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Content Projection in Angular Element with Slot in Angular 7.0 (Dhananjay Kumar)
Web & Cloud Development
Creating a git repo with Azure Repos and trying out Git LFS (Andrew Lock)
Serve CSS and javascript from CDNs safely with subresource integrity (SRI) attributes (Jeremy Lindsay)
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How To Create More Time: A Strategy For Finally Getting Ahead Of Your To-Do List (Heather McCloskey)
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With New Data Representation Scheme, Alexa Can Better Match Skills to Customer Requests (Larry Hardesty)
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Syntax Podcast Hasty Treat Where are they now?! Gulp, Grunt, Bower, Backbone and Compass (Wes Bos)
Microsoft Bot Framework v4 Node #13: Creating Rich Cards for your Chatbot Part 2 (Michael Szul)
Real Talk JS Episode 12: NativeScript with Nathan Walker (John Papa, Ward Bell & Dan Wahlin)
Introduction to Multi-Signature Wallets | Block Talk (JT Rose & Blocktalkadmin)
Revision Path 273: Karl Hudson Phillips (Maurice Cherry)
Women in Business & Technology Podcast 035 Crowdfunding Beanie Babies with Girls’ Night In CEO Alisha Ramos (Sonia Dara & Colleen O’Brien)
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Distributed .NET Core Episode 2 (Piotr Gankiewicz)
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Ignite Series: Top Highlights and Takeaways from Ignite 2018 (Hamida Rebai)
Meetup Pro for Non Profits (SQLAndy)
Database
Comparison Review: Microsoft SSDT vs Redgate SQL Source Control (Alex Yates)
SQL SERVER Information Message: Cannot shrink file in database to xxxx pages as it only contains yyyy pages. (Pinal Dave)
SSIS Catalog Execution Parameter Values (Tim Mitchell)
Recursive indexing in RavenDB (Oren Eini)
PowerShell
Develop and Debug PowerShell Scripts with MyInvocation (Tim Smith)
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Double Shot #2238 (Mike Gunderloy)
Azure Weekly: December 17, 2018 (Chris Pietschmann)
Azure.Source Volume 62 (Rob Caron)
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Collective #477 (Pedro Botelho)
Interesting links of the week (12/10 12/16, 2018) (Michael Eaton)
Xamarin & windows App Developer Links 2018-12-18 (Dan Rigby)
Professional Development 12/10/2018 12/16/2018 (Cameron Presley)
Today in Tech Tuesday, Dec 18, 2018 (Dirk Strauss)
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