Dew Drop – February 5, 2015 (#1948)

Top Links

• .NET Rocks! – Announcing Aurelia with Rob Eisenberg (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• ASP.NET 5: First Impressions (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Mobile Development Platform Performance Part 2 (Native, Cordova, Classic Xamarin, Xamarin.Forms) (Kevin Ford)
• NuGet: Package Signing (Andrew Stanton-Nurse)

 

Web Development

• CSS Grid Layout – creating complex grids (Rachel Andrew)
• WebStorm 10 EAP (Ekaterina Prigara)
• ASP.NET Security – Custom Error Handling (Manjunath K)
• 12 Best Tutorials To Learn AngularJS (jQuery By Example)
• Name Collisions with Asp.Net Webapi and How to Avoid (Peter Kellner)
• Evolving ASP.NET Apps–Cross Site Scripting (Simon Timms)
• Angular in a Windows Store app – Taking Control (Timmy Kokke)
• Ways and Advantages of Migrating JavaScript Code to TypeScript (Vadim Lomshakov)
• Announcing the Release of the HttpPlatformHandler Module for IIS 8+ (Andrew Westgarth)
• Introducing the Selection API specification (Ben Peters)
• 11 Reasons to Care About Mobile Performance in 2015 [INFOGRAPHIC] (Tammy Everts)

 

XAML

• Six Free Modern… I mean Metro… um… Material Design Icon packs (Greg Duncan)
• WPF Shapes Class Hierarchy (Richard Carr)
• Microsoft Releases “Universal” Touch-Friendly Office Apps For Windows 10 (Alex Wilhelm)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• New in PostSharp 4.1: Improved Visual Studio Tooling (Gael Fraiteur)
• Async Transaction Scope on .NET 4.5.1 (Bnaya Eshet)
• Five interesting facts about Microsoft F# (DevToolsGuy)
• Visual Studio Online with Git (Subodh Sohoni)
• Using Multi-Swarm Training on Your Neural Networks (James McCaffrey)
• Lesser-Known NHibernate Features: Filtering an Unloaded Collection (Ricardo Peres)
• Rx Challenge #2 (Bnaya Eshet)
• Learn to program with 24 free eBooks (post from Life Hacker) (David Voyles)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• FizzBuzz TDD kata– using Reactive Extensions (Dror Helper)
• Mini book: Do Better Scrum (Peter Hundermark)
• Managing On-Premises Systems with Azure Automation (Alex Stabile)
• Arrange Act Assert Comments in Tests (Jason Roberts)
• Software Application Assessments (Steve Smith)
• Software development challenges can be opportunities for improvement (Wes Higbee)
• What Model Do Your Estimates Follow? (Johanna Rothman)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Adding Telerik Analytics to Cordova Apps (TJ VanToll)
• Visual Studio 2015 Preview Tools for Unity is out now (David Voyles)
• Benchmarking the Raspberry Pi 2 in Python (Rob Miles)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Stack Exchange Podcast #62 – Delete This Whole Episode (Abby T. Miller)
• Episode 294 – PowerScripting Podcast – Michael Greene & Charles Joy from Microsoft (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Visual Studio 2015 Diagnostic Tools | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green)
• 145 JSJ Meteor.js with Matt DeBergalis (Charles Max Wood, AJ O’Neal & Dave Smith)
• AAWP Insight #127: Lumia Denim camera comparison (Rafe Blandford)
• The Amp Hour #235 – An Interview with Matt Richardson – Raspberry Risorgimento Regent (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
• Defrag: Is SMART smart, Debugging IE Crashes, OpenDNS Geolocation, killing a frozen Start Screen and more | The Defrag Show (Greg Duncan & Larry Larsen)
• What’s new in the world of apps for Office? | The Garage Series for Office 365 (Jeremy Chapman)
• SQL Server Radio Show 15 – March Madness (Matan Yungman)
• RiYL Episode: 091: Legs McNeil (Brian Heater)

 

Community / Events

• Geeks of the Week: Liam and Josh of the Cinepunx Podcast (Dan)
• ReSharper Workshop at The JetBrains BASH – Belfast, February 16th (Robert Demmer)
• Succinctly Series E-Book Author Q&A with Peter Shaw (Jennifer W.)
• Introducing Docker’s New Open Source Community Manager (Steve Francia)
• 5 Questions with Daniel Egan and Adam Tuliper (Paul Ballard)

 

Database

• How Many Databases Can I Put on One SQL Server? (Brent Ozar)
• SQL SERVER – Invoking a Stored Procedure from Azure Mobile Services – Notes from the Field #066 (Pinal Dave)
• Advice for Learning T-SQL SELECT Statement Step By Step (Dallas Snider)

 

Miscellaneous

• Confirmed: FCC Will Try To Regulate Internet Under Title II (Soulskill)

 

More Link Collections

• Geek Reading February 4, 2015 (Robert Diana)
• Double Shot #1469 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Morning Brew #1793 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2015-02-05 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2015-02-05 (Dan Rigby)
• Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for February 4th, 2015 (Dmitry Lyalin)

 

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