Day: October 16, 2015

Top Links

• Announcing Availability of ASP.NET 5 Beta8 (Daniel Roth)
• Introducing ReSharper Build (Matt Ellis)
• Learn Roslyn Now: Part 14 Intro to the Scripting API (Josh Varty)
• Free eBook – FakeItEasy Succinctly (Michael McCarthy)

 

Web Development

• Setting the thread culture in ASP.NET 5 (Jerrie Pelser)
• React+Flux can do in just 137 lines what jQuery can do in 10 (Swizec Teller)
• JavaScript Iterators and Generators (R. Mark Volkmann)
• Function Invocation Patterns in JavaScript (Abhi Jain)
• Audit Trail Part in Orchard CMS (David Hayden)
• Running a simple web server from a shell (Axel Rauschmayer)
• Postmates Updates Delivery API with Multiple Drop-off and Batch Features (Eric Carter)
• HALO 5 Stats API Lets Anyone Snag Player Statistics (Eric Zeman)
• Effect Ideas for Image Grids (Manoela Ilic)
• Building sites and web apps for every device (guest series for npm) (Microsoft Edge Team)
• Install SSL certificate on Apache server (Pankhuri Kaushik)
• Microsoft Releases Azure Active Directory Domain Services (Paul Ballard)
• Go Get Brackets 1.5 (Ryan Stewart)
• A Gentle Introduction to Ember 2.0 (James Futhey)

 

XAML

• FreshMvvm n=0 – Mvvm in Xamarin.Forms and Why FreshMvvm (Michael Ridland)
• Understanding SplitView and its features in Universal Windows App. (Arun Kumar)
• New Windows 10 application usage in Dev Center (Bernardo Zamora)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Sprinkling some C#6 fairy dust on FluentPath (Bertrand Le Roy)
• TFS Office Integration Installer (Brian Harry)
• Visual Studio Solution Explorer Tips (Dirk Strauss)
• Generate custom build numbers in TFS Build vNext (Jakob Ehn)
• All ReSharper Ultimate tools bumped up to version 10 (Jura Gorohovsky)
• Touch Support – Day 15 – Visual Studio 2015 and Light Bulbs and Quick Actions – Day 16 – Visual Studio 2015 (Rachel Hagerman)
• Custom .NET Data Provider (Ricardo Peres)
• CodeRush for Roslyn, v1.0.6 (Mark Miller)
• EF7 Beta 8 Available (Rowan Miller)
• One Man’s Garbage – Call Stacks (Sarah Dutkiewicz)
• A better way to integrate Code and Unity (Sergiy Baydachnyy)
• Free eBook – T4 Succinctly (Nick Harrison)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The Path to No Estimates (Amir Barylko)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: How Software Works – $11.97 (Save 50%) Use code DEAL (O’Reilly Media)
• Team Bus Factors: How to Reduce Them and How to Prevent Them (Roy Osherove)
• Adobe Creative Cloud streamlines collaborative workflows (WebdesignerDepot Staff)
• What Is Your Motivation For Working So Much? (John Sonmez)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Devs ask Microsoft for real .NET universal apps: Windows, Mac, iOS, Android (Tim Anderson)
• Understanding Bitcode for iOS Applications (Alex Blewitt)
• Android Support Library 23.1 (Ian Lake)
• Native Android Support Arrives in Test Studio R3 2015 (Shravanthi Alimilli)
• How to Build a tvOS Application for Apple TV Tutorial (Jose Casanova)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Top Four 5: Podcasts (Marco Arment & Tiffany Arment)
• Hanselminutes – Your Personal Cloud Platform with Sandstorm.io and Kenton Varda and Staged WordPress Deployments on Azure with Sunitha Muthukrishna and Azure Mobile Apps Updates for August 2015 (Scott Hanselman)
• 063 AiA Live Q&A From October 7th, 2015 (John Papa)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Mark-Paul Gosselaar (Chris Hardwick)
• Video: Microservices, IoT and Azure (Bob Familiar)
• #001 – Trial Show | The Ops Team (David Tesar, RicksterCDN, Matt McSpirit & Simon May)
• Building Offline Ready Mobile Apps (Session Recording) (Hristo Borisov)
• Exposing and Calling App Services from your UWP app | Inside Windows Platform (Larry Lieberman & Shen Chauhan)
• Rocket 40: Sweater Weather & iMac Season (Simone De Rochefort, Brianna Wu & Christina Warren)
• Azure Podcast Episode 98 – WebHooks (Sujit D’Mello)

 

Community / Events

• Join Xamarin at a Visual Studio Launch Event Near You (Krystin Stutesman)
• Thoughts on Running an OSS Project (Jeremy D. Miller)

 

Database

• Exploring SQL Server 2014 Table Variables (Sergey Gigoyan)
• Using SQL Server on high resolution monitors (Simon Sabin)
• Simple mathematical formulas using the M Language (John Miner)
• Low priority locking wait types (Paul Randal)

 

PowerShell

• New book: Windows PowerShell Step by Step, Third Edition (Kim Spilker)

 

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft aims to make group chatting easier with Skype (Mary Jo Foley)

 

More Link Collections

• Double Shot #1566 (Mike Gunderloy)
• What you shouldn’t have missed in the last few weeks (Frank Boucher)
• The Morning Brew #1948 (Chris Alcock)
• The Daily Six Pack: October 16, 2015 (Dirk Strauss)
• Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for Oct 15th, 2015 (Dmitry Lyalin)
• October Grab Bag o’ Awesome Things (Matthias Shapiro)

 

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