Dew Drop – February 4, 2015 (#1947)

Top Links

• CoreCLR is now Open Source (The .NET Team)
• Announcing the Xamarin.Forms Book Second Preview Edition! (Craig Dunn)
• Aurelia Q&A (Rob Eisenberg)
• The .NET CoreCLR is now open source, so I ran the GitHub repo through Azure Power BI (Scott Hanselman)

 

Web Development

• Exporting Data with Ease Using Kendo UI Grid (Lohith G N)
• Fun with ASP.NET 5, Linux & Docker, Part 3 (Mark Rendle)
• DuoCode Uses Roslyn to Transpile C# into JavaScript (Sergio De Simone)
• ASP.NET 5 and AngularJS Part 7, Running on a Mac (Stephen Walther)
• Shine Up Those Older Web Forms Applications with ServiceStack (Patrick Steele)
• 7 Ways to Handle Circular Dependencies in RequireJS (Cory House)
• Free ebook: Microsoft Azure Essentials Fundamentals of Azure (Kim Spilker)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Docker Cookbook – $19.49 (Save 50%) Use code DEAL (O’Reilly Media)
• You can copy() from the console (Chris Coyier)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• The Right Way to do Equality in C# (Aaron Stannard)
• ReSharper 9.1 and ReSharper C++ Early Builds Available for Download (Dmitri Nesteruk)
• Genetic Algorithms in C# Part 1 – Genetic Algorithms in Less Than 10 Minutes and Genetic Algorithms in C# Part 2 – Solving the Binary F6 Function and Genetic Algorithms in C# Part 3 – Genetic Operators (John Newcombe)
• Simple helper method to detect the last page of API data (C#) (Marco Siccardi)
• Cross Platform File Storage with PCLStorage NuGet Package (Nick Randolph)
• Visual Studio 2015 Preview – Mobile C++ (Pete D.)
• Understanding TFS migrations from on-premise to Visual Studio Online – Part 2: Walkthrough (Willy-P. Schaub)
• Microsoft Open Sources Cross-platform Serialization Library – Bond (Boris Lublinsky)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Library patterns: Multiple levels of abstraction (Tomas Petricek)
• Can the Scrum Master also be the Product Owner? (Jeremy Jarrell)
• My journey into Professional Scrum (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Introducing the Latest DZone Guide to Continuous Delivery (Benjamin Ball)
• Project Online: Some changes coming to task sync for enterprise projects (MS Project Team)
• Another way to make sure nobody sends you feedback (Raymond Chen)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Taking care of a pet peeve with the Xamarin Build Host (Chris Miller)
• WatchKit and IOS shared Libary (Richard Jones)
• What’s up with Raspberry Pi 2? (Bertrand Le Roy)
• Attempt At Telsa App Reveals Limitations In Apple Watch SDK (David Berlind)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Web Components with Cory House (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Pauly Shore (Chris Hardwick)
• Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Jeff Kosciejew – When recruiting trust your gut and list your skills | Recruiting Wednesday (Vasco Duarte)
• CoreCLR is now open source on GitHub (Dan Fernandez, Immo Landwerth & runfaster2000)
• Ping 234: Wearable Tools, NASA Remembrance, Office for Andriod Apps | Ping! (Mark DeFalco & RicksterCDN)
• SSW TV – Chasing the Holy Grail with Release Management | Danijel Malik (SSW Team)
• Technology & Friends Episode 352: Josh Holmes on Nitrogen (David Giard)
• CodeChat 021 – Amyr Haq (Microsoft’s Garage) (Jeremy Foster)
• Thirty Days Later… Thirty Adobe Creative Cloud Tutorials (Terry White)
• Game of Owns: The IMAX and the Trailer (WotW)

 

Community / Events

• ReSharper Workshop at The JetBrains BASH – Belfast, February 16th (Robert Demmer)
• Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Radoslav Minchev (Willy-P. Schaub)
• Join me at Microsoft’s Ignite for the Office 365 Development On-Ramp Workshop! (Andrew Connell)
• DockerCon US 2015 Tickets Now Available (Ashlynn Polini)
• Call for speakers is open at the 2015 Philly.NET code camp (David Voyles)
• Dev of the Week: Dr. David Syer (John Walter)

 

Database

• Determine Minimum Possible Size to Shrink the SQL Server Transaction Log File (Edwin Sarmiento)
• Cascaded Parameters in SQL Server Reporting Services (Ghanesh Prasad)
• SQL SERVER – How to fix the SQL Server Error 8657 or 8658? (Pinal Dave)
• Blog Post: Get Ready to Learn SQL Server 21: Using Subqueries in the WHERE Clause (Kris Wenzel)
• Dynamic Data Access with Plain Old SQL and SqlQuery (Peter Vogel)
• Azure DocumentDB – New Asia, US regions, and increased account limits (Stephen Baron)
• Announcing MongoDB 3.0 (Francesca Krihely)

 

PowerShell

• Using #PowerShell to Upload Content to #Azure Storage (Alexandre Brisebois)

 

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft updates Yammer for iOS, Android with new mobile collaboration features (Mary Jo Foley)
• Getting a new dev machine set up, OS X Style (Chris Miller)
• Introducing Splunk Mobile App 2.0 (Kevin Faulkner)
• Windows 10 for phones may come with larger, vertical live tiles (Richard Devine)
• Introducing Telerik Boxed Presentations: Just Run The Ball! (Sam Basu)
• Windows RT is officially dead (Tom Warren)

 

More Link Collections

• Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for February 3rd, 2015 (Dmitry Lyalin)
• The Morning Brew #1792 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily Links 3 Feb 2015 (Jax)
• Daily News Digest 2/4/2015 (Silverlight Show)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2015-02-04 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2015-02-04 (Dan Rigby)

 

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