Dew Drop – December 23, 2016 (#2390)

Top Links

• ASP.NET Core Routing Tutorial (Thomas Ardal)
• ReSharper Interactive Tutorials (Alexey Totin)
• Going Serverless with Azure Functions: SendGrid (James Montemagno)
• Just released – Windows developer virtual machines – December 2016 build (Clint Rutkas)

 

Web Development

• My Evolving Angular 2 Mental Model: Promises And RxJS Observables (Ben Nadel)
• PhpStorm 2017.1 Early Access Program is Open (Anna Lebedeva)
• CSS Writing Modes (Jen Simmons)
• Angular Material Beta Release, New Flex-Layout library (Jeremy Elbourn)
• Creating a Custom WordPress Messaging System, Part 3 (Tom McFarlin)
• Microsoft Edge Web Payment Request API Available in Preview (Richard Hay)
• Progressive Web Applications (Jakub Chodounský)
• Master the JavaScript Interview: What is a Closure? (Eric Elliott)
• Getting the most out of Dreamweaver’s Code Editor (Nishita Kumar)
• JSON in SQL 2016 (Prashanth Jayaram)
• Introduction to Progressive Web Apps (Instant Loading) – Part 2 (Prosper Otemuyiwa)
• All websites have something of value for attackers: reputation (Troy Hunt)

 

XAML

• Hitchhiking the HoloToolkity-Unity, Leg 6– A Collection of Demos from A Recent Meetup Talk and Hitchhiking the HoloToolkit-Unity, Leg 7–Tracking Loss on Moving Between Rooms (Mike Taulty)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Why .NET Technologies Are Powering our Application (Maxime Laboissonniere)
• Downgrading a .NET Applications from 64 bit to 32 bit for the WebBrowser Control (Rick Strahl)
• The Traveling Santa Problem… a Neural Network solution (Ricky Terrell)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• 7 Motivational Ideas To Kick Off Your Best New Year Ever (Lauren Moon)
• DataSource and Data-driven Testing Using XUnit (Jeff Yates)
• Exercise your greatest power as a developer (Nicole Herskowitz)
• Coding standards horror story (Rockford Lhotka)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Contest: Explore Something New This Holiday with Workbooks (Cody Beyer)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Eat, Sleep, Code Podcast – Goodbye 2016 (Ed Charbeneau)
• Announcing the Radical Candor Podcast and Video: From Obnoxious Aggression to Manipulative Insincerity (Elisse Lockhart)
• 124 AiA From Junior to Senior Developer (John Papa)
• What The Tech 336: Worst Tech of 2016 and Windows Weekly 497: Go for the Donut! (Paul Thurrott)

 

Database

• SQL SERVER – SqlServerWriter Missing from an Output of VSSadmin List Writers Command (Pinal Dave)
• SSIS Custom Logging Levels (Tim Mitchell)
• Add and Monitor Transparent Data Encryption to AzureSQL Databases (Tim Smith)
• Visio Add-in for Database Modeling (MS Downloads)
• Filtered Statistics Follow-up (Erik Darling)
• Flashback 2016 – Highlights from Azure SQL Data Warehouse (John Macintyre)
• Why 2017 is the year of Database DevOps and why database professionals should lead the charge (Simon Galbraith)
• SQL Developer version 4.2 Early Adopter 2 Now Available (Jeff Smith)

 

PowerShell

• SQL Server 2016 PowerShell cmdlets for SQL Agent (Rajendra Gupta)

 

Miscellaneous

• Throwback: Samsung “Taylor” Windows Phone Prototype and Raspberry Pi Brings Its PIXEL Desktop Environment to PC/Mac (Paul Thurrott)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Modern Python Cookbook – $19.99 (Save 50%) Use code DEAL (O’Reilly Media)

 

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #2250 (Chris Alcock)

 

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