Dew Drop – August 9, 2016 (#2305)

Top Links

• TFS “15” RC1 is available (Brian Harry)
• [Announcement] RESTier v0.6.0 Release (Vincent He)
• Solution Explorer gets Markdown (Greg Duncan)
• .NET Rocks! – Building Multi-Tenant Applications with Paul Stovell (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)

 

Web Development

• How to Use React with Visual Studio and ASP.NET Web API (Alex Booker)
• Creating a simple API with ASP.NET Core (Nicolas Bello Camilletti)
• How to Use Map, Filter, & Reduce in JavaScript (Peleke Sengstacke)
• Real World ASPNET Core MVC Filters (Steve Smith)
• Editing Images in CSS: Blend Modes (Monty Shokeen)
• Using External tools: ESLint autofix and React Native (Ekaterina Prigara)
• Image Upload and Manipulation with React (Damon Bauer)
• Back to the Web – but where to start? (Jesse Liberty)
• Splunk for Risk Management Framework (John Stoner)
• Introduction To Brackets (Parth Dave)
• Aurelia Virtual Training is Coming Up! (Rob Eisenberg)
• Public vs private? Hybrid gives the biggest gains (James Staten)

 

XAML

• Windows 10 1607/Anniversary Update and the Device Portal (Mike Taulty)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• A First Look at Visual Studio Code (Peter Vogel)
• Metatasks in TFS 15 RC1 (Matteo Emili)
• August 2016 evaluation Windows developer virtual machines (Clint Rutkas)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• How Acceptance Test-Driven Development (ATDD) can Impact Your Organization (John Peters)
• Why do you want to become agile? (Ben Linders)
• 10 Common Scrum Mistakes and How to Avoid Them (Dwight Kingdon)
• Top 5 books on Enterprise Architecture (Gethyn Ellis)
• GitHub – Search wiki pages (Chris M. Wendt)
• Measure a Meeting’s ROI With These Five Tips (Kalahari Meetings)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Installing a PCL into netstandard Libraries (Plugins & Xamarin.Forms) and Nanoservices for Mobile Apps with Azure Functions (James Montemagno)
• Xamarin Android RecyclerView with GridLayoutManager. (Arun Kumar)
• How to Build API Driven iOS Apps in Swift Using Siesta (Brent Schooley)
• Looking Back on Swift 3 and Ahead to Swift 4 (Sergio De Simone)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Entreprogrammers Episode 128 – “Sticker Cheap…” (Josh Earl, John Sonmez, Derick Bailey & Charles Max Wood)
• DZone CodeTalk Episode 1 – Owen Garrett, Head of Products at NGINX (John Esposito)
• Defrag Tools #165 – Performance tracing in OOBE | Defrag Tools (Andrew Richards & Chad Beeder)
• The Married Gamers Presents Episode 392: Characterization (Chris Brown)
• CodeNewbie Ep. 100 – Creating CodeNewbie (Saron Yitbarek) (CodeNewbie Team)
• Functional Geekery Episode 62 – Lars Hupel (Steven Proctor)
• Revision Path 152: Senongo Akpem (Maurice Cherry)
• Sensors | Context (Mike Taulty & Andrew Spooner)

 

Community / Events

• Thoughts on open source (Julian M. Bucknall)
• 3 .NET Experts You Oughta Know (Lafe Low)
• Speaking Tips: There is a Conference That Wants You (Ted Neward)
• Must-See Performing Arts Shows In Philly This August (Christopher Munden)
• 18+ Awesome Things To Do In Philly This Week, August 8-14 (Jillian Wilson)

Database

• SQL Server Stored Procedure to Compress Non Partitioned Tables (Eli Leiba)
• SQL SERVER – How to Recover Truncated or Deleted Data When a Database Backup is or is not Available (Pinal Dave)
• New book: T-SQL Fundamentals, Third Edition (Kim Spilker)

 

PowerShell

• What are your “known problems” (solved) in DSC? (Don Jones)

 

Miscellaneous

• Scroll Back: The Theory and Practice of Cameras in Side-Scrollers (Itay Keren)
• To Boldly Go: taking the x20 Lumias to Redstone (Steve Litchfield)
• HP.com confirmed to start selling Elite X3 on September 5 (Kit McDonald)

 

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #2153 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #1718 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Reading Notes #244 (Frank Boucher)
• Interesting links of the week (8/1 – 8/7) (Mike Eaton)
• Top Ten Most Popular Developer Links for the Week Of August 1st, 2016 (Dmitry Lyalin)
• Azure Weekly: August 8, 2016 (Chris Pietschmann)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2016-08-09 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2016-08-09 (Dan Rigby)

 

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