Dew Drop – October 4, 2016 (#2337)

Top Links

• TechBash 2016 (Steve Michelotti) – A really great wrap up of Steve’s experience at the event. Thanks, Steve!
• Glenn Block at TechBash: Escape from Serverland with webtask | raw tech. (Glenn Block) – Big thanks to David Giard for recording this session for Glenn. I hope we can record steam many more next year. (You catch that, Seth Juarez? You’ll be hearing from me soon!)
• ngModel Is Still Kind Of Broken In Angular 2.0.0 (Ben Nadel)
• Visual Studio “15” Preview Compilers Feedback (Eric Battalio)

 

Web Development

• Does Angular 2 live up to the hype? (Carolyn Sullivan)
• A quick guide to JavaScript Promises (Dominik Kundel)
• Storing and using secrets in Azure (Bertrand Le Roy)
• The SVG `path` Syntax: An Illustrated Guide (Chris Coyier)
• Key Improvements for Your API Experience (Israel Shalom)
• SyncVid.io Let’s You Watch YouTube Videos With Your Friends Remotely, Synchronously (Kyle Kelly-Yahner)
• New lower Azure pricing (Takeshi Numoto)

 

XAML

• Trying out the new Windows App Development Virtual Machines #UWPLunch (Matt Lacey)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Flowroute Expands SDK Program With Introduction of .NET SDK (ProgrammableWeb)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Making Your App Testable (Chris Riley)
• Iteration in Fixed-Everything Projects (Rob Allen)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Unity Checklist for HoloLens Developers (Matthias Shapiro)
• Animate Your React Native App (Wernher-Bel Ancheta)
• Background Downloads (Ben Scheirman)
• Building Retroids with GameMaker: Studio – Part 6 (Jon Pulsipher)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Supporting Aging Software with Dustin Metzgar (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• AFH 049: The State of Agile with Steve Denning [PODCAST] (Ryan Ripley)
• Entreprogrammers Episode 136 “Bubba Don’t Play Dat!” (Josh Earl, John Sonmez, Derick Bailey & Charles Max Wood)
• RiYL Episode 188: Alex Segura (Brian Heater)
• Functional Geekery Episode 68 – Matthew Butterick (Steven Proctor)
• Revision Path 160: Paul Edoho-Eket (Maurice Cherry)
• TPDP Episode #10: All About The Google App Engine (Nic Raboy)
• Developer Tea – Listener Question: Matt asks, What To Do About Job Boredom? (Jonathan Cutrell)

 

Community / Events

• Xamarin and Visual Studio at Future Decoded (Julia Black)
• Around The World With MVPs: Taipei (MVP Award Program)

 

Database

• Avoid ORDER BY in SQL Server views (Aaron Bertrand)
• SQL SERVER – Performance Choice – Coding or Automation (Pinal Dave)

 

PowerShell

• A Practical Guide for Using Regex in PowerShell (Josh Duffney)
• Inside the Nuget bootstrapping process (Emin Atac)

 

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft pulls Band listings from its Store; admits no Band 3 this year (Mary Jo Foley)
• How to Rock Your Next Software Developer Interview (John Sonmez)

 

More Link Collections

• Xamarin App Developer Links – 2016-10-04 and Windows App Developer Links – 2016-10-04 (Dan Rigby)
• The Morning Brew #2192 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #1749 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Interesting links of the week (9/26 – 10/03) (Mike Eaton)
• Top Ten Most Popular Developer Links for the Week of 9/26/16 (Dmitry Lyalin)

 

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