Dew Drop – August 4, 2016 (#2302)

Top Links

• An introduction to the Microsoft Bot Framework (Gary Pretty)
• Compile your changes on the fly with .NET Core Watch (Jon Hilton)
• Yet Another Podcast #159 – Shawn Wildermuth (Jesse Liberty)
• Create high quality mobile apps with Ionic & Visual Studio (Jordan Matthiesen)

 

Web Development

• Implementing A $log-Inspired Logging Service In Angular 2 RC 4 (Ben Nadel)
• Using Kendo UI for jQuery in a React App (Cody Lindley)
• Vizceral Open Source (Casey Rosenthal)
• I Wrote a Book: Practical SVG (Chris Coyier)
• Announcing the general availability of the Microsoft Excel API to expand the power of Office 365 (Office Extensibility Team)

 

XAML

• Why you should update your apps to UWP (Joost van Schaik)
• Windows 10 Anniversary Update, App Extensions and App Services (Mike Taulty)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• GitHub Enterprise 2.7 is now available with enhanced security and more powerful APIs (Dirkjan Bussink)
• In Person Feedback is Best (Kim Scott)
• Every Business is Doomed to Fail without Change Management (Sabrina Loureiro)
• Refactoring Static Config Access (Steve Smith)
• How to Avoid Awkward Conversations for the Analytical Mind (Timon Klip)
• Managing Code Analysis Statistics with the NDepend API (Erik Dietrich)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Creating Animations with Xamarin.Forms (David Britch)
• Microsoft Azure Certified for IoT Starter Kits and Platforms and Windows IoT Core Anniversary Update and Raspberry Pi 3 (Chris Pietschmann)
• Design, Music and Sound Assets for your Mobile Game Dev (Greg Duncan)
• New – Just-in-Time Certificate Registration for AWS IoT (Jeff Barr)
• Using SqlStorage Instead Of SQLite In An Ionic 2 App (Nic Raboy)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Developer Playgrounds in HyperDev with Daniel Moore (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• 223 JSJ WebStorm with Dennis Ushakov (Charles Max Wood & Jamison Dance)
• 034 jsAir – Typed Functional Programming in JavaScript with Alfonso García-Caro, Richard Feldman, Phil Freeman, and Jordan Walke (Kent C. Dodds)
• The Joy of Coding – Episode 66 (Air Mozilla)
• RiYL Episode 179: Carrie Poppy (Brian Heater)
• Cortana Intelligence Competitions: a New Challenge | FWTV on 9 (Frank La Vigne)
• Office Dev Show – Episode 40 – App-Only Permissions and the Microsoft Graph | Office Dev Show (Richard diZerega)
• Developer Tea – Simple Machines (Jonathan Cutrell)
• 2016 Imagine Cup World Finals and 2016 MSP Summit Recap (Gavin Gear)

 

Community / Events

• New Leadership for IronPython (Jonathan Allen)

Database

• How to remove a SQL Server Data file for a multi-data file database (Manvendra Singh)
• SQL Server 2016 Cumulative Update 1 (Guy Glantser)
• SQL SERVER – DMVs to Detect Performance Problems in SQL Server – Notes from the Field #135 (Pinal Dave)
• RavenDB 3.5 Release Candidate (Oren Eini)

 

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #2150 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #1715 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Collective #234 (Pedro Botelho)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2016-08-04 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2016-08-04 (Dan Rigby)

 

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