Dew Drop – December 14, 2016 (#2383)

Top Links

• Project Springfield: a Cloud Service Built Entirely in F# (William Blum)
• Ok… let me explain: it’s going to be Angular 4 (Igor Minar)
• Pride in Software Development (Rockford Lhotka)
• The Year in .NET – Visual Studio 2017 RC and .NET Core updated, On .NET with Stephen Cleary and Luis Valencia, Ulterius, Inferno, Bastion, LoGeek Night (Bertrand Le Roy)
• Cortana to open up to new devices and developers with Cortana Skills Kit and Cortana Devices SDK (Windows Apps Team)

 

Web Development

Babylon.js v2.5 and what’s next? (David Catuhe)

Communication Between Components Using @Input() in Angular (Dhananjay Kumar)

WebStorm 2016.3.2 is now available (Ekaterina Prigara)

Convert ASP.NET Web Servers to Docker with Image2Docker (Elton Stoneman)

Accessing HttpContext outside of framework components in ASP.NET Core (Filip W.)

Angular 2 and .NET Core – your first component (Jon Hilton)

A Few Paragraphs on Angular 2 (Rob Larsen)

Cross-Browser HTML5 Form Validation is Finally Here! Now What? (TJ VanToll)

Azure Functions Visual Studio Tools Preview (Chris Pietschmann)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• .NET Framework December Monthly Rollup is Now Available (Stacey Haffner)
• December 2016 Update for .NET Core 1.0 (Kendra Havens)
• Special offer: Save 40% on all eBooks (Kim Spilker)
• Entity Framework Core Extensions (Erik EJ)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Productivity Patterns (Derek Huether)
• SonarSource have announced their own SonarQube Team Services / TFS integration (Bogdan Gavril)
• Ensure Consistent Testing with Mock Objects and Moq (Peter Vogel)
• Resources for Writing Clean Code as a Software Developer (Richard Hay)
• How We Test Software: Chapter Four Part II—Developer Tools (Antonia Bozhkova)
• What Is Clean Code? (Kevin Rutherford)
• Microsprints: Why You Need Them To Get More Done (And How To Get Started) (Matt Bilotti)
• Why Feedback Helps Teams Achieve Results (Russ Laraway)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Announcing updates to Google’s Internet of Things platform: Android Things and Weave (Wayne Piekarski)
• Designing and Prototyping Apps with Adobe Experience Design CC (Beta) (Michael S. Scherotter)
• Android Wear 2.0 Developer Preview 4: Authentication, In-App Billing, and more (Hoi Lam)
• Introducing the WebVR API in Chrome for Android (Brandon Jones)
• Installing Xamarin Made Easy with Offline Installation (Mayur Tendulkar)
• PouchDB Data Modeling For My Dig Deep Fitness Offline First Mobile Application (Ben Nadel)
• Unity 5.6 beta is now available (Alex Lian)
• Creating a Raspberry Pi Pandora Player with Remote Web Control (Dave Johnson)
• Introducing a New Alexa Video Series for Python Developers by Coding Dojo (Marion Desmazieres)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Penetration Testing with Raspberry Pi – $15.99 (Save 50%) Use code DEAL (O’Reilly Media)
• Swift 3.1 Enters its Final Development Stage (Sergio De Simone)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – JavaScript Development Environments with Cory House (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Microsoft Cloud Show Episode 170 | News from AWS re:Invent and ExpressRoute for Office 365 (Andrew Connell & Chris Johnson)
• SQL Data Partners Podcast Episode 74: 2016 in review and 2017 goals (Carlos Chacon Jr.)
• RunAs Radio – The DevOps Handbook with Gene Kim (Richard Campbell & Greg Hughes)
• StarTalk Radio – Science Gets Fabulous, with Summer Ash and Emily Rice – StarTalk All-Stars (Neil deGrasse Tyson)
• Tuesdays with Corey: Internal use of Azure Bot Framework to improve support engineering | Tuesdays With Corey (RicksterCDN)

 

Community / Events

• Twilio SIGNAL 2017 – CFP Open (Twilio SIGNAL Team)

 

Database

• Run SQL Server vNext (CTP1) as a Docker Container on a Mac (Susantha Bathige)
• Unleash the power of SQL Server 2016 and Azure SQL database temporal tables (Johan Åhlén & Peter Larsson)
• SQL SERVER – Performance Analysis of Backup to Azure (Pinal Dave)
• SSIS Data Taps (Tim Mitchell)
• SQL Monitor review of 2016 (Ben Emmett)
• Generating realistic dates using SQL Data Generator and Python (Phil Factor)
• Provisioning a Couchbase Server Instance with the Command Line (Nic Raboy)

 

SharePoint

• New book: Microsoft SharePoint 2016 Step by Step (Kim Spilker)

 

Miscellaneous

• Robonomics: Prepare Today for the Jobless Economy of Tomorrow (Ian Stirk)
• Scratch Blocks update: Making it easier to develop coding apps for kids (Google Devs)
• 2016 Favorite Books (Scott Banwart)
• This is Microsoft’s first Amazon Echo competitor (Tom Warren)

 

More Link Collections

• Xamarin App Developer Links – 2016-12-14 (Dan Rigby)
• The Morning Brew #2243 (Chris Alcock)
• The Daily Six Pack: December 14, 2016 (Dirk Strauss)

 

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