Dew Drop – October 16, 2014 (#1878)

Top Links

• Docker and Microsoft: Integrating Docker with Windows Server and Microsoft Azure (Scott Guthrie)
• NuGet: In the Platform (Jeff Handley)
• Getting a Job at Microsoft: A Detailed Guide – Interview Cheat Sheet (Akane Otani)
• Prism 5 for WPF | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green)

 

Web Development

• Evolving ASP.NET Apps–Updating Search (David Paquette)
• JavaScript Architecture for the 23rd Century (Jonathan Creamer)
• Duplicate Controller Names in ASPNET MVC Areas (Steve Smith)
• Running ASP.NET MVC 6 on Linux (Gunnar Peipman)
• The Battery Status API (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• Overriding Content-Type And Content-Disposition Headers In Amazon S3 Pre-Signed URLs (Ben Nadel)
• Opting out of anti-forgery validation in Orchard (Bertrand LeRoy)
• Bootswatch and Gulp as a Stepping Stone for Your Theme Switch Feature (Tugberk Ugurlu)
• Part 5: Get started with Python: Debugging in PTVS (Adarsha Datta)
• Solving Json discrepancies using a JsonConverter (Derik Whittaker)
• New Windows Server containers and Azure support for Docker (Jason Zander)
• OWASP Top 10 Risks #2: Broken Authentication and Session Management (Max R. McCarty)
• Microsoft brings real-time analytics to Hadoop with Storm preview (Oliver Chiu)
• Everything you need to know about the POODLE SSL bug (Troy Hunt)

 

XAML

• Windows App Studio Beta adds 9 languages and Windows Phone 8.1 sideloading (Emilio Salvador Prieto)
• Win2D–Drawing Infrared Frames from the Kinect for Windows V2 Sensor in a Windows 8.1 App (Mike Taulty)
• 2000 WPF Things #1,181 – Custom Element Indicates Desired Size in MeasureOverride (Sean Sexton)
• WPF Data Binding – Collection Views (Richard Carr)
• SensorCore explained (Adam Fraser)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Visual Studio Online Update – Oct 14th (Brian Harry)
• OMNI Engine v1 Released (C# in T3D) – Think new Game Framework for C#’ers (Greg Duncan)
• Python Tools 2.1 for Visual Studio (Shahrokh Mortazavi)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The Importance of Discipline in Agile (Ben Linders)
• Do What Scares The Stuff Out Of You! (J.D. Meier)
• Unit Testing Succinctly: Why Unit Test? (Marc Clifton)
• Technical Debt Is Inevitable (Dave M. Bush)
• Test artifacts as work items – Oct 14 (Aaron Bjork)
• Personalizing Git with Aliases (Jeff Lembeck)
• Building Your Roadmap (Kevin Maginn)
• Shipping Quality Code (Matt Davey)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Google announces Android 5.0 Lollipop (Dan Seifert)
• Android: Be together. Not the same. (Emily Wood)
• Send push notifications to authenticated PhoneGap users (Glenn Gailey)
• App Mock Up (Sanjay Sharma)
• Starting Hybrid App Development with the AppBuilder CLI (TJ VanToll)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Azure Podcast Episode 48 – Make it real with a Windows Phone app with Aure backend (Sujit D’Mello)
• Hypermedia hangout: Collection+JSON, HAL, and building .NET hypermedia APIs with Nancy and ASP.NET (Glenn Block)
• What The Tech 231: Windows 8: A Punch In The Face (Paul Thurrott)
• Enhancing online file sharing and storage with OneDrive for Business | The Garage Series for Office 365 (Jeremy Chapman)
• Get Up And Code 061: I Can’t Gain Muscle, But I Sure Can Lose It! (John Sonmez)
• Boagworld – 10 ways your website is more than a marketing channel (Paul Boag)
• RiYL Episode 075: John Porcellino (Brian Heater)

 

Community / Events

• Geek of the Week: John Donaldson, Head Distiller at La Colombe (Chris Urie)
• Telerik DevCraft Latest Release Webinar is Coming Up (Michael Crump)

 

Database

• Introduction to the Oracle Data Dictionary (Jeremiah Peschka)
• BREAKPOINT: Get Your Data On with SQL Server and Visual Studio (Jonathan Rozenblit)
• Bulk Insert from Generic List into SQL Server with minimum lines of code (Radenko Zec)

 

PowerShell

• A Dirt Simple PowerShell Hosting Example (Jim Christopher)
• PowerShell and Text Mining Part I: Word Counts, Positions and Libraries (Tim Smith)

 

Miscellaneous

• Google Nexus 6, Nexus 9 and Nexus Player Preview (Paul Thurrott)
• MBA students: What’s your elevator pitch? (Eric Lovelin)
• Small Basic: Rotate Triangle and Line (Nonki Takahashi)
• UserVoice for Windows allows users to suggest new features for upcoming Windows 10 operating system (Zac Bowden)
• Halo: Spartan Strike coming December 2014 to Windows, Windows Phone, and Steam (Mark Guim)

 

More Link Collections

• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Wednesday, October 15, 2014 (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading October 15, 2014 (Robert Diana)
• The Morning Brew #1717 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2014-10-16 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2014-10-16 (Dan Rigby)

 

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