Dew Drop – October 27, 2016 (#2354)

Top Links

• Empowering a new wave of creativity with the Windows 10 Creators Update and Surface Studio (Terry Myerson)
• Penny Arcade – The Surface Studio! (Gabe)
• Surface Dial is a unique new peripheral for Surface devices and Microsoft’s Groove Music Maker is the coolest thing they didn’t announce today (Jez Corden)
• RavenDB 3.5 RTM released (Oren Eini)

 

Web Development

• Bending ASP.NET Core MVC To Your Will (James Chambers)
• Spoooooky CSS Selectors (Chris Coyier)
• WebStorm 2016.3 EAP, 163.6957: Protractor, TypeScript quick fixes (Ekaterina Prigara)
• Free ASP.NET Core 1.0 Training on Microsoft Virtual Academy (Scott Hanselman)
• Adding AoT and Universal Support for Kendo UI for Angular 2 (Todd Motto)
• Trip Report: Intro to Google Cloud Platform (Adam Anderson)
• npm 4.0 Deprecates Prepublish Lifecycle Script (James Chesters)
• Welcome to Markdown Monster Thanks for checking out Markdown Monster. We hope i… (Rick Strahl)
• Get Started With React Native Layouts (Wernher-Bel Ancheta)

 

XAML

• Kevin Gallo gives the developer perspective on today’s Windows 10 Event (Kevin Gallo)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• C# Programming Cookbook Published Recently (Dirk Strauss)
• Navigate to text in a solution with Go to Text in ReSharper (Maarten Balliauw)
• Recommendations to speed C++ builds in Visual Studio (Sridhar Madhugiri)
• LLBLGen Pro v5.1 Beta has been released! (Frans Bouma)
• Building your .NET Core app using Yeoman (Jon Hilton)
• Sale: Save 40% on books and ebooks (Kim Spilker)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Actionable Agile Tools (Jeff Campbell)
• The Reality of Getting Started with Test-Driven Development (Peter Vogel)
• Scaling Teams to Grow Your Startup (Ben Linders)
• Bing helps developers connect more naturally with people (Bing Team)
• How Our Workplace Culture Results in a High Percentage of Female Developers (Carolyn Sullivan)
• Design Level Event Storming and Complexity and Cost and Design Level Continued (Nick Chamberlain)
• Making Devs, Architects, and Managers Happy with the Static Analysis Tool (Erik Dietrich)
• VSTS Sync Migration Tools (Martin Hinshelwood)
• New Big Photoshop CC Update – What’s new? and Kyle’s Brushes for Photoshop (Webdesign Calgary)
• 7 Rules for Creating Gorgeous UI (Part 1) (Erik D. Kennedy)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Adding the Microsoft Graph to Your Xamarin.Forms Mobile Apps (Mayur Tendulkar)
• Buildbox Make You Own Game Series (Greg Duncan)
• A HoloLens airplane tracker 6–adding an airport (and a tower) (Joost van Schaik)
• NativeScript for the .NET Developer (Rob Lauer)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Smart Internet of Things Projects – $15.99 (Save 50%) Use code DEAL (O’Reilly Media)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – WiX Toolkit with Rob Mensching (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Snack Pack 3: Xamarin Test Recorder for macOS | The Xamarin Show (James Montemagno)
• 235 JSJ JavaScript Devops and Tools with Donovan Brown and Jordan Matthiesen (AJ O’Neal & Charles Max Wood)
• RadioTFS – Agile Intelligence with Steven Borg (Martin Woodward & Greg Duncan)
• The Joy of Coding – Episode 77 (Air Mozilla)
• Ellen Bennett: The Alton Browncast #62 (Alton Brown)
• Eat, Sleep, Code – A Lap Around Push Notifications (Ed Charbeneau)
• Connecting UAVs with Azure Services | Drones Garage (guadacasuso & Jacob Orchard)
• 046 jsAir – React Native with Bonnie Eisenman, Ken Wheeler, and Tyler McGinnis (Kent C. Dodds)
• TRAINING: Microsoft Tech Summit 2016 – Azure Session Recordings (Kurt Shintaku)
• What The Tech 329: Surface Studio, Microsoft Windows 10, and Apple Event Predictions (Paul Thurrott)

 

Community / Events

• Meet Nahi: Developer and Ruby Contributor (Aki Naito)
• Microsoft’s Joe Belfiore is back at work (Dennis Bednarz)
• Introducing the 2016 Adobe MAX Insiders (Lindsay Munro)
• Ten things we announced today at Microsoft’s Windows 10 Event (Mollie Ruiz-Hopper)
• Geek of the Week: Drexel Student Rebecca Phillipson is Entranced by Black Holes (Neil Bardhan)
• Nerd Nite No. 69: l’Unifolié, Inside the Foot, Film Noir and more! (Nerd Nite Philly Team)

 

Database

• Pass Historical Data for Stocks from Google Finance to SQL Server (Rick Dobson)
• Cleaning up the SQL Server master database (Aaron Bertrand)
• Couchbase Spark Connector 2.0.0 Released (Michael Nitschinger)

 

Miscellaneous

• Unannounced Windows 10 Creators Update Features Spotted in Official Video (Bogdan Popa)
• Microsoft offers $650 for trading in a MacBook for a Surface in US (Abhishek Baxi)
• Microsoft’s Surface Studio is a stunning desktop computer (Dan Seifert)
• Introducing 3D for everyone (Megan Saunders)
• How Microsoft’s Surface Studio could change how you think about Windows (Nick Statt)
• Microsoft is shrinking its Surface Book gap (Tom Warren)

 

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• The Morning Brew #2209 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #1762 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Collective #258 (Pedro Botelho)
• The Daily Six Pack: October 27, 2016 (Dirk Strauss)

 

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