Dew Drop – May 22, 2015 (#2020)

Top Links

• Save the day with a Visual Basic, C#, or F# T-Shirt! (Anthony D. Green)
• Win10 apps in .NET- common library issues (Lucian Wischik)
• Build 2015 – Ask Anders Anything (Anders Hejlsberg & Seth Juarez)
• When everything you know is wrong, part two (Eric Lippert)

 

Web Development

• Normalizing Untrusted Deferred / Promise Values For The $digest Lifecycle In AngularJS (Ben Nadel)
• Quick Tips to Boost Your WordPress Website’s Speed: Further & Better Optimization (Barış Ünver)
• Simplifying the JavaScript Callback function for .NET developers (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Customize ASP.NET MVC 6 View Location Easily (Jeff Fritz)
• Angular Select List Value not binding with Static Values (Rick Strahl)
• True Hash Maps in JavaScript (Ryan Morr)
• Content Delivery Networks: Which one is right for you? (Dean Hume)
• Apigee API Studio: Designing, Testing and Sharing APIs (Abel Avram)
• Intel’s contributions in Microsoft Edge: SIMD and other performance enhancements (Rob Hwacinski, Gaurav Seth & Juan Rodriguez)

 

XAML

• Apps on Windows 10 – the broad strokes (Andreas Hammar)
• MS Media Platform Player Framework – Windows 10 Universal Apps XAML BETA (CodePlex)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Bug Fix Update to ReSharper Ultimate is Available (Daria Dovzhikova)
• Sign Up for the Office 365 Developer Program! (Andrew Connell)
• What Every Programmer Should Know About Compiler Optimizations, Part 2 (Hadi Brais)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Delivering Value on Time by Using #NoEstimates and Developing Provably-Correct Software Using Formal Methods (Ben Linders)
• Use Metrics to Tell a Story (Jann Thomas)
• Democracy Vs. Dictatorship (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
• Have A Point Of View And A Plan (Mike Cottmeyer)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Always-on and Wi-Fi with the latest Android Wear update (Wayne Piekarski)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Office 365 Developer Podcast: Episode 046 platform dev with Mike Fitzmaurice and Andrew Connell (Jeremy Thake)
• Hanselminutes – Getting started making NodeBots and Wearables with Kassandra Perch (Scott Hanselman)
• Azure Podcast Episode 78 – SQL Azure DB Elastic Tools (Sujit D’Mello)
• Scrum is a method to understand how the system behaves | Jeremy Jarrell (Vasco Duarte)
• The Changelog 156: Modern WordPress using Bedrock and Sage with Ben Word and Scott Walkinshaw (Adam Stacoviak & Jerod Santo)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Richard Lewis (Chris Hardwick)
• The Amp Hour #250 – An Interview with Vic Aprea – Federated Firmware Functionalism (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)

 

Community / Events

• RSVP for Xamarin’s WWDC 2015 Party (Joseph Hill)
• Announcing the 4th Batch of DockerCon 2015 Speakers (Adam Herzog)
• My slide decks from the //build tour are up (David Voyles)
• CodeConf 2015: Speakers, Workshops and Hotel Discount (Kelsey Schimmelman)

 

Database

• SQL SERVER – Only Formatted Files on Which the Cluster Resource of the Server has a Dependency can be Used (Pinal Dave)
• RavenDB Sharding – Adding a new shard to an existing cluster, splitting the shard (Oren Eini)
• Query Folding in Power Query to Improve Performance (Koen Verbeeck)
• A taste of DocumentDB through our Query Playground (Andrew Hoh)

 

PowerShell

• SQL Server Monitoring with Powershell and the SQL Server Platform: Data Processing (Part 2 of 3) (Fikrat Azizov)
• Azure Power Shell: Azure Cloud Services for the Command Line Junkie -Part 3 (Adarsha Datta)

 

Miscellaneous

• New ways to get more done in Outlook.com (Outlook Team)

 

More Link Collections

• Geek Reading May 21, 2015 (Robert Diana)
• Double Shot #1506 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Daily Six Pack: May 22, 2015 (Dirk Strauss)
• The Morning Brew #1866 (Chris Alcock)
• my weekly newsletter is out (David Voyles)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2015-05-22 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2015-05-22 (Dan Rigby)
• Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for May 21st, 2015 (Dmitry Lyalin)

 

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