Dew Drop – January 29, 2015 (#1943)

Top Links

• .NET Core Open Source Update and Introduction to API Reviews | .NET Framework (Immo Landwerth)
• Introducing the Microsoft Ignite session catalog (Office 365 Team)
• Android Tips: Hello Material Design v7 AppCompat (James Montemagno)
• Windows 10: a closer look at the future of Microsoft’s vision for PCs (Tom Warren)

 

Web Development

• Supporting Updates and Deletes with Backbone and TypeScript (Peter Vogel)
• If Hemingway Wrote JavaScript: Explained (Angus Croll)
• Using JavaScript Next Features in an ES3 Enterprise World (Cody Lindley)
• How to use SignalR with Kendo UI (Jason Follas)
• 20 Burning Questions for ASP.NET Developers (Sam Basu)
• Get your modules ready for Orchard 1.9 (Bertrand Le Roy)
• Enumerator with index (Jakub Chodounský)
• TypeScript / ES6 classes for React components – without the hacks! (Dan)
• Tailoring Your Ext JS 5 Application for a Multi-Device World (Don Griffin)
• Authenticode in 2015 (Eric Lawrence)
• Getting Started with Web Components (Gil Fink)
• Managing your Azure VM’s with your Phone (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Netflix Likes React (Sam Pan)
• Quickstart with Asp.Net 5 on Dokku (Victor Gladkikh)

 

XAML

• WPF Shapes – Path – PolyBezier Segments (Richard Carr)
• Honeycomb Layout Using Hub Tiles (Kiril Stanoev)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Excerpts from the RavenDB Performance team report: Optimizing Memory Comparisons, size does matter (Oren Eini)
• Type Dependency Diagrams in ReSharper 9 (Dmitri Nesteruk)
• The Road to C# 7 Has Begun (Jonathan Allen)
• Pre-Instrumentation Targets for MSBuild (Kerry Meade)
• Entity Framework Pitfalls: Command Interceptors and Identity Keys (Ricardo Peres)
• Native Memory Diagnostics in CTP 5 (Adam Welch)
• Experimenting with a Proposed Standard GUI for the C++ language (Eric Mittelette)
• Compile-Time and Runtime-Safe Replacement for “printf” (Sasha Goldshtein)
• My Essential .NET Dev Tools (Spencer Schneidenbach)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• What Development & Test Managers do in Agile Organizations (Johanna Rothman)
• Article: How to Remain Agile When You Have to Sign a Contract? (Paweł Bejger & Peter Horsten)
• Software Architecture without Test Driven Development is DANGEROUS! (Dave M. Bush)
• Exercises for Leading Creative Collaboration and Evidence-Based Managing of Software Development (Ben Linders)
• Bad Practices Building Microservices (Jan Stenberg)
• Reviewing Options: Building on Experience of Other Developers (Jeremy Clark)
• Improve your myBalsamiq Prototypes with UsersThink (John Turner)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Xamarin forms: Check network connectivity in iOS and Android (Divikiran)
• New Swift Development Courses Available on iTunes U (Swift Team)
• Invoking a Custom API in Azure Mobile Service and Long Running Custom API Calls in Azure Mobile Service (Nick Randolph)
• What makes a better ad for your app? (Matt Lacey)
• Optional chaining with dictionaries (in Swift) (Pete Barber)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Beyond Software Craftsmanship with Uncle Bob (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• C++/DirectX Game Development: Blending and Models: (01) ​Introduction / Getting Started | C++/DirectX Game Development: Blending and Models (Jeff Koch & MicrosoftLearningExperiences)
• 144 JSJ Marionette.js 2.0 with Sam Saccone (Charles Max Wood, AJ O’Neal & Dave Smith)
• The Amp Hour #234 – We’ll Believe It When We See It – Hiring Hypercatalectic Helpelp (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
• SQL Unplugged Episode 2 | SQL Unplugged (Scott Klein)
• Azure Podcast Episode 62 – Azure Pack (Sujit D’Mello)

 

Community / Events

• MVP Community Camps – 244 MVPs, 2 Continents, Thousands of Participants (MVP Award Program)
• The power of developer communities (Steve Francia)
• Submit games to the Windows Game Developer Contest – win up to $10,000 (Windows Apps Team)
• GitHub Security Bug Bounty program turns one (Ben Toews)

 

Database

• Microsoft® SQL Server® 2014 Feature Pack (MS Downloads)
• Azure Data Services: NoSQL Table Storage (Part 4) (Adarsha Datta)
• SQL SERVER – The Basics of the SSIS Script Task – Notes from the Field #065 (Pinal Dave)
• Azure SQL Database – Table Partitioning (John Miner)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: PostgreSQL: Up and Running – $11.99 (Save 50%) Use code DEAL (O’Reilly Media)

 

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft updates Sway, makes it even easier to create beautiful presentations (Fahad Al-Riyami)
• USB 3.1 shows big gains over USB 3.0, early tests indicate (Joel Hruska)
• Microsoft adds media embed support and more in its latest Sway update (John Callaham)
• Use Windows 10 Virtual Desktops for Presentations and Coding Demos (Ryan Lowdermilk)
• Bill Gates on the future of technology, his biggest regret, and Microsoft’s HoloLens (Taylor Soper)
• OneDrive for Business comes to Mac and iOS devices (Reuben Krippner)
• Three things I envy about Windows Phone 10, as an Android user (Joe Levi)

 

More Link Collections

• Geek Reading January 28, 2015 (Robert Diana)
• The Morning Brew #1788 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2015-01-29 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2015-01-29 (Dan Rigby)
• Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for January 28th, 2015 (Dmitry Lyalin)

 

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