Dew Drop – January 14, 2015 (#1933)

Top Links

• Major Enhancements to Xamarin.Forms (James Montemagno)
• Visual F# has moved to GitHub (Visual F# Team)
• Registration for Build 2015 opens Jan. 22 (Steve Guggenheimer)
• .NET Rocks! – HTML 5 Update with John Papa (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)

 

Web Development

• Exploring One-Time Bindings In AngularJS 1.3 (Ben Nadel)
• ctrl+p in Chrome Developer Tools to find and open a file and Cleanup your TestResults folder with a Scheduled Task (Kevin Logan)
• Iterators in ES6 (K. Scott Allen)

 

XAML

• EF Code First and WPF with the Chinook database. Part 1 – the model and EF Code First and WPF with the Chinook database. Part 1b – the provider and EF Code First and WPF with the Chinook database. Part 1c – the unit tests (Leom Burke)
• WPF Apps Screen (Meshack Musundi)
• Xamarin Forms for Windows Phone Devs — A Brief Introduction (Matteo Pagani)
• Requiring Authentication on the Azure Mobile Service (Nick Randolph)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Bulk Fixes and Refactorings in ReSharper 9 (Dmitri Nesteruk)
• Visual Studio 2015 and Gulp (Kris van der Mast)
• Unity, Part 9: Integration With Managed Extensibility Framework (Ricardo Peres)
• How to programmatically warm boot a Windows CE device (B. Clay Shannon)
• What is .NET Core and why does it matter? (DevToolsGuy)
• Task and Await: Basic Cancellation (Jeremy Clark)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The Four Species of Agile (Dror Helper)
• Don’t Let Work Turn You Into the Person You Don’t Want to Be (J.D. Meier)
• Does Agile Apply to Your Project? (Johanna Rothman)
• The Role of the Middle Manager in an Agile World (Rui Miguel Ferreira)
• Article: Learning Fast in Design, Development and DevOps (Ben Linders)
• Using JustMock and Dependency Injection to mock data providers (Leom Burke)
• Create an Idea Driven Culture (Michael Burns)
• UX is Key to Branding. Here’s Why. (Tom Kenny)
• The irony in reducing cost and When does a paid discovery project make sense? (Wes Higbee)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Performance in Cordova Apps (Thoughts) (Kraig Brockschmidt)
• CocoaPods Adds Support for Swift and iOS 8 Frameworks (Sergio De Simone)
• ModernHttpClient Pro Edition (Paul Betts)
• Efficient Game Textures with Hardware Compression (Shanee Nishry)
• Announcing the Telerik Featured App Program (Jen Looper)
• oData the best tonic (Richard Jones)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• The Nerdist Podcast – Simon Amstell (Chris Hardwick)
• AppBizDev Podcast Episode 23: Apps are Atley’s Business (Ben Riga & Alan Mendelevich)
• RiYL – Episode 088: Jim Woodring (Brian Heater)
• Deploying Hortonworks HDP on Microsoft Azure | Data Exposed (Scott Klein)

 

Community / Events

• Dev of the Week: Jakub Kubrynski (John Walter)
• Speaker Gifts (Kevin Griffin)
• Falafel Software Team Continues to Earn Industry Recognition (Ryan Axford)

 

Database

• SELECT INTO Improvements in SQL Server 2014 ! (Anup SivaDas)
• Finding Encrypted Data in a SQL Server Database (K. Brian Kelley)
• A Closer Look At Power Query/SSAS Integration (Chris Webb)
• SQL SERVER – How to Increase Number of Errorlog Files (Pinal Dave)

 

PowerShell

• PowerShell Community Conference in Germany (Aleksandar Nikolic)
• Boost your productivity with Pester snippets (Jakub Jareš)

 

Miscellaneous

• Amplicity is a tiny desktop PC you can rent for $17 per month (Ryan Whitwam)
• After burning Microsoft, Google leaves Android vulnerability unpatched (Blair Hanley Frank)

 

More Link Collections

• Geek Reading January 13, 2015 (Robert Diana)
• The Morning Brew #1777 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 1/14/2015 (Silverlight Show)
• Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for January 13th, 2015 and Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for January 14th, 2015 (Dmitry Lyalin)

 

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