Dew Drop – November 20, 2014 (#1900)

Top Links

• Introducing Smart Unit Tests (Pratap Lakshman)
• Post-Release Goodies (Kasey Uhlenhuth)
• The sexist Barbie book about women in tech proves we deserve better (Christina Warren)
• Meet ReSharper, ReSharper C++ and ReSharper Ultimate (Jura Gorohovsky)

 

Web Development

• Performing Multiple Actions from a Single ASP.NET MVC Form (Peter Vogel)
• Mountable.js : JSON content into a HTML table using jQuery (jQuery Rain)
• Why Refactoring Support in a JavaScript IDE Is so Important (Peter Kellner)
• ASP.NET 5 (vNext) Work in Progress – Exploring TagHelpers (Scott Hanselman)
• ES6 and TDD at work, with traceur, mocha and sinon (Wolfram Kriesing)
• Tagging a fake Orchard content item (Bertrand Le Roy)
• How to set pythonpath for OmniSharp in Sublime text 3 (Anirudha Gupta)
• Keeping Pace: A new release of the Azure Toolkit for Eclipse (Brian Benz)
• TypeScript 1.3 and the March Toward ECMAScript 6 (David Iffland)
• Update on Azure Storage Service Interruption (Jason Zander)
• Announcing AES Dynamic Encryption enabled on Live streaming with Azure Media Services (Mingfei Yan)
• Connecting to Cloud Services (Merwan Hade)

 

XAML

• WPF 4.5: Live Shaping (Ck Nitin)
• Track Travels and Tune-Ups on your Windows Phone (David Garcia)
• OGRE you ready to create Universal projects? (Greg Duncan)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• A Preview of C# 6 (Sergio De Simone)
• .NET Licensing – ode to monolithic applications? (Daniel Fisher)
• Incident response (Brian Harry)
• Visual C++ Compiler on Rise4Fun (Eric Battalio)
• StructureMap 3 Documentation (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Welcome to GitHub, .NET! (Brendan Forster)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Retreaded: TechnicalDebtQuadrant (Martin Fowler)
• Crockford’s 2014 object creation pattern (Bertrand Le Roy)
• The Napoleon Corporal (Derek Huether)
• Three Alternatives for Making Smaller Stories (Johanna Rothman)
• Delete merged branches from your phone (Mu-An)
• Many Git Repositories, but one Team Project to rule them all (Willy-P. Schaub)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Coding Android TV games is easy as pie (Alex Ames)
• Sharing Files With NFC on Android (Avinash Gupta)
• Xamarin.Forms: Static vs. StaticResources (Jesse Liberty)
• Help Test the Future of Xamarin.Mac (Miguel de Icaza)
• Xamarin Insights and the Azure Outage (Neil Patel)
• Launchpad Online for developers: Getting Started with Google APIs (Gary Lewis)
• Simple Pooling for GameObjects in Unity (Jesse Freeman)
• JetBrains Releases AppCode 3.1 Preview with Improved Swift Support (Matt McComb)
• Creating Your First Cross-Platform Native App with NativeScript (Valentin Stoychev)
• Increasing Revenue via the Internet of Things (IoT Example 7) (Rob Tiffany)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• TC Droidcast Episode 27: Nexus 6 Is Too Big And Nokia N1 Is Too iPad (Darrell Etherington & Greg Kumparak)
• Debugging Improvements in Visual Studio 2015 | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green)
• 134 JSJ Quilljs with Jason Chen (Charles Max Wood, Dave Smith & Jason Chen)
• Gone Mobile 20: Mobile Web Performance with Tammy Everts (Greg Shackles & Jon Dick)
• What the Tech 236: Nokia-Roid (Paul Thurrott)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Rob Riggle Returns and The Nerdist Podcast – Joe Rogan (Chris Hardwick)
• The Married Gamers Episode 349: Marvelous (Chris Brown)
• Edge Show 127 – Breaking down barriers between Dev and Ops | Edge (David Tesar)
• RiYL Episode 080: Tim DeLaughter (Brian Heater)
• Azure Podcast Episode 53 – Self-Service BI in Azure (Sujit D’Mello)

 

Community / Events

• Live Webinar: Mobile Enterprise Success with Xamarin and IBM (Rob Ross)
• How Women in Tech Are Forging Ahead (Monica Finc)
• 2014 Philadelphia Bacon And Beer Festival Is Coming December 6 (David Goodman)
• Many Thanks for One Year with Xbox One (Larry Hryb)

 

Database

• SQL Server’s Cost Threshold for Parallelism (Kendra Little)
• You don’t really need ORDER BY do you? (Kenneth Fisher)
• Working with Dates in Azure DocumentDB (John Macintyre)

 

SharePoint

• Getting the Current User in SharePoint XSLT (Ricardo Peres)

 

PowerShell

• One Line PowerShell Solutions To Common SQL Server DBA Tasks (Jeffery Yao)
• PowerShell Break All Command (Paul Higinbotham)
• Using WMI Active Script Event Consumer DSC resource (Ravikanth C)
• Documenting DSC Part 2 (PowerShell Team)

 

Miscellaneous

• New Course: A Developer’s Guide to Setting Up a New Mac (Andrew Blackman)
• Move your Azure VM to a Virtual Network (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Why Kids Should Learn to Code (Robert Kim)
• Foursquare 4.0 for Windows Phone with a major redesign now available (Daniel Rubino)

 

More Link Collections

• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Wednesday, November 19, 2014 (Rob Caron)
• Daily News Digest 11/20/2014 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #1741 (Chris Alcock)

 

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