Dew Drop – February 23, 2015 (#1960)

Top Links

• Binding with Value Converters in Aurelia (Rob Eisenberg)
• What I have learnt being a designer, developer and product manager. (Scott Barnes)
• Introducing Module Browser – A World of Reusable PowerShell Modules at your Fingertips (Jialiang)
• Microsoft or Google? (James Whittaker)

 

Web Development

• Build & Deploy Rich UI JavaScript Apps, FAST! (Cody Lindley)
• Building a Multi-Line Chart Using D3.js: Part 2 (Jay)
• Using Squire, a Lightweight HTML5 Rich Text Editor (Jeff Reifman)
• Using Windows Azure Mobile Services in ASP.NET MVC (Mahesh Sabnis)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Learning JavaScript Data Structures and Algorithms – $13.49 (Save 50%) Use code DEAL (O’Reilly Media)
• Open sourcing and releasing ASP.NET Identity 2.2.0 (Pranav Rastogi)
• ECMA Script 6 – New language improvements in JavaScript (Ravi Kiran)
• Using Entity Framework within an Owin-hosted Web API with Unity (Simone Chiaretta)
• Kendo UI Core Grid (Steven Woolston)
• See All Azure AD & Office 365 Apps, And Usage, in the Azure Management Portal (Andrew Connell)
• Lift and Shift of a Windows Service to Microsoft #Azure (Alexandre Brisebois)
• Polylion (Chris Coyier)
• Collecting Coverage from the Command Line for IIS (Kerry Meade)
• Check out our Favorite Tech Support Stories (MS Azure Team)
• Azure Blob Storage Part 6: Blob Properties, Metadata, etc. (Robin Shahan)
• Azure Active Directory Part 5: Graph API (Rick Rainey)

 

XAML

• Hiding the system tray during design time (Windows Phone 8.1) (Iris Classon)
• Kinect for Windows V2 SDK: 3 ‘Hello World’ Videos (Mike Taulty)
•  WPF Brushes – Radial Gradient (Richard Carr)
• How to create Schedule Task in Universal Windows apps? (Kunal Chowdhury)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• .NET Packaging mess (Oren Eini)
• NuGet Packager Extension for Visual Studio (Kevin Logan)
• Visual Studio Web Packages fixing the path in the generated web package (Sayed Ibrahim Hashimi)
• Controlling a LED with a Raspberry PI 2 using Mono and C# (Joost van Schaik)
• Object Oriented, Test Driven Design in C# and Java: A Practical Example Part #3 (Paul Mooney)
• Optical Character Recognition in PDF Using Tesseract Open-Source Engine (Pravin Joshua David)
• Thoughts on the Future of .NET (Elena Pundjeva)
• Non-capturing C++ lambdas can be converted to a pointer to function, but what about the calling convention? (Raymond Chen)
• Implementing std::tuple From The Ground Up: Part 7, tuple_cat Take 2 (Sasha Goldshtein)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Artistic Parallels Between Making Music and Agile Testing (Ben Linders)
• Teams of Teams: The Big Scrum Series (David Starr)
• Three Things You MUST Know to Transform Any Sized Organization into an Agile Enterprise #Agile2015 and When Did Agile Become a Social Movement? (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Diana Larsen talks about Agile Fluency, Barriers to Agility and the value of Open Space Technology and Gartner and Software Advice examine Agile Lifecycle Management Tools (Shane Hastie)
•  #CreativeFriday – Using Photoshop blending options to ‘Knock Out’, and cut out 2D shapes for 3D composites (Richard Curtis)
• Thinking Fast and Slow with Software Development (Daniel Bryant)
• Ways of Expressing Estimates (George Dinwiddie)
• Collaboration Techniques for Large Distributed Agile Projects (Sunit Parekh)
• How to Become a Great UX Designer in 5 Easy Steps (Emily Luke)
• Article: Technical Debt: A Repayment Plan (Jeremy Jarrell)
• Master the Essentials of UI Test Automation: Chapter One (Jim Holmes)
• GitHub Adds Two New Methods to Releases API (Martin W. Brennan)
• My Current OSS Workflow: from Visual Studio to GitHub to MyGet to NuGet (Kevin Dockx)
• The Dreaded Re-write (Peter Ritchie)
• Becoming Great Remote Developer (Savita Pahuja)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• The coolest tool that you are not yet using (Xamarin edition) (Chris Miller)
• Behaviors for Xamarin Forms v2.0 (Corrado Cavalli)
• Swift from Scratch: Inheritance and Protocols (Bart Jacobs)
• Apple Watch Kit round-up (Craig Dunn)
• .NET Gadgeteer 101 (Greg Duncan)
• Swift-Like Swift code (Paris Buttfield-Addison)
• Book review: Swift Essentials (Pete Barber)
• Cross Platform with Raspberry Pi (Richard Jones)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Chicago Hackathon, Office 365, Azure, and drinks with Andrew Clark-Episode 89 (Rob Foster, Nick Swan & Brett Lonsdale)
•  Stephen Thomas talks about the role of ceremonies in Scrum (Vasco Duarte)
• TWC9: Azure Machine Learning, Net#, Orleans, Windows 10 + asm.js, JavaScript Wins, OneNote Free and more… | This Week On Channel 9 (Greg Duncan, Mat Velloso & Nisha Singh)
• Web Dev Radio Episode 123 – fastclick, hhvm, node-io split (Michael Kimsal)
• Windows Developer Show Episode 174 – “Stepping Into the Lab” (Travis Lowdermilk & Ryan Lowdermilk)
• MS Dev Show – Soft Skills with John Sonmez (Jason Young & Carl Schweitzer)
• The Changelog 143: Front-end Developer Interview Questions with Darcy Clarke (Adam Stacoviak & Jerod Santo)
• Get Up And Code 079: Powerlifting Vs. Bodybuilding with Jesse Taber (Douglas Coleman)
• Episode 168: The Redesigned Power BI Service with Josh Caplan | Microsoft Azure Cloud Cover Show (Haishi Bai & Chris Risner)
• StarTalk Radio – Cosmic Queries: Star Trek (Neil de Grasse Tyson)

 

Community / Events

• TwitchCon 2015 is coming to San Francisco, bros! Are you going? (Brian Fagioli)
• Here’s Why I’ll Be at the Seattle ALM Forum in 2015 (David Starr)

 

Database

• SQL Server Covering Index Performance (Fikrat Azizov)
• Microsoft® SQL Server® Data-Tier Application Framework (February 2015) (MS Downloads)
• Response to “SSDT limitations” (Jamie Thomson)
• Oracle Puts REST APIs at Core of Big Data Strategy (Michael Vizard)
• SQL SERVER – Script to Find Strings with Same Characters and SQL SERVER – COLUMNSTORE and COLUMNSTORE_ARCHIVE data compression and Interview Question of the Week #008 – Write Scripts to Convert String to Title Case or Proper Case (Pinal Dave)
•  It’s Time To Get Over That Stored Procedure Aversion You Have (Rob Conery)
• Microsoft Makes Apache Storm Generally Available And Improves Productivity for Real-Time Analytics on Big Data (Oliver Chiu)

 

SharePoint

• Save Mutiple records to SharePoint 2013 using REST API in a single request (Batch Processing) (Narula Srinivas)

 

PowerShell

• Module Browser for Windows PowerShell ISE (MS Downloads)
• Mixed refresh mode support for DSC partial configurations (Ravikanth C)

 

Miscellaneous

• Forget Windows, the most vulnerable operating systems in 2014 were Mac OS X and iOS (Ron)
• Five cheap Windows tablets you should check out (Simon Sage)

 

More Link Collections

•  Geek Reading February 20, 2015 (Robert Diana)
• Double Shot #1477 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Reading Notes #174 (Frank Boucher)
• Collective 156 (Mary Lou)
• Daily Links 20 Feb 2015 (Jax)
• Office 365 news round-up (Office 365 Team)
• Last Week on Channel 9: February 16th – February 22nd, 2015 (Greg Duncan)
• Reading List (Bruce Lawson)
• The Morning Brew #1805 (Chris Alcock)
• New weekly newsletter is out (David Voyles)
• Daily News Digest 2/23/2015 (Silverlight Show)
• Weekly Programming Digest #95 (Jakub Chodounský)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2015-02-20 and Windows App Developer Links – 2015-02-23 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2015-02-20 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2015-02-23 (Dan Rigby)
• Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for February 20th, 2015 (Dmitry Lyalin)

 

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