Dew Drop – June 15, 2016 (#2272)

Top Links

• New Pluralsight Courses for Visual Studio Subscribers Coming in July 2016 (Shawn Nandi)
• Aurelia validation alpha (Jeremy Danyow)
• Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 14366 & Mobile Build 14364 (Dona Sarkar)
• Introducing Postman Runtime: More power, better control (abhinav)

 

Web Development

• Improving the Quality of Front End Projects, Automatically! Pt. 1 – HTML (Aurelio De Rosa)
• Bootstrapping Your App – An Introduction to Angular 2 (Keith Burnell)
• Using the HTML lang attribute (Léonie Watson)
• Using PHP CodeSniffer With WordPress: Installing and Using PHP CodeSniffer (Tom McFarlin)
• Effective Ruby (Alex Armstrong)
• Blisk – The Developers Browser (Nikos Vaggalis)
• 16 Essential Windows Tools for Amazon Web Services (Terrence Dorsey)
• Open Source at Docker, Part 3: The Tooling and Automation (Arnaud Porterie)
• Where The Web Is Going In 2016 (Jared Faris)
• New Enterprise improvements coming to IE11 on Windows 7 and 8.1 (Alec Oot & Josh Rennert)

 

XAML

• Understanding Prism – Part 5 – View Navigation (Rohit Sharma)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• re: Why you can’t be a good .NET developer (Oren Eini)
• Load and Performance monitoring and analyzing with VSTS and Azure. (Clemens Reijnen)
• May Release of Visual Studio Code (Jeff Martin)
• Systems Programming in C# (Pierre-Luc Maheu)
• The Search for a Proportional Font for Developers (Roland Weigelt)
• Message templates and properties – structured logging concepts in .NET (3) (Nicholas Blumhardt)
• Why you can’t be a good .NET developer (Rob Ashton)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Agile Economics: The Cost of Change (Gil Zilberfeld)
• Pragmatic unit testing (Vladimir Khorikov)
• Implementing The Singleton Design Pattern (Humza Tufail)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Cordova Ubuntu 4.3.3 (David Barth)
• Setting Up Visual Studio to run Xamarin.UITests (James Montemagno)
• Xamarin / C#.NET Get Country Name from gps coordinate – offline (Malcolm Jack)
• Notification Hubs enabling APNS priority for pushes to iOS devices (Mimi Xu)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Instrumenting Mobile Apps with Greg Shackles (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Gone Mobile 34: Raygun Pulse with John-Daniel Trask (Greg Shackles & Jon Dick)
• Microsoft Cloud Show Episode 133 | Application performance and user reporting in the cloud with Raygun.io founder JD Trask (Andrew Connell & Chris Johnson)
• Functional Geekery Episode 55 – Andreas Stefik (Steven Proctor)
• RunAs Radio – Group Policy is Not Dead with Jeremy Moskowitz (Richard Campbell & Greg Hughes)
• Satya Nadella & Jeff Weiner provide an update on Microsoft acquiring LinkedIn (Jonathan Rozenblit & Anthony Bartolo)
• One Dev Question with Raymond Chen – Why Are There 4 Functions for Converting Strings to GUIDs (keantonc & Rosshe)
• NDC Oslo 2016 – Aurelia Presentation by Rob Eisenberg (Rohit Sharma)
• SE-Radio Episode 260: Haoyuan Li on Alluxio (Jeff Meyerson)
• Developer Tea – Reddit User Question: Parag0n asks about Architecting Projects (Jonathan Cutrell)
• JSON in Hadoop and Hive | Data Exposed (Scott Klein)

 

Community / Events

• Less than 3 days until the Stupid Ideas PowerShell Slackathon. (Leon Bambrick)
• WWDC 2016 Recap for iOS Developers (Mike James)
• The Juneteenth Festival Returns To Philadelphia This Saturday, June 18 (Layla A. Jones)
• Introducing SIGNAL London (Kyle Kelly-Yahner)

 

Database

• Customized SSRS report to monitor server and database status (Scott Murray)
• Lessons learned from SQL Server process that took over 3000 hours to complete (Andy Novick)
• SQL SERVER – Unable to Start SQL Agent – SQL Server Agent Terminated (Normally) (Pinal Dave)
• Schema Management with Marten (Why document databases rock) (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Database Lifecycle Management: what it is, what it does, and why it’s so important (Simon Galbraith)

 

PowerShell

• Any (documented) ADSI changes in PowerShell 5.0? (Emin Atac)

 

Miscellaneous

• Xbox One Bluetooth controllers pave the way for iOS and Android game streaming (Tom Warren)
• Announcing Exam Refs & Microsoft Official Practice Tests (Kim Spilker)
• The biggest maker of Raspberry Pis was just acquired for $871 million (Kwame Opam)
• Comparing Open XML Documents without Automating Word (Eric White)

 

More Link Collections

• Geek Reading June 14, 2016 #1127 (Robert Diana)
• Daily Links 14 Jun 2016 (Malcolm Jack)
• The week in .NET – 6/14/2016 (Bertrand Le Roy)
• The Morning Brew #2114 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2016-06-15 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2016-06-15 (Dan Rigby)
• Microsoft Developers Content Catch-Up for 14 June 2016 (Richard Hay)
• Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for June 14th, 2016 (Dmitry Lyalin)

 

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