Dew Drop – June 11, 2015 (#2033)

Too much good content to get it all in the top links today. Be sure to browse the entire list, folks.

Top Links

• What’s New in Visual Basic 14 | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green)
• The Future of WPF Beyond the .NET Framework 4.6 (DevToolsGuy)
• JavaScript Editor Improvements in Visual Studio 2015 (Jordan Matthiesen)
• Software and Saving Babies (Scott Hanselman)

 

Web Development

• Six Steps for Approaching the Next JavaScript (Cody Lindley)
• ASP.NET Web API Easier ModelBinder Registration (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
• How to export SVG patterns (James George)
• Dart Moves To GitHub (Ian Elliot)
• Optimising Google Fonts for Fast Load Times (Dean Hume)
• Many ways to relate Orchard things, part 1: database relations (Bertrand Le Roy)
• New JSON API Specification Aims to Speed API Development (Mark Boyd)
• Update on 1.4 and a Brackets Roadmap (Ryan Stewart)
• Microsoft Azure Cloud Services Part 5: Debug, Monitor & Scale (Sandrino Di Mattia)
• Building Modern Web Applications with AngularJS and Play Framework (Denys Sinyakov)

 

XAML

• WPF Commanding – Using Application Commands (Richard Carr)
• WPF The Easy 3D Way (Mike James)
• What if I enable developer mode, install an app and then disable mode? (Matt Lacey)
• ListView: how to prevent visual glitches during scrolling (Rudy Huyn)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Lesser-Known NHibernate Features: Statistics (Ricardo Peres)
• Write Platform Specific Code with a Portable Class Library (PCL) (Brian Lagunas)
• Concurrency, part 5: Advanced Promise Usage (Schabse Laks)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Diagrams for System Evolution (Simon Brown)
• Exploring and Managing Unit Tests Using Test Explorer in Visual Studio (Abhijit Jana)
• Uncertainty in Agile and the Discovery Mindset (Ben Linders)
• Knock Assumptions Down with Assumption Bowling (J.D. Meier)
• Why Is It Called “Inversion of Control”? (Dave M. Bush)
• Sometimes you just want a hamburger (Aaron Powell)
• Documentation for developers: Why you need to do it (Adam Bertram)
• Improved organization permissions (Connor Sears)
• An Introduction to Cost of Delay (Derek Huether)
• Fake It Till You Become It. (Rajiv Popat)
• When I Want to Give Up (Roy Osherove)
• Practicing Mindfulness Technique At Work (Savita Pahuja)
• The Importance of Taking Breaks to Avoid The Biggest Creative Block of Them All (Tom Kenny)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Telerik AppBuilder with Cordova 4.0 and Crosswalk Support (Brian Rinaldi)
• Introduction to iOS9 Multitasking and Xamarin.Forms first-thoughts and iOS 9 Search API – A killer way to engage with users (Michael Ridland)
• Apple gives iOS a workable sideloading option through Xcode (Stephen Schenck)
• Visual Studio Code & Unity on your Mac (Mickey MacDonald)
• Keep Users from Leaving Your App with Chrome Custom Tabs (Jon Dick)
• Better Apps & Faster Release Cycles Part III (Karl Krukow)
• Mining the value of the IoT (Lisa Mann)
• Windows 10 IoT Core on Raspberry Pi 2 – Adafruit Sensor data to Event Hubs (Vinoth Rajagopalan)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Deeper into DDD with David Rael (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Simple Programmer Podcast 014: SP European Tour 2015 – Berlin (Checkpoint Charlie) (John Sonmez)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Joseph Gordon-Levitt Returns (Chris Hardwick)
• Scrum Master Toolbox – Is your team working “as a team”? | Ben Linders (Vasco Duarte)
• Office 365 identity just got easier – new options and tools for Azure AD | The Garage Series for Office 365 (Jeremy Chapman)
• Behind the Scenes with Storage Replica and RDMA (RicksterCDN)
• CppCast – C++11/14 Library Best Practices with Niall Douglas (Rob Irving & Jason Turner)
• Software Engineering Radio Episode 228: Software Architecture Sketches with Simon Brown (SE-Radio Team)

 

Community / Events

• Geekadelphia heads to E3 2015 (Tushar Nene)

 

Database

• Getting File Properties using SQL Server Integration Services Add-In (Daniel Farina)
• Include Report Parameter Selection Values in Report Output for SQL Server Reporting Services (Ghanesh Prasad)
• SQL SERVER – The Basics of the Execute Process Task – Notes from the Field #084 (Pinal Dave)
• The killer feature in SQL Server 2016 (Simon Sabin)
• Book Review: Hadoop Essentials (Ian Stirk)

 

PowerShell

• #PSTip Determine compression ratio of compressed files (Jaap Brasser)

 

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft to Open Source Windows Live Writer (Richard Hay)
• Tips for Snagging That Senior Developer Job (Patrick Steele)
• Microsoft’s Surface Hub to be made in the good old USA (John Callaham)
• Windows 10 Mobile Technical Preview build 10136 could hit insiders before the weekend (Rich Edmonds)
• Get ready for Surface Hub to transform your meetings (Skype for Business Team)

 

More Link Collections

• The Daily Six Pack: June 11, 2015 (Dirk Strauss)
• The Morning Brew #1879 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2015-06-11 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2015-06-11 (Dan Rigby)

 

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