Month: May 2016

Top Links

• The emergence of historical mega breaches (Troy Hunt)
• Making it easier to port to .NET Core (Immo Landwerth)
• Announcing MSTest Framework support for .NET Core RC2 / ASP.NET Core RC2 (Pratap Lakshman)
• ReSharper Ultimate 2016.2 EAP kicks off (Jura Gorohovsky)

 

Web Development

• Maintaining Proper Type-Checking With Callbacks Using TypeScript In Angular 2 RC1 (Ben Nadel)
• Hacking Confluence With Javascript (Paul Hammant)
• 9 Tips for Writing Secure Applications in ASP.NET (Brij Bhushan Mishra)
• Azure Marketplace: WordPress (Chris Pietschmann)
• Serve your WordPress blog via HTTPS on NameCheap (for free) (Den Delimarsky)
• Simplifying Objects, Inheritance and prototype in JavaScript (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Go To Implementation in PhpStorm (Gary Hockin)
• Save 24% With The Last Frontier of Minification: HTML! (Robin Osborne)
• Angular 2: Application Settings using the CLI Environment Option (Shayne Boyer)
• Configure VSCode to run NPM tasks (Adam Anderson)
• Why do record/replay tests of web applications break? (Adrian Colyer)
• Twilio’s Notify API Reaches Customers Via Preferred Method (Eric Carter)
• Should I use shouldComponentUpdate? (James K. Nelson)
• bots! bots! bots! (Jen Looper)
• Writing custom EsLint rules (Kenneth Truyers)
• Previewing H.264/AVC support for ORTC (Shijun Sun & Bernard Aboba)
• Writing Clean Code in ASPNET Core with DI (Steve Smith)
• Creating Intelligent Web Applications With LUIS (Michael Washington)

 

XAML

• Xamarin.Forms: reusing resources in XAML using Styles (Davide Zordan)
• How to Get Started with Azure IoT Hub and a UWP App (Jon Gallant)
• A Behavior for CameraPressed event in Universal Windows apps (Marco Minerva)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Diving Into Visual Studio 2015, Day 4: Code Refactoring (Akhil Mittal)
• C# 7.0 – What to Expect (Damir Arh)
• Designer Support for EF Core via DevArt (Julie Lerman)
• Processing All Properties on an Object (Peter Vogel)
• Code generation with Roslyn (Jack Ukleja)
• RegEx for credit-card-numbers with spaces/dash delimiters (Michael Freidgeim)
• Akka.NET Near-Term Roadmap: 1.1 Akka.Cluster RTM on June 14; 1.5, 1.6 Releases (Aaron Stannard)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Have impediments solved by Scrum team members (Ben Linders)
• The worker pattern (Oren Eini)
• The Value of Failure (Ted Neward)
• Continuous deployment/delivery with Jenkins and VS Team Services (Anand Gaurav)
• Drag-and-drop tasks in Markdown task lists (Ayman Nadeem)
• Step Back and Ask Why (John Papa)
• How Testers Can Become Better Leaders: An Interview with Selena Delesie (Josiah Renaudin)
• Why is the build broken? and The real difference between NUnit and XUnit (Dror Helper)
• DRY: Do Repeat Yourself (Peter-Paul Koch)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Preventing Pinch-Zoom in Cordova on Windows 10 Mobile | Cordova (Timmy Kokke)
• Testing with Xamarin (Jason Farrell)
• 30 Days of Zumo.v2 (Azure Mobile Apps): Day 26: Relationship Advice and 30 Days of Zumo.v2 (Azure Mobile Apps): Day 27: File Handling (v1) (Adrian Hall)
• 3D Network Printing with IoT Core (Greg Duncan)
• DRY Fusion data munging kata in Swift (Josh Smith)
• Cross-Platform Makefile for Swift (Rob Allen)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• MS Dev Show – Action Center in the Cloud with Matt Hidinger (Jason Young & Carl Schweitzer)
• Thimbleweed Park Podcast #51 (Ron Gilbert)
• .NET Rocks! – Thinking Non-Relational Data with Oren Eini (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• SSW TV – Power BI and SharePoint | Adam Cogan (Sophie Belle)
• TWC9: Happy 25th VB, Azure DevTest Labs available, Fetch, Why SQL Server 2016 Rocks and more… | This Week On Channel 9 (Greg Duncan, Vladimir Kolesnikov & Mark DeFalco)
• Agile Toolkit Podcast – Lean + Agile DC 2016 – Max Keeler of the Motley Fool and Agile Toolkit Podcast – Lean+Agile DC 2016 – Tom Paider – Author of the Lean IT Field Guide (Bob Payne)
• Developer Support Series: Service Fabric – Next-Generation cloud application platform for Hyper Scale, stateful and stateless microservices (Sameer Tripathi & Puneeth Nayak)
• CodeNewbie Ep. 90 – Creating EmberJS – Part I (Yehuda Katz) (CodeNewbie Team)
• Developer on Fire Episode 134 | Justin Searls – Hip To Be Slow (Dave Rael)
• The Ops Team #21 – “Camara Catastrophe” | The Ops Team (David Tesar, Matt McSpirit & Oguz Pastirmaci)
• Episode 207: Netflix Spinnaker on Azure with Andy Glover, Richard Guthrie, and Arun Chandrasekhar | Microsoft Azure Cloud Cover Show (Haishi Bai & Chris Risner)
• The Web Ahead 116: Preserving the Architecture of the Web with Stefan Tilkov (Jen Simmons)
• An introduction to NativeScript video (Kris Lankford)
• Radio TFS – VSTS and Checkboxes and of course more (Martin Woodward & Greg Duncan)
• Developer Tea – The Great Developer Mindset – Demystifying Code and Developer Tea – The Work / Life Equation (Jonathan Cutrell)
• StarTalk Radio – Extended Classic: Cosmic Queries: Venus with Dr. FunkySpoon (Neil deGrasse Tyson)

 

Community / Events

• Welcome the Newest Xamarin MVPs! (Joseph Hill)
• Microsoft meets Open Source (Ted Neward)
• Open Source at Docker, Part 1: The People (Arnaud Porterie)
• Upcoming F# events – learn Suave, FsLab & more! (Tomas Petricek)

 

Database

• Automate Removal of Saved SQL Server Objects During Deployments (Tim Smith)
• NOLOCK is Broken in SQL Server 2014 SP1 (Jonathan Allen)
• SQL SERVER – Finding Waits For Any Session with Extended Event wait_info and SQL SERVER – Configuration Manager – MMC could not create the snap-in. The snap-in might not have been installed correctly and SQL SERVER – SSMS Tip: How to Get Larger Fonts for Results in Grid Output and What is NOT NULL Constraint? – Interview Question of the Week #073 (Pinal Dave)
• Approval Workflow in Master Data Services 2016 using Change Sets – Part 2 (Koen Verbeeck)
• Apache Cassandra Essentials (Ian Stirk)

 

PowerShell

• ebook deal of the week: Windows PowerShell Best Practices (Kim Spilker)

 

Miscellaneous

• RIP, WindowsPhone (Ted Neward)
• programmingfonts.org – THE Resource for Monospace Fonts (Roland Weigelt)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Learn to Program with Small Basic – $13.97 (Save 50%) Use code DEAL (O’Reilly Media)

 

More Link Collections

• Xamarin App Developer Links – 2016-05-30 and Windows App Developer Links – 2016-05-30 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2016-05-31 and Windows App Developer Links – 2016-05-31 (Dan Rigby)
• The Morning Brew #2102 and The Morning Brew #2103 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #1693 and Double Shot #1694 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Geek Reading May 27, 2016 #1115 and Geek Reading May 30, 2016 #1116 (Robert Diana)
• Weekly Ink – 5/30/16 (Shayne Boyer)
• Reading Notes #234 (Frank Boucher)
• Collective #221 (Pedro Botelho)
• Welcome to the weekend! #FridayFive (MVP Award Program)
• Last Week on Channel 9: May 23rd – May 29th, 2016 and Coding4Fun May 2016 Round-Up (Greg Duncan)
• Reading List (Bruce Lawson)
• Azure Weekly: May 30, 2016 (Chris Pietschmann)
• GameDev News – Week Ending May 27, 2016 (Brian Peek)
• Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for May 27th, 2016 and Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for May 30th, 2016 (Dmitry Lyalin)
• Weekly C# Digest Issue #104 (Jakub Chodounsky)
• F# Weekly #22, 2016 (Sergey Tihon)

 

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