Dew Drop–December 30, 2016 (#2394)

Top Links

• TypeScript String Enums (Aaron Marisi)
• A tour of Microsoft’s massive, sprawling headquarters (Ben Gilbert)
• Resolve to Be a Better Leader in 2017 (Russ Laraway)
• In-memory C# compilation (and .dll generation) using Roslyn (Joseph Woodward)

 

Web Development

• Solved: CSS Specificity And Shadow DOM Overrides In Angular 2.4.1 and Using Form Controls Without FormsModule Or NgModel In Angular 2.4.1 (Ben Nadel)
• Request Filtering for ASP.NET Core applications: Part 3 – Integrating with ASP.NET Pipeline (Hisham Bin Ateya)
• Securing Node.js: Enforcing User Account Requirements in Express.js (Max McCarthy)
• Block Reveal Effects with CSS & JavaScript (jQuery Rain)
• CSS Writing Modes (Chris Coyier)
• WebStorm 2017.1 EAP, 171.2014: new intentions for arrays, code style for quotes (Ekaterina Prigara)
• Notes from the ASP.NET Community Standup –December 13, 2016 (Maria Naggaga)
• I made a Server Program in Go. (Simon Wittber)
• PhpStorm 2016.7 EAP 171.2014 (Maxim Kolmakov)
• Serverless will eat Containers in the Microservices world. (Clemens Reijnen)
• Building Your First Web Scraper, Part 3 (Ed Wassermann)

 

XAML

• How to set a specific row color of a WPF ListView/GridView control? (Kunal Chowdhury)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Microsoft Azure Logic Apps Enterprise Integration Tools for Visual Studio 2015 2.0 (MS Downloads)
• Tips & Tricks to Improve Your F# Library’s Public API (Paulmichael Blasucci)
• Cake reaches 250000 downloads (Gary Ewan Park)
• How to develop an Office App in real world-part 2 (Toni Pohl)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• What Are Software Design Patterns Hiding From You? (Muhammad Umair)
• What Is and Isn’t a Scrum Master? (Nicolas Darriulat)
• Experimenting with Peer Feedback in Tech Teams (Ben Linders)
• New Year’s Resolutions for Code Quality (Erik Dietrich)
• Coding Standards resolution (part 2) (Rockford Lhotka)
• Why Slacking Off Can Speed Up Your Productivity (Sean O’Meara)
• 12 UX rules every designer should know (Vladimir Gendelman)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• In-App Purchases in iOS With Swift 3 (Francesco Franchini)
• Developing for the Living Room: How to Build an Android App for Fire TV Part 6 (Mario Viviani)
• Santa Brought an Alexa? Skill it up with C#! (Greg Duncan)
• C# Windows IoT Core Serial Communications with an ESP8266 (Bary Nusz)
• Kinect to WorldWide Telescope with Starfield (Greg Duncan)
• Windows 10, UWP, QR Code Scanning with ZXing and HoloLens and HoloLens, Unity and Recognition with Vuforia (Part 2) (Mike Taulty)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Learning Swift 3 – $16.99 (Save 50%) Use code DEAL (O’Reilly Media)
• Unity 5.5/HoloLens: AudioPluginMsHRTF.dll has failed the AppContainerCheck check (Joost van Schaik)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Software Development Apprenticeship with Will Gant and BJ Burns (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Couchbase on the Pete on Software Podcast (Matthew Groves)
• Observed.Tech PODCAST Episode 215 #OTP (Richard Hay)
• Hanselminutes – Is it OK to build websites that require JavaScript? with Nolan Lawson (Scott Hanselman)
• Snack Pack 5: Android Archive Manager for Visual Studio | The Xamarin Show (James Montemagno)
• 244 JSJ Visual Studio with Sam Guckenheimer (AJ O’Neal & Charles Max Wood)
• SSW TV – Techniques and practices for testing Angular 2 | Identity Server 4 with Angular 2 ASP.NET core (Sophie Belle)
• Gone Mobile 41: Mobile Game Development and CocosSharp with Brent Edwards (Greg Shackles & Jon Dick)
• AiA 125 API Powered Components for Severless Applications with Travis Tidwell (John Papa)
• Alton’s Best of 2016: The Alton Browncast #66 (Alton Brown)
• The week in .NET – On .NET with Steve Smith, Jint (Bertrand Le Roy)
• Developer on Fire Episode 195 | Prosper Otemuyiwa – Creating Masters (Dave Rael)
• The Amp Hour #329 – Work on it for 10 years… (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
• Talk Python to Me #92 – Bonus: Python Bytes Crossover: Python 3.6 is going to be awesome, Kite: your friendly co-developing AI (Michael Kennedy)
• Windows Weekly 498: The Year’s Best (Paul Thurrott)
• Rocket 103: Sergeant Rochefort (Simone De Rochefort, Christina Warren & Brianna Wu)
• Developer Tea – Interview with Josh Muccio (Part 1) (Jonathan Cutrell)
• Azure Podcast Episode 159 – Azure Resliency (Sujit D’Mello)

 

Community / Events

• Webinar Series: Xamarin University Presents Getting Started with Xamarin (Bryan Costanich)
• .NET’s 2016 Year in Review (Dror Helper)
• The Power of Community (Joseph Guadagno)
• Around the World with MVPs: Frankfurt (MVP Award Program)
• Microsoft in 2016: Surging stock, new devices and a huge new AI team (Nat Levy)
• 10 ways for a conference to upset their speakers (Troy Hunt)

 

Database

• Microsoft SQL Server 2014 Integration Services Feature Pack for Azure (MS Downloads)
• Designing Database Solutions for Microsoft SQL Server exam 70-465 study materials (Daniel Calbimonte)
• SQL SERVER – Why Does Encrypted Column Show NULL on Subscriber? and SQL SERVER – Creating Azure VM for SQL Server Using Portal (Pinal Dave)
• What’s New in Reporting Services 2016 Service Pack 1 (Koen Verbeeck)

 

Miscellaneous

• Tech That Will Change Your Life in 2017 (Geoffrey A. Fowler & Joanna Stern)
• Habitat application portability and understanding dynamic linking of ELF binaries (Matt Wrock)
• Algorithm Basics in Small Basic (Nonki Takahashi)
• The new Office.com gets first major update (Office Team)

 

More Link Collections

• Windows App Developer Links – 2016-12-29 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2016-12-29 and Windows App Developer Links – 2016-12-30 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2016-12-30 (Dan Rigby)
• The Morning Brew #2252 and The Morning Brew #2253 (Chris Alcock)
• Collective #276 (Pedro Botelho)
• Happy New Year Friday Five (MVP Award Program)
• Coding4Fun 2016 Round-Up (Greg Duncan)

 

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