Dew Drop – November 25, 2015 (#2139)

Top Links

• The 5 Laws of Software Estimates (Steve Smith)
• Application Insights Tools for Visual Studio 2015 Update 1 RTM (MS Downloads)
• The road to DNX – part 2 and The road to DNX–part 3 (Marc Gravell)
• .NET Rocks! – Thinking Beyond the SPA with Benjamin Howarth (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)

 

Web Development

• Is Injecting The $element And $event Objects An Anti-Pattern In AngularJS? (Ben Nadel)
• Dart SDK Improves JavaScript Access (Kay Ewbank)
• Handing off to another ASP.net MVC Controller Action without redirecting (Dan)
• .NET Core and ASP.NET Bug Bounty Update (Barry Dorrans)
• Scaled/Proportional Content with CSS and JavaScript (Chris Coyier)
• How to create Custom Filters in AngularJS (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Get Your Code PHP 7 Ready With PhpStorm 10 (Gary Hockin)
• Continual Delivery of an AngularJS ASP.NET MVC Web API Entity Framework SQL App to Amazon AWS using Visual Studio Team Services (Jeremy Likness)
• Future of JavaScript – ECMAScript 6 (ES2015) Arrow and Spread Operator (Rami Sayar)
• Progressive Web Apps: ready for primetime (Bruce Lawson)
• Azure Preview Portal – November 2015 update (Leon Welicki)
• Automating Deployment on Azure Web Apps (Matias Quaranta)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Web Scraping with Python – $13.99 (Save 50%) Use code DEAL (O’Reilly Media)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Issue to be aware of when restoring NuGet packages for the code hosted in git repository of Visual Studio Team Services aka VSO (Ruslan Albu)
• Back to Basic – Building Solutions in Visual Studio – Build Vs. Rebuild (Abhijit Jana)
• Working with GitHub from Visual Studio 2015 (Andrei Marukovich)
• Fix slow nuget operation in Visual studio 2015 (Anirudha)
• Conditional breakpoints FTW (Iris Classon)
• Git and TFVC together, Package Management build tasks, and more – Nov 18 (Karen Ng)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Software architecture diagrams should be maps of your source code (Simon Brown)
• Unit Testing Comparison Videos (Jeremy Clark)
• Agile Grooming — the Randy Rule (John Vester)
• My list of best practices (Gregor Suttie)
• 5 signs you’re thinking about testing your code incorrectly (Matt Lacey)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• AAWP Insight #162: Lumia 950 reviews, Build 10586 (Rafe Blandford)
• Scrum Master Toolbox – Spotify’s hiring and onboarding process | Cliff Hazel (Vasco Duarte)
• Startup Success Podcast 3.10: Content Marketing for Startups, Part 2 (Bob Walsh)
• Developer on Fire Episode 064 | Jonathan Cutrell – Firm Commitment (Dave Rael)
• The Ops Team #005 – “Stuntman” | The Ops Team (David Tesar, RicksterCDN, Matt McSpirit & Simon May)
• Functional Geekery Episode 36 – Rob Sullivan (a.k.a DataChomp) (Steven Proctor)
• RunAs Radio – Troubleshooting Windows 10 with Mike Halsey (Richard Campbell & Greg Hughes)
• Web Application Compatibility Inside Windows 10 | Inside Windows Platform (Joe Breslin & chach)
• Talk Python to Me #35 Turbogears and the future of Python web frameworks (Michael Kennedy)
• One Dev Question with Raymond Chen – Error Reporting in Windows (Rosshe)
• Azure Podcast Episode 104 – Scaling to Infinity & Beyond (Sujit D’Mello)

 

Community / Events

• Introducing Xamarin Evolve Student Scholarships (Joseph Hill)
• Azure DocumentDB: Giving thanks for our MVPs (Han Wong)
• Microsoft is hosting Windows Insiders events on Dec. 1 in NYC and Bellevue, WA (John Callaham)

 

Database

• SQL Server Linked Server Error could not map ordinals for one or more columns (Daniel Farina)
• SQL SERVER – What Resource Wait Are We Seeing? (Pinal Dave)
• Universal SQL Editor 1.6.9.1-Universal SQL Editor (Softonic)
• Using Parameter Tables To Control Data Refresh In Power BI (Chris Webb)
• Using Azure Machine Learning with SQL Data Warehouse (Sahaj Saini)

 

PowerShell

• Keeping Windows PowerShell Help Up To Date (Steve Parankewich)

 

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft’s HoloLens is the top gadget of 2015 according to TIME (Jared DiPane)
• Sample chapter: Customizing the Appearance of Windows 10 (Kim Spilker)
• Here are some of the issues and bugs users are experiencing with the Windows 10 November update (Mauro Huculak)

 

More Link Collections

• Geek Reading November 24, 2015 (Robert Diana)
• Double Shot #1592 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Morning Brew #1976 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2015-11-24 and Windows App Developer Links – 2015-11-25 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2015-11-24 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2015-11-25 (Dan Rigby)
• Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for Nov 24th, 2015 (Dmitry Lyalin)

 

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