Dew Drop – September 14, 2018 (#2803)

Top Links

• How to access private Azure DevOps repos from a Dockerfile! (Jessica Deen) – Catch Jessica’s DevOps session at the TechBash dev conference in the Poconos on 10/3.
• A complete containerized .NET Core Application microservice that is as small as possible (Scott Hanselman)
• Announcing PowerShell Core 6.1 (Joey Aiello)
• Announcing TypeScript 3.1 RC (Daniel Rosenwasser)

Web & Cloud Development

• How to Consume Web APIs in Blazor (Chris Sainty)
• AWS CDK for .NET (Aaron Costley)
• Working with Firebase Firestore and the Ignite UI for Angular Grid (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Angular Schematics: Unit Testing (Jonathan Campos)
• JavaScript: A Step Further in Responsive Design (Mohamed Aladdin)
• Next.js 6 Features: A Practical Introduction (Prosper Otemuyiwa)
• PhpStorm 2018.2.3 is released (Roman Pronskiy)
• Interview question for Web Developer and Answering the web developer task (Oren Eini)
• Neural Networks For Music: A Journey Through Its History (Exxact Corp Marketing Team)
• Please Refer The Engineer From Your API Team To This Story and Providing Minimum Viable API Documentation Blueprints To Help Guide Your API Developers (Kin Lane)
• Pivotal Releases Spring Cloud Data Version 1.6 Featuring a New App Hosting Tool (Michael Redlich)
• Announcing the Netflix Post Technology Alliance (Chris Fetner & Richard Smith)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

• Getting Started with Xamarin.Forms and Unit Testing with xUnit and Moq (Nick Randolph)
• Xamarin Preview Release: Xcode 10 GM (Brendan Zagaeski)

Visual Studio & .NET

• ReSharper Ultimate 2018.2.3 and Rider 2018.2.3 are released! (Alexander Kurakin)
• C# Back to Basics – Working With Files, File and Directory (Marinko Spasojevic)
• How can I pause my code in Visual Studio? Breakpoints FAQ (Leslie Richardson)
• Pro .NET Memory Management book pre-order (Konrad Kokosa)
• .NET Core Opinion #3 – Other Folders To Include in the Source Repository (K. Scott Allen)
• Span<T> – byte to int conversions – Update (Adam Storr)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• Compliance in an Agile World (Ben Linders)
• How to Achieve a Resilient Architecture (Jan Stenberg)
• Git 2.19 Improves Diff, Branch, and Grep, and More (Sergio De Simone)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• Fun Experiments in React Native (Kacha Mukabe)
• ML for Android Developers – Part 2 (Mark Allison)
• Using Azure Cognitive Services with NativeScript (Rob Lauer)
• Unity 2018.3 beta: Get early access now (Thomas Krogh-Jacobsen)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• Side Hustle Success Podcast Episode 3 : Is the 4-Hour Workweek Realistic? (Stephen Haunts)
• AFH 099: Improve Your Agile Hiring Practices (Ryan Ripley)
• Radio TFS – Goodbye VSTS Hello Azure DevOps (Martin Woodward & Greg Duncan)
• The SitePen Podcast Episode 19: tao.js / Civic Hacking / RxJS (Live at JSConf US) (Torrey Rice)
• S104 – What’s New in ASP.NET Core? (Daniel Roth)
• Rocket 192: Are the New iPhones Worth it? (Brianna Wu, Christina Warren & Simone De Rochefort)
• Push Notifications Made Easy with App Center | The Xamarin Show (James Montemagno)
• S109 – What’s New in Xamarin Forms? (David Ortinau)
• S105 – Latest Productivity Updates in Visual Studio 2017 Update 15.8 (Kendra Havens)
• S103 – What’s Coming to C#? (Mads Torgersen)
• S201 – Machine Learning in .NET (ML.NET) (Cesar De la Torre Llorente & Ankit Asthana)
• S101 – Keynote with Scott Hunter, Mads Torgersen, and Miguel De Icaza (Scott Hunter, Mads Torgersen & Miguel De Icaza)
• S108 – Entity Framework Core 2.2 and beyond: what’s cooking? (Diego Vega & Smit Patel)
• S107 – Build great libraries using .NET Standard (Immo Landwerth)
• Codepunk 037: Technology and Autism (Bill Ahern)
• Eat, Sleep, Code Podcast – Machine Learning With ML Dot NET (Ed Charbeneau)
• iotz: a new approach to IoT compile toolchains | Internet of Things Show (Olivier Bloch)
• Hanselminutes – Forge Your Future with Open Source and VM Brasseur (Scott Hanselman)
• Software Engineering Daily – Druid Analytical Database with Fangjin Yang (Jeff Meyerson)
• Developer Tea – Purposeful Mini-Rituals (Jonathan Cutrell)

Community & Events

• Looking forward to Microsoft Ignite 2018 (Toni Pohl)
• Full text: Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos reveals long-awaited philanthropic initiative (Taylor Soper)

Database

• Script to show how much a SQL Server database has changed since last full backup (Pablo Echeverria)
• SQL Server scripts to use with sqlcmd (Daniel Farina)
• 14 Things I Wish I’d Known When Starting with MongoDB (Phil Factor)

PowerShell

• Desired State Configuration (DSC) Planning Update – September 2018 (Michael Greene)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #2664 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #2174 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Roundup #18: GitHub PR in VSCode, Azure DevOps, .NET Global Tool, MSBuildPipeLogger, Shared DTOs (Derek Comartin)
• Collective #450 (Pedro Botelho)

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