Dew Drop – January 19, 2016 (#2170)

Top Links

• Peasy Samples – Showcases a middle tier built with peasy and consumed by multiple client consumers (Aaron Hanusa) – As a follow-up to one of yesterday’s top links, here’s a sample application to help get started with Peasy.
• Clippy for ReSharper (Matt Ellis)
• Check out the new MVP Channel 9 page! (MVP Award Program)
• .NET Rocks! – GitHub Goodness with Phil Haack (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)

 

Web Development

• Using Ignite UI widgets in Angular 2 application (Deyan K.)
• TypeScript AngularJs and JayData (Michael Washington)
• 5 Steps for Learning React Application Development (Cody Lindley)
• Developer Reverse Engineers Peach API, Creates Swift and Mac Clients (Janet Wagner)
• Why I Left Gulp and Grunt for npm Scripts (Cory House)

 

XAML

• Presenting the WPF TouchManager (Petar Marchev)
• How To Add Azure Mobile Services to a Windows Phone App (Vivek Maskara)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Color Indicator for Code Changes and Visual Studio IDE Status Change (Abhijit Jana)
• Visual Studio Team Services Release Management for O365 product development. (Clemens Reijnen)
• Downloading Build Artifacts in TFS Build vNext (Jakob Ehn)
• [#DEV] Amazing collection of free #development #ebooks on #GitHub (Bruno Capuano)
• Top 10 Free Developer Tools: Part 2 (DevToolsGuy)
• A puzzle involving dynamic programming, or maybe it doesn’t, episode 2 (Raymond Chen)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Article: Running Extended New Year’s Resolution Retrospectives with Focused Agile Coaching (Alexey Krivitsky)
• Data quality: Why is it so hard to get right? (Alex Silva)
• API Best Practices: API Management (Mike Stowe)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Android User Actions I and Android User Actions II (Noel Rice)
• How to Create a Smart Device With Arduino and Node.js Using PubNub (Tomomi Imura)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Night Trap on My Life In Gaming’s video podcast this week (David Voyles)
• Developer on Fire Episode 086 | Tomas Petricek – Remeber Curiosity (Dave Rael)
• Entreprogrammers Episode 100 “Studying Weasels…” (Josh Earl, John Sonmez, Derick Bailey & Charles Max Wood)

 

Community / Events

• Top Eight Things To Do In Philly This Week, January 18-24 (Amy Gordon)
• Do you want to Win a micro:bit at BETT 2016? (Stu4rt)
• My Next Adventure (Beth Massi)
• New challenges ahead at Microsoft (Karoline Klever)

 

Database

• How to Kill a Blocking Negative SPID in SQL Server (Ahmad Yaseen)
• SQL SERVER 2016 – InMemory OLTP support for Foreign Key (Pinal Dave)
• Getting Started with Change Tracking in SQL Server (Tim Mitchell)
• Linear Regression with R (James McCaffrey)
• How to Solve the Tail Insert Problem (Matan Yungman)
• KISS vs database normalization (Vladimir Khorikov)

 

PowerShell

• Using PowerShell for SQL Server Replication Tracking (Tim Smith)
• Azure Resource Manager authentication from a PowerShell script (Richard Kerslake)
• Using Local Functions in a Scriptblock with Existing Code (Tim Pringle)

 

Miscellaneous

• Automation at the Dinner Table (Jason Gaylord)
• Surface Pro 5 may have a rechargeable Surface Pen that docks magnetically (Daniel Rubino)
• 10 Innovative Ideas That Will Make Your Meeting Rock (Kalahari Meetings)
• Microsoft acquires MinecraftEdu, announces upcoming Minecraft Education Edition (Rich Edmonds)

 

More Link Collections

• Geek Reading January 18, 2016 (Robert Diana)
• The Morning Brew #2012 (Chris Alcock)
• Reading Notes #216 (Frank Boucher)
• Double Shot #1626 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Daily Six Pack: January 19, 2016 (Dirk Strauss)
• Kotlin Digest 2015 (Roman Belov)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2016-01-19 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2016-01-19 (Dan Rigby)
• Links of the Week 1-17-16 (Chris Love)

 

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