Dew Drop – March 11, 2016 (#2206)

Top Links

• Is Agile still applicable? (David Starr)
• Mixing and Matching UIKit with XAML and the Windows Bridge for iOS (Windows Apps Team)
• UWP porting guidance for Android and iOS developers (Windows Apps Team)
• Hanselminutes – March Is For Makers: Arduinos and Useless Robots with Simone Giertz (Scott Hanselman)

 

Web Development

• Experimenting With The .catch() Operator And Stream Continuation In RxJS And Angular 2 (Ben Nadel)
• ASP.NET WebHooks Reaches Release Candidate Stage (Don Kiely)
• Directives in Angular 2 (Mithun Patel)
• PhpStorm 2016.1 RC1 is available along with new versioning (Anna Lebedeva)
• JavaScript Object Fields (Dave M. Bush)
• WebStorm 2016.1 Release Candidate (Ekaterina Prigara)
• 20 Useful jQuery Sliders (Eric Dye)
• Visual and Dimension Improvements in UI for ASP.NET AJAX (Liliya Karakoleva)
• Future of JavaScript & ECMAScript 6 (ES2015) Subclassable Built-ins & New Containers (Rami Sayar)
• How to Work With WordPress User Metadata (Tom McFarlin)
• Get your Free eBook – Getting Started with Microsoft Azure (Kris Lankford)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• How to enable the PerfTip while debugging in Visual Studio incase you don’t see it? (Abhijit Jana)
• Struct vs Class in C# (Abhi Jain)
• Composition in Postal.NET (Ricardo Peres)
• Roslyn scripting on CoreCLR (.NET CLI and DNX) and in memory assemblies (filek)
• Another Simple.Data Update (Mark Rendle)
• Could there be any problems with calling GetModuleFileNameEx on your own process? (Raymond Chen)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Agile Anarchy – Death to the open plan (Sebastien Lambla)
• You Suck at TDD #5 – Homework (Eric Gunnerson)
• Microservices as an Evolutionary Architecture (Neal Ford & Rebecca Parsons)
• Add Reactions to Pull Requests, Issues, and Comments (Jake Boxer)
• Performance improvements and service updates for Application Insights (Rahul Bagaria)
• Continuous Build: Is it Time to Start Using This by Default? (Sterling Greene)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Project Layouts in Android Studio (Vipul Patel)
• Six Things to Know About the Android N Developer Preview (Paul Ballard)
• MvvmLight navigation in Xamarin.Forms (Daniel Hindrikes)
• Digging Deeper into Xamarin iOS Table Views with MVVM Light (Richard Woollcott)
• HoloLens Development Video’s, Doc’s, Tools and more… (Greg Duncan)
• HoloLens OcClusion vs Field of View (James Ashley)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Indie Dev Podcast Ep 28 – Nick Robalik, PixelMetal (David Voyles)
• Episode 088 with Sen Wu on their BlackCompass Visualizer SharePoint Hosted add-in—Office 365 Developer Podcast (Jeremy Thake)
• Episode 14 – Docker | ASP.NET Monsters (CanadianJames, Dave Paquette & Simon Timms)
• These People are Monsters! Here’s Some Great Videos Covering ASP.NET Core and MVC Core (James Chambers)
• AAWP Insight #173: Windows 10, its future and universal apps (Matt Lacey)
• 083 AiA NG-NL (John Papa)
• The Nerdist Podcast – J.J. Abrams and Dan Trachtenberg (Chris Hardwick)
• 57 ngAir – Why Ionic 2 Is Going To Rock Your World (Kent C. Dodds)
• Developer on Fire Episode 109 | Darren Cauthon – Confident and Comfortable Programmer (Dave Rael)
• DevIntersection Spring 2016 CountDown Show #6 with Robert Green | The DEVintersection Countdown Show (Golnaz Alibeigi)
• The Maker Show: Episode 6 – Soldering Basics | The Maker Show (Nick Landry & Frank La Vigne)
• Windows Weekly 456: Windows 10: DO IT (Paul Thurrott)
• Rocket 61: A Lot of Cooks in the Kitchen (Simone De Rochefort, Brianna Wu & Christina Warren)
• Developer Tea – Crafting The Interview Process (Jonathan Cutrell)
• Azure Podcast Episode 118 – Azure Stack Update (Sujit D’Mello)
• The Amp Hour #290 – An Interview with Mark Morin of Nufern (Chris Gammell & David L. Jones)

 

Community / Events

• Why Philadelphia is the new Silicon Valley for health startups (Takara Small)
• Live Webinar: Accelerate Mobile Success with a Mobile Center of Excellence (Courtney Witmer)
• Game developers, get ready for our Developer Day at GDC 2016 (Morgan Dollard)
• 2016 Conferences (Rush Frisby)
• Women of colour around the world are taking part in the #UnfairandLovely campaign (Sonam Joshi)

 

Database

• Assessing the SQL Server In-Memory OLTP Performance Benefits (Artemakis Artemiou )
• Add an Identity to an Existing Column in large SQL Server tables (Madhivanan)
• Comparison – Understanding Tables Between Oracle and SQL Server (Pinal Dave)

 

PowerShell

• Decoding PowerShell build numbers (Jan Egil Ring)

 

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft has released a Debian Linux switch OS. Repeat, a Debian Linux switch operating system (Chris Williams)
• C is Manly, Python is for “n00bs”: How False Stereotypes Turn Into Technical “Truths” (Jean Yang & Ari Rabkin)
• Announcing Windows 10 Mobile Insider Preview Build 14283 (Gabe Aul)
• Why Ren and Stimpy was one of the greatest cartoon series ever (Mark Frauenfelder)
• Ryan Spoering: Surface enables creativity and innovation from anywhere (Matt Chapman)

 

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #2050 (Chris Alcock)
• Become a Coding Pro [Lists] (Peter Saddington)
• Double Shot #1656 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Geek Reading March 10, 2016 #1060 (Robert Diana)
• Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for Mar 10th, 2016 (Dmitry Lyalin)

 

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