May 2015 – Morning Dew by Alvin Ashcraft

Dew Drop – May 29, 2015 (#2024)

Top Links

Setting up Github with Visual Studio Code on OSX (Michael Crump)
New Free eBook: LINQ Succinctly (Jason Roberts)
Testing in Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment Workflows (Gopinath C H)
SQL Server to add JSON Support (Jonathan Allen)

Web Development

AngularJS Will Parse JSON Payloads In Non-2xx HTTP Responses (Ben Nadel)
Raspberry Pi node.js Web Server w/ PM2 (Greg Arroyo)
The End of Global CSS (Chris Coyier)
Using Node.js, Express and MongoDB (MEAN stack) in an ASP.NET MVC application (Mahesh Sabnis)
Introducing jQuery-goTop (Scott Dorman)
Pay Attention to “angular.merge” in 1.4 on Date Properties (Shaun Xu)
Cannot assign to read only property ‘warnings’ of true (Chris Love)
Postman API Development Platform Eases API Construction (Eric Carter)
Polymer 1.0 Released! (Taylor Savage)
Python: Look ahead multiple elements in an iterator/generator (Mark Needham)
Image Tilt Effect (Manoela Ilic)
Applied DevOps and the potential of Docker (Brian Anderson)
Certification – MCSD: Azure Solutions Architect (MS Learning)

XAML

ViewModel Locator in WPF (Bruno Leonardo Michels)
WPF Control Templates – Template Bindings (Richard Carr)
TwoWay binding trap on Windows Store apps (Miha Markic)

Miscellaneous .NET

How to manage Content in NuGet Packages? (Rick Strahl)
Using Data Annotations to Validate Models in .NET (Bruno Leonardo Michels)
Entity Framework Cascading Deletes; Set it from the database. (William Wegerson)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Agile Ecosystem, It Starts With Why (Andrew Graves)
“Economics of Testing” – New Article on Test Huddle (Gil Zilberfeld)
Beware of “Never” and “Always” (Jeremy Clark)
The Power Of Persistence (John Sonmez)
Elephant in the Room – Technical Debt (Matt Davey)
Totally stressed out? Sync to Paper (Scott Hanselman)

Other Mobile Platforms

Xamarin.Forms Device.Idiom (Adam J. Wolf)
Android M Preview Means New Tools for Developers (Eric Zeman)
Add Google to your iOS Apps with CocoaPods (Jonathan Beri)
Evernote Releases v2.0 of Android SDK at Google I/O (Mark Boyd)
Android M Developer Preview & Tools (Jamal Eason)
Announcing new Google Cast APIs (Nathan Camarillo & David Allison)
Introducing the Google Identity Platform (Adam Dawes)
Application Insights: Easy DevOps On-ramp for App Builders (Charles Sterling)
A Closer Look at Google Play services 7.5 (Ian Lake)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

Simple Programmer Podcast 006: Harold Almon Took Charge of His Software Development Career (John Sonmez)
Office 365 Developer Podcast: Episode 047 on the Dev Program (Jeremy Thake)
Hanselminutes – Getting Started with SVG with Sara Soueidan and Azure PowerShell 101 – Managing Azure Storage from the Command-Line (Scott Hanselman)
044 AiA Visual Studio Code with Erich Gamma and Chris Dias (John Papa)
The Nerdist Podcast – The Out-of-Towners (Chris Hardwick)
SQL Unplugged Live Episode 6 | SQL Unplugged (Scott Klein)

Community / Events

Geek of the Week: Actor and Director, Aleksandra Svetlichnaya (Dan)
ANZ Coders 2015 – The week long, free developer conference you can attend in your pyjamas! (ANZ Coders) – Last day today!

Database

SQL Server 2016 Live Query Statistics (Enrico van de Laar)
Installing SQL Server 2016 CTP2 – UI Changes (Anup SivaDas)
Microsoft® SQL Server® 2016 CTP2 Master Data Services Add-in For Microsoft® Excel® (MS Downloads)
Remove Question Mark and Show Correct Total Number of Pages in SSRS Report (Dallas Snider)
How to Clone a SQL Server Login, Part 2 of 3 (K. Brian Kelley)
SQL SERVER – Using 20 Logical Processors Based on SQL Server Licensing (Pinal Dave)
Creating a SQL 2016 CTP2 Virtual Machine in Azure (Devin Knight)

PowerShell

Windows Management Framework 4.0 (MS Downloads)
Azure PowerShell: Azure Virtual Network for the Command Line Junkie – Part 4.1 (Adarsha Datta)

Miscellaneous

Windows 10 reportedly hitting RTM in July (Harish Jonnalagadda)

More Link Collections

Geek Reading May 28, 2015 (Robert Diana)
The Morning Brew #1870 (Chris Alcock)
The Daily Six Pack: May 29, 2015 (Dirk Strauss)
Windows App Developer Links – 2015-05-29 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2015-05-29 (Dan Rigby)
Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for May 28th, 2015 (Dmitry Lyalin)

The Geek Shelf

Exam Ref 70-532 Developing Microsoft Azure Solutions: Zoiner Tejada, Michele Leroux Bustamante, Ike Ellis: 9780735697041: Books

ISBN: 0735697043
ISBN-13: 9780735697041

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Dew Drop – May 28, 2015 (#2023)

Top Links

SQL 2016 Preview has been released! (Koen Verbeeck)
Windows 10 reportedly hitting RTM in July (Harish Jonnalagadda)
Publishing an ASP.NET 5 app to Docker on Linux with Visual Studio (Scott Hanselman)
Getting Started with Splunk MINT (Bill Emmett)

Web Development

JavaScript as a Protocol for Native Development (Alex R. Young)
Closures in JavaScript (Andrew Burgess)
Using Node.js, Express and MongoDB (MEAN stack) in an ASP.NET MVC application (Mahesh Sabnis)
Interactive ASP.NET Resource Linking and Editing with Westwind.Globalization (Rick Strahl)
WebPack For Visual Studio Developers (Burke Holland)
OAuth 2.0 Part 2 – The Four Party Diagram (Jim Blanchard)
Docker Tutorial 11 – Docker Swarm (John Willis)
Building applications in Azure (John Adams)

XAML

ICommand and RelayCommand in WPF and Messaging System in WPF (Bruno Leonardo Michels)
What’s New with the Windows Universal Application Platform (Nick Randolph)
How we are improving Windows Store app catalog (Bernardo Zamora)

Miscellaneous .NET

Back To Basic – Can we use both C# and VB Project within a single Visual Studio Solution ? (Abhijit Jana)
Continuous Delivery with TFS: Enable Test Impact Analysis (Graham Smith)
If you have logic that relies on the current system date, it’s often difficult t… (Mike Hadlow)
Visual Studio Time Saver – Presenting code in PowerPoint (Susan Ibach)
#Video Deal/Day: Learning C# Design Patterns – $49.98 (Save 50%) Use code DEAL (O’Reilly Media)
Application Insights Pricing Effective June 1 (Dale Koetke)
Seq/2 Beta (Nicholas Blumhardt)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Learn to Code – Learn Online with 6 Websites (Peter Saddington)
The Parable of The Road Line Painter (Dave M. Bush)
Article: Using Experiments and Data to Innovate and Build Products Customers Actually Use (Ben Linders)
Trusting Your Best To Give Their Best. (Rajiv Popat)
Product Development is a Trust Fall (Tyler Treat)
Work From Home Like a Pro (Jennifer Quraishi)

Other Mobile Platforms

Four ways to mock up your next mobile app (DevToolsGuy)
Apple Watch To Support Native Apps With New SDK (Eric Zeman)
App deep linking with goo.gl (Fabian Schlup)
Get ready for even more material design (Monica Bagagem)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

.NET Rocks! – Geek Out Recap (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
Indie Dev Podcast – Ep 20, Daniel Parente (David Voyles)
Simple Programmer Podcast 005: Do I Need To Worry About Legal Entities for Structuring My Business? (John Sonmez)
Developing Universal Windows Apps | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green)
161 JSJ Rust with David Herman (Joe Eames, AJ O’Neal, Jamison Dance, Dave Smith & Aimee Knight)
The Amp Hour #251 – Shifting Away From DIY – Pedetentious PnP Progress (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
Transitioning to apps for Office featuring Ryan Duguid of Nintex | The Garage Series for Office 365 (Jeremy Chapman)
CppCast – Testdriven C++ using Catch (Rob Irving & Jason Turner)
Software Engineering Radio Episode 227: Eric Brewer: The CAP Theorem, Then and Now (SE-Radio Team)
Partnerships and Possibilities, Episode 7, Season 6: The Soft War On Diversity (Diana Larsen & Sharon Buckmaster)

Community / Events

From Code to Career: Investing in Computer Science Education (Clinton Global Initiative Editorial Team)
Watch the Livestream from Google I/O (ProgrammableWeb Staff)

Database

Creating a SSRS report to show SSIS package run time statistics (Junaith Haja)
How to Troubleshoot SQL Server Connection Timeouts and Announcing Live Query Execution Plans (Brent Ozar)
SQL Server IaaS and Retry Logic (Herve Roggero)
SQL SERVER – What are T-SQL Window Functions? – Notes from the Field #082 (Pinal Dave)

PowerShell

PowerShell 5.0 Classes :: Inheritance and Base Class Methods (Trevor Sullivan)

Miscellaneous

Microsoft’s two Windows 10 flagship phones may support USB Type-C (John Callaham)
These Minecraft numbers will blow your mind (Molly Brown)
Microsoft’s Satya Nadella named most influential tech exec, ahead of Jony Ive, Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk (Todd Bishop)

More Link Collections

Geek Reading May 27, 2015 (Robert Diana)
Double Shot #1511 (Mike Gunderloy)
The Daily Six Pack: May 28, 2015 (Dirk Strauss)
The Morning Brew #1869 (Chris Alcock)
Windows App Developer Links – 2015-05-28 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2015-05-28 (Dan Rigby)

The Geek Shelf

Scenario-Focused Engineering: A toolbox for innovation and customer-centricity (Developer Best Practices): Austina De Bonte, Drew Fletcher: 9780735679337: Books

ISBN: 0735679339
ISBN-13: 9780735679337

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Dew Drop – May 27, 2015 (#2022)

Top Links

A LightSwitch Turn Based Multi-User Game (Proof Of Concept) (Michael Washington)
A different copy-paste error (Eric Lippert)
Integrating NUnit into Visual Studio Test Explorer and Testing for Exceptions with NUnit (Jeremy Clark)
Xamarin Podcast – This Week in Xamarin, Plugins for Xamarin with James Montemagno (Mike James & Pierce Boggan)

Web Development

Parsing Various Units-Of-Measurement As Bytes In Node.js (Ben Nadel)
Your First Meteor Application, OData Server, ItemSlide.js (Alex R. Young)
Evolving ASP.NET Apps–Load Testing (David Paquette)
The Cons of AngularJS (Itay Herskovits)
WordPress School: HTML and CSS References and Resources (Lorelle VanFossen)
On writing real CSS (again) (Robin Rendle)
Small Grunt.js examination (Sacha Barber)
Isolated Scope in Angular.js Directive (Shaun Xu)
React and Flux with DuoCode (Dan)
Twitatron: Building a production web app with Node – User Accounts (Scott K. Smith)
Twitter REST API Now Supports Native Video Upload (Eric Carter)
Announcing Dolby Audio for high performance audio in Microsoft Edge (Jerry Smith)
Is Microsoft Changing Azure Too Much? (Paul Ballard)
ASP.NET 5 How to Easily Add New Bower Dependencies (Matt Smith)
Product Comparison Layout & Effect (Mary Lou)

XAML

Windows App Studio Beta for Windows 10 Insider Preview (Emilio Salvador Prieto)

Miscellaneous .NET

The tadpole operators explained (Raymond Chen)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Bliki: Yagni (Martin Fowler)
Early Release of Agile and Lean Program Management Available (Johanna Rothman)
Event sourcing revisited (Gabriel Schenker)
Single Responsibility Principle (Michael Burns)
Accessibility, Part 4: Operable (Stephen Harris)
Natural Evolution of Application Performance Management (Victor Mushkatin)

Other Mobile Platforms

Modifying the Xamarin Listbox with Custom Controls (Jesse Liberty)
Google’s Roboto font for Android and Chrome is now open source (Nathan Ingraham)
Mono for Minnow Board Max (x86) and Windows IoT Core (Jeremiah Morrill)
Telerik Platform and a Solutions Approach to App Development (Lori Maupas)
Updating Mixed Notification Hubs Namespace Type (Mimi Xu)
Developing for HoloLens using Unity (Per-Olof Bondesson)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

.NET Rocks! – Practical IoT with Josh Holmes (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
AAWP Insight #140: Phone Companion and voice assistants (Rafe Blandford)
16 ngAir – Angular with Web Components (Todd Motto & Kent C. Dodds)
The Nerdist Podcast – Stephen Tobolowsky (Chris Hardwick)
Microsoft Cloud Show Episode 079 | Cloud Reports (Gartner and Nasuni) and Office 365 as ePaaS (Andrew Connell & Chris Johnson)
RunAs Radio – PAL Update and More with Clint Huffman (Richard Campbell)
Talk Python to Me #9 Docker for the Python Developer (Michael Kennedy)
RiYL Episode 109: Mark Stewart (The Pop Group) (Brian Heater)
Building Hospitable Open Source Communities (Video) (Roblimo)
Announcing the Simple Programmer Podcast (John Sonmez)

Community / Events

Get ready for Google I/O 2015 (Gary Lewis)
Worldwide Partner Conference 2015 is just 7 Weeks Away (Steve Guggenheimer)
Transforming the Future of NASA with CodeConf’s Ariel Waldman (Kelsey Schimmelman)
Talking to a Windows Developer About the App Market (Kiril Stanoev)

Database

Row Numbers and Running Totals in SSIS (Tim Mitchell)
SQL Server 2016 features I’m interested in (Andrew Pruski)
Protecting Yourself from SQL Injection in SQL Server – Part 1 (Aaron Bertrand)
Do Foreign Keys Matter for Insert Speed (Jeremiah Peschka)
Import Sample Data to Azure DocumentDB (Stephen Baron)

PowerShell

Monitoring SQL Server Transactional Replication Latency via PowerShell and RMO (Jeffrey Yao)
system.environment OSVersion property (Emin Atac)

Miscellaneous

#Ebook Deal/Day: Learning Chef – $19.99 (Save 50%) Use code DEAL (O’Reilly Media)
My sister abandons Windows Phone (Joe Wilcox)

More Link Collections

Double Shot #1510 (Mike Gunderloy)
The Morning Brew #1868 (Chris Alcock)
Developer News – What’s IN with the Infragistics Community? (5/18-5/24) (Dara Monasch)
The Daily Six Pack: May 27, 2015 (Dirk Strauss)
Windows App Developer Links – 2015-05-27 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2015-05-27 (Dan Rigby)
Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for May 26th, 2015 (Dmitry Lyalin)

The Geek Shelf

Write Modern Web Apps with the MEAN Stack: Mongo, Express, AngularJS, and Node.js (Develop and Design): Jeff Dickey: 9780133930153: Books

ISBN: 0133930157
ISBN-13: 9780133930153

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