Dew Drop – February 18, 2015 (#1957)

Top Links

• Microsoft dropping support for Rooms feature on Windows Phones in March (Dan Thorp-Lancaster) – If you love Rooms on Windows Phone, vote for this feature on the Windows 10 UserVoice page.
•  Preventing XSS in ASP.NET Made Easy (Max McCarty)
• The Road to Akka.NET v1.0 (Andrew Skotzko)
• Clean Tests: Isolating Internal State (Jimmy Bogard)

 

Web Development

• Domain Routing and resolving current tenant with ASP.NET MVC 6 / ASP.NET 5 (Maarten Balliauw)
• jQuery Bootstrap Fullscreen Select (jQuery Rain)
• Adding WinJS to your website (David Voyles)
• Creating a Web App From Scratch Using AngularJS and Firebase: Part 2 (Jay)
• 6 Latest Free jQuery Ebooks (Learning JQuery)
• 3 cool CSS3 image hover effects (Samuel Norton)
• An AngularJS Playbook (K. Scott Allen)
• Angular in a Windows Store app – Servicing (Timmy Kokke)
• Configuring Internal Endpoints on #Azure Cloud Services (Alexandre Brisebois)
• Sample chapter: Azure Websites and Azure Cloud Services (Kim Spilker)
• Tell us what you want from Docker.com! (Nick Kraly)

 

XAML

• Windows Phone 8 Succinctly: Introduction (Matteo Pagani)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Using Bower with Visual Studio (David Paquette)
• Horizontal scroll in Visual Studio (or other programs) with AutoHotKey (Iris Classon)
• Article: F# Deep Dives Review and Author Q&A (Sergio De Simone)
• Determining Kinect Capabilities at Runtime (Greg Duncan)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Refactoring code that accesses external services (Martin Fowler)
• Should Agile Equal Being Happy? (Derek Huether)
• Quick Reference: Fifty Quick Ideas To Improve Your User Stories (Gojko Adzic)
• Why Not Combine Roles of Scrum Master and Product Owner? (Savita Pahuja)
•  Excerpts from the RavenDB Performance team report: JSON & Structs in Voron (Oren Eini)
• Master the Essentials of UI Test Automation: Chapter One (Antonia Bozhkova)
• The Art of Questioning as a UX Skill (Jason Grant)
• 4 significant ways to improve your ability to innovate (O’Reilly Media)
• Seam expansion (Peter Ritchie)
• Microspeak: Light up (Raymond Chen)
• Design to Delight (Tom Kenny)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Write Automated UI Tests for iOS and Android Apps (Greg Shackles)
• Setting up Apache Cordova for cross-platform mobile development (Lionel)
• Telerik DataSource for iOS Coming in Q1 2015 to Make Populating Data Easier (Nikolay Diyanov)
• Capturing the Mobile Moment (Russ Miller)
• Getting Started with Apple WatchKit (Doron Katz)
• Octoblu IoT Platform Opens APIs to Developers (Mark Boyd)
• StepCounter Gets in Shape (Michael James)
• Xamarin.Forms 1.3.4 Released (Jason Smith)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Ionic Framework with Troy Miles (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
•  JetBrains webinar recording: Software architecture as code (Simon Brown)
• MS Dev Show – ASP.NET 5 and More with Scott Hanselman (Jason Young & Carl Schweitzer)
• Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Mario Lucero shares some symptoms of problems in team dynamics (Vasco Duarte)
• Microsoft Cloud Show Episode 067 | Catching up on Cloud News & Interview with Arpan Shah (Andrew Connell & Chris Johnson)
• A 90 minute overview of ECMAScript 6 (video) (Axel Rauschmayer)
• Countdown to Ignite: The One About Getting Certified and Not-To-Miss Places in Chicago | Microsoft Ignite Countdown (D. Begley, Golnaz, RicksterCDN, Joey Snow & Kaitlin McKinnon)
• CodeChat 023 – Jason Short and Command Monkey | CodeChat (Jeremy Foster)
• Hallway Conversations Episode 039 – Exploring Glimpse for ASP.NET with Nik Molnar and Anthony van der Hoorn and Hallway Conversations Episode 040 – Chatting About Everything with Mike Benkovich (Phil Japiske, Stephen Bohlen, Lee Brandt & James Bender)
• Azure Machine Learning Marketplace | Data Exposed (Scott Klein)
• SSW TV – Continuous Deployment to Microsoft Azure Websites | Dev Superpowers 8 (SSW Team)
• IoTShow: IoT Accelerators and Microsoft Ventures | Internet of Things Show (Gavin Gear)

 

Community / Events

• Q and A With SQL MVP Chris Shaw (Chris Yates)
• Succinctly Series E-Book Author Q&A with Derek Jensen (Jennifer W.)
• Dev of the Week: Nikhil Vaze (John Walter)
• Announcing: Git Merge Ticket Sales and Speaker Lineup (Kelsey Schimmelman)

 

Database

• Manual SQL Server Availability Group Failover (Carla Abanes)
• SQL SERVER – Cloud Based Data Integration Made Easy – A Real World Scenario (Pinal Dave)
• Extended Events Sessions: Messing Up Filters (Kendra Little)
• Simple Deployment of Azure Websites with DocumentDB (Stephen Baron)
• Redgate invests in 3T, developers of a MongoDB 3.0 GUI (RealWire)

 

PowerShell

• PowerShell to automate multiple database SQL Server restores to refresh environments (Jeffrey Yao)
• 3 ways to measure your Powershell script’s speed (Adam Bertram)

 

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft is now offering a trade in program for Surface devices (Richard Hay)
• Windows 10 phone preview builds are ‘roughly’ every month, Tile re-sizing options not definite (Daniel Rubino)

 

More Link Collections

•  Geek Reading February 17, 2015 (Robert Diana)
• Developer News – What’s IN with the Infragistics Community? (2/9-2/15) (Dara Monasch)
• Daily News Digest 2/18/2015 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #1802 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2015-02-18 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2015-02-18 (Dan Rigby)
• Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for February 17th, 2015 (Dmitry Lyalin)
• Curah! about Small Basic (Nonki Takahashi)

 

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