Top Links
- Visual Studio for Mac: Q&A with Mikayla Hutchinson (Michael Desmond)
- .NET Rocks! – Business Anti-Patterns with Steve Smith (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
- I suck at vacation – What I did this week (Scott Hanselman)
- The Xamarin Show 11: Xamarin Profiler with Nina Vyedin | The Xamarin Show (James Montemagno)
Web Development
- Object-Oriented Autoloading in WordPress, Part 3 (Tom McFarlin)
- HttpClient DNS settings for Azure Cloud Services and Traffic Manager (Naeem Khedarun)
- Azure HTTP Function Authorization with Function Keys (Jason Roberts)
- Private Connections for Twilio’s Programmable Voice WebRTC Client (Annie Benitez Pelaez)
- Input Masking (Chris Coyier)
- Static Website Hosting in Azure Storage (Chris Pietschmann)
- Developer Preview – EC2 Instances (F1) with Programmable Hardware and Amazon Lex – Build Conversational Voice & Text Interfaces (Jeff Barr)
- Quick and Easy 2FA: Adding Authy to a NodeJS App (Josh Staples)
- What are the different ways to implement multifactor (Prosper Otemuyiwa)
- Fiddler End of Support for .NET 3.5 (Tsviatko Yovtchev)
XAML
- Win2D 1.20.0 – bugfix release (Shawn Hargreaves)
Miscellaneous .NET
- Live Dependency Validation in Visual Studio 2017 (Jean-Marc Prieur)
- .NET Core Tools Switch to MSBuild (Jeff Martin)
- Here’s how to detect whether any ‘Antivirus’ is installed (using C#) (Kunal Chowdhury)
- Clean Code Faster with CodeMaid (Eric Potter)
- Designing Akka.NET Applications from Scratch Part 2: Hierarchies and SOLID Principles (Aaron Stannard)
- Testing Experimental Code in Production with Scientist.NET (Jason Roberts)
- 15 Years of Concurrency (Joe Duffy)
- Test Sending Email Without an SMTP Server (Carey Payette)
Design / Methodology / Testing
- Radical Candor and Cultural Differences (Kim Scott)
- Introducing: Time picker in Application Insights Analytics (Noa Kuperberg)
- Test Manager vs. Project Manager : Changing motives and Perspectives (Shrini Kulkarni)
Other Mobile Platforms
- Input validation in Android (Carl-Emil Kjellstrand)
- Creating Platform-Specifics in Xamarin.Forms (David Britch)
- Flying with Xamarin and Telerik UI (Sam Basu)
- 13 UI Kits for Beautiful Mobile Apps (Adam Brown)
- Introducing the Alexa Skills Kit Built in Library Offering Developers Hundreds of New Voice Interactions (David Isbitski)
- Common React Native App Layouts: Calendar Page (Wernher-Bel Ancheta)
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- Tools for Apache Cordova Updates in Visual Studio | Visual Studio Toolbox (Jordan Matthiesen & Robert Green)
- CodingBlocks.NET Episode 50 – Clean Code – Formatting Matters (Allen Underwood, Joe Zack & Michael Outlaw)
- DotNetCurry: Free .NET Magazines by Microsoft MVPs (Seth Juarez)
- Write Pythonic Code for Better Data Science (recording available) (Michael Kennedy)
- Azure Podcast Episode 155 – DevOps (Sujit D’Mello)
Community / Events
- Planning for 2017: Do You Want Me at Your Event? (Jeremy Clark)
- Ready, Set, Write: Enter the DZone Write to Win Contest (Kristen Pagan)
- Microsoft holds annual meeting, minus Gates and Ballmer, after big year for company stock (Todd Bishop)
- Philly Nerd Nite No. 70: Tobacco, Aphasia, Superspreaders, and the glorious return of The Cost is Correct! (Philly Nerd Nite Team)
Database
- Handling Special Dates For SQL Server Metrics (Tim Smith)
- Configure One Way Merge Replication for SQL Server (Ranga Babu)
- Spills SQL Server Doesn’t Warn You About (Erik Darling)
- SQL SERVER – Log Shipping Copy Job Failure – The Password for This Account Has Expired (Pinal Dave)
- Quickly rename variables all at once with SQL Prompt (Grant Fritchey)
- Amazon Athena – Interactive SQL Queries for Data in Amazon S3 (Jeff Barr)
Miscellaneous
- Why I’d Love to Be a College Student Again (Bill Gates)
- Microsoft anoints Windows 10 Anniversary Update as ‘Current Branch for Business’ (Mary Jo Foley)
- The Software Developer (And Other Tech Geeks) Christmas Gift List (John Sonmez)
More Link Collections
- Xamarin App Developer Links – 2016-12-01 and Windows App Developer Links – 2016-12-01 (Dan Rigby)
- The Morning Brew #2234 (Chris Alcock)
- Collective #268 (Pedro Botelho)
- The Daily Six Pack: December 1, 2016 (Dirk Strauss)
- Coding4Fun November 2016 Round-Up (Greg Duncan)
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