Dew Drop – August 26, 2015 (#2077)

Top Links

• An open-source full-fidelity XML parser (Kirill Osenkov)
• If Unit Tests Were Seinfeld Characters (Eric Potter)
• Rocking Your Mocks (Jason Bock)
• On Disconnecting (Scott Hanselman)

 

Web Development

• TypeScript and JavaScript in ReSharper 9.2 (Anton Lobov)
• The Rise of JavaScript Frameworks – Part 2: Tomorrow (Rick Strahl)
• setState() State Mutation Operation May Be Synchronous In ReactJS (Ben Nadel)
• Displaying all cards on a page (1 of 3) (Erik Dietrich)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Jump Start Bootstrap – $9.49 (Save 50%) Use code DEAL (O’Reilly Media)

 

XAML

• Debugging XAML with Live Visual Tree and Live Property Explorer Windows (Nick Randolph)
• Build a Windows 10 Universal App – First Look (Shoban Kumar)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Going Further with Fluent Builders in your Tests – C# (Darren Hall)
• Upgrading a TFS 2013 Continuous Delivery Platform to TFS 2015 (Graham Smith)
• C#6: Auto-property Initializers and Expression-Bodied Properties (Jeff Yates)
• Quickly change the TFS Integration Platform settings (Matteo Emili)
• A Day in the Life of Visual Studio Send a Smile Feedback (Kevin Lane)
• Moving to VS 2015 from VS 2013 (James Chambers)
• Wake County Voter Analysis Using FSharp, AzureML, and R (Jamie Dixon)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Bliki: AntiPattern (Martin Fowler)
• Help, my diagram doesn’t fit on one page! (Simon Brown)
• Increasing Software Quality with Visual Management (Ben Linders)
• The 1 rule all designers should live by (Martyn Perks)
• How to actually ship software that actually works (Thomas Fuchs)
• Towards continuous design (Jeff Sussna)
• Microspeak: DRI, the designated response individual (Raymond Chen)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Mobile Apps with Visual Basic & Xamarin.Forms (Craig Dunn)
• Azure Media Services Java SDK gets a major update (Mingfei Yan)
• C# Developer’s Impression of Swift (Eric Potter)
• 31 Days of Xamarin Android Day 25: Local Notifications (Venkata Koppaka)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Optimizing Mobile Web Sites with Chris Love (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Agile Coffee podcast, episode 36 (Vic Bonacci)
• CodeChat 036 – Colin Megill Brings Up Strong Reasons to Use React.js | CodeChat (Jeremy Foster)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Christian Slater and Rami Malek (Chris Hardwick)
• The Married Gamers Episode 373: Make Them Laugh (Chris Brown)
• Using Cortana to interact with your customers (10 by 10) (Clint Rutkas)
• Developer on Fire Podcast – Dave Fancher – Communication First (Dave Rael)
• RunAs Radio – Surface Power Management with Joao Botto (Richard Campbell & Greg Hughes)
• Rocket 33: Beyond Stoked (Simone De Rochefort, Christina Warren & Brianna Wu)
• Migrations in Entity Framework 7 with Brice Lambson (Seth Juarez)

 

Community / Events

• Rock Your Code and Applications with dotNetDave @ Code Stars Summit (David McCarter)
• On Being a Social Developer: Observations from That Conference (Jeremy Clark)
• Microsoft AzureCon (29-Sept-2015) – Be the first to see what’s next. Attend the free, virtual event. (Azure Team)

 

Database

• Troubleshooting Common SQL Server Analysis Services Connectivity Issues (Edwin Sarmiento)
• SQL SERVER – Script: Finding queries without JOIN Predicates (Pinal Dave)
• PostgreSQL Document API Part 3: Finding Things (Rob Conery)
• Database versioning tools (Vladimir Khorikov)
• Get the DocumentDB SQL query cheat sheet (Aravind Ramachandran)
• Automatic Roll Forward Transaction Log Backups (Eitan Blumin)

 

SharePoint

• SharePoint Server 2016 Preview (MS Downloads)
• Developers: SharePoint isn’t a Platform, SharePoint is a Service (Andrew Connell)

 

PowerShell

• ebook deal of the week: Deploying and Managing Active Directory with Windows PowerShell (Kim Spilker)

 

Miscellaneous

• Shortcut keys for Windows 10 (MS Downloads)
• Six Things Every Developer Should Know to Stay Current (Rob Bogue)
• Xbox Preview program is at ‘near capacity’, so new invites will be cut back (John Callaham)
• This Microsoft concept puts an e-ink Start menu on a Surface keyboard (Tom Warren)
• Code Monkey Kung Fu – Code Review Blame (Dane Morgridge)
• Star Wars New Canon Timeline [Infographic] (Geeks Are Sxe)
• Let Me Ask Jon Skeet for You (Andrew Rimmer)
• Windows 10 Insider preview concludes on the 15th of September (Michael Allison)

 

More Link Collections

• Geek Reading August 25, 2015 (Robert Diana)
• Double Shot #1544 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Morning Brew #1933 (Chris Alcock)
• The Daily Six Pack: August 26, 2015 (Dirk Strauss)
• Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for August 25th, 2015 (Dmitry Lyalin)

 

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