Dew Drop – October 15, 2018 (#2823)

Top Links

• Wait, THAT runs on Pivotal Cloud Foundry? Part 5 – .NET Framework apps (Richard Seroter)
• TWC9: VS Code Updates, Azure Tips and Tricks, Project xCloud, Fancy Hairdryers and more | This Week On Channel 9 (Christina Warren)
• Protect your Xamarin.Android Apps at Runtime with Dotfuscator (Bill Leach)
• Cloudflare WebAssembly and Key Value Store for Workers (Chris Swan)
• Amazon’s HQ2 announcement is imminent. Here’s a look at the final contenders (Rani Molla)

Web & Cloud Development

• Playing With Recursive Ng-Template References In Angular 6.1.10 (Ben Nadel)
• How to Use a jQuery DatePicker UI Component in Your Web App (Alberta Williams)
• Deploying a Blazor Application on Azure (Ankit Sharma)
• ASP.NET Core Web API with EF Core Code-First Approach (Code Maze)
• Top 10 Azure Cognitive Services (Cristopher Burge)
• Azure Tips and Tricks Part 164 – Defining Parameters to be used with ARM Templates (Michael Crump)
• React Form Validation – Disabling Submit Button (Nathan Sebhastian)
• Azure Blob Storage from ASP .NET Core File Upload (Shahed Chowdhuri)
• LinkGenerator in ASP.NET Core 2.2 (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Improve Angular’s performance through memoization and TypeScript decorators (Siyang Kern Zhao)
• TypeScript Tutorial: Beyond the Basics (Chander Dhall)
• Build a File Metadata App in Electron (CodeDraken)
• Spotify Open Sources cstar: its Cassandra Orchestration Tool (Diogo Carleto)
• Read World Cloud App – From Start to Finish: The Data Layer (David McCarter)
• Why we chose Turbolinks instead of building an SPA (Jerod Santo)
• Using Sass Maps to Extend Bootstrap (Kevin Hougasian)
• URLs are hard, let’s kill them (Scott Helme)
• Smoke is a New Lightweight Server-side Framework for Swift from Amazon (Sergio De Simone)
• Replace Logo with Icon on Smaller Screens (Steve Smith)
• Securing .NET Core on OpenShift using HTTPS (Tom Deseyn)
• A Nicer Looking Blazor Loading Page (Michael Washington)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

• UWP Tips Early Look – Rapid XAML Toolkit (Beta) (Me)
• Navigating Easily in PDF Documents with New Bookmarks Support in RadPdfViewer for WPF (Georgi Georgiev)
• How to Build a Xamarin App: Master Guide from Intro to Features (Jacqueline Bieringer)

Visual Studio & .NET

• How to use the TestCase attribute in C# and NUnit (Andrea Angella)
• #MLNET – Analyzing pipeline data in Machine Learning.Net using the new API 0.6.0 (thanks LINQ!) (Bruno Capuano)
• Writing Pure Code in C# (Yacoub Massad)
• My .NET Core Setup for MacOS/Linux (Christian Vasquez)
• Implementing Restricted Boltzmann Machine with .NET Core (Nikola Živković)
• An applicative password list (Mark Seemann)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• Domain Driven Design & Agile — They Work Together! (Michael Douglass)
• Don’t code your microservice like a monolith, keep it maintainable not over-engineered (Geshan Manandhar)
• [DZone Research] Microservices and DevOps Challenges (G. Ryan Spain)
• Starting a Product Organization Transformation, Part 6 (Johanna Rothman)
• A small detail to keep in mind while exporting Build Definitions (Matteo Emili)
• The beginner’s guide to contributing to projects with GitHub Desktop (Thea)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• Building React Native Projects with Native Code: Part 2 (John Tucker)
• Dive deep into Android’s ViewModel — Android Architecture Components (Mayank Bhatnagar)
• RxSwift: Benefits and Use Cases (Applikey Solutions)
• Ozzie, our new testing friend (Jorge Coca)
• BMI Calculator in Flutter — part 3 — Height and BMI Calculator in Flutter — part 4 — Static layouts (Marcin Szałek)
• TextClassification – Part 2 (Mark Allison)
• Why is Flutter making people go crazy? (Rohan Taneja)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• Cross Cutting Concerns Podcast 103 – Michael Eaton on a potpourri of topics (Matthew Groves)
• InfoQ Podcast: Camille Fournier on Platform Engineering, Engineering Ladders, and her Book “The Managers Path” (Camille Fournier)
• Technology & Friends – Jeffrey Palermo on DevOps for Mid-Market Companies (David Giard)
• Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 285 #OTP (Richard Hay)
• .NET Rocks! – Can you build a Neural Net from scratch? – Richard Campbell, Carl Franklin & Joe Albahari on .NET Rocks! Live from NDC Sydney 2018 (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Side Hustle Success Podcast Episode 5 : Mental Roadblocks that Stop us From Working (Stephen Haunts)
• SSW TV – Azure Functions Aren’t Enterprisy, Are They? | Thiago Passos at DDD Sydney 2018 (Sophie Belle)
• Edward Thomson on All Things Git, libgit2, and Azure DevOps – Episode 006 (Jeffrey Palermo)
• ASP.NET Community Standup – Oct 9, 2018 – The Blazor Show! | ASP.NET Community Standup (Jon Galloway)
• NDP Episode #24: Brant Burnett on Linq (Matthew Groves)
• AFH 102: The Influential Agile Leader (Ryan Ripley)
• CodeNewbie S6:E1 – How do you build a database? (Jeff Nelson) (CodeNewbie Team)
• Developer on Fire Episode 382 | Christina Aldan – Fiercely Grateful (Dave Rael)
• The Amp Hour #411 – An Interview with Chris Denney (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
• FreeCodeFriday – Episode 20 (Jason Bock)
• Microsoft 365 Podcast – Office add-ins with Juan Balmori Labra and Keyur Patel (Jeremy Thake & Paul Schaeflein)
• Talk Python to Me #181 – 30 amazing Python projects (Michael Kennedy)
• Women in Business & Technology Podcast 031 – Celebrating Grace Hopper with Anita Borg Institute CEO Brenda Darden Wilkerson (Sonia Dara & Colleen O’Brien)
• Software Engineering Daily – Data Warehouse with Christian Kleinerman (Jeff Meyerson)
• Merge Conflict 119: RESTQL (James Montemagno)
• Developer Tea – Backwards Reasoning (Jonathan Cutrell)
• Bjarne Stroustrup Interview at CppCon 2018 | C9::GoingNative (Steve Carroll & Augustin Popa)
• Weekly Dev Tips 030: On Code Smells (Steve Smith)

Community & Events

• Philly Code Camp Workshop – The Future Of C# Workshop and Philly Code Camp Workshop – Contain Your Enthusiasm – A Full Day with Containers and Kubernetes and Philly Code Camp Workshop – Mastering Git and GitHub with an intro to DevOps and Philly Code Camp Workshop – Progressive Web Apps From Beginner to Expert (Bill Wolff)
• Happy Birthday Frank’s World (Frank LeVigne)
• 25 Fabulous Things To Do In Philly, October 15-21 (Kelly Bucci)
• Stack Overflow – Exciting Leadership Announcements (Khalid El Khatib)
• Hacktoberfest is Here! (Rob Lauer)

Database

• SQL Server Parallelism Overview (Pablo Echeverria)
• SQL SERVER – How to Change Authentication Mode Using T-SQL Query and How to Find Queries Using an Index From SQL Server Plan Cache? – Interview Question of the Week #195 (Pinal Dave)
• Index Tuning Week: Missed Missing Index Opportunities (Erik Darling)

MS Teams

• Microsoft Teams Tip #2 – Join the Dark Side (Me)

Miscellaneous

• KuaiFit K Sport Headphones With In-Ear Personal Trainer – Wrap-Up Review (Me)
• Eleven bash Tips You Might Want to Know (Ian Miell)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew takes a break (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #2191 and Double Shot #2192 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Azure Weekly: October 15, 2018 (Chris Pietschmann)
• Xamarin & Windows App Developer Links – 2018-10-15 (Dan Rigby)
• Weekly C# Digest Issue #228 (Jakub Chodounsky)
• F# Weekly #41, 2018 – ML.NET 0.6 and open source of Infer.NET (Sergey Tihon)
• Reading List (Bruce Lawson)
• Reading Notes #347 (Frank Boucher)
• Top Stories from the Microsoft DevOps Community – 2018.10.12 (Edward Thomson)

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