Dew Drop – July 13, 2016 (#2286)

Top Links

• What is TechBash 2016? (Andy Schwam)
• Announcing the new Microsoft and Open Source Partner Community (MS Openness Team)
• Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 14388 for PC and Mobile (Dona Sarkar)
• Windows 10 Anniversary SDK Preview Build 14388 Released (Clint Rutkas)

Web Development

• Writing Conditional SQL Statements Using Nested Tagged Template Literals In Node.js (Ben Nadel)
• Getting Started with Node.js in Windows – NPM (Adam Anderson)
• PhpStorm 2016.2 is released! (Anna Lebedeva)
• Using jasmine and karma to Write and Run Unit Tests for AngularJS Applications in Visual Studio (Dhananjay Kumar)
• The Moment CSS Started Making “Sense” (Geoff Graham)
• How I Ended Up With Element Queries, And How You Can Use Them Today (Robin Rendle)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Accessing and deleting large e-mails in Gmail with C# (Bruno Sonnino)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• A first look at TFS 15: the new Build Agent (Matteo Emili)
• Don’t Break your Silos – Push Out the Silo Mentality (Alex Novkov)
• You’re doing it wrong: Done-Done (Gil Zilberfeld)
• Juggling Praise and Criticism (Kim Scott)
• Encapsulation and Orchestration (Mike Cottmeyer)
• 11 things you’re doing wrong when testing code (Matt Lacey)
• Flexible Deployments Using TeamCity and Check In Often (Steve Smith)
• Why is my work item not showing up on the board or in an unexpected swimlane? (Willy-P. Schaub)
• Key Roles in a Software Project (Yegor Bugayenko)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Cocos2d-x Visual Studio Android Project (Ian Huff)
• RecyclerView: Highly Optimized Collections for Android Apps (James Montemagno)
• Xamarin Forms Navigation Awareness (Peter Freeman Foot)
• Android Wear 2.0 Developer Preview 2 (Hoi Lam)
• Node.js IoT – Data Visualization of Sensor Values (Dave Johnson)
• Hybrid or Native Mobile App? Use the Right Tool for the Job (Rob Lauer)
• HoloLens CubeBouncer application part 3-air tapping the cubes away and adding spatial sounds (Joost van Schaik)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Microsoft Cloud Show Episode 138 | SharePoint Framework with Marc Anderson (Andrew Connell, Chris Johnson)
• SQL Data Partners Podcast Episode 52: Revolution Analytics in SQL Server (Carlos Chacon Jr.)
• Live Tiles with the Windows Bridge for iOS (keantonc, Rosshe)
• Gone Mobile 36: Android Performance Tuning with Rabeb Othmani (Greg Shackles & Jon Dick)
• Yet Another Podcast #156 – MVVM Light with Laurent Bugnion (Jesse Liberty)
• RunAs Radiop – Hyper-V in Server 2016 with Aidan Finn (Richard Campbell & Greg Hughes)
• Tuesdays with Corey: RedHat announcements and WPC | Tuesdays With Corey (RicksterCDN)
• SE Radio Episode 262: Software Quality with Bill Curtis (Sven Johann)
• Developer Tea – Two Common Questions from Early Career Developers (Jonathan Cutrell)

 

Community / Events

• A Night-By-Night Guide Of Things To Do After Dark In Philly This Summer (Jillian Wilson)
• The 2016 State Of The Builder Results Are In (Kyle Kelly-Yahner)

 

Database

• Using Tabular Model Scripting Language with SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS) (Siddharth Mehta)
• New Course: Statistics – SQL Server’s Guessing Game (Brent Ozar)
• SQL Server 2014 SP2: DBCC CLONEDATABASE (Erik Darling)
• Geek City: My SQL Server 2016 RTM In-memory OLTP Whitepaper (Kalen Delaney)
• SQL SERVER 2016 – Find Expiry Date of Developer Edition (Pinal Dave)

 

SharePoint

• DOWNLOAD: Free MS Press ebook: “Configuring Microsoft SharePoint Hybrid Capabilities” (Kurt Shintaku)

 

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft prices Windows 10 Enterprise subscription at $84 per user per year (Mary Jo Foley)
• Google Play will let you share the movies, apps, and music you buy with up to six people (Dieter Bohn)
• Machine Learning Careers at Microsoft (Jennifer Marsman)

 

More Link Collections

• Geek Reading July 12, 2016 #1146 (Robert Diana)
• Double Shot #1704 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Morning Brew #2134 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2016-07-13 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2016-07-13 (Dan Rigby)
• Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for July 12th, 2016 (Dmitry Lyalin)

 

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