Day: March 29, 2016

Top Links

• Introducing Application Insights Analytics (Brian Harry)
• Web Extension Pack | Visual Studio Toolbox (Mads Kristensen & Robert Green)
• Celebrating 5 Years With Chocolatey! (Rob Reynolds)
• Build Week! (Greg Duncan)

 

Web Development

• The User Experience (UX) Of CSS Text-Transform On Form Input Fields (Ben Nadel)
• The Subtle Perils of Controller Dependency Injection in ASP.NET Core MVC (Filip W.)
• Dependency Injection in ASP.NET Core (Jeffrey T. Fritz)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Building Isomorphic JavaScript Apps – $14.99 (Save 50%) Use code DEAL (O’Reilly Media)
• Docker and ASP.NET Core: A Webcast (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Splunking Microsoft Azure Audit Data (Jason Conger)
• Features That Will Matter in the Upcoming TypeScript 1.8 (Peter Vogel)
• Leveling Up with React: Redux (Brad Westfall)
• How to Build Wolfram Alpha-Style Computational APIs (Jennifer Riggins)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Demystify Async and Await (Part 1 of 2) and Demystify Async and Await (Part 2 of 2) (Bnaya Eshet)
• Functional one-liner for running totals in C# (Jef Claes)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The Scrum Field Guide (Kay Ewbank)
• What is Infrastructure as Code? (Chris Pietschmann)
• How To Get Valuable Time Back: Part 1 (Derek Huether)
• Juval Lowy on Microservices (Dr. Doris Chen)
• CI with TeamCity and Docker – Part 2 (Gabriel Schenker)
• Personal Empowerment All-Stars: Jack Canfield, Ken Blanchard, and Stephen Covey at Microsoft (JD Meier)
• ebook deal of the week: Software Requirements, 3rd Edition (Kim Spilker)
• Karen Cohen: Giving Engineers The Culture They Need To Do Great Work (Kyle Kelly-Yahner)
• Git 2.8 has been released (Jeff King)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Getting started with ionic and cordova development- create first cross platform android app. (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Android From Scratch: Building Your First Android Application (Gianluca Segato)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Thimbleweed Park Podcast #44 (Ron Gilbert)
• .NET Rocks! – Making MSDeploy Work with Robert Schiefer (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Defrag Tools #157 – Energy Estimation Engine (E3) | Defrag Tools (Andrew Richards, Chad Beeder)
• Agile Coffee Podcast, episode 43 (Vic Bonacci)
• On .NET 3/24/2016 – Richard Kiene from Joyent (Bertrand Le Roy)
• Designing Universal Windows Platform apps (keantonc & Rosshe)
• My Life for the Code Episode 19: Out of the Bubble with Derek Comartin (Shawn Rakowski)

 

Community / Events

• New Adventures (Bill Wagner)
• Win a Tech Adventure Pack from Xamarin at //build 2016 (Joseph Hill)
• Open-Source Solutions Demonstrate the Power of Community (Darren West)
• Atom reaches one million active users (Lee Dohm)
• Where to watch the Build 2016 keynotes (Mollie Ruiz-Hopper)
• Two MVPs Speak to Major Government and Industry Leaders (MVP Award Program)
• Develop and Cultivate Ideas for a Windows Mobile Continuum App and You Could Win Big! (TechRewards Team)

 

Database

• SQL Server T-SQL Code to Generate A Normal Distribution (Dallas Snider)
• Monitoring SSAS Multidimensional Non Empty Filtering Using Profiler, Part 2 (Chris Webb)
• SQL SERVER – How to Add Multiple New Columns to Table with Default Values? (Pinal Dave)
• The Identity Map Pattern in Marten (Jeremy D. Miller)

 

PowerShell

• Getting Started Querying your Azure SQL Database in PowerShell (Adam Bertram)

 

Miscellaneous

• Oracle Seeks $9.3 Billion For Google’s Use Of Java In Android (BeauHD)
• Your Open Source Project is Considered Harmful (Brian Rinaldi)
• Getting MS-DOS games to run on Windows 95: Virtual memory (Raymond Chen)

 

More Link Collections

• Xamarin App Developer Links – 2016-03-29 and Windows App Developer Links – 2016-03-29 (Dan Rigby)
• The Morning Brew #2060 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #1666 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Geek Reading March 28, 2016 #1071 (Robert Diana)
• Last Week on Channel 9: March 21st – March 27th, 2016 (Greg Duncan)
• Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for Mar 28th, 2016 (Dmitry Lyalin)

 

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