Dew Drop – November 24, 2015 (#2138)

Top Links

• Released: GhostDoc v5.0 (Serge Baranovsky)
• Testing on Staging (Scott Guthrie)
• Semicolons in JavaScript: A preference (Kent C. Dodds)
• Android Studio 2.0 Preview (Jamal Eason)

 

Web Development

• ASP.NET 5 Node Services (Ricardo Peres)
• Scraping the Web with Node.js (Ryan Burgess)
• Creating Node.js Command Line Utilities to Improve Your Workflow (Brian Rinaldi)
• How to create Custom Filters in AngularJS (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Welcome to the New WordPress.com and WordPress.com App for Mac (Michelle W.)
• What Every JavaScript Developer Should Know About ECMAScript 2015 (K. Scott Allen)
• Telerik UI for ASP.NET MVC Supports ASP.NET vNext RC (Stefan Rahnev)
• TypeScript + ASP.NET Web API + AngularJS Bootcamp – Week 2 (Stephen Walther)
• Typical Mistakes Even Experienced Developers Make In WordPress (Tracey Jones)
• Make Layout Content Type Listable in Orchard CMS (David Hayden)
• How infinite scrolling breaks UX (Marc Schenker)
• Managing A Shared Global UI Component In AngularJS (Ben Nadel)

 

XAML

• Demystifying HttpClient APIs in the Universal Windows Platform (Sidharth Nabar)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• The Easiest Way to Share Code: NuGet (Peter Vogel)
• Back to Basic : Difference between Start Debugging & Start without Debugging in Visual Studio (Abhijit Jana)
• Visual Studio Code for Mac developers: Express (Sergiy Baydachnyy)
• Poll – how long should Win2D maintain support for older Visual Studio versions? and Win2D 1.9.0 – new text features, high dynamic range colors, ink geometry, and Mandelbrot zooming demo (Shawn Hargreaves)
• Latest Microsoft Office Developer Tools for Visual Studio 2015 (Nicole Bruck)
• Regular Expression Substitutions (Richard Carr)
• VS Code Beta, OSS, Extensions and more (Greg Duncan)
• The road to DNX – part 1 (Marc Gravell)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Agile Grooming — the Randy Rule (John Vester)
• Scheduling Load Test Execution (Charles Sterling)
• The Wrong thing more Efficiently is still the wrong thing (Erik Dietrich)
• Rebooting ALM Part I: Evolution (Gil Zilberfeld)
• Your New Technical Skills (JD Meier)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Debugging Teams – $10.99 (Save 50%) Use code DEAL (O’Reilly Media)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• App Monitoring For Xamarin (Kay Ewbank)
• Getting Started with Xamarin.Forms 2.0’s Windows 10 Preview (James Montemagno)
• An Introduction to Face Detection on Android (Paul Trebilcox-Ruiz)
• Choosing a Mobile Development Platform (Kevin Ford)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Building Microservices using Azure AppFabric with Corey Sanders (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 179 #OTP (Richard Hay)
• Monthly Catch-up: MVP Rangers with Brian Harry | Visual Studio ALM Rangers (WPSchaub, Brian Harry & Anisha)
• Entreprogrammers Episode 92 “That Dude Ain’t Jasmine!” (Josh Earl, John Sonmez, Derick Bailey & Charles Max Wood)
• Intel® Developer Zone for IoT: Make something Amazing (Intel)
• Defrag Tools #146 – WinDiff | Defrag Tools (Andrew Richards & Chad Beeder)
• Intel® Developer Zone: Tools, Knowledge, Community (Jeremy C.)
• Talk Python to Me #35 Turbogears and the future of Python web frameworks (Michael Kennedy)

 

Community / Events

• Visual Studio 2015 – Microsoft Partner Lead Launch (Malvern, PA) (Microsoft Events)
• Japanese MVPs Help the Enterprise Get the Most from Office 2016 (MVP Award Program)
• A closer look at Microsoft’s U.S. diversity: 46% white males, 481 fewer women than 2014 (Jacob Demmitt)

 

Database

• Automatically Build a SQL Server Script Database Library from Your Script Files (Jeffrey Yao)
• Understanding the SQL Server Integration Services Catalog and creating the SSISDB Catalog (Manvendra Singh)
• SQL Server 2012 SP3 Adds Memory Grant and Performance Features (Kendra Little)
• SQL SERVER – How to Create Linked Server to PostgreSQL? (Pinal Dave)

 

PowerShell

• Azure DNS – Using PowerShell V1.0 to Update a Naked Domain (Alexandre Brisebois)
• Azure PowerShell 1.0 (David Justice)
• PowerShell Tools For The Advanced Use Cases – part 3 (David O’Brien)

 

Miscellaneous

• ebook deal of the week: Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software (Kim Spilker)

 

More Link Collections

• Geek Reading November 23, 2015 (Robert Diana)
• Reading Notes #210 (Frank Boucher)
• Double Shot #1590 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Last Week on Channel 9: November 16th – November 22nd, 2015 (Greg Duncan)
• The Morning Brew #1975 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2015-11-24 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2015-11-24 (Dan Rigby)
• Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for Nov 23rd, 2015 (Dmitry Lyalin)

 

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