Dew Drop – October 9, 2015 (#2108)

Top Links

• Microsoft’s developer tools head S ‘Soma’ Somasegar to leave the company after 27 years (John Callaham)
• Visual Studio 2015 Update 1 CTP (John Montgomery)
• NuGet 3 – What and Why? (Jeffrey T. Fritz)
• Mix Some Marshmallow Into Your Android Apps (Miguel de Icaza)

 

Web Development

• Using The This-Binding In Directive Definition Objects In AngularJS (Ben Nadel)
• Claims Transformation and Authorization Policy in ASP.NET 5 (vNext)/MVC 6 (Imran Baloch)
• Speeding Up the Mobile Web with AMP HTML (Abel Avram)
• Prototypal Inheritance in Javascript (Abhi Jain)
• Command Line Tools for Apache Cordova with Kirupa (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• Visual Studio Code for Mac developers: Code snippets (Sergiy Baydachnyy)
• How To Consume a WebAPI with RestSharp (Ondrej Balas)
• AAD Group Support – Oct 8 (Aaron Bjork)
• Bing adds more tools for developers (Bing Team)
• google-analytics-api (Axel Rauschmayer)
• Getting started with TypeScript (Dhananjay Kumar)

 

XAML

• New advertising features and walkthrough of using Microsoft ads and mediation (Bernardo Zamora)
• Certification Update: New Windows 10 MCSD (Larry Kaye)
• Exam 354: Universal Windows Platform — App Architecture and UX/UI Beta NOW AVAILABLE! (Liberty Munson)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Process Template changes to TFS 2015 RTM (Ewald Hofman)
• PostSharp Roadmap and Support Policies Published and Announcing PostSharp Consulting Partner program: free licenses, deep discounts, and more (Gael Fraiteur)
• How we use User Voice to make a better product (Ewald Hofman)
• The Maven build task now simplifies SonarQube analysis (Jean-Marc Prieur)
• Handing Namespace and Class Changes in Entity Framework (Mitchel Sellers)
• .NET -> Scala Interop Using RabbitMQ (Sacha Barber)
• Using Static Directive – Day 9 – VS 2015 Series (Tillman Dickson)
• Top VS2015 Extensions: DuoCode (Tim Sneath)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Some Criticism of Soft Skills (John Sonmez)
• How to Measure Your Team’s Performance: The Scoreboard Index (Jurgen Appelo)
• Stop coding, start developing your product (Matthew Adams)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Is Your App Ready for Android Marshmallow? (James Montemagno)
• Android Studio 1.4 and its Great Features (Mehul Rajput)
• Running Machine.Spec tests as part of your Xamarin development (Rob Waggott)
• Article: What’s new in iOS 9: Xcode 7 and Other Developer Tools (Sergio De Simone)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Episode 066 on TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2015—Office 365 Developer Podcast (Jeremy Thake & Richard DiZerega)
• Hanselminutes – An overview of non-web-based assisted technologies with Sylvia Richardson and Microsoft Hyperlapse in Azure Media Services with Adarsh Solanki and Azure API Apps 101 with Guang Yang (Scott Hanselman)
• Getting Started with Apache Cordova in Visual Studio (Seth Juarez)
• 35 ngAir – Angular 2 and React (Kent C. Dodds)
• 062 AiA Module Loading and JSPM or WebPack for Angular 2 with K. Scott Allen (John Papa)
• Scrum Master Toolbox – Let’s talk Retrospectives | Daniel Hommel (Vasco Duarte)
• NSScreencast #191 – Swift 2 Optionals (Ben Scheirman)
• Startup Success Podcast 3.4: Isaac Garcia of Central Desktop (Bob Walsh)
• Rocket 39: Dredging up the Gems (Christina Warren, Brianna Wu & Simone De Rochefort)
• Developer on Fire Episode 044 | Carl Quinn – Automation Machine (Dave Rael)
• Developing for the Cloud with Matt Nunn | The DEVintersection Countdown Show (Golnaz Alibeigi)
• SQL Server Radio Show 31 – The Hadoop Ecosystem with Carlos Bossy (Matan Yungman & Guy Glantser)
• Windows 10 Devices | Windows 10 Devices (Satya Nadella & Panos Panay)
• Azure App Service Architecture (Scott Hunter)
• The Amp Hour #270 – An Interview With Dafydd Roche (Chris Gammell & David L. Jones)

 

Community / Events

• Shocktober Small Basic TechNet Guru Competition! We need YOU! (Ed Price)
• The Top Beer Gardens To Visit This Fall 2015 In Philadelphia (Jillian Wilson)
• Microsoft HoloLens developer events to be held in 11 US cities in October and November (John Callaham)
• TechSession Webinar: Object-Oriented Function and Module Design (Nicholas Getchell)

 

Database

• Capture SQL Server Schema Changes Using the Default Trace (Ben Snaidero)
• SQL SERVER – Database Testing and Waitfor Delay – Notes from the Field #099 (Pinal Dave)

 

PowerShell

• Testing PowerShell Direct with Windows Server 2016 TP3 Hyper-V (Timothy Warner)

 

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft becomes a premium hardware company (Richard Hay)
• Microsoft BizTalk Server 2013 CU3 (MS Downloads)
• Hidden trick enables Cortana on the New Xbox One Experience preview (Dan Thorp-Lancaster)
• How Continuum for Windows 10 Mobile works on Lumia 950 & Lumia 950 XL (Mauro Huculak)
• Dell brings Windows 10 to Life with New XPS Devices (Yusuf Mehdi)

 

More Link Collections

• Geek Reading October 8, 2015 (Robert Diana)
• Double Shot #1562 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Morning Brew #1943 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2015-10-09 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2015-10-09 (Dan Rigby)
• Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for Oct 8th, 2015 (Dmitry Lyalin)

 

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