Dew Drop – February 17, 2016 (#2190)

Top Links

• Visual Studio 2015 Update 2 CTP (John Montgomery)
• Find Your Favorite Visual Studio Extension (Michael Dick)
• Performance profiling in Continuous Integration: an updated dotTrace plugin to TeamCity (Alexey Totin)
• The Joy of Live Coding – CodePen, REPLs, TOPLAP, Alive, and more (Scott Hanselman)

 

Web Development

• Creating Custom DOM And Host Event Bindings In Angular 2 Beta 6 (Ben Nadel)
• Bootstrap Colorpicker Plus : jQuery Plugin (jQuery Rain)
• I Heart CSS (Geoff Graham)
• Thinking functionally in JavaScript – a fun interlude (Julian M. Bucknall)
• Bridging Twilio IP Messaging and SMS with ASP.NET (Marcos Placona)
• ScrollToControl helper method for ASP.Net web forms to move position to particular contro (Michael Freidgeim)
• Node.js: From Zero to Bobble with Visual Studio Code (Sara Itani)
• Visual Studio Code – All the Git Features!!! (Ed Price)
• Azure Stream Analytics – analyzing and reacting to streaming data (Kris Lankford)
• Build a Custom Affiliate Link With the Amazon Product Merchandising API (Ian Spangler)

 

XAML

• UWP and XAML CustomResource Markup (Peter Freeman Foot)
• Thread.Sleep equivalent in UWP (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Leveraging existing code for Yahoo Mail with Hosted Web Apps (Windows Apps Team)
• Windows 10, UWP, InkCanvas and RenderTargetBitmap (Mike Taulty)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Skip Back to an Earlier Change in Visual Studio (Peter Vogel)
• The cost of routing (Oren Eini)
• Try out the latest C++ compiler toolset without waiting for the next update of Visual Studio (Andrew Pardoe)
• Equality and Equivalence (Bill Wagner)
• Search extensions on Marketplace, Flexible build policy for Git, SCVMM Support and more – Feb 16 (Anand Kamat)
• Microsoft.Composition (Portable MEF): Dependency Injection and Service Locator (Bnaya Eshet)
• VS2015 Update 2 Focuses on Stability (Jeff Martin)
• Case insensitive StringHelper.EnsureEndsWith (Michael Freidgeim)
• Annotations detail blade now available in Application Insights (Mike Gresley)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Stuck in the Middle with Your Agile Transformation? Part 1 (Johanna Rothman)
• What’s your Favourite Algorithm? (Dean Hume)
• What If We Forget To Write the Tests? (J.B. Rainsberger)
• Tips to make retrospectives successful (Ben Linders)
• Storyteller, Continuous Integration, and the Art of Failing Fast (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Stash, Pull, Stash Apply as one git command (Michael Freidgeim)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• EarlGrey – iOS Functional UI Testing Framework (Siddartha Janga)
• Almost Stable Android Studio 2.0 Beta Improves Instant Run, Emulator, Indexing (Sergio De Simone)
• Build an Azure App Service to record Raspberry Pi Sensor Data (Brady Gaster)
• Ionic Framework 2 Beta is Out (David Iffland)
• Adding Deep Learning AI to Internet of Things (IoT) – Part 3 (Hinkmond Wong)
• Sending Text Messages to Phone Contacts Using NativeScript (Ryan Lebel)
• Back In Time with Windows IoT (K. Scott Allen)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Reusable React with Chris Canal (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Developer on Fire Episode 099 | Andrea Magnorsky – Relentless Curiosity (Dave Rael)
• Gone Mobile 30: Hexagonal App Architecture with Chris Williams (Greg Shackles & Jon Dick)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Craig Ferguson Returns (Chris Hardwick)
• Functional Geekery Episode 44 – Michael Craig (Steven Proctor)
• RunAs Radio – Update Management using IBM BigFix with Andrew Laurence (Richard Campbell & Greg Hughes)
• Welcome to DevIntersection Spring 2016 CountDown Show #1! | The DEVintersection Countdown Show (Kaitlin McKinnon & Seth Juarez)
• Lock Me Down Podcast – OWASP #6 Preventing Sensitive Data Exposure – Part 3 (Max R. McCarty)
• Microsoft Cloud Show Episode 114 | Sea Clouds, Free Onboarding to Office 365 for SMBs, Docker Cloud goes GA and Azure Resource Manager (Andrew Connell & Chris Johnson)
• The Endpoint Zone: Overtime 1 | The Endpoint Zone with Brad Anderson (Simon May)
• Developer Tea – Part Two: Interview with David Hemphill (Jonathan Cutrell)

 

Community / Events

• Xamarin Evolve 2016 for the Enterprise Developer (Steven Yi)
• Top 10 Developer Conferences in 2015 (Code Channels)
• Open Source Convention – O’Reilly OSCON (O’Reilly)

 

Database

• Suppressing SQL Server Alerts to Reduce Emails (K. Brian Kelley)
• Getting Started With Oracle: Date Math (Erik Darling)
• Getting Started with SQL Server 2016 (Melissa Coates)
• SQL SERVER – FIX: Error: 18456, Severity: 14, State: 6. Login failed for user (Pinal Dave)
• Big Data Analytics with Spark (Ian Stirk)
• Install Your Own Copy of the AdventureWorks2014 Database (Dallas Snider)
• Friends Don’t Let Friends Use DATETIME (Jeremiah Peschka)
• Is Logical Data Modeling Dead? (Karen Lopez)

 

SharePoint

• Get started Office 365/SharePoint Online dev with an Azure VM – part 1: Create trial environments and a VM (Chris O’Brien)
• Enhancements in Upgrading SharePoint Server 2016 RC (Zubair Alexander)

 

Miscellaneous

• Blizzard evaluating the prospects of bringing StarCraft to mobile (Phone Arena Team)
• Microsoft’s Smartphone Strategy Is Simple: It Will Change The Rules (Ewan Spence)
• I ditched my Surface and only used Continuum on my Lumia — here’s how it went (Abhishek Baxi)
• Google’s think tank is transforming into a tech lab called Jigsaw (Nick Statt)
• Securing Windows 10 devices (Kim Spilker)

 

More Link Collections

• Geek Reading February 16, 2016 #1043 (Robert Diana)
• The Morning Brew #2033 (Chris Alcock)
• Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for Feb 16th, 2016 (Dmitry Lyalin)

 

The Geek Shelf