Top Links
- .NET Rocks! – Chocolatey with Rob Reynolds (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
- Announcing Adobe XD support for Flutter (Tim Sneath)
- The anatomy of async iterators (aka await, foreach, yield) (Marc Gravell)
- Building a Progressive Web App with Blazor (Jon Galloway)
Web & Cloud Development
- Use the `prefers-reduced-motion` media query to toggle CSS and JavaScript animations (Elijah Manor)
- App Service is now an events publisher on Azure Event Grid (in preview) (Azure Team)
- What is Azure Front Door? (Andy Wahr)
- What’s New in the Kendo UI Angular Components with R2 2020 (Carl Bergenhem)
- Securing an Angular application using Azure B2C (Damien Bowden)
- Styling Components In React (Shedrack Akintayo)
- Unit Testing the HttpContext in Controllers (Ricardo Peres)
- Microsoft: Bosque is a new programming language built for AI in the cloud (Liam Tung)
- Scheduling GitHub Pages Posts for Future Dates (Jason Gaylord)
- Reducing Magic Strings with Microsoft Feature Toggles (Microsoft.FeatureManagement) (Jason Roberts)
- VMware to Acquire Octarine to Boost Kubernetes Runtime Security (Joab Jackson)
- Telerik UI for Blazor: 40+ Native Components with Telerik R2 2020 Release! (Maria Veledinova)
- Call for Review: DOM Review Draft — Published 18 June 2019 is a W3C Proposed Recommendation (Xueyuan Jia)
XAML, UWP & Xamarin
- iOS and macOS Dark Mode Dynamic Colors Overview (Gerald Versluis)
- Shell Quick Tip – Passing Data When Navigating (James Montemagno)
Visual Studio & .NET
- More fun with comments (Matt Lacey)
Design, Methodology & Testing
- Branching Patterns: Hotfix Branch and Branching Patterns: Release Train (Martin Fowler)
- 3 Reasons You Should Have Designers in Your Agile Teams (Maddie Schneck)
- Whiteboarding for Developers: Yes, You Have To (Chris Gustafson)
- Why use DTOs (Data Transfer Objects)? (Derek Comartin)
- Stop Being Awkward: 6 Tips For Better Video Meetings (Emily Whitten)
- Building End-to-End Diagnostics: Activity and Span Correlation (Jimmy Bogard)
- Measuring your way to failure: Thinking beyond your model metrics before deployment (Jose Medina Gomez)
- Tabs vs. Spaces (Kenneth Reilly)
- TeamCity 2020.1 RC is out (Maria Kudryavtseva)
- Ensuring backwards compatibility in distributed systems (Michael Pratt)
- How To Automate Tasks And Other Mundane Stuff – Part 2. (Rajiv Popat)
- How To Be More Organized When Working From Home (See Girl Work)
- Never use the same value for two IDs (or other values) in your tests (Steve Smith)
- 4 Skills Women Can Focus On To Foster Leadership (Morgen Henderson)
Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos
- Syntax Podcast – What’s New in Javascript (Wes Bos)
- Allscripts On Call Podcast – Incorporating Social Determinants of Health Data – w Rick Krohn, Principal, HealthSense (Allscripts Healthcare)
- Microsoft Cloud Show Episode 359 | Github Codespaces, NFL Teams Teams, and the News (Andrew Connell & Chris Johnson)
- The CSS Podcast 010: Flexbox (Una Kravets & Adam Argyle)
- The Endpoint Zone with Brad Anderson episode 2005 | The Endpoint Zone with Brad Anderson (Simon May)
- The Shiproom: Leadership amid rapid transformation (Jared Lambert)
Community & Events
- What It Means to be a Software Engineer (Joseph Guadagno)
- A Day in the Life of a Frontend Foundations Engineer at Slack (Natalie Qabazard)
- MVPs Unite To Share Microsoft Teams Expertise (MVP Award Team)
- Philly Authors’ Favorite Local Books to Add to Your Reading List (Shannon Wink)
Database
- SQL Server Index Basics (Eric Blinn)
- SQL Server Management Studio Keyboard Shortcuts (Greg Robidoux)
- SQL SERVER 2019 – Memory-Optimized TempDB and RESOURCE_SEMAPHORE Wait Type (Pinal Dave)
- Complex data analysis with RavenDB (Oren Eini)
- Parameter Sniffing, Embedding, and the RECOMPILE Options (Paul White)
SharePoint & MS Teams
- Configure Content Type Hub in SharePoint 2019 (Mohamed El-Qassas)
PowerShell
- PSScriptAnalyzer (PSSA) 1.19.0 has been released (Jim Truher)
Miscellaneous
- Writing technical articles: Defining your ideal reader (Rachel Andrew)
- Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 19628 (Brandon LeBlanc)
- Distribution Channel Discovery: Who Is Where? (ContentLab IO)
- Windows Insiders can now test DNS over HTTPS (Tommy Jensen)
More Link Collections
- The Morning Brew 2993 (Chris Alcock)
- .NET App Developer Links – 2020-05-14 (Dan Rigby)
The Geek Shelf
Testing JavaScript Applications (Lucas da Costa) – Referral Link