Day: April 24, 2015

Dew Drop #2000!

Top Links

• Building adaptive layout in Windows 10 with RelativePanel and AdaptiveTrigger (Laurent Bugnion)
• Bad UX and User Self-Blame – “I’m sorry, I’m not a computer person.” (Scott Hanselman)
• Lollipop Support comes to the Xamarin Android Player (Miguel de Icaza)
• DRY out your policies (Eric Lippert)

 

Web Development

• Wheelnav.js : Animated Circular navigation with SVG (jQuery Rain)
• Boost Your Application’s Performance with Server-Side JavaScript in Azure DocumentDB (Andrew Liu)
• Plugin overview: Wallaby.js, continuous test runner (Artem Govorov)
• Box Releases T3 JavaScript Framework (David Iffland)
• ASP.NET MVC 6 formatters – XML and browser requests (Filip W)
• Tons of statistics and metrics for Microsoft Azure websites (not only Asp.Net) (François Boucher)
• Angular JS with ASP.Net MVC and Web API (Raj K. Goel)
• Azure Data Factory update: Simplified Sample deployment (Anand Subbaraj)
• Thoughts on migrating to a secure Web (David Baron)
• Announcing improvements to Enterprise Mode and Enterprise Site Discovery (Deen King-Smith & Fred Pullen)

 

XAML

• First look at XAML Spy 3 (Koen Zwikstra)
• Windows Phone 8 Succinctly: Localization, Windows Phone Store & In-App Purchases (Matteo Pagani)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• What’s New in C# 6.0: Selecting Exceptions in a Try…Catch Block (Peter Vogel)
• Comparing covariance/contravariance rules in C#, Java and Scala (Igor Alekseev)
• Analyzing ineffective memory usage with dotMemory (Alexey Totin)
• New tool available in beta: Vectorization Advisor (Belinda L.)
• “Coding for Kinect with Scratch” MVA Course (Greg Duncan)
• How did the scopes for the CryptProtectMemory function end up in a strange order? (Raymond Chen)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• How BDD Has Helped to Address Communication Problems and Improve Collaboration and The Need for Continuous Improvement in Agile (Ben Linders)
• Object Oriented, Test Driven Design in C# and Java: A Practical Example Part #5 (Paul Mooney)
• I’m Not Sure I Want To Be A Specialist (Andrew Pasaporte)
• What Is The Goal? (Derek Huether)
• Darwin and Application Analytics (Sebastian Holst)
• Lamentations of the OSS consumer: I’d like to read the $@#%ing manual but no one has written it (Matt Wrock)
• AssertHelper V1 released (Dror Helper)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Built-in Text and Font Styles in Xamarin Forms (Keith Rome)
• Xamarin Guide 6. Add splash screen, name and version (Sara Silva)
• Xamarin.Android – Testing, Debugging and Deploying Apps to Wear and Handheld devices and Xamarin.Android– Wearable Demo Project is now on Github (Vincent Maverick Durano)
• How to Handle the Windows Phone 8.1 Back Button in Cocos2d-x v3.6 (Eric Mittelette)
• Analytics for Mobile Apps (Frank Weigel)
• Docs, Sheets and Forms add-ons now open to all developers (Gary Lewis)
• This Post Has No Value (Jesse Liberty)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Azure PowerShell 101 – Managing the Cloud from the Command Line and Azure Resource Manager 101 using PowerShell with Guang Yang (Scott Hanselman)
• CppCast – Asynchronous Programming with Hartmut Kaiser (Rob Irving & Jason Turner)
• 039 AiA ES6 with Scott Moss (John Papa)
• Edge Show 144: Azure IaaS VM management and more in VMM UR6! | Edge (Matt McSpirit)
• Talk Python to Me – Enterprise Python and Large-Scale Projects (Michael Kennedy)
• Hallway Conversations Episode 047 – Windows 10 Universal App Platform with Nick Landry (Phil Japikse, Steve Bohlen, Lee Brandt & James Bender)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Thomas Middleditch (Chris Hardwick)

 

Community / Events

• Win a $10k Mobile Developer Rig from Xamarin at Build 2015 (Joseph Hill)
• Upcoming Web/Cloud Events (Mike Taulty)
• CodeConf 2015: Early Bird Tickets and Call for Proposals (Kelsey Schimmelman)
• IEEE Windows 10 Hackathons in Vancouver and Calgary (Sergiy Baydachnyy)

 

Database

• Generating A Password in SQL Server with T-SQL from Random Characters (Dallas Snider)
• Analysing SSAS Extended Event Data With Power Query: Part 2, Storage Engine Activity (Chris Webb)
• SQL SERVER – Different Methods to Know Parameters of Stored Procedure and SQL Server – Error While Enabling CDC on a Table – The specified ‘@server’ is invalid (valid values are returned by sp_helpserver) (Pinal Dave)
• Are Index ‘Included’ Columns in Your Multi-Column Statistics? (Kendra Little)

 

SharePoint

• Developing SharePoint 2013 Apps using Angular.js (Mahesh Sabnis)

 

Miscellaneous

• Your Password is Too Damn Short (Jeff Atwood)

 

More Link Collections

• Geek Reading April 23, 2015 (Robert Diana)
• The Morning Brew #1847 (Chris Alcock)
• Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for April 23rd, 2015 (Dmitry Lyalin)

 

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