Dew Drop – October 21, 2016 (#2350)

Top Links

• Answers to your top TACO questions (Jordan Matthiesen) – The TACO team really ought to blog on Tuesdays.
• Why the Command Line? Why now? (Sam Basu)
• Yarn vs npm – Everything You Need to Know (Tim Severien)
• Announcing the October 2016 Update for .NET Core 1.0 (Lee Coward)

 

Web Development

• Adding Custom Typings Files (*.d.ts) In An Angular 2 TypeScript Application (Ben Nadel)
• Build a Contact List with ASP.NET Core (Jerrie Pelser)
• JavaScript Grows Up and Gets Its Own Foundation (Michelle Gienow)
• Angular 2 form fundamentals: reactive forms (Todd Motto)
• WebStorm 2016.3 EAP, 163.6512: React Native (Ekaterina Prigara)
• ASP.NET Core Essentials (Shahed Chowdhuri)
• AWS Developer Tool Recap – Recent Enhancements to CodeCommit, CodePipeline, and CodeDeploy (Jeff Barr)
• Polymer & Closure Compiler in Gulp (Sam Thorogood)
• LUIS Natural Language Service for BotFramework (Robin Osborne)

 

XAML

• Windows 10 1607, UWP and Project Rome–Transferring Browser Tabs Across Devices and Windows 10 1607, UWP, Composition APIs–Walked Through Demo Code (Mike Taulty)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Optimizing read transaction startup time: Getting frisky (Oren Eini)
• Strategies for Debugging Lots of C++ Objects Effectively (Bartlomiej Filipek)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• An Introduction to Modern Agile (Joshua Kerievsky)
• Domain Driven Design Advantages and Disadvantages (Abhi Jain)
• The Evolution of the Testing Pyramid (Elias Nogueira)
• Why Developers Should Focus On Communication (Mahesh Chand)
• Azure Blueprint: Architecting Secure Solutions Just Got Easier (Matt Rathbun)
• Track service usage data in VSTS (Matteo Emili)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Android 7.0 for Developers: New Features, Performance Upgrades & Other Stuff You Won’t Care About (Nermin Hajdarbegovic)
• Android Developer Stories: drupe and Noom expand globally by localizing their apps on Google Play (Kacey Fahey)
• Five Ways to Keep App Users Engaged (Mike Hines)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• MS Dev Show – Your Mouse Is Stealing Your Time with Jeremy Foster (Jason Young & Carl Schweitzer)
• Game|Life Podcast: Nintendo Switches It On (Chris Kohler)
• Observed.Tech PODCAST Episode 210 #OTP (Richard Hay)
• Hanselminutes – Infrastructuralism with Truss (Scott Hanselman)
• 115 AiA Polymer and Web Components with Angular 2 with Rob Dodson (John Papa)
• Eat, Sleep, Code – TDD 12 jQuery and Migrations (Ed Charbeneau)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Elijah Wood and Samuel Barnett (Chris Hardwick)
• The Amp Hour #320 – An Interview with Brent of OSHstencils (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
• Video Tip: Radically Candid Criticism is Immediate (Elisse Lockhart)
• SQL Server Radio – PASS Summit 2016 (Matan Yungman & Guy Glantser)
• Windows Weekly 488: Don’t Be a Gooney Booster (Paul Thurrott)
• Azure App Certificate (Scott Hanselman & Seth Juarez)
• Developer Tea – DCR-Step 3: Skill Set Development (Part 2) (Jonathan Cutrell)
• Azure Podcast Episode 149 – IoT Hub (Sujit D’Mello)

 

Community / Events

• Microsoft NYC Reactor Opening (Steve Guggenheimer)

 

Database

• SQL Server 2016 Management Studio Enhancements – Part 2 (Rajendra Gupta)
• Solutions for AzureSQL LOG_RATE_GOVERNOR Waits (Tim Smith)
• MAX Data Types Do WHAT? (Erik Darling)

 

PowerShell

• Managing Packages Using Windows PowerShell (Nicolas Prigent)
• PowerShell Scripts – get-process with SQL Server process (Pinal Dave)

 

Miscellaneous

• NVIDIA Gaming Technology Powers Nintendo Switch (nvidia)
• Machine Learning – What is It Good For? (Nelly Ben-Tal)

 

More Link Collections

• Xamarin App Developer Links – 2016-10-21 and Windows App Developer Links – 2016-10-21 (Dan Rigby)
• The Morning Brew #2205 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #1758 (Mike Gunderloy)

 

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