Dew Drop – August 19, 2016 (#2312)

Top Links

• Announcing PowerShell on Linux – PowerShell is Open Source! (Scott Hanselman)
• Prism for Xamarin.Forms 6.2 Release (Brian Lagunas)
• Why are we open sourcing our extensions? (Willy-P. Schaub)
• ReSharper Ultimate 2016.2 is here! (Daria Dovzhikova)

 

Web Development

• Code Kata: Using Array Reduce() To Navigate An Object Graph In JavaScript (Ben Nadel)
• WebStorm 2016.2.2 is now available (Ekaterina Prigara)
• WordPress 4.6 “Pepper” released (Ezequiel Bruni)
• Building a lightweight, controller-less, Markdown-only website in ASP.NET Core (Filip W.)
• Explaining the Bind method in Javascript (L. Milkov)
• Learning Angular2 for the CEAN Stack (Matthew Groves)
• Kendo UI Grid with Custom Checkboxes: Take 2 (Rachel Hagerman)
• How to set up an Ember app inside of an ASP.NET MVC app (Ryan Hayes)
• ASP.NET Core Blog Series Part 2 (Soe Tun)
• Adding Custom Hooks in WordPress: Custom Filters (Tom McFarlin)
• What’s New in WordPress 4.6? (Tom McFarlin)
• Follow-up to Why I’m Leaving React Behind (Adrian Hall)
• The basics of publishing your .NET Core web app (Jon Hilton)
• Digging Through A Treasure Trove of FiveThirtyEight Data in Python! (Kyle Kelly-Yahner)
• Go 1.7 Brings Compiler Improvements and More (Sergio De Simone)

 

XAML

• How to Search Twitter from Your UWP App (Roland Weigelt)
• Desktop App Converter Preview (Project Centennial) (MS Downloads)
• Customizing the InkToolbar in Universal Windows App (Arun Kumar)
• #VS2015 – All the tools you need for #Windows10 development in a single Virtual Machine (Bruno Capuano)
• Introducing the UWP Community Toolkit (Giorgio Sardo)
• Windows 10 Anniversary Update (1607) and UWP Apps – Connected Apps and Devices via Rome (Mike Taulty)
• Customer segmentation and push notifications: a new Windows Dev Center Insider Program feature (Windows Apps Team)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• 17 New Extensions for Visual Studio 2015 (Terrence Dorsey)
• It’s All About Character in C# and Visual Basic (Tim Patrick)
• Rx Challenge #10: DistinctUntilChanged with expiration period (Bnaya Eshet)
• New .NET Core Build Agent on Hosted Pool – Some builds may require reaction (Chrispat)
• Pull Requests refresh and much, much more – Aug 17 (Jamie Cool)
• AutoMapper 5.1 released (Jimmy Bogard)
• Latest Version of InTheHand.Core (Peter Freeman Foot)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Developer Supply Chain Management (Ted Neward)
• Team Services Update – Aug 17 and New navigation for Team Services (Brian Harry)
• Git Commands 101: Config & Add (Carolyn Sullivan)
• Plugging Leaky Abstractions (Erik Dietrich)
• Team Services Integration with Jenkins Jobs, Pipelines, and Artifacts and Upload Files from Team Services Builds and Releases with FTP/FTPS (Jason Sholl)
• Simpler GitHub Pages publishing (Jurgen Leschner)
• Praise in Public, Criticize in Private (Kim Scott)
• Copy Files Over SSH during Continuous Integration and Deployment (Madhuri Gummalla)
• SonarQube 6.0 and the StyleCop plugin (Matteo Emili)
• Architecture in code (Sebastien Lambla)
• Comments in Clean Code? Think Documentation (Serge Baranovsky)
• The Power of Experience and Maturity in Programming (and Life) (Xavier Morera)
• Software Development – A Team Sport (Stackify)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Xamarin Developer Certification is Getting Better (Bryan Costanich)
• Quick Tip: Fix Use Legacy Swift issue in Xcode 8 Beta 3 (iOS-Blog Admin Team)
• Continuous Integration for Android with Visual Studio Team Services (James Montemagno)
• How to Write NativeScript Plugins and Why They’re Easier Than Cordova Plugins (TJ VanToll)
• Why I Use Visual Studio Code For Developing Ionic 2 Apps (Ashteya Biharisingh)
• Web Scraping and Parsing HTML in Swift with Kanna and Alamofire (Sam Agnew)
• Unit Testing A NativeScript Angular 2 Android And iOS Mobile Application (Nic Raboy)
• Developing for HoloLens with the Emulator (René Schulte)
• HoloLens Mixed Reality Streaming Done Right (András Velvárt)
• Create a Weather App With TypeScript and NativeScript (Wernher-Bel Ancheta)
• How to Directly Connect to Azure IoT Hub’s Underlying Event Hub (Jon Gallant)
• System X-Ray for Amazon Fire TV (Andy Haldeman)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• MS Dev Show – Live from That Conference 2016 – Part 2 (Jason Young & Carl Schweitzer)
• .NET Rocks! – .NET on Google Cloud with Chris Sells (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Yet Another Podcast #161 – David Britch (Jesse Liberty)
• Hanselminutes – Building with the Microsoft Bot Framework with Dan Driscoll (Scott Hanselman)
• Run PowerShell Natively on Linux with Docker | Microsoft Azure (Larry Larsen & Trevor Sullivan)
• PowerShell on Linux and Open Source (Matt McSpirit)
• Azure Data Lake: PowerShell, CLI, SDKs, and APIs | Data Exposed (Scott Klein)
• Episode 104 with Mike Ammerlaan on the Developer Preview of the SharePoint Framework—Office 365 Developer Podcast (Office Dev)
• 106 AiA Angular2 RC5 and Beyond (John Papa)
• 225 JSJ Functional Programming with John A. De Goes (Aimee Knight, Charles Max Wood & Jamison Dance)
• The Joy of Coding – Episode 68 (Air Mozilla)
• RiYL Episode 182: Potty Mouth (Brian Heater)
• Developer on Fire Episode 157 | Tom Prior – Inspired (Dave Rael)
• Video Tip: Radically Candid Praise is Immediate (Elisse Lockhart)
• Seth plays against USA Table Tennis Olympian, Erica Wu (Kaitlin McKinnon & Seth Juarez)
• 036 jsAir – Managing Dependencies like a boss with Stephan Bönnemann and Ben Coe (Kent C. Dodds)
• Defrag: We’re Back (again), New or Old Studio (You Decide), Windows 10 Anniversary and more… | The Defrag Show (Larry Larsen)
• SQL Server Radio – The Itzik Ben-Gan Trick (Matan Yungman & Guy Glantser)
• What The Tech 321: Windows 10 on Your TV (Paul Thurrott)
• Radio TFS – Greg is Flying Solo (Martin Woodward & Greg Duncan)
• Tuesdays with Corey Azure Functions Part 2 – Expanded Demo | Tuesdays With Corey (RicksterCDN)
• Rocket 84: My Cool Aunt (Simone De Rochefort, Christina Warren & Brianna Wu)
• Developer Tea – Poison Series: #01 – Cynicism and Developer Tea – Poison Series: #02 – Indecision (Jonathan Cutrell)
• The Amp Hour #312 – Aussie Bound! (Chris Gammell & David L. Jones)

 

Community / Events

• Geekend Picks: Philadelphia Podcast Festival, a Video Game Art Show, Butterfly Festival, and More! (Monica Piluso)
• Alexa Champions: Recognizing Top Alexa Developers in the Community (Marion Desmazieres)
• Meet April L. Hamilton: Developer, Blogger, and All Around Alexa Champion (Zoey Collier)

 

Database

• Transferring Data Between SQL Server 2014 and Oracle 11g Databases (Rick Dobson)
• Moving from RavenDb to Marten (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Database Building 101: The cost of graph storage and Database Building 101: Graphs aren’t toys (Oren Eini)
• Import data from Azure SQL to Tabular Databases (Daniel Calbimonte)
• Azure SQL Database Threat Detection, your built-in security expert (Ron Matchoro)

 

SharePoint

• SharePoint Framework Developer Preview Release is here (Toni Pohl)

 

PowerShell

• PowerShell is now open-source, and cross-platform (Bertrand Le Roy)
• Run PowerShell Natively on Linux and Docker! (Trevor Sullivan)

 

Miscellaneous

• Open Mind: Microsoft’s Visual-Studio-like suite for machine learning (Mary Jo Foley)
• Announcing Rust 1.11 (Rust Core Team)
• Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 14905 for PC & Mobile (Dona Sarkar)
• Vivaldi 1.3 is a bold new vision for browsers (Marc Schenker)
• Microsoft Rewards replaces Bing Rewards — collect points to get free stuff! (Mark Wilson)
• Now Mac users can make the move from Evernote to OneNote (Scott Shapiro)
• Parallels Desktop 12 for Mac Offers Deeper Integration with Windows 10 (Paul Thurrott)
• Sway design tips and new templates (Sway Team)

 

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #2160 and The Morning Brew #2161 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #1722 and Double Shot #1723 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Daily Life #557 (Tim Boland)
• Collective #238 (Pedro Botelho)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2016-08-18 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2016-08-18 (Dan Rigby)

 

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