Dew Drop – February 26, 2018 (#2672)

Top Links

• Add Tizen Projects to Your Xamarin.Forms Applications (Jay Cho)
• Windows Community Standup discussing Multi-instancing, Console UWPs and Broader File-system Access (Andrew Whitechapel)
• Live Edit and Spy-JS in Rider 2017.3 (Maarten Balliauw)
• Upgrading a 10 year old site to ASP.NET Core’s Razor Pages using the URL Rewriting Middleware (Scott Hanselman)

Web Development

• Using Jenkins with Kubernetes AWS, Part 1 (Deepak Vohra)
• Ember.js – Ember 3.0 Released (Matthew Beale)
• Choosing the right JavaScript testing tool (Gojko Adzic)
• ASP.NET Identity for your custom user and roles models (Dominique St-Amand)
• Docker Management and Kubernetes Orchestration (Jeremy Likness)
• SSL Cert Renewal Issues Solved On Azure Service Bus and Relay (Justin Conway)
• Azure Tips and Tricks Part 97 – Generate a Weekly Digest Email for a Blog using Azure Functions, SendGrid and Azure Storage (Michael Crump)
• Registration-free COM with Azure App Services (Oren Novotny)
• Deploying Angular apps to Azure using Docker (Ravi Kiran)
• .NET Core 2.0, Angular 4 and MySQL. Part 7 (Marinko Spasojevic)
• Top 10 Benefits You Will Get by Using Docker (Venkatesan Murugan)
• Type compatibility pitfalls in TypeScript and good-injector: Version 0.2.0 (Peter Kuhn)
• Aurelia: Server Side Rendering (Jeroen Vinke)
• Why we need to do more to reduce certificate lifetimes (Scott Helme)
• Adopting Prettier Into Existing Project (Tatu Tamminen)
• Better timeout handling with HttpClient (Thomas Levesque)
• Serverless Microservice: Understanding Products (Jason Farrell)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

• Time zones in Xamarin.Forms and PWAs vs Xamarin.Forms (Adam Pedley)
• ListView Bindings on Xamarin.Forms and Observable Groups (Can Bilgin)
• Getting Started with Xamarin and Xamarin.Forms Q&A (James Montemagno)
• Build a simple android camera app with Xamarin.Android (Damien Doumer)
• Xamarin Preview Release: 15.6 Preview 6 (Bri Brothers)

Visual Studio & .NET

• Patterns for high-performance C# (Oren Eini)
• How to change the default language version in Visual Studio? (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Handling Exceptions in C# – Video and Resources (Tim Corey)
• Zombie programming languages: Could Visual Basic be the next COBOL? (Nick Heath)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• Distributed Agile Leadership (John Okoro)
• Deploying to SQL Server with Entity Framework Core – Will it Deploy? Episode 3 (Rob Pearson)
• The Science-Backed Reasons You Shouldn’t Share Your Goals (Amy Rigby)
• Programming as craft (Danny Crichton)
• Applying Brooks’ Law (Dave Nicolette)
• GitHub Issues Release Gate extension for VSTS Release Management (Utkarsh Shigihalli)
• Five Things I Did to Change a Team’s Culture (Ian Miell)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• 7 Essential Principles to know: iPhone App Development (Celin Smith)
• View Binding In Android Application – Kotlin (Mushtaq M A)
• Android Architecture Components with Firebase (Sinan Yılmaz)
• Analysing visual content using HoloLens, Computer Vision APIs, Unity and the Windows Mixed Reality Toolkit (Davide Zordan)
• Announcing ARCore 1.0 and new updates to Google Lens (Anuj Gosalia)
• ARCore 1.0 for Unity is here—Start building! (Mauricio Vergara)
• App or not to App (Nick Randolph)
• Dart 2 Revamped for Mobile Development (Sergio De Simone)
• How to Achieve a 5-Wow HoloLens Demo – Displays, Projectors and Other Equipment (Part 2 of many) (András Velvárt)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• Cross Cutting Concerns Podcast 071 – Bill Sempf on Sneakers (Matthew Groves)
• InfoQ Podcast: Anne Currie on Organizational Tech Ethics, including Scale, GDPR, Algorithmic Transparency (Anne Currie)
• Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 258 #OTP (Richard Hay)
• TWC9: Go SDK for Azure, PWA tips, important AI papers, and more | This Week On Channel 9 (Cameron Tomisser & Christina Warren)
• #codepunk 029: The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics (Bill Ahern)
• Interview With Ruth Yakubu, Cloud Developer Advocate in Java and AI | GALs (Christina Warren)
• Developer on Fire Episode 316 | Chris Ferdinandi – Idea to Living Thing (Dave Rael)
• The Amp Hour #381 – An Interview with Derek Kozel (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
• Merge Conflict 86: Containerized Pod Development (Frank Krueger & James Montemagno)
• Talk Python to Me #152 – Understanding and using Python’s AST (Michael Kennedy)
• #ifdef WINDOWS – How to enable WebVR with just two lines of code with BabylonJS (Nikola Metulev)
• Developer Tea – Asking “Dumb” Questions (Jonathan Cutrell)
• Azure Podcast Episode 217 – Video Indexer & Custom Speech Service (Sujit D’Mello)

Community & Events

• Extendee — meet like-minded people on your way to conferences (Alan Mendelevich)
• Where To Celebrate Women’s History Month In Philadelphia (Amy Gordon)
• Saying Goodbye to the Telerik Developer Network: A Letter from the TDN Editor (Brian Rinaldi)

Database

• SQL SERVER – Installation Wizard Hang Forever – Please Wait on Feature Selection Page and SQL SERVER – Install Error: Standalone SQL Server on WFC cluster cannot have files on shared disk locations. (Pinal Dave)
• Computed Columns and Cardinality Estimates (Erik Darling)

MS Teams

• Doing ChatOps in Microsoft Teams (Helen Beal)

PowerShell

• Iron Scripter Prequels: puzzle 7 (Richard Siddaway)

Miscellaneous

• Fitbit analyzed data on 6 billion nights of sleep – with fascinating results (Alex Gray)
• Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 17107 for Fast Ring (Dona Sarkar)

More Link Collections

• Xamarin App Developer Links – 2018-02-26 and Windows App Developer Links – 2018-02-26 (Dan Rigby)
• The Morning Brew #2535 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #2041 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Weekly C# Digest Issue #195 (Jakub Chodounsky)
• F# Weekly #8, 2018 – Paket-Github TLS disaster (Sergey Tihon)
• Top stories from the VSTS community – 2018.02.23 (Willy-P. Schaub)
• Azure Weekly: Feb. 26, 2018 (Chris Pietschmann)
• Reading Notes #317 (Frank Boucher)
• Reading List (Bruce Lawson)
• Learn How To Build A Mixed Cloud Model For Sharepoint, And More On This Week’s Friday Five (MVP Award Program)

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