Dew Drop – January 28, 2015 (#1942)

Top Links

• Licensing changes – User acceptance testing and Agile planning (Brian Harry)
• Netflix’s Viewing Data: How We Know Where You Are in House of Cards (Philip Fisher-Ogden)
• Master these 6 tech skills to stay relevant in 2015 (Aaron Skonnard)
• Why Surface Hub is more interesting than HoloLens (Mike Elgan)
• The Developer’s Guide to the New .NET (Michael Crump)

 

Web Development

• Back to Top Button using CSS and jQuery (jQuery Rain)
• Everything old is new again [crc-hash is a Node.js Crypto Hash implementation for the CRC algorithm] (David Anson)
• ASP.NET Web API vs Azure Mobile Services (David Voyles)
• AngularJS vs. Backbone.js vs Ember.js (DevToolsGuy)
• Working with composer.json in PhpStorm (Maarten Balliauw)
• Microsoft confirms Windows 10’s ‘Spartan’ browser to get extensions (Mary Jo Foley)
• Microsoft’s Spartan browser uses the Chrome UA string (David Voyles)
• In Case You Missed It (Eric Lawrence)
• Updates for the F12 developer tools in the Windows 10 January Technical Preview (Ruben Rios)
• Install Sublime Text 3 (beta) on Linux Mint or Ubuntu (John Atten)
• Vivaldi – New Web Browser in Tech Preview Looks a Lot Like Opera (Rod Trent)
• Weighing SVG Animation Techniques (with Benchmarks) (Sarah Drasner)
• Azure WebJobs are awesome and you should start using them right now! (Troy Hunt)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Excerpts from the RavenDB Performance team report: Optimizing Memory Comparisons, Digging into the IL (Oren Eini)
• Microsoft Puts Orleans Code On GitHub (Kay Ewbank)
• VS Online Basic license expanded – Jan 27 (Aaron Bjork)
• Rx Challenge (Bnaya Eshet)
• Implementing std::tuple from the Ground Up – Part 4: Getting Tuple Elements (Sasha Goldshtein)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Agile Adoption with the Agile Fluency Model (Ben Linders)
• How Office Delve is Changing the Way My Team Works Together (Chris Bortlik)
• Adopting a Performance Focus With Software Development (Mitchel Sellers)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Improvements in Xamarin.Forms 1.3 (Eric Sink)
• MS Open Tech releases Cordova plugin for Office 365 Outlook Services (Eric Mittelette)
• Unity Launches Analytics on iOS and Android (Matt McComb)
• How I Built an iOS & Android App in a Week (TJ VanToll)
• Exception Handling in Swift (Colin Eberhardt)
• Why You Should Avoid Using Modal Windows on Mobile (Anthony)
• 10 Excellent Platforms for Building Mobile Apps (Jack Dawson)
• Unified API Migration Example with the Dutch Spelling App (Michael James)
• Handling MobileServiceConflictException with Azure Mobile Service with Offline Sync (Nick Randolph)
• Why you should always set an end date on your advertising campaign and What developers should take from the monthly AdDuplex reports (Matt Lacey)
• Developers: Now you can show your app’s rating in Microsoft ads (Vanessa Ho)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Mobile First with Chris Love (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Episode 065 | Interview with Andrew Clark of the Hackathon ChicagosNext (Andrew Connell & Chris Johnson)
• Entreprogrammers Episode 49.1 and Episode 49.2 (Derick Bailey, Josh Earl & John Sonmez)
• Quick Tour and Review of Office 365 | The Garage Series for Office 365 (Jeremy Chapman)
• Eric Horvitz on the new era of Artificial Intelligence | Microsoft Research Luminaries (Larry Larsen)
• Ping 233: Dropbox App, Brain Box, Windows 10 (Freaking Holograms!!!) | Ping! (Mark DeFalco & RicksterCDN)
• First look at the new Power BI Preview (Michael Tejedor & Jeremy Chapman)
• SSW TV – How to market yourself as a developer | John Sonmez (SSW Team)

 

Community / Events

• Pluralsight Acquires Code School (Sue Gee)
• Microsoft Technical Evangelist, Dave Voyles on the State of Startups in Philadelphia (David Voyles)
• Dev of the Week: Michael Minella (John Walter)
• January Code Hunt Winners (Kevin Maginn)

 

Database

• SQL Server Auditing (Ricardo Peres)
• SQL Server Integration Services REPLACENULL Function (Koen Verbeeck)
• SQL SERVER – How to Know Backup History of Current Database? (Pinal Dave)
• Troubleshooting Microsoft Azure Storage with Message Analyzer (Perry Skountrianos)
• Performance Tips for Azure DocumentDB – Part 2 (Stephen Baron)

 

Miscellaneous

• How to Get Hired at Microsoft as a student (David Voyles)
• HOWTO: Export data collected from your Microsoft Band (Kurt Shintaku)
• A course on writing code well. (Wes Higbee)
• Targeted Jobs for Stack Overflow (Will Cole)

 

More Link Collections

• Geek Reading January 27, 2015 (Robert Diana)
• Double Shot #1464 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Daily News Digest 1/28/2015 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #1787 (Chris Alcock)
• Developer News – What’s IN with the Infragistics Community? (1/19-1/25) (Dara Monasch)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2015-01-28 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2015-01-28 (Dan Rigby)
• Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for January 27th, 2015 (Dmitry Lyalin)

 

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