Dew Drop – June 12, 2015 (#2034)

Top Links

• Concurrency, part 6: Easier asynchrony in C# with await (Schabse Laks)
• Writing Windows 10 App Services in JavaScript (Guillaume Leborgne)
• SOLID Principles – Software Craftsmanship Calendar Topics (Brendan Enrick)
• A Lap Around NativeScript (Session Recording) (TJ VanToll)

 

Web Development

• Is HTML ‘complete’? (Bruce Lawson)
• Understanding scopes in AngularJS custom Directives (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Making JavaScript Editing Easier in Visual Studio 2015 (Jeff Martin)
• PhpStorm 9 Public Preview (Mikhail Vink)
• Scope in AngularJS for Beginners (Pradeep K)
• Make the body Element Take Up 100% of the Browser Height (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• Many ways to relate Orchard things, part 2: content item picker field (Bertrand Le Roy)
• Demystifying Azure Cloud Services – Part 1 (Adarsha Datta)
• Azure data services part 2: Stream Insight (Alice Waddicor)
• ECMAScript 6 Power Tutorial: Class and Inheritance (David Catuhe)
• Microsoft Azure Services Infographic (Paul Ballard)
• Building a Product CSV Export Tool in OpenCart (Zaman Riaz)

 

XAML

• Azure : Upload and stream video content to WPF from blob storage (Sacha Barber)
• Why Should We Write Universal Apps When Microsoft Drops Them – Skype To Go Desktop Only (Mike James)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• LINQ to QuickBooks (Mr. Data Integration)
• What’s New in Visual Basic 14: IsNot Works with TypeOf (Peter Vogel)
• Customize Neural Networks with Alternative Activation Functions (James McCaffrey)
• Contender for .NET’s Prettiest Console? (Nicholas Blumhardt)
• Keep your eye on the code page: Is this string CP_ACP or UTF-8? (Raymond Chen)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Run Tests After Build – Automatically Running Unit Test After Build Success in Visual Studio (Abhijit Jana)
• Building GitHub repositories in TFS Build vNext (Jakob Ehn)
• Thought Experiment: No Private Methods In Object Oriented Design (Ben Nadel)
• 4 essential elements of successful UX design (Andy Brattle)
• Copy-Paste Culture (Gil Zilberfeld)
• Liskov Substitution Principle (Michael Burns)
• YAGNI revisited (Vladimir Khorikov)
• Questions to figure out how you can help someone else (Wes Higbee)
• Seven Deadly Sins of a Software Project (Yegor Bugayenko)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Telerik UI for iOS Works Flawlessly with iOS 9 Beta (Nikolay Diyanov)
• Crafting 5 Star iOS Experiences with Transitions (Mike James)
• Android Developer Story: Trello Increases engagement with material design (Laura Della Torre)
• An Exercise for the Reader (Adam J. Wolf)
• Better Apps & Faster Release Cycles Part IV (Karl Krukow)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Office 365 Developer Podcast: Episode 049 with Eric Shupps on building a dev community (Jeremy Thake)
• Hanselminutes – Building Community around the XPRIZE with Jono Bacon and The Docker Visual Studio Extension with Ahmet Alp Balkan and Docker 101 with Ahmet Alp Balkan (Scott Hanselman)
• 046 AiA Preparing for NG2 with Shai Reznik (John Papa)
• Scrum Master Toolbox – Retrospectives as a systems thinking tool | Ben Linders (Vasco Duarte)
• The Amp Hour #253 – Consolidate All The Things – Zonked Zelotic Zaitech (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
• Azure Podcast Episode 81 – All About Azure App (Sujit D’Mello)
• Introducing NativeScript (Burke Holland)

 

Community / Events

• Free Webinar: What’s New in C# 6.0 (Joe Mayo)
• Welcome to MajorNelson.com 4.0 (Larry Hryb)
• Oculus shows off the first consumer version of the Rift VR headset (Richard Devine)
• Looking Toward E3 And Beyond (Phil Spencer)

 

Database

• Comparing Oracle and SQL Server Code – Part 1 (Daniel Calbimonte)
• SQL SERVER – How Many Line of Code Do You Have in Database? (Pinal Dave)
• Querying and Editing DocumentDB Data Just Got Better (Stephen Baron)
• Faster queries using narrow indexes and CROSS APPLY (Jeremiah Peschka)

 

SharePoint

• Production Ready SharePoint Applications with Little or No Code (Todd Crenshaw)

 

PowerShell

• Step through creating a Resource Manager-based Azure Virtual Machine with PowerShell (Joe Davies)
• #PSTip Convert .docx to .pdf using Word.Application (Jaap Brasser)

 

Miscellaneous

• Which programming languages will stand the test of time? (Callie Johnson)
• Christopher Lee’s greatest hits: From Dracula to Saruman (Chris Grasinger)
• Small Basic Featured Article – How to Remove Goto Statements (Ed Price)
• Oculus Rift will include Xbox One wireless controller, will support Xbox-to-PC game streaming (John Callaham)
• Is Paying for Developer Bootcamp Worth It? (John Sonmez)

 

More Link Collections

• Geek Reading June 11, 2015 (Robert Diana)
• The Morning Brew #1880 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2015-06-12 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2015-06-12 (Dan Rigby)
• Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for June 11th, 2015 (Dmitry Lyalin)

 

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