Dew Drop – February 27, 2015 (#1964)

Top Links

• Writing Cross-Platform Mobile Apps with Visual Studio 2015 and Xamarin Forms (Jeff Prosise)
• NuGet 3.0 Beta 2 Released (Jeff Fritz)
• .NET Core Open Source Update – February 26, 2015 (Rich Lander)
• Iterables and iterators in ECMAScript 6 (Axel Rauschmayer)
• The Path to Parallel JavaScript (Dave Herman)

 

Web Development

• ASP.NET 5: A Gigantic Win for Developers (Michael K. Campbell)
• HTML6 Ideas and HTML.Next (Andrey Prikaznov)
• Using server-side MarkDown for comments (Julian M. Bucknall)
• Meet PhpStorm 9 Development Roadmap (Mikhail Vink)
• Top 5 AngularJS Frustrations (Paul Ballard)
• Using FontAwesome Fonts for HTML Radio Buttons and Checkboxes (Rick Strahl)
• Getting started with jQuery $.ajax() – Back to Basics (Suprotim Agarwal)
• 5 Fantastic & Free Screencast Sites For Node Developers (Scott Smith)
• Content item identity in Orchard and DecentCMS (Bertrand Le Roy)
• Announcing Docker Compose (Aanand Prasad)
• Scaling Docker with Swarm (Andrea Luzzardi)
• Orchestrating Docker with Machine, Swarm and Compose (Ben Firshman)
• Announcing Docker Machine Beta (Evan Hazlett)
• Introducing gRPC, a new open source HTTP/2 Framework (Gary Lewis)
• A break from the past: the birth of Microsoft’s new web rendering engine (Charles Morris)
• Using jQuery plugins with npm (Lin Clark)

 

XAML

• Windows Phone 8 Succinctly: The User Interface (Matteo Pagani)
• Windows App Studio adds logo and image wizard, improved Facebook and YouTube integration and new themes (Emilio Salvador Prieto)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Lambda methods and implicit context (Oren Eini)
• Office 365 & Office App Dev – Customers Need a Modern Brand Implementation Pack (Andrew Connell)
• Serializers in .NET (Leonid Ganeline)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Establishing Self-Organized Agile Teams (Ben Linders)
• I suck at writing unit tests, but I’m trying to change (Kevin Griffin)
• Master the Essentials of UI Test Automation: Chapter Two and Don’t Start With Automation (Jim Holmes)
• Code Ownership (Matt Davey)
• Even if you’re not using feature branches, you actually are and you may be suffering because of it (Wes Higbee)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Android For Work – A Developer Opportunity? (Mike James)
• Security for IoT Can’t Be an Afterthought (G. Andrew Duthie)
• A New Way to Promote Your App on Google Play (Michael Siliski)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Office 365 Developer Podcast: Episode 035 on OneDrive consumer APIs with Ryan Gregg (Jeremy Thake)
• Hanselminutes – Living Clojure with Carin Meier (Scott Hanselman)
• 031 AiA Advanced Directives (John Papa)
• The Windows Developer Show Episode 175 – “Training the Future” (Travis Lowdermilk & Ryan Lowdermilk)
• The Amp Hour #238 – Old Books, New Tricks – Iterant Inscription Irrationality (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
• Microsoft shares its vision of the future with thinner displays and cool gadgets (Rich Edmonds)

 

Community / Events

• Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Marcelo Hideaki Azuma (Willy-P. Schaub)
• Upcoming Speaking Engagements in 2015 (Chris Love)
• Signing off (Jes Schultz Borland)

 

Database

• More SQL command comparisons between SQL Server and MariaDB (Daniel Calbimonte)
• Imagine Cup: Team Eye 3 from Queen’s wins Project BluePrint by providing an integrative assistance experience for color blind individuals (Adarsha Datta)
• SQL SERVER – ReadOnly Databases and Notes Using Snapshots (Pinal Dave)
• Tree structure query with PostgreSQL (Rob Conery)
• Handling Added Or Missing Columns In Power Query (Chris Webb)
• On Primary Key Names (Kevin Hazzard)

 

PowerShell

• Working with PowerShell DSC for Linux, part 4 (Bartek Bielawski)
• PowerShell: Validating Azure Traffic Manager Endpoints (Trevor Sullivan)

 

Miscellaneous

• Pebble Time Smartwatch – What It Does And Does Not Do (Imran Hussain)
• A look at the history of Xbox Live (Larry Hryb)

 

More Link Collections

•  Geek Reading February 26, 2015 (Robert Diana)
• Daily News Digest 2/26/2015 and Daily News Digest 2/27/2015 (Silverlight Show)
• Reading List (Bruce Lawson)
• The Morning Brew 1809 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2015-02-27 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2015-02-27 (Dan Rigby)

 

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