Dew Drop – August 16, 2016 (#2310)

Top Links

• TechBash 2016 (Jesse Liberty) – Get a discount from Jesse.
• Fewer Visual Studio Sign-in Prompts (John Montgomery)
• Windows 10 Anniversary Update, Desktop App Converter Preview– Experimenting with Open Live Writer (Mike Taulty)
• Introducing the .NET Framework Monthly Rollup (Stacey Haffner)
• Announcing Visual Studio Code Intro Videos (Toni Pohl)

 

Web Development

• Building a WordPress-Powered Front End With the WP REST API and AngularJS: Bootstrapping, Routing, and Services (Bilal Shahid)
• Webinar Recap: Getting Started with AngularJS 2.0 (Dhananjay Kumar)
• A Simple Way to Receive an SMS with PHP and Twilio (Greg Baugues)
• Sunsetting the JavaScript Standard (Mathias Bynens)
• Editing Images in CSS: Combining Techniques (Monty Shokeen)
• 12 jQuery Image Cropping Plugins (Megan Rafferty)
• ASP.NET Core Blog Series Part 1 (Soe Tun)
• Angular 2 Router (Victor Savkin)
• ASP.NET MVC: Precompiling views (Gunnar Peipman)
• Aurelia: Custom Element vs Compose (Jeremy Danyow)
• Announcing HTTP/2 support for all customers with Azure CDN from Akamai (Manling Zhang)

 

XAML

• Another reason your custom font may not display in a Windows app (Matt Lacey)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Semaphore Slim and Async and Rx Challenge #9: Execute Async Until (Bnaya Eshet)
• Mix and match: Buy 2, save 45% (Kim Spilker)
• Graphic Asset Previewer for Visual Studio (Greg Duncan)
• Making Your Data Updates and Deletes More Efficient (Peter Vogel)
• Recognizing Hand-Written Digits: Getting Worse Before Getting Better (Jeremy Clark)
• CodeRush for Roslyn: Running Tests (Rory Becker)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Basics of Web Application Security: Authentication (Martin Fowler)
• Survey on Agile Manifesto 2.0 (Ben Linders)
• Starting is the Hardest Part (J.D. Meier)
• Commit Yourself to the Turn (Rhonda Abrams)
• Using JavaScript to Drive Selenium Tests (Dave M. Bush)
• How To Find A Good Mentor (Mahesh Chand)
• Getting Employees On Board when Implementing Change Management (RK Prasad)
• Change the base branch of a Pull Request (Scott J. Goldman)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Android From Scratch: Understanding Android Broadcasts (Ashraff Hathibelagal)
• #Windows10 – What’s new in #IoT Core version (Bruno Capuano)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• MS Dev Show – Live from That Conference 2016 (Jason Young & Carl Schweitzer)
• .NET Rocks! – Migrating to .NET Core with Matt Watson (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Windows Central Podcast 10: Windows of the future (Derek Kessler)
• Yet Another Podcast #160 – Mobile Technology Overview – Sam Basu (Jesse Liberty)
• Defrag Tools #166 – Performance Analysis of UWP Apps | Defrag Tools (Andrew Richards & Chad Beeder)
• The Married Gamers Presents Episode 393: No (Wo)Man’s Sky (Chris Brown)
• Webinar Recording | Continuous Everything: Why You Need Mobile DevOps (Courtney Witmer)
• Revision Path 153: Kronda Adair (Maurice Cherry)
• Big Data, Multivariate, Window based Feature Engineering using Microsoft R Server (Seth Juarez)

 

Community / Events

• Learn more about Azure + SQL Server at SQLSaturday Minnesota (Jes Borland)
• GitHub Universe Big Bang Benefit Concert (Brittany Walker)
• 16+ Terrific Things To Do In Philly This Week, August 15-21 (Jillian Wilson)
• MCT Monday – Jasper Kraak (Microsoft Learning)
• Why I’m excited about SIGNAL London (Phil Nash)

Database

• Rename logical database file name for a SQL Server database (Manvendra Singh)
• SQL Server Data Tools 16.3 Release (Eric S. Kang)
• Database Building 101: The storage layer (Oren Eini)
• Using The RelativePath And Query Options With Web.Contents() In Power Query And Power BI M Code (Chris Webb)
• Announcing Couchbase Server 4.1.2 (Don Pinto)
• Power BI Offering Index – A Complete List of all Power BI Products, Services and Developer Resources (Jon Gallant)
• What is SQL Clone and why are we building it? (Karis Brummitt)

 

PowerShell

• PowerShell – SQL Server Paging of Memory Identification (Pinal Dave)

 

Miscellaneous

• Windows 10 Tip: Get started with Microsoft Edge extensions (Elana Pidgeon)
• Experience Minecraft in a whole new way with Oculus Rift starting today (Mike McGrath)
• New Surface Special Edition NFL Type Covers Available to Kick Off the Season (Panos Panay)

 

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #2158 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #1721 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Interesting links of the week (7/8 – 7/14) (Mike Eaton)
• Daily Links 15 Aug 2016 (Malcolm Jack)
• Top Ten Most Popular Developer Links for the Week of August 8th, 2016 (Dmitry Lyalin)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2016-08-16 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2016-08-16 (Dan Rigby)
• node.js Weekly Update – August 15th, 2016 (Minwoo Jung)
• Amazon Developer Blog – Week in Review August 7th (Peter Heinrich)

 

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