Dew Drop – May 9, 2017 (#2475)

Top Links

• Introducing Project Glimpse: Node Edition (Nik Molnar)
• Channel 9 Xbox One App (Golnaz Alibeigi, Soumow Atitallah & Dunni) – Just in time for Build!
• Meet OzCode creator at Microsoft Build 2017 (OzCode Team)
• F# support in Rider – what’s there and what’s coming (Maarten Balliauw)

 

Web Development

• Using ImageSharp to resize images in ASP.NET Core – Part 3: caching (Andrew Lock)
• Prepack JavaScript Compiler Aims to Reduce Startup Time (David Iffland)
• How to Verify User Age with jQuery Code (Learning jQuery)
• 7 Free jQuery Plugins for Maps (Megan Rafferty)
• The Ultimate Guide To Deploying Your PHP Applications (Prosper Otemuyiwa)
• Turn Off Caching at the Browser (Peter Vogel)
• Module specifiers: what’s new with ES modules? (Axel Rauschmayer)
• Building a Service in the Cloud (Adrian Hall)
• Working With Types in TypeScript (Anoop Kumar Sharma)
• Machine Keys on an Azure App Service, machineKey multiple instances Azure (Benjamin Perkins)
• Microsoft Bot Framework: showing a welcome message at the start of a new conversation (Davide Zordan)
• Using modern data sources in Azure Analysis Services (Kay Unkroth)
• 5 things I learned about HTTP2 in an afternoon (Peter Gfader)

 

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

• 2000 WPF Things #1,207 – Data Binding Can Fail Quietly in Production Code (Sean Sexton)
• UWP: Working with Bluetooth devices (part 2: pairing) (Sergiy Baydachnyy)
• Fantastic Fonts in Forms Without the Fuss (Matthew Soucoup)

 

Visual Studio & .NET

• Why Does ODP.NET Have Async Methods If They’re Not Asynchronous? (Matthew Jones)
• Adding Fire to your Coding with Fira Code Font (Greg Duncan)

 

Design, Methodology & Testing

• How to end a tip of the day series when you need a vacation – 128 (Sara Ford)
• Visual Studio Test Platform, MSTest V2 – Transparent Development (Pratap Lakshman)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Build a portfolio of apps as you improve your Android dev skills with the new Advanced Android course (Jocelyn Becker)
• Have Web Standards on Mobile Caught Up to Phonegap in 2017? Pt. 1 (Raymond Camden)
• Google’s Fuchsia OS now has a UI for smartphones and tablets (Phone Arena Team)
• Detecting Device Orientation change with React Native (Latish Sehgal)
• AlexaDev Tuesday: The First Cortana Skills Will Be Free, Too (April Hamilton)
• Explaining IoT to Non-Technical Leadership (Juan Jose Bello)
• Announcing Microsoft’s Ad Mediation Service (Parth Pandya)

 

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• Cross Cutting Concerns Podcast 040 – Matthew Revell on Developer Conferences (Matthew Groves)
• .NET Rocks! – Serverless Azure with Jeff Hollan (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Radical Candor Podcast Episode 19: Being a Boss Isn’t for Everyone… Including Some Bosses (Elisse Lockhart)
• InfoQ Podcast: Jason Hand on DevOps Culture and Powerful Post-Mortems (Jason Hand)
• AFH 065: Agile Open Forum with Woody Zuill, Tim Ottinger, Amitai Schleier, and Zach Bonaker [PODCAST] (Ryan Ripley)
• Agile Coffee podcast, episode 55 – podcast – Agile Coffee (Vic Bonacci)
• AiA 141 Migrating a Large Angular 1.x App to Angular 2+ (Alyssa Nicoll, Charles Max Wood, Ciro Nunes, Joe Eames & Ward Bell)
• Entreprogrammers Episode 166 “Salted Pork” (Josh Earl, John Sonmez, Derick Bailey & Charles Max Wood)
• JSJ 261 HTTP 2 with Surma (Aimee Knight, Charles Max Wood, Cory House & Joe Eames)
• Functional Geekery Episode 94 – Evan Hubinger (Steven Proctor)
• Developing Apps for Accessibility (keantonc & Rosshe)
• Microsoft Brings Glass back to Windows with “Project Neon” (Video) (Cody Carson)
• Revision Path 190: RJ Harrington (Maurice Cherry)
• Partially Derivative Podcast – Data Science Near You (Chris Albon, Jonathon Morgan & Vidya Spandana)
• Away From the Keyboard – The Case of Entity Framework Core’s Odd SQL (Richie Rump)
• var Sovia = new Tech(); Aftermovie | var Sovia = new Tech(); (Satya Nadella, Josh Gavant, Karol Zak, Damian Widera, Debbi Hoehn, Mateusz Kierepka, Ralf Saykiewicz, Jakub Gutkowski, Bojan Vrhovnik, Sara Jane Dunn, Ami Turgman, Marek Byszewski & Piotr Czarnas)
• SE-Radio Episode 290: Diogo Mónica on Docker Security (Kim Carter)
• Software Engineering Daily – Automation with Haseeb Qureshi and Quincy Larson and Software Engineering Daily – Software Consulting with Rachel Laycock (Jeff Meyerson)

 

Community / Events

• So Many More Xamarin Dev Days! (Jayme Singleton)
• A day in the life of … a Product Support Engineer (Anuradha Deshpande & Alex Bartley)
• See you at OSCON this week (Brandon Keepers)
• Google I/O 2017 on your mobile devices (Mónica Bagagem)
• 20+ Excellent Things To Do In Philly This Week, May 8-14 (Jillian Wilson)
• Microsoft Reactor Launches Mixed Reality Cafe with Panel Discussion (Justin Mummert)
• Five Key Clauses for Consideration in Your Next Event Contract (Kalahari Meetings)
• Introducing DZone Jobs – A Brand New Developer-Focused Job Board (Matthew Schmidt)
• Top Five Tips for Attending Build This Week (Tim Sneath)
• Hot database startup MemSQL opens a Seattle engineering office (Tom Krazit)
• Why the Next 10 Days Are Critical to the Internet’s Future (Ashley Boyd)

 

Database

• SSDT DevPack + Visual Studio 2017 (Ed Elliott)
• Linux Administration for SQL Server DBA’s: Checking Disk I/O (Daniel Farina)
• Key Value Pair Basics for SQL Server Data (Tim Smith)
• Optimizing Intelligent Apps Using Machine Learning in SQL Server (Cortana Intelligence and ML Blog Team)
• SQL SERVER – SQL Audit Date Time Does Not Match Machine Date Time – Solution (Pinal Dave)

 

Miscellaneous

• ebook deal of the week: Windows 10 Inside Out, 2nd Edition (Kim Spilker)
• Harman Kardon officially announces the Invoke speaker with Cortana, available in the US in fall 2017 (Laurent Giret)
• How To Find (And Land) Your Next Remote Job (Leah Ryder)

 

More Link Collections

• Xamarin App Developer Links – 2017-05-09 and Windows App Developer Links – 2017-05-09 (Dan Rigby)
• The Morning Brew #2336 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #1842 (Mike Gunderloy)

 

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