Day: August 30, 2016

Top Links

• Writing Better Tests Than Humans Can Part 2: Model-based Tests with FsCheck in C# (Aaron Stannard)
• Driving Canopy Tests with TypeProviders (Eric Potter)
• Hunt for Your Libs Here, at Awesome.NET! (Greg Duncan)
• Moving Storyteller to the CoreCLR and going Cross Platform (Jeremy D. Miller)

 

Web Development

• Transitions And Animations In CSS By Estelle Weyl (Ben Nadel)
• Authenticating a user with LinkedIn in ASP.NET Core (Jerrie Pelser)
• With ASP.NET MVC and Data Transfer Objects, The Bigger the Better (Peter Vogel)
• Making Interactive Node.js Console Apps That Listen for Keypress Events (Dave Johnson)
• Writing a bot for IP Messaging in Node.js (Dominik Kundel)
• Developing Extensible HTML and CSS Components (Jon Yablonski)
• Build Your First AngularJS 2 Application With TypeScript (Jignesh Trivedi)
• Why you should move to Angular 2 Universal? Here is the answer (Amit Gaikwad)
• Three Ways to Test Angular 2 Components (Victor Savkin)
• The API Lightbulb Went On For Me When Amazon EC2 Launched A Decade Ago and Github Is Quickly Becoming My Most Important Discovery Source For API Space (Kin Lane)
• Node v6.5.0 (Current) (Evan Lucas)
• CloudFlare, SSL and unhealthy security absolutism (Troy Hunt)

 

XAML

• New Dev Center Capabilities (Bernardo Zamora)
• Introducing DropFilesBehaviour (Scott Lovegrove)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Overcoming Escape Sequence Envy in Visual Basic and C# (Tim Patrick)
• August Update for the Visual Studio Code C/C++ extension (Ankit Asthana)
• Rx Challenge #9: Execute Async Until [Solution] (Bnaya Eshet)
• Why Is .NET Core Important? (Allen O’Neill)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Unit testing anti-pattern: Code matching (Gil Zilberfeld)
• Voron internals: The transaction journal & recovery (Oren Eini)
• Technical debt and DevOps (Cameron Laird)
• Learning Programming By Teaching Yourself – Catastrophe or Brilliance? (John Sonmez)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Choosing Xamarin or Ionic [Infographic] (Ravi Malhotra)
• How to Install Node.js on Raspberry Pi 3 (Raspbian) and How to Control a Sphero SPRK+ with a Raspberry Pi 3 and Node.js (Jon Gallant)
• Intel Joule is an IoT Powerhouse (Chris Pietschmann)
• Network Connectivity Monitor for NativeScript (Keith Burnell)
• Use Mozilla’s LocalForage For Key-Value Storage In Ionic Framework (Nic Raboy)
• #Opinion – You must start to learn to build 3D apps, within 3 years, 2D apps developer will be like Console apps devs today (Bruno Capuano)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – React for Windows with Matthew Podwysocki and Eric Rozell (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• AFH 045: System Thinking and #NoEstimates with Chris Chapman [PODCAST] (Ryan Ripley)
• 9 Visual Studio Productivity Tools (c0deporn)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Max Brooks (Chris Hardwick)
• Defrag Tools #167 – Debugging User Mode Crash Dumps Redux | Defrag Tools (Andrew Richards & Chad Beeder)
• The Married Gamers Presents Episode 395: The Elusive Good Video Game Movie (Chris Brown)
• Functional Geekery Episode 64 – Alex Weiner (Steven Proctor)
• Revision Path 155: Andrea Williams (Maurice Cherry)
• Automatic Mining of Text for Trends, Anomalies and Correlations (Seth Juarez)
• SSW TV – Integration lessons for the green-field developer | Udi Dahan at DDD Sydney 2016 (Sophie Belle)

Community / Events

• What does a developer evangelist/advocate do? (Chris Heilmann)
• Conference speakers: Why do you teach at events? (Jen McCown)
• Being Present – Mid-Year Review (Jeremy Clark)
• The Real Cost of a Cyberattack: How Event Professionals Can Protect Their Attendees (Kalahari Meetings)
• MCT Monday – Mariano Cosentino (Microsoft Learning)
• Announcing Open Registration and Exhibitors for Google Play Indie Games Festival in San Francisco, Sept. 24 (Jamil Moledina)

 

Database

• SQL Server 2016 Truncate Table with Partitions (Ahmad Yaseen)
• SQL Server Default Port (Mandar Mulay)
• SQL SERVER – Whitepaper – Optimizing SQL Server Network Performance (Pinal Dave)
• Clear Data Tables Fast With Neudesic’s Enhanced, Open Source Power BI API Tool. (Chris Jones)

 

Miscellaneous

• Take a sneak peek at the Boss battles that will be testing your ‘Minecraft’ survival skills (Suzanne Choney)

 

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #2167 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #1727 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Reading Notes #246 (Frank Boucher)
• Amazon Developer Blog – Week in Review August 22nd (Peter Heinrich)
• Interesting links of the week (8/22 – 8/28) (Mike Eaton)
• Daily Links 29 Aug 2016 (Malcolm Jack)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2016-08-30 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2016-08-30 (Dan Rigby)
• Top Ten Most Popular Developer Links for the Week of August 22nd, 2016 (Dmitry Lyalin)

 

The Geek Shelf