Top Links
- SQL Server 2017 Release Candidate 2 (RC2) is now available (SQL Server Team)
- JetBrains Rider – New Cross-Platform .NET IDE Overview (Maarten Balliauw)
- Updating the Windows Console Colors (Craig Loewen)
- Visual Studio for Mac version 7.2 Alpha Preview (Miguel de Icaza)
Web & Cloud Development
- Meet Vue.js, the Flexible JavaScript Framework (Alex Handy)
- PhpStorm 2017.2.1 is here (Anna Lebedeva)
- WebStorm 2017.2.1 is now available (Ekaterina Prigara)
- React.js Structures JavaScript for Easy Componentization (Michelle Maher)
- Enhancing WordPress Comments Using Twilio and WebServices (Michelle Randolph)
- Rotate Text Links using jQuery (jQuery By Example)
- How to Send SMS in WordPress with a PHP Plugin (Onwuka Gideon)
- Custom response caching in ASP.NET Core (with cache invalidation) (Paul Hiles)
- The State of CSS in Angular (Stephen Fluin)
- Separate Form Submit Buttons That Go To Different URLs (Chris Coyier)
- Run Azure Stack in the Microsoft Azure Public Cloud (Chris Pietschmann)
- What is the Rest Parameter in a Function? (Dhananjay Kumar)
- Find projects infected by malicious npm packages (Dominik Kundel)
- Mesosphere DCOS, Azure, Docker, VMware & Everything Between – Deploying DC/OS with Azure Container Service (Lior Kamrat)
- Securing Your Twilio Account With 2FA (Marcelo Jabali)
- Leveraging Security Headers for Better Web App Security (Prithvi Bisht)
- Create a Drupal Site and Add Authentication with Auth0 (Prosper Otemuyiwa)
- 7 Tools for Developing Your First Progressive Web App (Vikas Agrawal)
XAML, UWP & Xamarin
- WPF Tip #17 – Extended WPF Toolkit – BusyIndicator Control (Me)
- Using ARKit with UrhoSharp (Xamarin Team)
- The Page Object Pattern Will Make You A Better Xamarin UI Automation Tester (Adam Pedley)
- Xamarin Alpha Release: 15.4 Alpha 1 (Bri Brothers)
- Breaking Changes for Prism Autofac Users (Dan Siegel)
Visual Studio & .NET
- Helper function for your local method – Local Function in C# 7.0 (Abhijit Jana)
- Porting a Twilio MMS app to .NET Core with Visual Studio Code (Corey Weathers)
- Getting Started with C# 7 (James Montemagno)
- A proper terminal for Visual Studio (Scott Hanselman)
- Converting a Library to NetStandard (Derek Comartin)
- AutoMapper joins the .NET Foundation (Jimmy Bogard)
- Our experience with using third-party libraries (Patrick Smacchia)
Design, Methodology & Testing
- Shield your Agile team (Moses ‘Muhammad’ Soliman)
- Microservices and Docker containers: Architecture, Patterns and Development guidance (Cesar de la Torre)
- Unit Testing Implementation – The Plan #EverydayUnitTesting (Gil Zilberfeld)
- How Has Static Code Analysis Changed Through the Years? (Erik Dietrich)
- Composite UIs for Microservices – Composition options (Jimmy Bogard)
- 100 Excuses for Designers (Jon Moore)
- How to Break into UX Design: Tips from Design Instructor Beth Koloski (Patrick Faller)
Mobile & IoT
- Improve Usability in Your iOS App with These Features (Zack Simon)
- Android Bug Swatting with Sanitizers (Dan Austin)
- Game UI Patterns (Greg Duncan)
- Amazon job listing suggests Kindle team is working on virtual and augmented reality (Monica Nickelsburg)
- Introduction to Voice Recognition and IoT Automation (Daniel H.)
- #Hololens – Tutorial to use Buttons, Dialogs and more with #MRDesignLab (#HoloToolkit ++) (Bruno Capuano)
- Seek, and Ye Shall Find: The Algolia Plugin (Jen Looper)
- Creating a 3D topographical map in your HoloLens / Windows MR app with the Bing Elevation API (Joost van Schaik)
- Unity 2017.1 feature spotlight: Playable API (Pierre Paul Giroux)
Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos
- The Joy of Coding – Episode 108 (Air Mozilla)
- SQL Data Partners Podcast Episode 107: BI for the Little Guy (Carlos L. Chacon)
- Developer on Fire Episode 257 | The Hidden Genius Project – Whole Humans (Dave Rael)
- The Xamarin Show Episode 27: Azure Active Directory Authentication with Vittorio Bertocci (James Montemagno)
- Microsoft .future Podcast – Design For All (Dan Formosa, Angela Glover Blackwell, Jenny Lay-Flurrie, Sean Marihugh, Crystal Jones & Erin Williams)
- Microsoft Planner Updates (Microsoft Mechanics)
- TPDP Episode #15: Authorizing Access with OAuth (Nic Raboy)
- Windows Weekly 529: Things to do While You’re Eating Ham (Paul Thurrott)
- Radio TFS – Greg and Martin at it again (Martin Woodward & Greg Duncan)
- Software Engineering Daily – Quantum Computing with Vijay Pande (Jeff Meyerson)
Community / Events
- Women in Technology – Sarah Kong (Adobe Careers)
- 10 Questions with Vincent Guigui (James Ashley)
- Technovation Challenge Helps Girls Around the World Become Tech Entrepreneurs (Adobe Conversations Team)
Database
- SQL Server 2016 Increased Non-Clustered Index Key Size (Ahmad Yaseen)
- RavenDB 4.0: Raven Query Language (Oren Eini)
- Why Missing Index Recommendations Aren’t Perfect (Brent Ozar)
PowerShell
- How to set Azure PowerShell to a specific Azure Subscription (Benjamin Perkins)
- Updated! PowerShell Core [Beta] 6.04, AzureRM.NetCore Module, and Az CLI 2.0 Install Scripts for Ubuntu and OS X (Jessica Deen)
Miscellaneous
More Link Collections
- Xamarin App Developer Links – 2017-08-03 and Windows App Developer Links – 2017-08-03 (Dan Rigby)
- The Morning Brew #2397 (Chris Alcock)
- Double Shot #1902 (Mike Gunderloy)
- Collective #337 (Pedro Botelho)
The Geek Shelf
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ISBN: 0321503627 |
Growing Object-Oriented Software, Guided by Tests: Steve Freeman, Nat Pryce: 9780321503626: Books
Learn Windows PowerShell in a Month of Lunches (9781617294167): Donald W. Jones, Jeffrey Hicks: Books
Racing the Beam: The Atari Video Computer System (Platform Studies) (8601410204211): Nick Montfort, Ian Bogost: Books