Dew Drop – February 9, 2015 (#1950)

Top Links

•  Announcing: Running Ruby on Rails on IIS8 (or anything else, really) with the new HttpPlatformHandler (Scott Hanselman)
• Understanding migrations from on-premises TFS to Visual Studio Online (Willy-P. Schaub)
• The Changelog 140: Aurelia, Durandal, and leaving AngularJS with Rob Eisenberg (Adam Stacoviak & Jerod Santo)
• Microsoft Quietly Had a Really Good Week (Ina Fried)

 

Web Development

• How do I setup ASP.NET Identity 2.0 to use my own connection string (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Generate Mazes in AngularJS with 8-Bit Algorithms (Jeremy Likness)
• ASP.NET MVC: Self Validating Model objects (Mahesh Sabnis)
• Look, up in the sky, its ASP.NET MVC 5 shining down on your Enterprise development (Mark Kendall)
• The Art of AngularJS in 2015 (Matt Raible)
• ASP.NET 5 Deep Dive: Routing (Stephen Walther)
• WinJS Classes and Namespaces (Timmy Kokke)
• TypeScript and RequireJs (Kevin Logan)
• es6-scoping (Axel Rauschmayer)
• Modern Web Development 101 (Dave Baskin)
• Typescript Support in Atom Editor for Windows (Derik Whittaker)
• Latest Trends in Web Development (Doris Chen)
• How I Decide which Web Front-End Framework to Use (Rami Sayar)
• Node v0.12.0 (Stable) (node.js Team)

 

XAML

• XCC has moved to GitHub (Koen Zwikstra)
• Circle Packing Algorithm in C# / XAML (Matthias Shapiro)
•  WPF Base Classes – Shape (Richard Carr)
• Pre-Instrumentation For Windows Store Apps (Kerry Meade)
• Using Google Spreadsheets as a Data Source for Windows Store Apps – Part 2 (Kiril Stanoev)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Object Oriented, Test Driven Design in C# and Java: A Practical Example Part #2 (Paul Mooney)
• Application Insights: Moving from Visual Studio Online Portal to Azure Preview Portal (Rahul Bagaria)
• How to Identify the Kinect Sensor Capabilities ? (Abhijit Jana)
• Rx Challenge #2 (Solution) (Bnaya Eshet)
• What to expect in an interview for a .NET job (DevToolsGuy)
• Octopus Deploy – A Culture Change (Martyn Frank)
• New Task Parallel Library Features in .NET 4.6 (Jonathan Allen)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The Pool–An Agile Fable and New Release of Everyday Unit Testing book! (Gil Zilberfeld)
• The Inevitability of Failure and Importance of Repair (Phil Haack)
• Using Cost of Delay to Quantify Value and Urgency and Going Beyond Agility with Antifragility (Ben Linders)
• Beginning Test-Driven Development in Python (David Sale)
• No Bugs Journey Episode 1: Inventory (Eric Gunnerson)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Using a full-size none-stretched background image in a Xamarin.Forms app (Joost van Schaik)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Arduino Android Blueprints – $13.49 (Save 50%) Use code DEAL (O’Reilly Media)
• Quick Tip: Enumerations in Swift (Bart Jacobs)
• Saving Image to Blob Storage Using Shared Access Signature and Modifying the GET Request for the SharedAccesSignature Controller and Fixing up the Client For Writing to Azure Blob Storage with Shared Access Signature (Nick Randolph)
• SWIFT a property to set controls to visible (Richard Jones)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Technology & Friends Episode 353: Brian Sherwin on Finding Your Dream Job (David Giard)
• Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 158 #OTP (Richard Hay)
•  Microsoft’s Cortana-powered Office Work Assistant highlighted in video (Harish Jonnalagadda)
• Web Dev Radio Episode 122: Back to life (Michael Kimsal)
• The Nerdist Podcast – David Cross (Chris Hardwick)
• Scrum Master Toolbox – Matt Dominici talks about the shiny object syndrome that plagues organizations (Luis Gonçalves & Vasco Duarte)
• App Insights Performance Monitoring | Edge (David Tesar)
• Get Up And Code 077: BodySpace App with Dustin Jordan (Douglas Coleman)
• TWC9: .NET Core OSS Update, CoreCLR on GitHub, Windows 10 for Raspberry Pi 2, Super Bowl Stories and more | This Week On Channel 9 (Greg Duncan, Nikola Metulev & shenchauhan)
• Episode 167: Azure Release Management with Donovan Brown | Microsoft Azure Cloud Cover Show (Haishi Bai & Chris Risner)
• StarTalk Radio – Cosmic Queries: Rocket Science Is Hard (Neil deGrasse Tyson)

 

Community / Events

•  Show Us Your App Contest Winners! (Jayme Singleton)

 

Database

• Using Policy Based Management for SQL Server Availability Groups Data Loss Alerts (Svetlana Golovko)
• SQL SERVER – What are the Different Ways to Script Procedure with T-SQL and SQL SERVER – Viewing User Configurable Info in SQL Server and Interview Question of the Week #006 – Is Shrinking Database Good or Bad? (Pinal Dave)
•  New RavenDB 3.0 Stable Release (Oren Eini)
• Inserting And Using A New Record In Postgres (Rob Conery)
• More Power BI Licensing Details (Chris Webb)

 

PowerShell

• Powershell to Robocopy files (say, to back up your computer to protect against CryptoWall trojan) (Jen McCown)

 

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft internally testing new ‘Work Assistant’ app (Mary Jo Foley)
• Office Work Assistant with Cortana integration revealed in newer batch of images (Daniel Rubino)
• Nadella talks sleeping habits, favorite toys and growing up in India in ABC interview (Jacob Demmitt)

 

More Link Collections

•  Geek Reading February 6, 2015 (Robert Diana)
• Collective #154 (Pedro Botelho)
• Reading Notes #172 (Frank Boucher)
• Double Shot #1470 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Last Week on Channel 9: February 2nd – February 8th, 2015 (Greg Duncan)
• The Morning Brew #1795 (Chris Alcock)
• Weekly Programming Digest #93 (Jakub Chodounský)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2015-02-09 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2015-02-09 (Dan Rigby)
• Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for February 6th, 2015 (Dmitry Lyalin)

 

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