Dew Drop – January 15, 2015 (#1934)

Top Links

• Web API Design Jumpstart (Jeremy Likness)
• Configure a Build.vNext Agent (Martin Hinshelwood)
• New Xamarin Profiler Preview (Nina V.)
• Using Azure Automation to run VMs during office hours only (Richard Kerslake)

 

Web Development

• One-Time Data Bindings For Object Literal Expressions In AngularJS 1.3 (Ben Nadel)
• Auto-Hide Sticky Header with JavaScript & CSS3 (jQuery Rain)
• Running ASP.NET 5 applications in Linux Containers with Docker (Ahmet Alp Balkan)
• Angular is for applications, not javascript. (Alex Kessinger)
• Using angularJs, nodejs, git, bower in corporate environments (Simona A.)
• PhpStorm 8.0.3 EAP 139.1069 (Mikhail Vink)
• The problem with Angular (Peter-Paul Koch)
• Swapping Items in an Array (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• My small contribution to ASP .NET 5 (Kevin Logan)
• es6-set-operations (Axel Rauschmayer)
• DockerCon EU: Introducing Docker Machine (Ben Firshman)
• Building a Better Web: A Brief History of Web Development (Mobile Man)

 

XAML

• Using XAML TreeView in WPF (Mahesh Chand)
• How to open and close Flyouts in Universal apps using MVVM (Marco Minerva)
• Xamarin Forms for Windows Phone Devs — The First Project (Matteo Pagani)
• WPF Shapes – Path – Path Geometry (Richard Carr)
• Coding4Fun Toolkit v2.0.9 Released (Greg Duncan)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Trigger Visual Studio Release Management vNext from TeamCity (Jakob Ehn)
• TFS Build vNext – A Preview (Jakob Ehn)
• Blend Path interfering with C# Project Builds (Rick Strahl)
• Entity Framework Context Abstraction (Chris Eargle)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The Long and Short of It (Mark Bowytz)
• Test First via Test Implementations of Core Functionality Interfaces (B. Clay Shannon)
• Putting People First to Increase Motivation and Performance (Ben Linders)
• RefM – A Microservice Case Study (Bob Familiar)
• Microsoft Offers Virtual Academy for API Design Training (Eric Carter)
• Partial commits in GitHub for Windows (Brendan Forster)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• App Store Optimization Tricks – Icons (Mickey MacDonald)
• The secret of mobile app/game success (Matt Lacey)
• Offline & Online, so easy with oData (Richard Jones)
• Getting Started with NativeScript (Sebastian Witalec)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Working on your Career with John Sonmez (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Ep 18, Livid Interactive, of the Indie Dev Podcast is out (David Voyles)
• The Amp Hour #232 – Impedance Matching with Davidson and Vandenbout – Presbytes Pushing Portfoliios (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
• Developers and DevOps | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green)
• 142 JSJ Share.js with Joseph Gentle (Joe Eames, Charles Max Wood, AJ O’Neal, Jamison Dance & Dave Smith)
• Video: Easing Functions in CSS (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• What the Tech 243: 4K Readiness (Paul Thurrott)
• The Windows Developer Show Episode 171 – “BenThePCGuy Does CES 2015” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
• Entreprogrammers Episode 47.1 (Derick Bailey, Josh Earl & John Sonmez)
• Defrag: Hide a Drive, Password Protect Outlook Folder, Windows Audio Tips and more | The Defrag Show (Greg Duncan, Larry Larsen & Golnaz)
• SQL Unplugged Episode 1 | SQL Unplugged (Scott Klein)
• Azure Podcast Episode 60 – Media Services at Scale (Sujit D’Mello)

 

Community / Events

• Microsoft details where you can livestream next week’s Windows 10 event (Dan Thorp-Lancaster)

 

Database

• Making SQL Server metadata queries easier with these new Views (Aaron Bertrand)
• SQL SERVER – The Easy Functions of SQL Server – Notes from the Field #062 (Pinal Dave)
• Excerpts from the RavenDB Performance team report: Routing (Oren Eini)
• Azure Data Services: SQL in the Cloud (Part 2) (Adarsha Datta)
• Announcing SQL Parameterization in DocumentDB (John Macintyre)
• Book Review – Beginning T-SQL (3rd Edition) (Ian Stirk)
• Setting a schema for the database in Azure Mobile Services (Mike Benkovich)

 

SharePoint

• Configure Blocked Files in SharePoint 2010 (Manpreet Singh)

 

PowerShell

• PowerShell OneGet: Gist-As-A-Package (Doug Finke)

 

Miscellaneous

• Be your own Santa (Anastasia Komarova)
• All the Microsoft Band help and how-to videos you’ll ever need in one place! (Richard Devine)
• Have your customers been pwned? Would you like to know? (Troy Hunt)

 

More Link Collections

• Geek Reading January 14, 2015 (Robert Diana)
• Daily News Digest 1/15/2015 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #1778 (Chris Alcock)
• Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for January 15th, 2015 (Dmitry Lyalin)

 

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