Dew Drop – October 22, 2018 (#2828)

Top Links

• How Microsoft rewrote its C# compiler in C# and made it open source (Mads Torgersen)
• Dependabot for .NET Core dependency tracking in GitHub (Scott Hanselman)
• What does Stack Overflow want to be when it grows up? (Jeff Atwood)
• What’s Unique About CodeSandbox (Ives van Hoorne)
• Announcing TechBash 2019 (Jason Gaylord)

Web & Cloud Development

• Explore Storage in Azure Blobs using Storage Explorer and Using an Azure Logic App to Broadcast an Article (Jason Gaylord)
• Web Services For The JavaScript Developer, First Edition (Nic Raboy)
• What’s New in Angular 7 (Alyssa Nicoll)
• Top 5 Performance Tips for React Developers (Blanca Mendizábal Perelló)
• WebStorm 2018.2.5 is now available (Ekaterina Prigara)
• Serverless User Engagement with AWS Lambda, SendGrid, BadgeUp and Node.js (Mark Herhold)
• Azure Tips and Tricks Part 166 – Data Storage Options with Azure Storage and Cosmos DB (Michael Crump)
• My first Azure build & deploy pipelines for an Azure Function V2 (Joost van Schaik)
• Pages in ASP .NET Core: Razor, Blazor and MVC Views (Shahed Chowdhuri)
• Upgrade Angular 6 app to Angular 7 with Visual Studio 2017 (Talking Dotnet)
• Enhancing Spinnaker’s Kubernetes support to ease app deployments (Andrew Phillips)
• Going beyond with Postman (Julio Lozovei)
• Custom Bot Framework Prompts with the Recognizers Text Suite (Michael Szul)
• Best practices for building Kubernetes Operators and stateful apps (Palak Bhatia)
• Implementing Restricted Boltzmann Machine with Python and TensorFlow (Nikola Živković)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

• Auto launching Xamarin Mac apps at login (Damian Mehers)
• Install And Configure Syncfusion Essential Studio For Xamarin In Visual Studio 2017 (Logesh Palani)
• App and avatar item gifting is here (Kelly Soligon)
• Proxy Testing a Mac Application with Fiddler (Matt Ward)
• Using the Rapid XAML Toolkit for Accelerating WPF Development (Preview) (Me)

Visual Studio & .NET

• The Evolution of C# (Damir Arh)
• Visual Studio Productivity Tips: Limit search results to filename only (Kunal Chowdhury)
• F# Advent Calendar in English 2018 (Sergey Tihon)
• Emaroo 4.3 – Support for Adobe CC 2019 / VS Code 1.28 (Roland Weigelt)
• LLBLGen Pro v5.5 beta has been released! (Frans Bouma)
• Exploring Clang Tooling Part 1: Extending Clang-Tidy (Stephen Kelly)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• Working on the Web Edition of Refactoring 2nd Ed (Martin Fowler)
• Agile Implementation from a Manager’s Perspective (Tomasz Dutkowski)
• The next career step for Senior Software Engineers (that isn’t management) (Itamar Turner-Trauring)
• The Self-Talk Struggle Is Real: How To Win At Work With Sports Psychology (Amy Rigby)
• Building More Accessible UIs: Focus Visible (Austin)
• SparkyTestHelpers: Moq.Fluent (Brian Schroer)
• GitHub Actions Creates a Buzz for Automated Dev Workflows (TC Currie)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• Android Protected Confirmation: Taking transaction security to the next level (Janis Danisevskis)
• Best Practices to Streamline the Alexa Skill Certification Process, Inspired By You (Aaron Tang)
• 10 Stunning Ionic App Templates (Nona Blackman)
• NativeScript ListView Skeleton Screens with Angular & RxJS ☠️ (Josh Sommer)
• Google Play offline peer to peer installs beta (James Bender)
• Revolutionizing how game developers monetize with Unity Monetization SDK 3.0 (Ingrid Lestiyo)
• TextClassification – Part 3 (Mark Allison)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• Cross Cutting Concerns Podcast 104 – VM “Vicky” Brasseur on Open Source (Matthew Groves)
• Say “Yes” to NoSQL for .NET SQL Developers (Jeremy Likness)
• Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 286 #OTP (Richard Hay)
• TWC9: GitHub Actions, Visual Studio 2019 Roadmaps, Remembering Paul Allen, and more | This Week On Channel 9 (Christina Warren)
• Coding Blocks Podcast 92 – Azure Functions and CosmosDB from MS Ignite (Allen Underwood, Michael Outlaw & Joe Zack)
• Lori Lamkin, Microsoft’s Director of PM on Shifting to Azure DevOps – Episode 007 (Jeffrey Palermo)
• Parameterize connections to your data stores in Azure Data Factory and Scaling effortlessly with Service Fabric Mesh (Scott Hanselman & Rob Caron)
• Software Engineering Daily – Google JavaScript with Malte Ubl (Jeff Meyerson)
• Azure Podcast Episode 251 – Getting skilled in Azure (Sujit D’Mello)
• Using BOSH to Deploy the Cloud Foundry Stack (B. Cameron Gain)
• CodeNewbie Podcast S6:E2 – From librarian to developer (Hayley Swimelar) (CodeNewbie Team)
• The Amp Hour #412 – 3 Cent Micros And 1000s of LEDs (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
• FreeCodeFriday – Episode 21 (Jason Bock)
• Microsoft 365 Podcast – The Microsoft Graph SDK with Darrel Miller (Jeremy Thake & Paul Schaeflein)
• Merge Conflict 120: Rapid Fire Topics (James Montemagno)
• Developer Tea – How to Argue Better (Jonathan Cutrell)
• Weekly Dev Tips 031: Breaking Bad Coding Habits (Steve Smith)
• The SitePen Podcast Episode 21: Web Infrastructure at Spotify with Jason Palmer (Becky Smith)

Community & Events

• 10 years is an eternity in the tech world, but we are just getting started (Emily Maryatt)
• 24 Great Things To Do In Philly, October 22-28 and 20+ Awesome Halloween Parties To Check Out In Philly (Kelly Bucci)

Database

• Execute a Command in the Context of Each Database in SQL Server – Part 2 (Aaron Bertrand)
• Script to obtain most recent SQL Server backup information for all databases (Alejandro Cobar)
• SQL SERVER – Always On Availability Groups and Full-Text Index and Do Index Reorganization Update Statistics? – Interview Question of the Week #196 (Pinal Dave)
• Installing Azure Data Studio (Steve Jones)
• Is Cost Threshold for Parallelism Measured in Seconds? (Brent Ozar)

MS Teams

• Microsoft Teams Administration and Management Related Announcements From Ignite – And Why They Matter (Melissa Hubbard)

PowerShell

• Automating the creation of Azure Service Principals with PowerShell (Herald Gjura)

Miscellaneous

• The EU has approved Microsoft’s $7.5 billion GitHub acquisition (Chaim Gartenberg)

More Link Collections

• Double Shot #2197 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Azure Weekly: October 22, 2018 (Chris Pietschmann)
• Weekly C# Digest Issue #229 (Jakub Chodounsky)
• F# Weekly #42, 2018 – Zander, Fantomas and Extending F# (Sergey Tihon)
• Xamarin & Windows App Developer Links – 2018-10-22 (Dan Rigby)
• Top Stories from the Microsoft DevOps Community – 2018.10.19 (Edward Thomson)
• Reading List (Bruce Lawson)
• Presentations, Poker and More on this week’s Friday Five! (MVP Award Program)
• Reading Notes #348 (Frank Boucher)

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