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Dew Drop – December 23, 2016 (#2390)

Posted on December 23, 2016 | by Alvin A.

Top Links

ASP.NET Core Routing Tutorial (Thomas Ardal)
ReSharper Interactive Tutorials (Alexey Totin)
Going Serverless with Azure Functions: SendGrid (James Montemagno)
Just released – Windows developer virtual machines – December 2016 build (Clint Rutkas)

Web Development

My Evolving Angular 2 Mental Model: Promises And RxJS Observables (Ben Nadel)
PhpStorm 2017.1 Early Access Program is Open (Anna Lebedeva)
CSS Writing Modes (Jen Simmons)
Angular Material Beta Release, New Flex-Layout library (Jeremy Elbourn)
Creating a Custom WordPress Messaging System, Part 3 (Tom McFarlin)
Microsoft Edge Web Payment Request API Available in Preview (Richard Hay)
Progressive Web Applications (Jakub Chodounský)
Master the JavaScript Interview: What is a Closure? (Eric Elliott)
Getting the most out of Dreamweaver’s Code Editor (Nishita Kumar)
JSON in SQL 2016 (Prashanth Jayaram)
Introduction to Progressive Web Apps (Instant Loading) – Part 2 (Prosper Otemuyiwa)
All websites have something of value for attackers: reputation (Troy Hunt)

XAML

Hitchhiking the HoloToolkity-Unity, Leg 6– A Collection of Demos from A Recent Meetup Talk and Hitchhiking the HoloToolkit-Unity, Leg 7–Tracking Loss on Moving Between Rooms (Mike Taulty)

Miscellaneous .NET

Why .NET Technologies Are Powering our Application (Maxime Laboissonniere)
Downgrading a .NET Applications from 64 bit to 32 bit for the WebBrowser Control (Rick Strahl)
The Traveling Santa Problem… a Neural Network solution (Ricky Terrell)

Design / Methodology / Testing

7 Motivational Ideas To Kick Off Your Best New Year Ever (Lauren Moon)
DataSource and Data-driven Testing Using XUnit (Jeff Yates)
Exercise your greatest power as a developer (Nicole Herskowitz)
Coding standards horror story (Rockford Lhotka)

Other Mobile Platforms

Contest: Explore Something New This Holiday with Workbooks (Cody Beyer)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

Eat, Sleep, Code Podcast – Goodbye 2016 (Ed Charbeneau)
Announcing the Radical Candor Podcast and Video: From Obnoxious Aggression to Manipulative Insincerity (Elisse Lockhart)
124 AiA From Junior to Senior Developer (John Papa)
What The Tech 336: Worst Tech of 2016 and Windows Weekly 497: Go for the Donut! (Paul Thurrott)

Database

SQL SERVER – SqlServerWriter Missing from an Output of VSSadmin List Writers Command (Pinal Dave)
SSIS Custom Logging Levels (Tim Mitchell)
Add and Monitor Transparent Data Encryption to AzureSQL Databases (Tim Smith)
Visio Add-in for Database Modeling (MS Downloads)
Filtered Statistics Follow-up (Erik Darling)
Flashback 2016 – Highlights from Azure SQL Data Warehouse (John Macintyre)
Why 2017 is the year of Database DevOps and why database professionals should lead the charge (Simon Galbraith)
SQL Developer version 4.2 Early Adopter 2 Now Available (Jeff Smith)

PowerShell

SQL Server 2016 PowerShell cmdlets for SQL Agent (Rajendra Gupta)

Miscellaneous

Throwback: Samsung “Taylor” Windows Phone Prototype and Raspberry Pi Brings Its PIXEL Desktop Environment to PC/Mac (Paul Thurrott)
#Ebook Deal/Day: Modern Python Cookbook – $19.99 (Save 50%) Use code DEAL (O’Reilly Media)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #2250 (Chris Alcock)

The Geek Shelf

Docker: Up & Running: Shipping Reliable Containers in Production (9781491917572): Karl Matthias, Sean P. Kane: Books

ISBN: 1491917571
ISBN-13: 9781491917572

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Dew Drop – August 22, 2016 (#2313)

Posted on August 22, 2016 | by Alvin A.

Top Links

peasy-js Samples (Aaron Hanusa)
GitHub Extension for Visual Studio 2.0 (Andreia Gaita)
The Imposter’s Handbook (Rob Conery)
TWC9: Open Source PowerShell, UWP Community Toolkit, Minecraft Oculus Rift and more… | This Week On Channel 9 (Greg Duncan, Vlad Kolesnikov, Petri Wilhelmsen)

Web Development

Learning Angular 2: Tour of Heroes Tutorial, HTTP (Brian Swartzfager)
Directory Browser Middleware With ASP.NET Core (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
NGINX for ASP.NET Core In-Depth (Muhammad Rehan Saeed)
Web.config and Entity Framework Transformation Process (Sudha Rani Polapragada)
Container Entrypoint (Gabriel Schenker)
Let’s Go: Object-Oriented Programming in Golang (Gigi Sayfan)
Using Application Insights With Microsoft Bot Framework (Michael Washington)
Building your first Atom plugin (Nick Tikhonov)

XAML

A WPF Custom Control for Zooming and Panning (Clifford Nelson)
Detecting and Setting Zoom Level in the WPF WebBrowser Control (Rick Strahl)

Miscellaneous .NET

My struggels with GitHub, Subtrees and Nuget (Michał Komorowski)
Refactoring Production Code With Experiments and Scientist.NET (Jason Roberts)
Is it okay to call TryAcquireSRWLock from a thread that has already acquired the lock? (Raymond Chen)
Console Ouptut: my New Debugging and Testing tool for Windows (Synergist)
Validating List Sorting with Canopy (Eric Potter)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Microservices: Real Architectural Patterns (Camille Fournier)
So, How Do You Make Agile Successful? (Chen Ping)
In DevOps, ‘Good Enough for Government’ might mean better than Google (Cameron Laird)
How do you decide what to work on? (Julia Evans)
SOLID Go Design (Dave Cheney)
Git-Based Versioning (Hadi Hariri)
Getting Started with Git (Ryan Little)

Other Mobile Platforms

Guide To Create Orientation Awareness In Sencha Touch Apache Cordova App – Part One (Indraneel Pole)
#Ebook Deal/Day: High Performance iOS Apps – $21.49 (Save 50%) Use code DEAL (O’Reilly Media)
Cryptography in Portable Libraries (Adam Pedley)
#Windows10 – IoT Core, first look to IoT Dashboard, Device Portal and Remote Client (Bruno Capuano)
“Daddy is Working” Light (Greg Duncan)
CommsQuest IV – A Retro Game Built Using Twilio Sync (Jon Davis)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

Cross-Cutting Concerns Podcast 011 – Kelsey Hightower on Kubernetes Bootstrapping (Matthew D. Groves)
Episode 316 – PowerScripting Podcast – Jeffrey Snover from Microsoft on Open Sourced PowerShell v6 (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
The Nerdist Podcast – Billy West #3 (Chris Hardwick)
The Changelog 216: GitHub’s Electron With Zeke Sikelianos (Adam Stacoviak & Jerod Santo)
GeekWire Radio: Seahawk Doug Baldwin, MLS boss Don Garber and more on the sports tech revolution (Clare McGrane)
CodeNewbie Ep. 102 – Six Months of Coding (Aurelian Sennett) (CodeNewbie Team)
Developer on Fire Episode 158 | Carin Meier – Biogeekery and Identity (Dave Rael)
Merge Conflict 7: Is Code Sharing Worth It? (Frank Krueger & James Montemagno)
Talk Python to Me #72 – Fashion-driven open source software at Zalando (Michael Kennedy)
StarTalk Radio – Cosmic Queries: The Multiverse (Neil deGrasse Tyson)
Implementing DevOps to Deliver Business Value: A Real-World Example | ChefConf 2016 (Seth Juarez)
Developer Tea – 3 Concrete Ways to Be a Better Co-worker (Jonathan Cutrell)
Azure Podcast Episode 140 – Logic Apps (Sujit D’Mello)

Community / Events

Xamarin Dev Days at NERD Center (Jesse Liberty)
Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Igor Rosa Macedo (Willy-P. Schaub)
Inside Visual Studio Team Services: Summer Interns and Package Management (aupsy)
Top 10 Ways To Celebrate Labor Day Weekend In Philadelphia (Jillian Wilson)
Adventures Ahead! (Sarah Dutkiewicz)
Azure rock stars: It’s your time to shine and be nominated as an MVP (Suzanne Choney)

Database

PowerShell

Using C# to Create PowerShell Cmdlets: Beyond the Basics (Michael Sorens)
PowerShell is all about the Community (Emin Atac)
Run PowerShell on Mac OS X (Dmitry Sotnikov)
Why PowerShell on Linux is Such an Accomplishment (Don Jones)
Create Custom Monitors with PowerShell (Michael Sorens)

Miscellaneous

HP Elite x3 with Desk Dock pre-orders begin at Microsoft Store U.S. and Canada (John Callaham)
Small Basic – Flipping Shapes (Nonki Takahashi)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #2162 (Chris Alcock)
Double Shot #1723 (Mike Gunderloy)
Office 365 news roundup (Office 365 Team)
Collective #239 (Pedro Botelho)
It’s time for the weekend and your #FridayFives! (MVP Award Program)
Last Week on Channel 9: August 15th – August 21st, 2016 (Greg Duncan)
Reading List (Bruce Lawson)
Azure Weekly: August 22, 2016 (Chris Pietschmann)
Windows App Developer Links – 2016-08-22 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2016-08-22 (Dan Rigby)
Weekly C# Digest Issue #116 (Jakub Chodounsky)
F# Weekly #34, 2016 (Sergey Tihon)

The Geek Shelf

The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master: 0785342616224: Computer Science Books @ Amazon.com

ISBN: 020161622X
ISBN-13: 9780201616224

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Dew Drop – May 31, 2016 (#2262)

Posted on May 31, 2016 | by Alvin A.

Top Links

The emergence of historical mega breaches (Troy Hunt)
Making it easier to port to .NET Core (Immo Landwerth)
Announcing MSTest Framework support for .NET Core RC2 / ASP.NET Core RC2 (Pratap Lakshman)
ReSharper Ultimate 2016.2 EAP kicks off (Jura Gorohovsky)

Web Development

Maintaining Proper Type-Checking With Callbacks Using TypeScript In Angular 2 RC1 (Ben Nadel)
Hacking Confluence With Javascript (Paul Hammant)
9 Tips for Writing Secure Applications in ASP.NET (Brij Bhushan Mishra)
Azure Marketplace: WordPress (Chris Pietschmann)
Serve your WordPress blog via HTTPS on NameCheap (for free) (Den Delimarsky)
Simplifying Objects, Inheritance and prototype in JavaScript (Dhananjay Kumar)
Go To Implementation in PhpStorm (Gary Hockin)
Save 24% With The Last Frontier of Minification: HTML! (Robin Osborne)
Angular 2: Application Settings using the CLI Environment Option (Shayne Boyer)
Configure VSCode to run NPM tasks (Adam Anderson)
Why do record/replay tests of web applications break? (Adrian Colyer)
Twilio’s Notify API Reaches Customers Via Preferred Method (Eric Carter)
Should I use shouldComponentUpdate? (James K. Nelson)
bots! bots! bots! (Jen Looper)
Writing custom EsLint rules (Kenneth Truyers)
Previewing H.264/AVC support for ORTC (Shijun Sun & Bernard Aboba)
Writing Clean Code in ASPNET Core with DI (Steve Smith)
Creating Intelligent Web Applications With LUIS (Michael Washington)

XAML

Xamarin.Forms: reusing resources in XAML using Styles (Davide Zordan)
How to Get Started with Azure IoT Hub and a UWP App (Jon Gallant)
A Behavior for CameraPressed event in Universal Windows apps (Marco Minerva)

Miscellaneous .NET

Diving Into Visual Studio 2015, Day 4: Code Refactoring (Akhil Mittal)
C# 7.0 – What to Expect (Damir Arh)
Designer Support for EF Core via DevArt (Julie Lerman)
Processing All Properties on an Object (Peter Vogel)
Code generation with Roslyn (Jack Ukleja)
RegEx for credit-card-numbers with spaces/dash delimiters (Michael Freidgeim)
Akka.NET Near-Term Roadmap: 1.1 Akka.Cluster RTM on June 14; 1.5, 1.6 Releases (Aaron Stannard)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Have impediments solved by Scrum team members (Ben Linders)
The worker pattern (Oren Eini)
The Value of Failure (Ted Neward)
Continuous deployment/delivery with Jenkins and VS Team Services (Anand Gaurav)
Drag-and-drop tasks in Markdown task lists (Ayman Nadeem)
Step Back and Ask Why (John Papa)
How Testers Can Become Better Leaders: An Interview with Selena Delesie (Josiah Renaudin)
Why is the build broken? and The real difference between NUnit and XUnit (Dror Helper)
DRY: Do Repeat Yourself (Peter-Paul Koch)

Other Mobile Platforms

Preventing Pinch-Zoom in Cordova on Windows 10 Mobile | Cordova (Timmy Kokke)
Testing with Xamarin (Jason Farrell)
30 Days of Zumo.v2 (Azure Mobile Apps): Day 26: Relationship Advice and 30 Days of Zumo.v2 (Azure Mobile Apps): Day 27: File Handling (v1) (Adrian Hall)
3D Network Printing with IoT Core (Greg Duncan)
DRY Fusion data munging kata in Swift (Josh Smith)
Cross-Platform Makefile for Swift (Rob Allen)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

MS Dev Show – Action Center in the Cloud with Matt Hidinger (Jason Young & Carl Schweitzer)
Thimbleweed Park Podcast #51 (Ron Gilbert)
.NET Rocks! – Thinking Non-Relational Data with Oren Eini (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
SSW TV – Power BI and SharePoint | Adam Cogan (Sophie Belle)
TWC9: Happy 25th VB, Azure DevTest Labs available, Fetch, Why SQL Server 2016 Rocks and more… | This Week On Channel 9 (Greg Duncan, Vladimir Kolesnikov & Mark DeFalco)
Agile Toolkit Podcast – Lean + Agile DC 2016 – Max Keeler of the Motley Fool and Agile Toolkit Podcast – Lean+Agile DC 2016 – Tom Paider – Author of the Lean IT Field Guide (Bob Payne)
Developer Support Series: Service Fabric – Next-Generation cloud application platform for Hyper Scale, stateful and stateless microservices (Sameer Tripathi & Puneeth Nayak)
CodeNewbie Ep. 90 – Creating EmberJS – Part I (Yehuda Katz) (CodeNewbie Team)
Developer on Fire Episode 134 | Justin Searls – Hip To Be Slow (Dave Rael)
The Ops Team #21 – “Camara Catastrophe” | The Ops Team (David Tesar, Matt McSpirit & Oguz Pastirmaci)
Episode 207: Netflix Spinnaker on Azure with Andy Glover, Richard Guthrie, and Arun Chandrasekhar | Microsoft Azure Cloud Cover Show (Haishi Bai & Chris Risner)
The Web Ahead 116: Preserving the Architecture of the Web with Stefan Tilkov (Jen Simmons)
An introduction to NativeScript video (Kris Lankford)
Radio TFS – VSTS and Checkboxes and of course more (Martin Woodward & Greg Duncan)
Developer Tea – The Great Developer Mindset – Demystifying Code and Developer Tea – The Work / Life Equation (Jonathan Cutrell)
StarTalk Radio – Extended Classic: Cosmic Queries: Venus with Dr. FunkySpoon (Neil deGrasse Tyson)

Community / Events

Welcome the Newest Xamarin MVPs! (Joseph Hill)
Microsoft meets Open Source (Ted Neward)
Open Source at Docker, Part 1: The People (Arnaud Porterie)
Upcoming F# events – learn Suave, FsLab & more! (Tomas Petricek)

Database

Automate Removal of Saved SQL Server Objects During Deployments (Tim Smith)
NOLOCK is Broken in SQL Server 2014 SP1 (Jonathan Allen)
SQL SERVER – Finding Waits For Any Session with Extended Event wait_info and SQL SERVER – Configuration Manager – MMC could not create the snap-in. The snap-in might not have been installed correctly and SQL SERVER – SSMS Tip: How to Get Larger Fonts for Results in Grid Output and What is NOT NULL Constraint? – Interview Question of the Week #073 (Pinal Dave)
Approval Workflow in Master Data Services 2016 using Change Sets – Part 2 (Koen Verbeeck)
Apache Cassandra Essentials (Ian Stirk)

PowerShell

ebook deal of the week: Windows PowerShell Best Practices (Kim Spilker)

Miscellaneous

RIP, WindowsPhone (Ted Neward)
programmingfonts.org – THE Resource for Monospace Fonts (Roland Weigelt)
#Ebook Deal/Day: Learn to Program with Small Basic – $13.97 (Save 50%) Use code DEAL (O’Reilly Media)

More Link Collections

Xamarin App Developer Links – 2016-05-30 and Windows App Developer Links – 2016-05-30 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2016-05-31 and Windows App Developer Links – 2016-05-31 (Dan Rigby)
The Morning Brew #2102 and The Morning Brew #2103 (Chris Alcock)
Double Shot #1693 and Double Shot #1694 (Mike Gunderloy)
Geek Reading May 27, 2016 #1115 and Geek Reading May 30, 2016 #1116 (Robert Diana)
Weekly Ink – 5/30/16 (Shayne Boyer)
Reading Notes #234 (Frank Boucher)
Collective #221 (Pedro Botelho)
Welcome to the weekend! #FridayFive (MVP Award Program)
Last Week on Channel 9: May 23rd – May 29th, 2016 and Coding4Fun May 2016 Round-Up (Greg Duncan)
Reading List (Bruce Lawson)
Azure Weekly: May 30, 2016 (Chris Pietschmann)
GameDev News – Week Ending May 27, 2016 (Brian Peek)
Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for May 27th, 2016 and Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for May 30th, 2016 (Dmitry Lyalin)
Weekly C# Digest Issue #104 (Jakub Chodounsky)
F# Weekly #22, 2016 (Sergey Tihon)

The Geek Shelf

Doctor Who Travels in Time Coloring Book: Price Stern Sloan: 9780451534255: Books

ISBN: 0451534255
ISBN-13: 9780451534255

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