Elevenses #12

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Opinion

• Stop using ngrx/effects for that

Development

• Infer where your users have been - cheeky :-)
• Codelabs by Google - how to do little bits and bobs ..
• Sessions from the Chrome WebSummit on 23rd/24th October - lots on PWA
• .NET … in a browser!?!?
• Stylable - CSS framework for components

DDD North

I went to DDD North this year in Bradford - here are the slides I’ve managed to gather together:

• Async - the good, the bad and the ugly
• Story mapping for beginners
• .NET JavaScript Services Demo
• CosmoDb lightning talk
• Spot the difference: automating visual regression testing (slides) (code)
• CQRS session (slides)
• The Power of Mentoring (slides)
• What is the point of Microsoft (slides)

DotNet Core

• 110 samples for aspnetcore fundamentals (updated daily)
• .NET Core 2.0 and ASP.NET 2.0 Core are Here
• Sharing Configuration in ASP.NET Core SPA Scenarios - (aka How do I configure my Angular app from the server for development, testing and production)
• Love this ASP.NET Core Authorization Lab and a WIP version for ASP.NET Core 2.0
• Keeping development secrets, secret
• Top 13 ASP.NET Core Features You Need to Know
• Shared Localisation in ASP.NET Core MVC

SQL

• Securing SQL Databases on Azure
• SQL Server UPSERT Patterns and Antipatterns
• Generate an HTML view from a SQL execution plan
• DBA Tools - Powershell and SQL holding hands …

Accessibility

• Alt-texts: The Ultimate Guide

JavaScript / Angular2+ / Ionic2

• Angular 5 (yes, 5!) released
• Nrwl Nx — An open source toolkit for enterprise Angular applications
• 6 Great Uses of the Spread Operator
• Smoothie Charts - chart library for streaming real-time data

TypeScript

• TypeScript: Partial keyword file under “didn’t know that”! - Note there’s a whole series of TypeScript articles at the bottom which are work checking out.

Libraries / Plugins / Components

• Web Share API is here …
• GeoIP - get more country code info from an IP address

UI & UX

• Material Palette - (Pick main two colours, and download the theme)
• Little design tips, by @steveschoger
• 36 useful resources for UI and UX designers
• Brand Colours
• Branition Colors
• Good UI - (UI tips and tricks)
• Mobile Patterns - (ironically the mobile view is somewhat lacking!)
• A couple of free icon sets
• Bootstap 12 column grid in 5 lines of CSS #grid

Tools

• Bootstrap cheatsheet nice!
• Using VS Code as an HTTP REST Client
• Prettier - code reformatter
• Google’s “Poly” is a cross-platform 3D library for VR/AR — and it’s free
• Blisk - the browser for web developers - Some good stuff here, but be warned, it’s a paid for product after the 30 day trial

Security

• Trusted Platform Module … can’t be trusted …
• Insight into using Azure Key Vaults
• The 6 Step Happy Path To https
• Google’s “Advanced Protection” locks down accounts like never before
• Sonar - Lint the web (early days)
• Find and fix vulnerabilities in open source libraries you use, see also Sonar
• 10 Things You Should Know about Tokens
• Common Weakness Enumeration - Vulnerability database

Misc

• Hacker News readers as Progressive Web Apps
• Bye, bye Chrome Apps …

Social / Fun / Cool

• Google Maps … IN SPACE!
• How to Build a Kubernetes Cluster with ARM Raspberry Pi then run .NET Core on OpenFaas
• Convert JavaScript into an SVG flowchart - dunno why, it’s just cool :)
• Cloudflare uses LavaLamps for randomness!
• Your own Jarvis, at home

Codepens

• Funky animation
• Monopoly board
• Teaching transform-origin
• Playing with MS Emotion API
• Dynamically Generated Alt Text (sadly the quota has been maxed out at the moment)

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