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Dew Drop – January 5, 2016 (#2161)

Posted on January 5, 2016 | by Alvin A.

Top Links

Cake (C# Make) – A cross platform build automation system with a C# DSL (Mattias Karlsson & Patrik Svensson)
DZone Refcardz – React.js Essentials (Hemanth Madhavarao)
Coding4Fun Projects are Back! (Greg Duncan)
Here’s a list of 221 free online programming/CS courses (MOOCs) with feedback(i.e. exams/homeworks/assignments) that you can start this month (Jan 2016) (dhawal)

Web Development

Using Multiple Break Statements In A Single Case Block In JavaScript (Ben Nadel)
Angular 2 versus React (Cory House)
10 jQuery Plugins to Play With JSON (Learning jQuery)
JavaScript Visitor Design Pattern (L. Milkov)
jQuery-resizable and Table Column Resizing (Rick Strahl)
JavaScript – the language of Chuck Norris | Joshua Wulf at DDD Brisbane 2015 (Sophie Belle)
WordPress on Azure App Service backed by MySQL Virtual Machines (Sunitha Muthukrishna)
private-data-classes (Axel Rauschmayer)
New book: Modern Authentication with Azure Active Directory for Web Applications (Kim Spilker)
#Ebook Deal/Day: Learning React Native – $16.99 (Save 50%) Use code DEAL (O’Reilly Media)

XAML

How to get the Device Information in #UWP apps? (Kunal Chowdhury)
A Second Experiment with the Visual Layer and A Third Experiment with the Visual Layer–Images (Mike Taulty)
Refactoring StateManager to StateManager Binding and Connecting Universal Windows Platform Visual States to the StateManager (Nick Randolph)

Miscellaneous .NET

Asynchronous Everything (Joe Duffy)
10 Visual Studio tips to improve your development productivity (Abhijit Jana)
Win2D 1.12.0 – bugfixes and error messages (Shawn Hargreaves)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Recognizing Change in Agile Projects (Ryan Hanisco)
Lean, Toyota, and how it relates to agile. (Eric Gunnerson)
Setting Up Octopus Build Task on TFS 2015 On-Prem (D’Arcy Lussier)
Should We Even Debate Refactoring With Stakeholders? and A Farewell to #NoEstimates (JBrains)
A Project Guide to UX Design And Content Strategy (GatherContent Team)
Developer personal time management (Andrew Siemer)
Architects as Servant Leaders (Johanna Rothman)
New Year, new Git release (Michael Haggerty)
Using Release Management for Test Automation (Vijay M.)

Other Mobile Platforms

Preparing Android Devices (Noel Rice)
iOS – Draw Arcs Using CGContextAddCurveToPoint (Stephen Zaharuk)
An Introduction to Cordova: Basics (Wernher-Bel Ancheta)
Native Code Is Bad For You (Burke Holland)
Advanced Swift: Create Today Widget (Extension) (Mark Petherbridge)
Get the DragonBoard Running Windows 10 IoT Core (Rob Tiffany)
Lego’s classroom robotics kit goes wireless (Ross Miller)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

.NET Rocks! – Microsoft DevOps Stack with Brian Randell (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 185 #OTP (Richard Hay)
Video: Introduction to Angular 2 and TypeScript (Jeremy Likness)
Entreprogrammers Episode 98 “The Fear of Roller Coasters” (Josh Earl, John Sonmez, Derick Bailey & Charles Max Wood)
Developer on Fire Episode 080 | Jared Smith – Check Your Fear At the Door (Dave Rael)

Community / Events

Xamarin 4 Parties in January! (Jayme Singleton)
Microsoft’s next Redmond expansion expected to go vertical (Matt Day)
Inside Philadelphia’s dev boot camp for low-income adults (Juliana Reyes)
Join us in congratulating MVP awardees! (MVP Award Program)
.NET Developers – Old and New (Vicky)

Database

Troubleshooting SQL Server Transaction Log Related Wait Types (Daniel Farina)
Continuous Deployments for SQL Server – Part 1 (Gregor Suttie)

Miscellaneous

Accelerated modern human–induced species losses: Entering the sixth mass extinction (Gerardo Ceballos, Paul R. Ehrlich, Anthony D. Barnosky, Andrés García, Robert M. Pringle & Todd M. Palmer)
ebook deal of the week: Windows 10 Plain & Simple (Kim Spilker)
Attention nerds: The periodic table is getting four new elements (Miriam Kramer)
Photos of cancelled Nokia smartwatch leak showing off its Metro watchface (Rich Edmonds)

More Link Collections

Geek Reading January 4, 2016 (Robert Diana)
Double Shot #1618 (Mike Gunderloy)
Last Week on Channel 9: December 28, 2015 – January 3rd, 2016 (Greg Duncan)
Best of 2015 (Brian Rinaldi)
The Morning Brew #2002 (Chris Alcock)
Windows App Developer Links – 2016-01-05 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2016-01-05 (Dan Rigby)
Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for Jan 4th, 2016 (Dmitry Lyalin)
links of the week 1-4-16 (Chris Love)

The Geek Shelf

The Sandman Omnibus Vol. 1: Neil Gaiman, Sam Kieth, Colleen Doran: 9781401241889: Books

ISBN: 1401241883
ISBN-13: 9781401241889

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Dew Drop – June 25, 2014 (#1803)

Posted on June 25, 2014 | by Alvin A.

Top Links

.NET Rocks! – Show 1000! (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
.NET Compiler Platform (“Roslyn”) for the Rest of Us (Beth Massi)
paint.net 4.0 is now available! (Rick Brewster)
Xamarin Studio and NuGet (Matt Ward)

Web Development

Looking At Attribute Interpolation Workflow Changes In AngularJS (Ben Nadel)
Microsoft Research JavaScript Cryptography Library (Daniel Fisher)
Encapsulating HTML with Shadow DOM (Basem Emara)
ASP.NET Scalability: the good, the bad and the hype (Dino Esposito)
Debugging PHP and JavaScript code at the same time (Maarten Balliauw)
Trying Redis Caching as a Service on Windows Azure (Scott Hanselman)
Node Security Project Aims at Making Node.js More Secure (Sergio De Simone)
AngularJS: 101 Ways to Create a Controller (Deborah Kurata)
Nest announces API, Google Now integration coming (Phone Arena Team)
Azure Web Site Enhancements (Dave Kidder)

XAML

Microsoft reportedly releasing Windows Phone 8.1 today (Manish Singh)
How to send string and content messages with MVVM Light Messenger (Marco Minerva)
Show Me the XAML (Mike Bluestein)
Get rewarded by Microsoft for building Windows Phone, Android or Asha apps (Matt Lacey)
2000 WPF Things #1,101 – Defining a Handler for Unhandled Exceptions (Sean Sexton)
WPF Selection Controls – Slider (Richard Carr)
Creating a feathered (aka staggered) page transition (Shawn Kendrot)
Messaging class for detecting and broadcasting that your Universal app is running in the background and Building multi-resolution popups in an Universal App (Joost van Schaik)
SQLitePCL Now Supports Universal Windows Apps! (Olivier Bloch)

Miscellaneous .NET

Building a shared dictionary (Oren Eini)
What’s New in Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 for Web Developers (Mahesh Sabnis)
NHibernate Pitfalls: XML Mappings (Ricardo Peres)
How to Automate IIS 7 Configuration with .NET (Patrick Steele)
ODataLib 6.4.0 Release (LeoHu1)
2000 C# Things #1,125 – Use of break and continue Statements (Sean Sexton)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Software architecture as code (Simon Brown)
Agile Decompiled: Sprints (Chris Odell)
Bliki: CanaryRelease (Martin Fowler)
Monitor Design Pattern with Semaphore (Brian Mullen)
Introducing the Revert Button (Jake Douglas)
Adopting Continuous Integration (Wes McClure)

Other Mobile Platforms

Learning Xamarin – Building An App and Xamarin–Converting int to string (Jesse Liberty)
iOS Quick Tip: Find the Size of a NSString (Stephen Zaharuk)
The Kendo UI Mobile Book You’ve Been Waiting For (Ryan Axford)
Improving a platform: Nokia X2 (Adam Fraser)
Telerik AppPrototyper: Coming out of Beta with a handful of new features (Vladimir Dragoev)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

Episode 275 – PowerScripting Podcast – PowerShell MVP Steve Murawski (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
Webinar Recording: Native Mobile Apps in Xamarin Studio (Mike Bluestein)
114 JSJ Asynchronous UI and Non-Blocking Interactions with Elliott Kember (woody2shoes)
The Nerdist Podcast – Adam Rogers (Chris Hardwick)
The Married Gamers Episode 335: Buttcrack Down (Chris Brown)
The Amp Hour #204 – An Interview with Noah Feehan – Biloquistic Blinking Blush (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)

Community / Events

Dev of the Week: Mike Driscoll (Alec Noller)
MS Open Tech at MongoDB World (Olivier Bloch)
First State .NET User Group Meeting – 6/26 – Dave Voyles – Building HTML5 cross platform mobile apps (First State .NET Team)

Database

SQL SERVER – In-Memory Databases and Caching Wars (Pinal Dave)
SqlSmash – A plugin for Sql Server Management Studio (SSMS) 2012 that helps you in writing maintainable SQL scripts (Latish Sehgal)

PowerShell

#PSTip Using XPath in PowerShell, Part 1 (Bartek Bielawski)

Miscellaneous

Finding the “Run as administrator” command, a game of hide-and-seek (Raymond Chen)

More Link Collections

Double Shot #1378 (Mike Gunderloy)
Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Tuesday, June 25, 2014 (Rob Caron)
Geek Reading June 24, 2014 (Robert Diana)
The Morning Brew #1637 (Chris Alcock)
Daily News Digest 6/25/2014 (Silverlight Show)
Windows App Developer Links – 2014-06-25 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2014-06-25 (Dan Rigby)

The Geek Shelf

Pro Single Page Application Development: Using Backbone.js and ASP.NET eBook: Gil Fink, Ido Flatow: Kindle Store

ASIN: B00IGKE2I2

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Dew Drop – May 9, 2014 (#1773)

Posted on May 9, 2014 | by Alvin A.

Top Links

Tuples In C#, A Useful Example (Peter Kellner)
Fixing System.Core 2.0.5 FileLoadException, Portable Libraries and Windows XP support (Scott Hanselman)
Speculations on Universal Windows Applications and beyond (Gunnar Peipman)
IWP75: Tim Heuer on Windows Runtime XAML | Inside Windows Phone (Larry Lieberman)

Web Development

Watching Object Literal Expressions In AngularJS (Ben Nadel)
HTML Editing and Prototyping tools (Aligned)
User friendly JavaScript with AngularJS (Isaac Haynes)
Move Existing NodeJS Site To Windows Azure Websites (Peter Kellner)
Building a Todo list application using Node.js and Express.js on Visual Studio (Ravi Kiran)
css diff (Stoyan Stefanov)
Enhancing Your Model In MVC 5 (Tim Murphy)
How to download a site using msdeploy.exe (Sayed Ibrahim Hashimi)
IIS SSL Certificate Renewal Pain (Rick Strahl)

XAML

Setting a theme of the WPF/Silverlight Report Viewer (Q1 2014 and later) (Ivan Stefanov)
Windows/Phone 8.1–Platform Specific Code in ‘Universal’ Projects and Windows/Phone 8.1 and XAML Apps–Making It Easier for MVVM Developers? (Mike Taulty)
Learn to develop for Windows Phone 8.1 in one weekend with Channel 9 and Adobe releases PhoneGap Developer for Windows Phone (Sam Sabri)
2000 WPF Things #1,069 – Main Window Initially Has Keyboard Focus (Sean Sexton)

Miscellaneous .NET

LINQ Obscura: outer join a base class table to a subclass table (Adam Anderson)
LinqPad… Kill! Using LinqPad to kill processes and The story of TFS – Pieter Gheysens’ “The evolution of ALM/TFS” now in PDF form. and Ricky Leeks and learning about leaks in this .NET Memory Management article collection [Contact Info-ware] (Greg Duncan)
Visual Studio Add-on OzCode – Free while in Beta (Tatworth)
Time Zones and Servers (Shawn Wildermuth)
Missing EF Feature Workarounds: Cascade delete orphans (Jimmy Bogard)
2000 C# Things #1,093 – How Positive and Negative Zero Values Are Stored (Sean Sexton)
Free article from Redgate – Learning .NET Memory Management (Tatworth)
Entity Framework Pitfalls – Deleting Orphans (Ricardo Peres)

Design / Methodology / Testing

High-Performance Patterns: Find Your Personal High-Performance Pattern (JD Meier)
Just Enough Up-front Design (Abel Avram)
Your Belief Determines Your Reality (John Sonmez)
50 Books for Your Reading List (Jurgen Appelo)

Other Mobile Platforms

Android Studio Tip: Multiple Screen Sizes in Layout Editor (Alec Noller)
iOS Quick Tip: Find a Number from within an NSString (Stephen Zaharuk)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

Seriously Open Podcast – Georgios Guisios (Nick Berardi & Justin Rusbatch)
RavenDB Conf Videos: Scalability and High Availability with RavenDB (Oren Eini)
Web Dev Radio Episode 121: Hitting the Titanium conference, and some new tools to try (Michael Kimsal)
Windows Weekly 361: Shampoo Conditioner and Towel Dry (Paul Thurrott)
The Nerdist Podcast – Ben Acker and Ben Blacker (Chris Hardwick)
The Alton Browncast – HENSE (Alton Brown)
Edge Show 102 – BitLocker: Preauth, PINS, UEFI and protections | Edge (RicksterCDN & Simon May)

Community / Events

Satya Nadella one of three VIP judges at Imagine Cup World Finals (Athima Chansanchai)
Seattle Beer Week and Seattle Beer Geek Girls: Why beer is about community (Emily Parkhurst)
Webinar: Introducing GeoEdge in Fiddler (May 14) (Eric Lawrence)
.NET at MonkeySpace Europe, June 9-11 (Immo Landwerth)
Get Ready for TechEd 2014 with Telerik! (Jeff Fritz)

Database

Introduction to the SQL Server Analysis Services Neural Network Data Mining Algorithm (Dallas Snider)

PowerShell

Adding Domains to Office 365 using PowerShell (Kay Sellenrode)

Miscellaneous

Apple hires Nokia’s Lumia photography lead (Sam Byford)

More Link Collections

Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Thursday, May 8, 2014 (Rob Caron)
Geek Reading May 8, 2014 (Robert Diana)
Double Shot #1352 (Mike Gunderloy)
Reading List (Bruce Lawson)
The Morning Brew #1605 (Chris Alcock)
Windows App Developer Links – 2014-05-09 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2014-05-09 (Dan Rigby)

The Geek Shelf

How to Market Yourself as a Software Developer

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