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Dew Drop – March 11, 2016 (#2206)

Posted on March 11, 2016 | by Alvin A.

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)

The Geek Shelf

littleBits Electronics Synth Kit

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Dew Drop – November 25, 2015 (#2139)

Posted on November 25, 2015 | by Alvin A.

Top Links

The 5 Laws of Software Estimates (Steve Smith)
Application Insights Tools for Visual Studio 2015 Update 1 RTM (MS Downloads)
The road to DNX – part 2 and The road to DNX–part 3 (Marc Gravell)
.NET Rocks! – Thinking Beyond the SPA with Benjamin Howarth (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)

Web Development

Is Injecting The $element And $event Objects An Anti-Pattern In AngularJS? (Ben Nadel)
Dart SDK Improves JavaScript Access (Kay Ewbank)
Handing off to another ASP.net MVC Controller Action without redirecting (Dan)
.NET Core and ASP.NET Bug Bounty Update (Barry Dorrans)
Scaled/Proportional Content with CSS and JavaScript (Chris Coyier)
How to create Custom Filters in AngularJS (Dhananjay Kumar)
Get Your Code PHP 7 Ready With PhpStorm 10 (Gary Hockin)
Continual Delivery of an AngularJS ASP.NET MVC Web API Entity Framework SQL App to Amazon AWS using Visual Studio Team Services (Jeremy Likness)
Future of JavaScript – ECMAScript 6 (ES2015) Arrow and Spread Operator (Rami Sayar)
Progressive Web Apps: ready for primetime (Bruce Lawson)
Azure Preview Portal – November 2015 update (Leon Welicki)
Automating Deployment on Azure Web Apps (Matias Quaranta)
#Ebook Deal/Day: Web Scraping with Python – $13.99 (Save 50%) Use code DEAL (O’Reilly Media)

Miscellaneous .NET

Issue to be aware of when restoring NuGet packages for the code hosted in git repository of Visual Studio Team Services aka VSO (Ruslan Albu)
Back to Basic – Building Solutions in Visual Studio – Build Vs. Rebuild (Abhijit Jana)
Working with GitHub from Visual Studio 2015 (Andrei Marukovich)
Fix slow nuget operation in Visual studio 2015 (Anirudha)
Conditional breakpoints FTW (Iris Classon)
Git and TFVC together, Package Management build tasks, and more – Nov 18 (Karen Ng)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Software architecture diagrams should be maps of your source code (Simon Brown)
Unit Testing Comparison Videos (Jeremy Clark)
Agile Grooming — the Randy Rule (John Vester)
My list of best practices (Gregor Suttie)
5 signs you’re thinking about testing your code incorrectly (Matt Lacey)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

AAWP Insight #162: Lumia 950 reviews, Build 10586 (Rafe Blandford)
Scrum Master Toolbox – Spotify’s hiring and onboarding process | Cliff Hazel (Vasco Duarte)
Startup Success Podcast 3.10: Content Marketing for Startups, Part 2 (Bob Walsh)
Developer on Fire Episode 064 | Jonathan Cutrell – Firm Commitment (Dave Rael)
The Ops Team #005 – “Stuntman” | The Ops Team (David Tesar, RicksterCDN, Matt McSpirit & Simon May)
Functional Geekery Episode 36 – Rob Sullivan (a.k.a DataChomp) (Steven Proctor)
RunAs Radio – Troubleshooting Windows 10 with Mike Halsey (Richard Campbell & Greg Hughes)
Web Application Compatibility Inside Windows 10 | Inside Windows Platform (Joe Breslin & chach)
Talk Python to Me #35 Turbogears and the future of Python web frameworks (Michael Kennedy)
One Dev Question with Raymond Chen – Error Reporting in Windows (Rosshe)
Azure Podcast Episode 104 – Scaling to Infinity & Beyond (Sujit D’Mello)

Community / Events

Introducing Xamarin Evolve Student Scholarships (Joseph Hill)
Azure DocumentDB: Giving thanks for our MVPs (Han Wong)
Microsoft is hosting Windows Insiders events on Dec. 1 in NYC and Bellevue, WA (John Callaham)

Database

SQL Server Linked Server Error could not map ordinals for one or more columns (Daniel Farina)
SQL SERVER – What Resource Wait Are We Seeing? (Pinal Dave)
Universal SQL Editor 1.6.9.1-Universal SQL Editor (Softonic)
Using Parameter Tables To Control Data Refresh In Power BI (Chris Webb)
Using Azure Machine Learning with SQL Data Warehouse (Sahaj Saini)

PowerShell

Keeping Windows PowerShell Help Up To Date (Steve Parankewich)

Miscellaneous

Microsoft’s HoloLens is the top gadget of 2015 according to TIME (Jared DiPane)
Sample chapter: Customizing the Appearance of Windows 10 (Kim Spilker)
Here are some of the issues and bugs users are experiencing with the Windows 10 November update (Mauro Huculak)

More Link Collections

Geek Reading November 24, 2015 (Robert Diana)
Double Shot #1592 (Mike Gunderloy)
The Morning Brew #1976 (Chris Alcock)
Windows App Developer Links – 2015-11-24 and Windows App Developer Links – 2015-11-25 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2015-11-24 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2015-11-25 (Dan Rigby)
Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for Nov 24th, 2015 (Dmitry Lyalin)

The Geek Shelf

Kindle Paperwhite: Amazon’s Best-Selling e-Reader.

ASIN: B00OQVZDJM

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