Dew Drop – May 12, 2016 (#2250)

Top Links

• 10 years and over 520 episodes of podcasting – Tech is a marathon, not a sprint (Scott Hanselman)
• .NET Rocks! – Hacking, SQL Injection, Ransomware and More with Troy Hunt (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Macros extension: VS 2015 support and open-sourced (Justin Clareburt)
• Analyzing website performance with the Windows Performance Toolkit (Todd Reifsteck)

 

Web Development

• Trying To Enable Tabbing In Textareas In Angular 2 Beta 17 (Ben Nadel)
• 30 Days of Zumo.v2 (Azure Mobile Apps): Day 19 – ASP.NET Table Controllers (Adrian Hall)
• How To Add React Powered CSS Filters To Twilio Video (Eddie Zaneski)
• Notes from the ASP.NET Community Standup – May 10, 2016 (Jeffrey T. Fritz)
• Inspecting HTTP headers in an Azure Logic App (Brian Loesgen)
• Flexbox and Truncated Text (Chris Coyier)
• Hosted Build Pool Image Updates (Chris Patterson)
• Splunking Continuous REST Data (Jason Conger)
• A Guide to a Secure Life Online (Jezen Thomas)
• Introduction to Webpack: Part 2 (Stuart Memo)

 

XAML

• Feature Spotlight: Infragistics WPF NuGet Packages (Brian Lagunas)
• Bring Office 2016 Inspired Style to Your App with UI for WPF (Evgenia Milcheva)
• Power-up Your UWP with some Xbox One Dev… (Greg Duncan)
• Publishing to Windows Store: Introducing the Windows Dev Center Tips series (Windows Apps Team)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Choosing the Right Constructors to Write (Kate Gregory)
• Thoughts on project files (Mark Rendle)
• Serilog 2.0 Release Plans (Nick Blumhardt)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Project Managers in Enterprise Agile (Greg King)
• Article: Going Through the Scrum Motions as Opposed to Being an Agile Jedi (Michael Nir)
• SonarLint 2.2 for Visual Studio improves the connected mode (Jean-Marc Prieur)
• Understanding Large Codebases with Software Evolution (Ben Linders)
• Principles of Personal Agility (Derek Huether)
• My Journey with DevOps at Splunk (Domnick Eger)
• On Being The Smartest Person in The Room…and Knowing When to Leave (Elisa Doucette)
• 4 Ways Custom Code Metrics Improve A Development Team (Erik Dietrich)
• NCover 5.5 Update Release (Kerry Meade)
• Developer Best Practices sale (Kim Spilker)
• Planning … it’s all about people! (Willy-P. Schaub)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Embedding Native Controls into Xamarin.Forms (James Montemagno)
• Xamarin Dev Ops with VSTS – Setup iOS CI Builds With MacinCloud (Richard Woollcott)
• Getting started with Carthage to manage dependencies in Swift and iOS (Sam Agnew)
• Accessing platform specific code using IOC in MVVM Cross (Arun Kumar)
• Getting Started With Ionic: Navigation (Jeremy Wilken)
• Building High-Performance Mobile Applications at Netflix (Maxine Cheung)
• Designing for Multi-Window (Ian Lake)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Episode 313 – PowerScripting Podcast – Rob Reynolds on Chocolatey (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• SQLUnplugged Episode 13 – SQL Server 2016 GA & SQL on Linux | SQL Unplugged (Scott Klein)
• Talk Python to Me Episode #58 Create better Python programs with concurrency, libraries, and patterns (Michael Kennedy)
• Build A Unity Game Part 2 | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green)
• 211 JSJ Ember and EmberConf with Michael North (Aimee Knight, Charles Max Wood, Dave Smith & Jamison Dance)
• 66 ngAir – Conference Recap Show (Kent C. Dodds)
• Developer on Fire Episode 129 | Nate Taylor – Professional and Broad (Dave Rael)
• SQL Server Radio Show 47 – How to Find a DBA Job with Brent Ozar (Matan Yungman & Guy Glantser)
• What The Tech 307: The Future of Intel (Paul Thurrott)
• Office Dev Show – Episode 29 – Getting Started with the Skype Web SDK (Richard diZerega)
• The Static Void Podcast – Code Sprawl with Matt Hornsby (Chris Gomez, Todd Snyder & Jess Chadwick)

 

Community / Events

• Women in Work and the Tech Industry (Jackie Kinsey)

 

Database

• Free ebook: Microsoft Azure Essentials Migrating SQL Server Databases to Azure (Kim Spilker)
• Migrating from SQL Server to NoSQL using Azure DocumentDB (Mahesh Sabnis)
• The design of RavenDB 4.0: Separation of indexes and documents (Oren Eini)
• Implicit vs. Explicit Conversion (Erik Darling)
• Using Scheduler with Scalatra Framework and MongoDB (Maria)

 

PowerShell

• #PSTip Convert PowerShell Data File to an Object (Ravikanth C)

 

Miscellaneous

• Too Many Slacks (Allen Pike)
• You can give an audiobook to a friend for free with Audible’s new recommendation feature (John Callaham)
• New editor coming to Outlook 2016 for Mac (Outlook Team)

 

More Link Collections

• Xamarin App Developer Links – 2016-05-12 and Windows App Developer Links – 2016-05-12 (Dan Rigby)
• The Morning Brew #2091 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #1682 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Geek Reading May 11, 2016 #1103 (Robert Diana)
• Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for May 11th, 2016 (Dmitry Lyalin)

 

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