Dew Drop – August 1, 2017 (#2532)

Top Links

• GUI animations: async/await to F#’s Async (Sam)
• CodePush joins Visual Studio Mobile Center (Ian Geoghegan)
• Marten 2.0 is Out! (Jeremy D. Miller)
• .NET Rocks! – .NET Summer Hackfest with Jon Galloway (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)

Web & Cloud Development

• Code Formatting Tweaks for PhpStorm 2017.2 (Gary Hockin)
• Building a scheduled cache updater in ASP.NET Core 2.0 (Maarten Balliauw)
• Creating a User Profile Store with Node.js and a NoSQL Database (Nic Raboy)
• Running PHP applications on .NET Core (Gunnar Peipman)
• VS Code Quick Tip: Install Curl to Speed Up REST API Testing (David Ramel)
• Announcing BizTalk Server 2013 CU6 (BizTalk Team)
• Getting Started With the Flux Architecture in React (Catalin Vasile)
• Encrypting connection strings in web.config (Dennes Torres)
• Node v6.11.2 (LTS) (Myles Borins)
• Build apps faster with Azure Serverless (Raman Sharma)
• Overview of Changes in Tensorflow Version 1.3 (Roland Meertens)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

• Xamarin.Tip – Playing Audio Through the Earpiece on Android (Alex Dunn)

Visual Studio & .NET

• Build your own C# search Engine using Azure Search (Mario Alejandro Loza Armand Ugon)
• Combining free monads in F# (Mark Seemann)
• Using SQL Server Query Hints with Entity Framework (Dennes Torres)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• Keep Technical Debt from Undermining Your Performance Testing (Andrei Sandu)
• This is the war room (Eric Brechner)
• Are Meetings Productivity Busters or Builders? 7 Key Tips to Deliver the Latter (Kalahari Meetings)
• ebook deal of the week: Scenario-Focused Engineering (Kim Spilker)
• My take on build pools optimization for the larger deployments (Matteo Emili)
• 6 ways to boost productivity by eliminating distractions from Windows 10 (Mauro Huculak)
• How To Stop Micromanaging Your Remote Team (Niraj Ranjan Rout)

Mobile & IoT

• Microsoft working on Windows Dev Center app for Android (Dan Thorp-Lancaster)
• What Are Android Instant Apps? (Jessica Thornsby)
• Determine Network Availability In A NativeScript With Angular Mobile App (Nic Raboy)
• Programming Arduino with Visual Studio Code (Chris Pietschmann)
• tvOS Games, Part 4: Bullets and Explosions (Steve Sparks)
• Summer Institute unpacks the future of IoT (Ben Ryon)
• Announcing the NativeScript Sidekick Public Preview (TJ VanToll)
• Using .NET Core 2 to read serial data from an Arduino UNO over USB (Jeremy Lindsay)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• MS Dev Show – Security with Troy Hunt (Jason Young & Carl Schweitzer)
• InfoQ Podcast: Larry Cooper on Putting Value First & Cultural Agility (Larry Cooper)
• Eat, Sleep, Code – Implementing ASP.NET Core UIs (Ed Charbeneau)
• AFH 074: The Past, Present, and Future of Scrum (Ryan Ripley)
• SSW TV – Simplified Unit Testing with the Entity Framework Core InMemory Provider | Jason Taylor at DDD Sydney 2017 (Sophie Belle)
• Giant Robots Smashing into Other Giant Robots 246: Becoming the ‘Yes’ Person (Sara Chipps) (Chad Pytel)
• Functional Geekery Episode 102 – Brian Hicks (Steven Proctor)
• Codechat 071 – Fusion 360 Tip: Designing on a Face | CodeChat (Jeremy Foster)
• Revision Path 202: Michael Hollander (Maurice Cherry)
• Talk Python to Me #123 – Lessons from 100 straight dev job interviews (Michael Kennedy)
• Partially Derivative Podcast – When Bots Murder (Chris Albon & Vidya Spandana)
• Software Engineering Daily – Patents with Nicole Shanahan (Jeff Meyerson)
• Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg: We Should Teach Girls To Lead (Natasha Bach)

Community & Events

• Join Us for Upcoming Xamarin University Guest Lectures (Rob Gibbens)
• PowerShell and DevOps Global Summit 2018 – Call for Topics (Richard Siddaway)
• 10 Questions with András Velvárt (James Ashley)
• 24+ Terrific Things To Do In Philly This Week, July 31-August 6 and 12+ Awesome Events And Festivals Hitting Philly This August (Jillian Wilson)
• Build a game in 13kB or less with js13kGames (Lee Reilly)

Database

• A whole new way to see differences in SQL Compare (Jamie Wallis)
• Mongo DB Basics – part 2. (Nikola Živković)

PowerShell

• New Features and Best Practices of SQL Server PowerShell (Aaron Nelson)
• Powershell and Azure on MacOS (Jan Tourlamain)

Miscellaneous

• Machine Learning: Find images with images (Remko de Lange)
• Book Info + Reviews: “Beginning Microsoft Small Basic: A Computer Programming Tutorial” by Philip Conrod & Lou Tylee (Ed Price)
• The Better Together Beta for Minecraft is here! (Elana Pidgeon)
• Windows 10 Tip: How to use Surface Dial with Paint 3D (Lee Schuneman)

More Link Collections

• Xamarin App Developer Links – 2017-08-01 and Windows App Developer Links – 2017-08-01 (Dan Rigby)
• The Morning Brew #2395 (Chris Alcock)
• .NET Tips and Tricks ( Visual Studio 2017, C# 7.0, Azure ) from Daily .NET Tips – July 2017 Links (Abhijit Jana)
• Reading Notes #291 (Frank Boucher)
• Coding4Fun July 2017 Round-up (Greg Duncan)

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