Dew Drop – December 8, 2014 (#1910)

Top Links

• Where We Are and the Road Ahead (Jay Schmelzer)
• C# 6 in action (Jon Skeet)
• Visual Studio 2015 Preview – Enhanced Debugging (Pravinkumar Dabade)
• What Exactly is a Plugin for Xamarin? and Creating Reusable Plugins for Xamarin.Forms (James Montemagno)

 

Web Development

• Getting Started with ES6 – The Next Version of JavaScript and Registering a Custom AngularJS Application with Azure Active Directory (Dan Wahlin)
• UI-Router: Why many developers don’t use AngularJS’s built-in router (Craig McKeachie)
• Article: A Web API Design Methodology (Mike Amundsen)
• Running ASP.NET on a Raspberry Pi (Rob Miles)
• ASP.NET vNext Project Creation using Yeoman (Shayne Boyer)
• Node.js Forked By Top Contributors (Soulskill)
• Getting Started with HDInsight – Part 3 – Creating an HDInsight Cluster in Microsoft Azure Cloud (Dattatrey Sindol)
• Naming `Eval` Scripts With The `//# Sourceurl` Directive (Nick Fitzgerald)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: WebSocket – $10.99 (Save 50%) Use code DEAL (O’Reilly Media)
• Don’t Do, React! Understanding Meteor Reactive Programming (Stephen Walther)

 

XAML

• New Windows Phone Preview for Developers 14219 update is live (Daniel Rubino)
• WPF Base Classes – MultiSelector and WPF Data Display Controls Class Hierarchy (Richard Carr)
• Create the Ultimate Fan Universal App using Windows AppStudio–Part 2 (Lori Lalonde)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Fluent asynchronous API 1: API requirements and Fluent asynchronous API 2: building an API and Fluent asynchronous API 3: the helper library (Bertrand Le Roy)
• JetBrains Updates All Their .NET Tools Starting with ReSharper 9 (Abel Avram)
• A Primer on ES7 Async Functions (Joe Zimmerman)
• What’s new in C# 6.0? – Null-conditional operators (Kunal Chowdhury)
• What’s New in C# 6.0 Inside Visual Studio 2015 Preview (Michael Crump)
• Modification of .NET expressions (Ivan Yakimov)
• Sample chapter: Getting to Know the Entity Framework (Kim Spilker)
• Killing a window timer prevents the WM_TIMER message from being generated for that timer, but it doesn’t retroactively remove ones that were already generated (Raymond Chen)
• A First Look to .NET Core (Sergio De Simone)
• Using exceptionless to track exceptions in your VS Extension (Utkarsh Shigihalli)
• Modification of .NET expressions (Ivan Yakimov)
• Sample chapter: Getting to Know the Entity Framework (Kim Spilker)
• Killing a window timer prevents the WM_TIMER message from being generated for that timer, but it doesn’t retroactively remove ones that were already generated (Raymond Chen)
• A First Look to .NET Core (Sergio De Simone)
• Using exceptionless to track exceptions in your VS Extension (Utkarsh Shigihalli)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The User Experience (UX) Of Fluffy Data (Ben Nadel)
• Monoliths, Cookie-Cutter or Microservices (Paul Hammant)
• Article: No Projects – Beyond Projects (Allan Kelly)
• A Code Coverage Puzzle (Anders Abel)
• Liquefying an Organization to Increase Agility (Ben Linders)
• Updated Ignite UI Help Viewer Now in Public Beta (Craig Shoemaker)
• Are You an Over-Abstractor or an Under-Abstractor? (Jeremy Clark)
• A Short History of Iterative Software Development (Puneet Lamba)
• Class diagram: a easy way to understand code (Sara Silva)
• Changing Culture at Your Organization (Lara Callender Hogan)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Developing Native-Activity (Android) applications (Ankit Asthana)
• Xamarin Forms: Groups and Jump Lists (Jesse Liberty)
• Android Login with Google Plus Utility (Ketan Parmar)
• Torque 2.0 adds shake to search on Android phones, new answers (Matthew Quinlan)
• Gaming and Open Source for your Windows Phone and Windows Apps (Corey Goff)
• Swift: How to send a POST Request to a PHP Script (Mark Petherbridge)
• Swift from Scratch: Introduction (Bart Jacobs)
• Swift: Enumerations (Peter Witham)
• Building a Mobile App to Scan QR Codes (TJ VanToll)
• Book Review – App Inventor 2 (Ian Stirk)
• Hello ThingSpeak (Greg Duncan)
• Internet of Things: My first experience with Galileo 2 (part 5) (Sergiy Baydachnyy)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Technology & Friends Episode 347 – Charlie Chapman and Azhar Salahuddin on Azure Notification Hubs (David Giard)
• TWC9: MyShuttle, VSTU 2.0 Preview, node.js, OmniSharp, Azure, Docker and more | This Week On Channel 9 (Greg Duncan & Jeremy Foster)
• Scrumptious Videos from the Intertubes (Michael Burns)
• Immo Landwerth and David Kean – Open sourcing the .NET Framework | .NET Framework (Dan Fernandez & Immo Landwerth)
• MS Dev Show – Double Your App Revenue with a Global Audience ()
• The Windows Developer Show Episode 168 – “What About the Children” (Travis Lowdermilk & Ryan Lowdermilk)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Michaela Watkins (Chris Hardwick)
• Episode 163: Advanced Redis Cache with Saurabh Pant | Microsoft Azure Cloud Cover Show (Haishi Bai, Cory Fowler & Chris Risner)
• Get Up And Code 068: How to Weigh Yourself Properly (John Sonmez)
• StarTalk Radio – Extended Classic: MythBusters (Part 1) (Neil deGrasse Tyson)
• Edge Show 128 AADATTEE | Edge (Symon Perriman & Simon May)
• Testing Economics 101: The Video (Gil Zilberfeld)

 

Community / Events

• Live Webinars: What’s New in ReSharper 9 (Dec 11); What’s New in dotTrace 6 (Dec 16) (Daria Dovzhikova)
• Dates For Philly Tech Week 2015 Announced (David Goodman)

 

Database

• SQL SERVER – Reverse String Word By Word and SQL SERVER – Finding if Current Week is Odd or Even – Script and SQL SERVER -Fix Error – Cannot open backup device. Operating system error 5(Access is denied.) (Pinal Dave)
• Now easier to create a sample Azure SQL Database and develop schema in Visual Studio (Sanjay Nagamangalam)
• Introducing Rachis: Raven’s Raft implementation (Oren Eini)
• Power Query And Function Parameters Of Type List (Chris Webb)
• Open source In-Memory database architecture (Radenko Zec)

 

SharePoint

• Filtering and Sorting SharePoint List Views (Ricardo Peres)
• Building Applications with AngularJS, Azure Active Directory, and Office 365/SharePoint (Dan Wahlin)

 

PowerShell

• Getting Started with HDInsight – Part 2 – Introduction to Azure HDInsight PowerShell (Dattatrey Sindol)
• ISESteroids RC (Jan Egil Ring)

 

Miscellaneous

• Nadella’s $90 million payday approved with 72 percent of shareholder votes (Jacob Demmitt)
• Video calling between Skype and Lync available now (BJ Haberkorn)
• paint.net 4.0.5 is now available (Rick Brewster)
• Why Did Women Stop Coding? (Robert Kim)
• Research: What’s Your Next Native Language? (Werner Schuster)

 

More Link Collections

• Geek Reading December 5, 2014 (Robert Diana)
• Collective #145 (Mary Lou)
• Reading List (Bruce Lawson)
• The Morning Brew #1753 (Chris Alcock)
• The Daily Six Pack: December 08, 2014 (Dirk Strauss)
• Agile Resources (Peter Green)
• Daily News Digest 12/8/2014 (Silverlight Show)
• Reading Notes #166 (Frank)
• Last Week on Channel 9: December 1st – 7th, 2014 (Greg Duncan)
• Reblog: November 28 to December 4 (Jason Strate)
• Weekly Programming Digest #85 (Jakub Chodounský)

 

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