Dew Drop – April 17, 2015 (#1995)

Top Links

• Announcing General Availability of Azure Premium Storage (Scott Guthrie)
• Basic OWIN Self Host With F# (Mike Hadlow)
• More Material Design for Your Android Apps (James Montemagno)
• Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens (Movie-List) – Teaser Trailer #2

 

Web Development

• Implementing REST services in AngularJS using Restangular (Arian Celina)
• Cut and Copy (from JavaScript) (Chris Coyier)
• Live streaming HTML5 video using Azure Media Services and Introduction to Azure Media Services, AES, PlayReady, and video transports (David Voyles)
• 11 things about JavaScript functions that .NET developers should know: Part 2 and Step by Step implementing Onion architecture in ASP.NET MVC Application (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Simple Online Drawing using HTML5 and SignalR (Julian Joseph)
• ASP.NET 5 Overview (Shahed C)
• REST matters (and you need more of it) (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Docker 1.6: Engine & Orchestration Updates, Registry 2.0, & Windows Client Preview (Jessie Frazelle)

 

XAML

• Windows Phone 8 Succinctly: Tiles, Notifications, and Multitasking (Matteo Pagani)
• Animating list items within Windows apps (Shawn Kendrot)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• C#/.NET Little Wonders: Static Using Statements in C# 6 (James Michael Hare)
• Visual Studio 2015 Custom Window Layouts (Joe Mayo)
• Super fast way to extract width/height dimensions of PNG and JPEG images (Nathan B. Evans)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• BDD is a Centered Rather than a Bounded Community (Jan Stenberg)
• Tutorial: Using Ant and Jenkins to automate the deployment of Java projects from the Azure Toolkit for Eclipse (Brian Benz)
• The Mindmapping Software Getting Started Guide (Chance Brown)
• DDD revisited (Gabriel Schenker)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Dialing A Number in Xamarin.Forms using DependencyService (Jesse Liberty)
• Xamarin Guide 2. Create the model and data source (Sara Silva)
• Wearable JavaScript (Daniel Gallo)
• Announcing the release of Universal Windows Apps SDK for Azure Mobile Engagement (Piyush Joshi)
• Drive app installs through App Indexing (Lawrence Chang)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Office 365 Developer Podcast: Episode 042 on the future of Exchange development with Venkat and Pretish (Jeremy Thake)
• Hanselminutes – Usability and the Human Factor with Dr. Danielle Smith and Azure PowerShell 101 – Managing (and debugging) Azure WebSites (Scott Hanselman)
• What’s New in the Ignite UI HTML5 Page Designer (Infragistics Videos)
• 155 JSJ Webtorrent with Feross Aboukhadijeh (Charles Max Wood, AJ O’Neal, Jamison Dance, Dave Smith & Aimee Knight)
• 038 AiA Performance with Ben Nadel (John Papa)
• Premium Storage on Azure goes General Availability | Edge (RicksterCDN)
• CppCast – Biicode and Turbo (Rob Irving)
• SSW TV – The Future of TypeScript & Roslyn with Anders Hejlsberg (SSW Team)
• Talk Python to Me – Pyramid Web Framework (Michael Kennedy)

 

Database

• SQL Server Reporting Services Video Embedding .NET Code for Report Formatting and Error Handling (Scott Murray)
• “Breaking” News: Don’t Install SQL Server 2014 SP1 (Brent Ozar)
• RethinkDB 2.0 Is Amazing (Rob Conery)
• Generate Random Strings with High Performance with a SQL CLR function (Jeffrey Yao)
• Understanding how SQL queries impact app performance, with dotTrace 6.1 (Alexey Totin)
• Building A Reporting Solution Using Power Query (Chris Webb)

 

SharePoint

• Improving the Office 365 SharePoint hybrid experience (Chris O’Brien)
• SharePoint Server 2016 Update (Seth Patton)

 

PowerShell

• Fasten your seat belts and start contributing to the DSC PowerShell resource repository! (Ravikanth C)
• PSTip: Connect to Azure Virtual Machines without being prompted for credentials (Jaap Brasser)
• Community Feedback and Microsoft Connect (Joey Aiello)

 

Miscellaneous

• How to stay connected to the office while working remotely (Nishtha Arora)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Beginning Software Engineering – $22.49 (Save 50%) Use code DEAL (O’Reilly Media)

 

More Link Collections

• Geek Reading April 16, 2015 (Robert Diana)
• The Morning Brew #1842 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2015-04-17 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2015-04-17 (Dan Rigby)
• Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for April 16th, 2015 (Dmitry Lyalin)

 

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