Dew Drop – January 6, 2016 (#2162)

Top Links

• Best practices for private config data and connection strings in configuration in ASP.NET and Azure (Scott Hanselman)
• Creating a UI Test Suite with the Xamarin Test Recorder (Mike James)
• Windows 10 Store Growth Creates New Developer Opportunity in 2016 (Todd Brix)
• .NET Rocks! – Functional Microservices with Rachel Reese (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)

 

Web Development

• How to Become a Better Node.js Developer in 2016 (Gergely Nemeth)
• How to Create a YouTube AngularJS Directive (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Creating and debugging hosted web apps with ManifoldJS and VorlonJS (David Voyles)
• Data Persistence and Sessions With React (Tom Whitbread)

 

XAML

• #VS2015 – #FaceDetection and Merry Christmas #Coding4Fun (Bruno Capuano)
• Visual Layer Experiment 2.5 (Mike Taulty)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Did you Know – You can launch ILDASM Tool from the Visual Studio itself – How ? (Abhijit Jana)
• Web Performance Testing with Visual Studio Ultimate 2013 Part 2 (Kevin Tuttle)
• Freeing your Azure data with F# Type Providers (Isaac Abraham & Steffen Forkmann)
• Configuring Entity Framework for Oracle (Peter Vogel)
• 2016: A look forward (Bill Wagner)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• What happened to backward compatibility? (Oren Eini)
• Google Hacking for Penetration Testers 3rd Ed (Ian Stirk)
• Octokit and the Content of Releases (Jeff Yates)
• Quality and Testing Trends in the Digital Transformation Era (Shravanthi Alimilli)
• How I’m Documenting OSS Projects (Jeremy D. Miller)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• How to Load Data Asynchronously in Android Apps Using Loaders (Vipul Patel)
• Gamemaker MVA Start Kits (Daniel Egan)
• DoubleClick’s ‘Mobile Bootcamp’ for app success (Gary Lewis)
• Swift 2 Core Data Tutorial – Part 2 (Nolan O’Brien)
• Using the Mobile Screen (Noel Rice)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• The Nerdist Podcast – Jason Alexander (Chris Hardwick)
• AAWP Insight #165: The Quin verdict (Steve Litchfield)
• 47 ngAir – How to become an open source contributor with Wesley Cho and Jesus Rodriguez (Kent C. Dodds)
• Developer on Fire Episode 081 | Esther Derby – Making More Humane Workplaces (Dave Rael)
• Functional Geekery Episode 41 – Eric Normand (Steven Proctor)
• Episode 11: Livi Erickson | GALs (Golnaz Alibeigi & Kaitlin McKinnon)
• RunAs Radio – Migrating from SAN to Cloud with Kevin Evans (Richard Campbell & Greg Hughes)
• CodeChat 052 – A Real Chat About VR with Livi Erickson | CodeChat (Jeremy Foster)

 

Community / Events

• Tis the Season to Code For Fun! (Ajit Deshpande)

 

Database

• Pinning a SQL Server Reporting Services Report to Power BI (Scott Murray)
• SQL SERVER – Monitoring and Troubleshooting SQL Server Got Easy with Diagnostics Tool (Pinal Dave)
• Why use a GUID for a clustering key? (Jeremiah Peschka)

 

PowerShell

• Getting Started with PowerShell Tools for Visual Studio (Graham Smith)
• DevOps, Infrastructure as Code, and PowerShell DSC: The Introduction (Ravikanth C)
• Decipher Windows Update error codes (Emin Atac)

 

Miscellaneous

• The World’s Thinnest 3x Optical Zoom Smartphone is here…Meet the ZenFone Zoom! (Khang Thai)
• PNG Compression Tool for Windows (Rush Frisby)
• Ring in the New Year with OneNote Class and Staff Notebook updates! (OneNote Team)

 

More Link Collections

• Geek Reading January 5, 2016 (Robert Diana)
• Double Shot #1618 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Daily Six Pack: January 6, 2016 (Dirk Strauss)
• The week in .NET – 1/5/2015 (Bertrand Le Roy)
• The Morning Brew #2003 (Chris Alcock)
• 8080 in JavaScript, Azure PowerShell, Testing ReactJS Tue Jan 5 2016 (Jeremy Likness)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2016-01-06 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2016-01-06 (Dan Rigby)
• Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for Jan 5th, 2016 (Dmitry Lyalin)

 

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