET

• ReSharper Ultimate 2019.3.1 Hotfix Is Out! and Rider 2019.3.1 Hotfix Is Out! (Alexander Kurakin)
• F# Basics – From loops to folds (Reed Copsey)
• Hitchhiker’s Guide to the C# scripting (Ali Bahraminezhad)
• Microsoft’s C# 9.0 begins to take shape (Paul Krill)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• Agile Project Manager, Scrum Master, or Product Owner? (Johanna Rothman)
• Azure DevOps Server in Azure Government (Steve Michelotti)
• How to Use GitHub and ES6 Features to Create and Structure Your Code and Five tips for moving from coding tutorials to making progress as a developer (M. S. Farzan)
• Enable auto-updates for your MSIX packages without publishing your apps in the Microsoft Store (Alex Marin)
• The Importance of Fun in the Workplace (Ben Linders)
• Intro to GitHub Actions (Jason Giordano)
• File bug and feature reports effectively and easily (Rachel Appel)
• What senior developers can learn from beginners (Ryland Goldstein)
• Designing a build system for .NET solutions with Cake – 2: The Cake build tool and convention-based builds (Matthew Abbott)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• Azure CLI 2.0: Create Azure IoT Hub (Chris Pietschmann)
• Flutter Design Patterns: 10 — Factory Method (Mangirdas Kazlauskas)
• NativeScript 6.3 – The Holiday Edition (Emil Tabakov)
• Dart declaration-site variance (Kallen Tu)
• Flutter Trends and Community Updates (Ed Freitas)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• Software Engineering Daily – freeCodeCamp with Quincy Larson (Jeff Meyerson)
• Developer Tea – Simplifying (Jonathan Cutrell)
• Best Practices – Async / Await | The Xamarin Show (James Montemagno)
• Codepunk 054: GitHub Arctic Code Vault (Bill Ahern)
• CppCast – OpenVDB with Ken Museth (Rob Irving)
• ID10T Podcast – Vince Gilligan Returns (Chris Hardwick)
• What is SandDance? | Data Exposed (Jeroen ter Heerdt)
• Rocket 258: X is Banned (Brianna Wu, Christina Warren & Simone De Rochefort)
• Top 5 Talk Python Episodes of 2019 (Michael Kennedy)
• Power BI integration with TSI | Internet of Things Show (Olivier Bloch & MAAllen)
• Global AI Bootcamp Keynote | AI Show (Seth Juarez)

Community & Events

• Life as a Dart intern (Kallen Tu)
• Creating Tech For The Culture: Working on Side Projects That Have Impact (Dalvin Josias Sejour)
• Google Summer of Code 2020 call for Project ideas and Mentors (Martin d’Anjou)

Database

• SQL SERVER – Parameter Sniffing and Local Variable in SP (Pinal Dave)
• SSIS Layout Formatting Options (Tim Mitchell)
• Going Serverless with Azure SQL Database (John Miner)

Miscellaneous

• Announcing Rust 1.40.0 (Rust Release Team)
• Mobile threat defense and intelligence are a core part of cyber defense (Todd VanderArk)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #2900 (Chris Alcock)
• .NET App Developer Links – 2019-12-20 (Dan Rigby)
• Double Shot #2497 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Svelte 3.16.5, a static blog with Svelte, Svelte wins Prediction Award & more (Marlos from Jexia)
• Collective #575 (Pedro Botelho)
• Roundup #62: ConfigureAwait, System.Threading.Channels, New Executive Director of .NET Foundation, Event Driven Collaboration, What You Need to Know About Open Source (Derek Comartin)
• Go 1.14 beta 1, virtual actor pattern in Go, “Sign in with Apple” with Go & more (Maarten from Jexia)

The Geek Shelf

 Rediscovering JavaScript: Master ES6, ES7, and ES8 (Venkat Subramaniam) – Referral Link