Dew Drop – March 16, 2015 (#1975)

Top Links

• AngularJS and $scope.$apply() best practices (Kamil Lelonek)
• Taming the asynchronous beast with ES7 (Nolan Lawson)
• Lambda Expressions, Captured Variables, and For Loops: A Dangerous Combination (Jeremy Clark)
• Xamarin Forms, Contoso Cookbook, and Azure: Three Great Tastes that Taste Great Together (Jeff Prosise)

 

Web Development

• Forcing $q .notify() To Execute With A No-Op In AngularJS (Ben Nadel)
• Node.js Succinctly: Basic Node.js Programming (Agus Kurniawan)
• AngularJS and KendoUI: Your Questions Answered (Burke Holland)
• JavaScript : relaxing equality (Jesse MacFadyen)
• Entity Framework 6.1 – Some New Features via an ASP.NET MVC application (Mahesh Sabnis)
• A JavaScript Functional Programming Example (Paul R. Martin)
• Bringing The Power of Postgres to NodeJS (Rob Conery)
• Emberjs, Reflux, Immutability, No Ember Data, No models….sanity? (Paul Cowan)
• Building navigation menus in DecentCMS (Bertrand Le Roy)
• Hosting HTTP Resources (Ricardo Peres)
• babel-on-node (Axel Rauschmayer)
• Getting Started with Jekyll (Brian Rinaldi)
• HTTP Mock Testing in NodeJS (Hüseyin Babal)
• Why I Love Docker… and Why You’ll Love it Too (John Willis)
• From the MVPs: Manage media delivery in the Cloud with Microsoft Azure and Media Services (Julien Corioland)
• When IE gave us beautiful, fast touch interactions, and nobody cared. (Paul Bakaus)
• GitHub Releases Licenses API to Promote Sharing (Romin Irani)
• Using Mutation Observers to Watch for Element Availability (Ryan Morr)
• Experiments with Strengthening JavaScript (Google Dev Team)

 

XAML

• How to make a Windows Store game with C# and XAML – part 1 (Emilio Salvador Prieto)
• WPF Transforms – Rotate (Richard Carr)
• New book: Exam Ref 70-695 Deploying Windows Devices and Enterprise Apps (Kim Spilker)
• Universal Applications: be ready for Windows 10 (part 2) (Sergiy Baydachnyy)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Visual Studio: How to create a solution template with multiple projects (Elizabeth Andrews)
• Async/Await Explained (Jeremy Likness)
• The File Exists- IOException, monitoring file creation and Atom (Iris Classon)
• Solution–Little Puzzlers: First Non-Repeating Character (James Michael Hare)
• Kinect 4 Windows V2 – Unity3D 5 and OPENFRAMEWORKS + KINECT 4 WINDOWS V2 (II) (Pete D.)
• Debugging walkthrough: Access violation on nonsense instruction, episode 2 (Raymond Chen)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Design Patterns: The Command Pattern (Avinash Zala)
• What We Have Learned in Testing and New Developments in Agile Testing and Agile needs coaching and How To Build Trust When Working With Remote Teams and Leadership and Management Approaches from Radical Companies (Ben Linders)
• Importance of Courageous Communicators in Agile Organizations (Savita Pahuja)
• Our Development Pipeline and Process (Howard Dierking)
• Design is How it Works (Mark Smith)
• A short note on build tasks (Dru Sellers)
• Wake Up and Get S#!t Done – A Practice of Awesome (James Chambers)
• Master the Essentials of UI Test Automation: Chapter Four (Jim Holmes)
• Being More Productive with @Todoist (Joseph Guadagno)
• Today and Tomorrow: Mobile’s Impact on Development and Testing: An Interview with James Montemagno (Josiah Renaudin)
• Step-by-step guide to bootstrapping your new product development – Part 6, Follow on markets (Matthew Adams)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Producing better named Android APKs with Gradle (Erik Ogenvik)
• Android Lollipop for Visual Studio (Jonathan Allen)
• Swift from Scratch: Initialization and Initializer Delegation (Bart Jacobs)
• Raspberry PI 2 and the Microsoft Band (Greg Duncan)
• How to import data into Azure Mobile Services (Ryan Lowdermilk)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• MNR 538: Ori and the Blind Forest and Battlefield Hardline (Larry Hyrb)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Josh McDermitt (Chris Hardwick)
• MS Dev Show – Raspberry PI 2 and the Microsoft Band with Joost van Schaik (Jason Young & Carl Schweitzer)
• The Changelog 146: Mind the Gender Parity Gap with Sarah Mei (Adam Stacoviak & Jerod Santo)
• Get Up And Code 082: The Facts About Fat (Douglas Coleman)
• TWC9: GDC 2015 Redux, Windows 10 Release Cadence, Ninja Cat Unicorns and more… | This Week On Channel 9 (Greg Duncan & Nikola Metulev)

 

Community / Events

• Kendo UI Q1 2015 “Build HTML5 Apps Tailored for Any Device” Webinar (Cody Lindley)
• Google Code Shuts (Sue Gee)
• Contest: Win an Apple Watch (Jayme Singleton)
• The Game Has Changed (Lee Reilly)

 

Database

• SQL Server Reporting Services Bookmarks and Document Maps (Scott Murray)
• SSAS Multidimensional Cube Design Video Training (Chris Webb)
• Generating Filenames Dynamically in SSIS (Kevin Hazzard)
• SQL SERVER – SCRIPT – SQL Listening on Dynamic Port? and SQL SERVER – Interesting Observation with Currency Symbols and Interview Question of the Week #011 – Script to Convert List to Table and Table to List (Pinal Dave)

 

PowerShell

• How to Replace Multiple Strings in a File using PowerShell (Prashanth Jayaram)
• Rapid PowerShell Development with ISESteroids (Tobias Weltner)

 

Miscellaneous

• Which programming language should I learn in 2015? (Matthew Adams)
• Microsoft’s Cortana is coming to iOS and Android (Tom Warren)
• Microsoft EMET blocks ‘VBScript God Mode’ (Mike Williams)

 

More Link Collections

• Geek Reading March 13, 2015 (Robert Diana)
• Collective #159 (Pedro Botelho)
• Mostly Cloudy – March 13th, 2015 (Mike Wood)
• Reading Notes #177 (Frank Boucher)
• Last Week on Channel 9: March 9th – March 15th, 2015 (Greg Duncan)
• Reading List (Bruce Lawson)
• Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for March 13th, 2015 (Dmitry Lyalin)
• The Morning Brew #1820 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 3/16/2015 (Silverlight Show)
• Weekly Programming Digest #98 (Jakub Chodounský)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2015-03-16 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2015-03-16 (Dan Rigby)

 

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