Dew Drop – July 13, 2015 (#2052)

Top Links

• Announcing Windows 10 Mobile Insider Preview Build 10166 (Gabe Aul)
• React.js Introduction For People Who Know Just Enough jQuery To Get By (Robin Rendle)
• Xamarin Podcast – Exploring Backend Options for Xamarin Developers (Join Pierce Boggan & Mike James)
• 11 Code Profiling and Performance Tools for Visual Studio (Terrence Dorsey)

 

Web Development

• Encapsulating LocalStorage Access In AngularJS and Breaking Direct Object References At Cache Boundaries In AngularJS (Ben Nadel)
• Enhance Customization with Version NEXT UI for ASP.NET AJAX (Rumen Jekov)
• Maker, JavaScript Style, with Maker.js (Greg Duncan)
• Build a Custom WordPress User Flow — Part 2: New User Registration (Jarkko Laine)
• ASP.NET 5 Web Application Template Suggestions (Steve Smith)
• Creating a Header For LightSwitch HTML Client (Michael Washington)
• Freebie: “Cardio” One Page Website Template (Phi Rhythmus)
• Building Linux-Based Solutions on Azure (Ross Gardler)
• Moving Blog to Ghost and Azure (Steve Michelotti)

 

XAML

• Windows 10, IoT Core–Getting that 2 Row LCD Panel Working! (Mike Taulty)
• WPF Message Boxes (Richard Carr)
• Player Framework Beta 3.0 and Universal Smooth Streaming Client SDK for Windows 10 UWP available and Multi-Touch Behaviors project moved to GitHub (Davide Zordan)
• UWP: New Controls (part 2 – SplitView) (Sergiy Baydachnyy)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

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• Azure Mobile Service deployment with Team City part 2. Configure TeamCity NuGet Server (Ruslan Albu)
• Turn off the Attach Security Warning Dialog in Visual Studio (John Robbins)
• Visual Studio 2015 New Debugging Features (Mahesh Sabnis)
• Rx Challenge #7 (Bnaya Eshet)
• FeatureToggle 3.2 Released (Jason Roberts)
• Take Command Of Your NCover Code Coverage Projects (Kerry Meade)
• Introducing Bex, A PCL Library for the MS Health APIs (Scott Lovegrove)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Why should I use Agile/Scrum for my project? (Aman Garg)
• Article: Practices for DevOps and Continuous Delivery (Ben Linders)
• Want To Improve? Start With Respect (Gil Zilberfeld)
• 10 Common DDD Mistakes to Avoid (Jan Stenberg)
• Article: The Most Common Reasons Why Software Projects Fail (Taylor Putnam-Majarian & Doug Putnam)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Programming Android Wear Watch Faces (Chunyen Liu)
• 5 Days to a Beautiful Xamarin.Forms User Interface – Styles (Adam J. Wolf)
• Windows 10 UWP and Project Westminster: giving new life to your web sites with Hosted Web Apps (Davide Zordan)
• Cast Remote Display API: Processing (Leon Nicholls)
• Web Tiles: Your Data on the Microsoft Band (Jason Follas)
• 10 Tips For Improving Your Swift Programming (Martin W. Brennan)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Thimbleweed Park Podcast #13 (Ron Gilbert)
• Technology & Friends Episode 374: Jennifer Marsman on Mind Reading and Machine Learning (David Giard)
• Simple Programmer Podcast 027: Should I Stick With My Sales Job? and Get Up And Code 099: Talking About Stereotypes With Jesse Taber (John Sonmez)
• Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 170 #OTP (Richard Hay)
• WinBeta Podcast Episode 23: Windows 10 RTM, Surface Pro 4, Windows Phone, Groove Music, and more (Sean Michael)
• Microsoft writes off Windows Phone – or does it? | Pocketnow Weekly 156 (Michael Fisher)
• SSW TV – John Papa on Gulp.js (SSW Team)
• MS Dev Show – Service Fabric with Mark Fussell (Jason Young & Carl Schweitzer)
• The Changelog 164: Semantic UI Returns with Jack Lukic (Adam Stacoviak & Jerod Santo)
• This Week On Xbox – Episode Nine (Larry Hryb)
• Hello World – My new YouTube Channel (Michael Crump)
• ‘Re/code Decode’: Kara Swisher Interviews Slack’s Stewart Butterfield (Full Video) (Noah Kulwin)
• StarTalk Radio – Cosmic Queries: GMOs with Bill Nye (Part 1) (Neil de Grasse Tyson)
• GeekWire Radio: The new world of photos, with Mylio’s David Vaskevitch, former Microsoft CTO (Todd Bishop)
• Data Analysis with Tableau and Spark on Azure HDInsight | Data Exposed (Scott Klein)

 

Community / Events

• How to Run a Local User Group (Chris Eargle)
• How does a student get a DreamSpark account for free software and Azure? (Susan Ibach)

 

Database

• Interview Question of the Week #028 – T-SQL Script to Detect SQL Server Version and Property and SQL SERVER – How to Change Server Name? and POSTGRESQL – How to Create Function? – How to Declare Local Variable (Pinal Dave)
• Microsoft makes big move into data visualization: Power BI release set for July 24 (Todd Bishop)
• What is new in RavenDB 3.5: Smuggling data across servers (Oren Eini)

 

PowerShell

• Validate PowerShell DSC Debug (Michael Greene)

 

Miscellaneous

• The HoloCoder’s Resume (James Ashley)
• Windows 10 Mobile: How Microsoft’s new OS hints at a truly mobile-first future (Andy Weir)
• Microsoft is shutting down its Photosynth, Food & Drink, Health & Fitness and Travel apps (Brad Sams)
• UPDATE: Small Basic on TechNet Gallery (Ed Price)
• jadamelio’s Small Basic Featured Article – Extensions (jadamelio)
• Multiple Desktops in Windows (Rick Strahl)
• Windows Phone recovery tool: How to use for Windows 10 Mobile & bricked devices? (Kamal)

 

More Link Collections

• Geek Reading July 10, 2015 (Robert Diana)
• The Morning Brew #1901 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2015-07-13 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2015-07-13 (Dan Rigby)
• Last Week on Channel 9: July 6th – July 12th, 2015 (Greg Duncan)
• Links of the Week July 11 2015 (Chris Love)
• Weekly Xamarin Newsletter Issue #48 (Adam J. Wolf)
• F# Weekly #28, 2015 (Sergey Tihon)

 

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