Dew Drop – July 27, 2016 (#2296)

Top Links

• Rider – the story so far (Matt Ellis)
• .NET Support and Versioning (Immo Landwerth)
• Exploring a minimal WebAPI with ASP.NET Core (Scott Hanselman)
• The C# difference between ‘true’ and ‘not false’ (Bill Wagner)

 

Web Development

• What Do the Popular JavaScript Tools Depend On? (Cody Lindley)
• Audio Library Howler.js Has 2.0 Release to Make Some Noise About (James Chesters)
• 10 Free jQuery Timeline Plugins (Learning jQuery)
• Introducing Sync – Real-time State Synchronization API (Ari Sigal)
• 35 Azure and Cloud eBooks for Amazon Kindle (Chris Pietschmann)
• Fresh Angular Guides from Victor Savkin (Stephen Fluin)
• Introducing Splunk App for Akamai v1.1 (Randy Young)

 

XAML

• Building Media Apps for the Universal Windows Platform Using the Player Framework (Nick Randolph)
• Top 10 Most Popular Articles Of UWP (Praveen Moosad)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• July Update for the Visual Studio Code C/C++ extension (Ankit Asthana)
• #TFS – RIP Branching Guidance for Team Foundation Server and Visual Studio Team Services (Bruno Capuano)
• Sequences vs. Lists in F# (with Euler Problems #7, #8, #9, and #10) (Jeremy Clark)
• C++ Runtime v11.0 framework package for Desktop Bridge (Project Centennial) (MS Downloads)
• Reviewing the .NET Core Roadmap (Jeff Martin)
• From the MVPs: Key Steps in Developing .NET Core Applications (Damir Dobric)
• Couchbase with Windows and .NET – Part 1 (Matt Groves)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Why Do so Many Programmers Hate Agile? (Anna Majowska)
• The Executives (Step-by-Step) Guide to Leading Large-Scale Agile Transformation #agile2016 (Mike Cottmeyer)
• API Design: robust error handling and recovery (Oren Eini)
• Write Tests That Matter: Tackle The Most Complex Code First (Andrey Shalitkin)
• Invite members to your organization with an email address (Cristina Fernandez)
• Trains, Shopping and the Risk of Release Dates (Karl Scotland)
• SSH support for Git repos is now available (Kayla Ngan)
• Self-Awareness and the Candor Gauge (Kim Scott)
• Testing SDKs at Twilio (Kyle Kelly-Yahner)
• Application Insights: Work item integration with GitHub (Mike Gresley)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Google Pulls Places API for iOS from Maps SDK (Eric Zeman)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – R for the .NET Developer with Jamie Dixon and Evelina Gabasova (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Oren Eini on RavenDB | NDC London 2016 (Oren Eini)
• ASP.NET Monsters Episode 52 – Loading View Components from a Class Library | ASP.NET Monsters (CanadianJames, Dave Paquette & Simon Timms)
• Scrum Master Toolbox – Retrospectives as the engine of organizational change | Scott Duncan (Vasco Duarte)
• Functional Geekery Episode 60 – Paul Bone (Steven Proctor)
• RunAs Radio – Application Automation using Habitat with Jessica DeVita (Richard Campbell & Greg Hughes)
• Talk Python to Me #69 – Write an Excellent Programming Blog (Michael Kennedy)
• StarTalk – Understanding Climate Change with Bill Nye (Neil deGrasse Tyson)
• Exploring the Azure Service Profiler (Scott Hanselman & Seth Juarez)
• Developer Tea – Listener Question: Michael Asks About Qualifications for Career Changes (Jonathan Cutrell)
• The week in .NET – 7/26/2016 (Stacey Haffner)

 

Community / Events

• The Philly BBQ Fest Hits Citizens Bank Park On Saturday, July 30; Get $10 Off Tickets (Elisa Ludwig)
• Python for Entrepreneurs Kickstarter Launches Today (Michael Kennedy)
• Windows 10 Pre-Day at Ignite – FREE Exam Voucher (Microsoft Learning)

Database

• Book Review: Getting Started With Data Science (Kay Ewbank)
• Value.ResourceExpression() And Query Folding In Power BI (Chris Webb)
• Common Table Expression, Just a Name (Grant Fritchey)
• Logging Activity Using sp_WhoIsActive – Take 2 (Tara Kizer)

 

PowerShell

• Deploying Modules to the PowerShell Gallery (Warren Frame)

 

Miscellaneous

• America’s Best Days Are Not Behind Us (Bill Gates)
• Microsoft takes another step toward making Office apps smarter (Mary Jo Foley)

 

More Link Collections

• Double Shot #1710 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Morning Brew #2144 (Chris Alcock)

 

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