Day: September 16, 2015

Top Links

• Microsoft Virtual Academy – Introduction to ASP.NET 5 (Scott Hanselman)
• Inversion of Control with Aurelia – Part 1 and Inversion of Control with Aurelia – Part 2 (Jeremy Danyow)
• Windows 10 Nav Pane App Template for Visual Studio 2015 and Code Sample: Creating a Calculator app in Windows 10 Universal Windows Platform (MSDNTST)
• Memory Testing on a CI Server. dotMemory Unit Standalone Launcher (Alexey Totin)

 

Web Development

• Experimenting With ngAnimate And ng-animate-ref In AngularJS 1.4 (Ben Nadel)
• JavaScript Domain-Driven Design (Review – Ebook Edition) (Bill Jones)
• Sending WebHooks with ASP.NET WebHooks Preview (Henrik F. Nielsen)
• Connecting Intel® RealSense™ 3D Camera With the Intel® Edison – JavaScript (Intel Corporation)
• First Public Working Draft: CSS Page Floats (Maria Auday)
• Show Password as you type using jQuery.rar (jQuery By Example)
• Node.js support for Azure Mobile Apps (Openness Team)
• Dynamically Generating Sitemap.xml for ASP.NET MVC (Rehan Saeed)
• Developers: Node.js support available for Azure Mobile Apps (Suzanne Choney)
• Automating code deployment with GitHub and Azure (Allen Smith)
• Announcing Public Preview for Performance/Load testing of Azure Webapp (Manas Maheshwari)
• Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 2 Draft Published (Maria Auday)
• A Brief Overview of the OneDrive RESTful API (Troy Garner)

 

XAML

• Dynamically detecting features with API contracts (10 by 10) (Clint Rutkas)
• Using system accent color brush from code in Windows 10 UWP (Joost van Schaik)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Creating web sites with Suave: How to contribute to F# Snippets (Tomas Petricek)
• Running a C# REPL in a DNX application with scriptcs (Filip W.)
• Moving to VS 2015 from VS 2013 – Canadian Developer Connection – Site Home (James Chambers)
• How to fake a singleton in C++ (Dror Helper)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Guiding Agile Teams Towards Self Organization (Ben Linders)
• Continuous Delivery Patterns for Design and Deployment [Whitepaper] (Brian Whipple)
• Article: Why Agile Didn’t Work (Chen Ping)
• Squash Multiple Git Commits Into One (Andrew Connell)
• Strategies for Isolating Applications (Peter Vogel)
• The User Experience (UX) Of Container Store Parts Packaging (Ben Nadel)
• Clipping an Image Inside Type in Photoshop (Julieanne Kost)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• UI Testing with Xcode 7 and Telerik UI for iOS (Nikolay Diyanov)
• New Android Marshmallow sample apps (Rich Hyndman)
• The Problem with Comparing Depth Camera Resolutions (James Ashley)
• Amazon’s Alexa coming to Fire TV? Site points to ‘overwhelming evidence’ in Fire OS source code (James Risley)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Understanding NativeScript with Sam Basu (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Start Up Success Podcast – Never say never: We Are Back! (Bob Walsh)
• Developer on Fire – Aral Balkan – Building the World You Want to Experience (Dave Rael)
• Functional Geekery Episode 26 – Phil Freeman (Steven Proctor)
• RunAs Radio – Docker and Server 2016 with Taylor Brown (Richard Campbell & Greg Hughes)
• CodeChat 039 – Andrei Kashcha Visualizes the Package Stores | CodeChat (Jeremy Foster)

 

Community / Events

• Angular 2 Hack Night Coming to Orlando (John Papa)
• Redgate DLM Training Workshop: Database Source Control – October 9th (Esteban Garcia)
• Wawa’s Brand New Flagship Store At Broad And Walnut To Open This Friday, September 18 (Jillian Wilson)
• Therefore I give: Women who feel called to serve the future (Rebecca Ruiz)
• What it’s like to be black and work in tech (Rob Beschizza)
• One Year on the Azure Portal Framework Team (Jakub Jedryszek)

 

Database

• Install SQL Server Management Studio with Web Installer without Internet Access (Daniel Farina)
• Create a Treemap Graph in SQL Server Reporting Services 2016 (Koen Verbeeck)
• SQL SERVER 2016: Updating Non-Clustered ColumnStore Index Enhancement (Pinal Dave)
• Referencing Individual Cell Values From Tables In Power Query (Chris Webb)
• PolyBase in SQL Server 2016 | Data Exposed (Scott Klein)
• Overview of Azure Data Catalog in the Cortana Analytics Suite (Melissa Coates)

 

SharePoint

• The Evolving SharePoint Landscape: “Don’t Panic” And Bring Your Towel (Scott Diehl)
• Sample chapter: Provision SharePoint Online Site Collections (Kim Spilker)

 

PowerShell

• Updated DSC Resource Kit available in the PowerShell Gallery (Karol Kaczmarek)

 

Miscellaneous

• See If You Can Beat My Score on This World IQ Quiz (Bill Gates)
• Microsoft quietly releases Windows 10 Start Menu for Windows RT (Richard Hay)
• Microsoft Edge confirmed to be arriving on Xbox One (Jack Wilkinson)
• Facebook is making a ‘Dislike’ button (Jacob Kastrenakes)
• Project Server 2016 IT Preview is now available (Project Team)
• Toshiba’s Ultra-Compact Satellite Click 10 Detachable 2-in-1 PC now Available in the US (The Windows Team)

 

More Link Collections

• Geek Reading September 15, 2015 (Robert Diana)
• The Daily Six Pack: September 16, 2015 (Dirk Strauss)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2015-09-16 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2015-09-16 (Dan Rigby)

 

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