Dew Drop – August 26, 2016 (#2316)

Top Links

• Time is Running Out–Book Your TechBash 2016 Room Today! (Jason Gaylord)
• The rise of functional programming & the decline of Angular 2.0 (Wolk Software Team)
• Ultimate PowerShell Prompt Customization and Git Setup Guide (Matthew Hodgkins)
• FiraCode – Monospaced font with programming ligatures (Nikita Prokopov)

 

Web Development

• The Journey to Angular: Part 3 (Paul D. Sheriff)
• Getting to the ASP.NET Core (Rick Strahl)
• 19 Tips to Make Learning Angular 2 Easier (Cody Lindley)
• What are Closures in JavaScript? (Dhananjay Kumar)
• WebStorm 2016.3 Early Access Preview: Flow, PostCSS, and more (Ekaterina Prigara)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Mastering JavaScript Object-Oriented Programming – $17.99 (Save 50%) Use code DEAL (O’Reilly Media)
• Changes to Expiring API Keys (Harikrishna Menon)
• How to serve static files for your Single Page Application from .NET Core (Jon Hilton)
• New book: Microsoft Azure Security Infrastructure (Kim Spilker)
• The Postman Console (shamasis)

XAML

• What’s New in CODE Framework in 2016 (Markus Egger)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Install Visual Studio Marketplace extensions directly to Team Foundation Server (Mathew Aniyan)
• Getting started with Google Cloud Client Libraries for .NET (Mete Atamel)
• Implementing a critical section in terms of WaitOnAddress (Raymond Chen)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Deliver Shippable Products with Good Engineering Practices (Ben Linders)
• Why Do Remote Jobs Suck? (John Sonmez)
• What is domain logic? (Vladimir Khorikov)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Continuous Integration for iOS Apps with Visual Studio Team Services (James Montemagno)
• Xamarin Utility in 5 Minutes with Plugins (Jesse Liberty)
• Continuous Delivery of iOS Applications with Team Services (Madhuri Gummalla)
• UI for Xamarin with UWP Support (Beta) Now Available (Nikolay Diyanov)
• Push Notifications Made Easy with One Signal (James Bender)
• Build an Amazon Echo with Raspberry Pi (Frank La Vigne)
• Solution to “No Bluetooth adapter found” on RaspberryPi 3 (Jon Gallant)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Observed.Tech PODCAST Episode 206 #OTP (Richard Hay)
• Hanselminutes – Exploring Code Smells in code written by Children with Dr. Felienne (Scott Hanselman)
• PowerShell and Python Interoperability | PowerShell Open Source Project (Jeffrey Snover & Bruce Payette)
• Episode 105 with SharePoint Dev Kitchen winners Jeff Nowland and Gerald de Run—Office 365 Developer Podcast (Andrew Coates)
• 107 AiA NgModule (John Papa)
• Video Tip: Move away from Ruinous Empathy (Elisse Lockhart)
• Debugging Microsoft Edge Extensions (keantonc & Rosshe)
• 037 jsAir – On-site at React Rally (Kent C. Dodds)
• What’s new in Edge 14 (Seth Juarez,  Helen Huang & Jonathan Sampson)
• Windows Weekly 480: Webcamgate (Paul Thurrott)
• Azure CDN with Akamai (Scott Hanselman & Seth Juarez)
• Rocket 85: Die on the Daddy Hill (Simone De Rochefort, Christina Warren & Brianna Wu)
• SSW TV – Search Indexing: It’s your Data – But Faster | Brendan Richards (Sophie Belle)
• Developer Tea – 3 Things Aspiring Developers Should Be Doing Today (Jonathan Cutrell)

 

Community / Events

• Spend the day learning about App Dev on Xbox with Microsoft Engineers (Richard Hay)
• Hello! Today posts is a big THANKS to the excellent technical communities of whi… (Bruno Capuano)
• An Introduction to Progress Labs – Incubating Innovation (Rob Lauer)

 

Database

• The Baker’s Dozen: 13 Great Things to Know About SQL Server 2016 (Kevin S. Goff)
• Performance Issues when Updating Data with a SQL Server Linked Server (Ranga Babu)
• Faster Way to Transfer Data from SQL Server 2014 to Oracle 11g (Rick Dobson)
• Voron’s internals: MVCC – All the moving parts (Oren Eini)
• Restore or Attach Database Without Log File – SQL in Sixty Seconds #082 (Pinal Dave)

 

Miscellaneous

• Here’s how Microsoft’s Surface as a Service leasing program works (Mary Jo Foley)

 

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #2166 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2016-08-26 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2016-08-26 (Dan Rigby)

 

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