Top Links
- Xamarin: Announcing Xamarin.Android 9.0 (P) Preview (Jon Douglas)
- Merge Conflict 108: .NET Standard Wants & Modernizing Win32 Apps (James Montemagno)
- Google Flutter From Scratch: Building Apps With Widgets (Ashraff Hathibelagal)
- TWC9: Imagine Cup Winners, Visual Studio IntelliCode for Python, Knative in Azure, and more | This Week On Channel 9 (Christina Warren)
Web & Cloud Development
- Implementing A “Show Password” Checkbox On A Login Form In JavaScript (Ben Nadel)
- Drop 20K from your production Angular app (Abraham Williams)
- Progressive Web Application Development By Example (Chris Love)
- Automatically remove unused css from Bootstrap or other frameworks (Luke Lowrey)
- Export Azure Application Insights Data (Abhijit Jana)
- Stuff you can do with CSS pointer events (Chris Coyier)
- Windows Weekly Dockerfile #24: Building Distributed .NET Apps (Elton Stoneman)
- Asp.Net Core Basics- Accessing Configuration Settings from Multiple Sources (Jeeva Subburaj)
- PhpStorm 2018.2 is now released! (Maxim Kolmakov)
- Azure Tips and Tricks Part 144 – Swiftly understand what versions of .NET are supported on Azure App Service (Michael Crump)
- Writing Multitenant ASP.NET Core Applications (Ricardo Peres)
- Avoid Lazy Loading in ASP.NET (Shawn Wildermuth)
- Essential JavaScript features for React (Shubhangi Raj Agrawal)
- Angular 6.1 introduces a new KeyValue Pipe (Talking Dotnet)
- As it awaits the close of the Microsoft deal, GitHub strikes partnership deal with Google Cloud (Tom Krazit)
- Predictions for the direction of serverless platforms · More than seven (Gareth Rushgrove)
- PWAs: Blurring the Lines Between Web and Mobile Apps (Aditya Modi)
- Understanding Server-Side Blazor (Ankit Sharma)
- Using the Canonical Attribute Value to Consolidate Duplicate Blog Posts (Michael Szul)
- Do Things Right with TypeScript (Jessica Kerr)
- Progressive Web Apps (PWA), its got electrolytes! (Prashant Ram)
- Calling The Microsoft Bot Framework Using The Direct Line API (MS Bot Framework V4 Preview Edition) (Michael Washington)
XAML, UWP & Xamarin
- A Look At New Xamarin Forms Features (Damien Doumer)
- Revisiting Easy Tables: An Azure Back-End Service and a ToDo App (Devlin Duldulao)
- Xamarin.Android.Lite – Prototype/proof of concept of a “lite” Xamarin.Android that only supports Xamarin.Forms (Jonathan Peppers)
- UWP App Tips Announcement – Windows UI LIbrary (WinUI) (Me)
- #WinML – How to create a #Windows10 App and use #TinyYOLOV2 for object detection (the complete series) (Bruno Capuano)
- Connecting to Bluetooth RFCOMM with UWP (j2inet)
Visual Studio & .NET
- .NET & C# – Back to Basics Series (Abhijit Jana)
- Performance improvements in ReSharper 2018.2 EAP: EditorConfig support (Alexander Kurakin)
- .NET Core Application Development in Visual Studio Code (VS Code) (Damir Arh)
- New C# 7 Features – Ref Returns And Out Variables – Part Three (Jignesh Kumar)
- Visual Studio 2017 – Debugging Enhancements: Reattach to Process & Set Next Statement (Kapil Khandelwal)
- How to use VS Code for your Python projects (Clément Verna)
- Pipe Dreams, part 3 (Marc Gravell)
- Flattening arrow code using a stack of monads (Mark Seemann)
- Database migration for .Net Core projects (Neel Bhatt)
- Code like an idiot (Rob Miles)
Design, Methodology & Testing
- Why Do You Need to Unit Test If You Have a QA Team? (Erik Dietrich)
- Agnostic Agile: The Key to a Successful Lean Agile Transformation (Tim Guay)
- DZone Refcard #129 – Foundations of RESTful Architecture (Brian Sletten & Chase Doelling)
- Delegation: When being helpful is actually hurting (Camille Fournier)
- Maintainable Architecture – Readability (Mark Allison)
- The Importance of Limiting Your WIP (Assaf Stone)
- Continuous Integration with Jenkins and Docker (Ravindranath Barathy)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- Things Every Alexa Skill Should Do: Use Analytics to Make Enhancements (Jeff Blankenburg)
- Mobile App That Speaks with DeepMind WaveNet Google Cloud Text To Speech ML API and Flutter (Alfian Losari)
- Creating together: Unity and Google Cloud (Richard Lee)
Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos
- Week in Geek Podcast: A reckoning for Facebook and the life-changing tech of Microsoft’s Imagine Cup (Clare McGrane)
- Technology & Friend – Silviu Niculita on Chatbots (David Giard)
- Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 275 #OTP (Richard Hay)
- Flutter: World of Cupertino (iOS) | Ep 4 | Flutter Weekly Widgets (MTechViral)
- Coding Blocks.NET 86 – Lightning Talks (Michael Outlaw, Allen Underwood & Joe Zack)
- PPP 209 | (Video) Less About Us, More About Them. Be Curious (Andy Kaufman)
- Developer on Fire Episode 360 | Guy Royse – Generalized Excellence (Dave Rael)
- Eat, Sleep, Code Podcast – An Augmented Reality Check (Ed Charbeneau)
- FreeCodeFriday – Episode 9 (Jason Bock)
- Talk Python to Me #171 – 1M Jupyter notebooks analyzed (Michael Kennedy)
- Bot Framework Tutorial #19: Hierarchical Entities in LUIS (Michael Szul)
- Software Engineering Daily – Edge Kubernetes with Venkat Yalla (Jeff Meyerson)
- Developer Tea – Evidence is Not Proof (Jonathan Cutrell)
Community & Events
- We’re Hiring! Kendo UI for React Developer Advocate (John Bristowe)
- Nerd Nite No 87: Dying in Space, Star Wars and your Genome! (Philly Nerd Nite Team)
Database
- Steps to install a stand-alone SQL Server 2017 instance (Percy Reyes)
- SQL SERVER – How to Check If Instant File Initialization Enabled or Not? and SQL SERVER – T-SQL Script: How to Search for Multiple Values in ERRORLOG? and How to Check Status of Instant File Initialization? – Interview Question of the Week #184 (Pinal Dave)
- 8 Azure Cosmos DB Tips & Tricks that you should know (Abhijit Jana)
- Importing Data from AWS DynamoDB into SQL Server 2017 (Derek Colley)
PowerShell
- What You Missed This Week in PowerShell! (Greg Tate)
- Lesson Learned – Keep PowerShell Modules Consistent and Up To Date (Melissa Coates)
Miscellaneous
- Some thoughts on how to teach programming (K. Matthew Dupree)
- Amazon is now accepting pre-orders for the Microsoft Surface Go (Phone Arena Team)
- New Preview Alpha and Alpha Skip Ahead 1810 Update – 7/29/18 and New Preview Delta & Omega Ring 1806 System Update – 7/29/18 (Bradley Rossetti)
- Surface Go – A Mini Hands On (Richard Hay)
More Link Collections
- The Morning Brew #2632 (Chris Alcock)
- Double Shot #2146 (Mike Gunderloy)
- Azure Weekly: July 30, 2018 (Chris Pietschmann)
- Weekly C# Digest Issue #217 (Jakub Chodounsky)
- F# Weekly #30, 2018 – F# 4.5 Preview & F# Talks from NDC Oslo (Sergey Tihon)
- Reading List (Bruce Lawson)
- Top Stories from the Microsoft DevOps Community – 2018.07.27 (Edward Thomson)
- LAPS, Surface Peripherals, a GDPR Field Guide, an MVP Journey, and more on the Friday Five! (MVP Award Program)
Beginning Ionic for iOS and Android Development eBook: Greg Lim: Kindle Store
Hands-On Full Stack Web Development with Aurelia: Develop modern and real-time web apps with Aurelia and Node.js: Diego Jose Arguelles Rojas, Erikson Haziz Murrugarra Sifuentes: 9781788833202: Books
The Modern JavaScript Collection eBook: Aurelio De Rosa, Craig Buckler, Nilson Jacques, Byron Houwens, Jeff Mott, Graham Cox, Ludovico Fischer, James Wright, James Kolce, Moritz Kroger, Ivan Curic, Samier Saeed, M. David Green, Michaela Lehr, Michael Wanyoike, Darren Jones, Mark Brown: Kindle Store