Dew Drop – October 13, 2015 (#2110)

Top Links

• Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 10565 (Gabe Aul)
• Making your web pages fast (part one) (Julian M. Bucknall)
• Microsoft has reportedly started working on major ‘Redstone’ update for Windows 10 (John Callaham)
• ReSharper 10 EAP 4 (Jura Gorohovsky)

 

Web Development

• Announcing the ASP.NET WebHooks Visual Studio Extension Preview (Brady Gaster)
• Office Add-In with Knockout.js (Pete D.)
• Effortless Passport.js for Sails.js (Younes Ouadi)
• Visual Studio Code for Mac developers: Git (Sergiy Baydachnyy)
• 16 Ways to Search, Find and Edit with Chrome DevTools (Cody Lindley)
• Monitoring My Blog Using Uptime Robot and IF (Jeff Yates)
• Node v4.2.0 (Stable) (Node.js Foundation)
• Docker Swarm clusters on Azure (Openness Team)
• ESB Toolkit: Building a Custom Adapter Provider (Scott Banwart)
• Audit Trail Module in Orchard CMS 1.9 (David Hayden)

 

XAML

• Lumia Imaging SDK v3 (No, it’s not just for phones…) (Greg Duncan)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Resharper tip #1: Push code into a method / Pull code out of a method (Eric Gunnerson)
• Exception Filters – Day 12 – VS2015 Series (Tillman Dickson)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• What is “Agile All the Way Through?” (Magenic)
• Bliki: RequiredInterface (Martin Fowler)
• Seven Signs of Great Agile Leadership (Lanette Creamer)
• How performance engineering can help developers avoid disaster (Todd DeCapua)
• Learning from Things that Go Well (Ben Linders)
• Entering Text in Photoshop (Julieanne Kost)
• Most valuable software development principles (Vladimir Khorikov)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• How to Schedule Background Tasks in Android Apps Using the JobScheduler API (Vipul Patel)
• Getting Started With Google Maps for Android: Advanced (Paul Trebilcox-Ruiz)
• Building a Touch-enabled Interface for Windows IoT (Morten Nielsen)
• BizTalk Server Accelerator for SWIFT – Message Pack 2015 (MS Downloads)
• Getting Started with Apple WatchKit and WatchOS 2 (Doron Katz)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Programming in Go with Michael Van Sickle (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Brett Gelman (Chris Hardwick)
• Get Up And Code 111: New Host (John Sonmez & Robert Navarro)
• Talk Python to Me #29 Python at the Large Hadron Collider and CERN (Michael Kennedy)

 

Community / Events

• #PSConfAsia An Interview with PowerShell Expert Girish Prakash (Ravikanth C)
• Jennifer Hay Is A Technical Resume Expert (John Sonmez)
• Ninjacat T-shirt Competition: Did you win? (Microsoft Devices Team)

 

Database

• Build a cheat sheet for SQL Server date and time formats (Aaron Bertrand)
• SQL SERVER – To Find Events Mapped to Channels in Extended Events (Pinal Dave)

 

PowerShell

• PowerShell Tools for the Advanced Use Cases, part 1 (David O’Brien)
• Using Package Management in Windows PowerShell v3 (Timothy Warner)
• Run Background Commands after Every Command (Tommy Maynard)

 

Miscellaneous

• Surface Book vs MacBook Pro – Core Specs and Surface Pro 4 vs MacBook Air – Core Specs (Richard Hay)
• In Photos: The new Microsoft Surface Book (Microsoft Devices Team)
• Small Basic – New Dictionary Object (Nonki Takahashi)
• Getting the tools to create a Scala Project (Sacha Barber)

 

More Link Collections

• Reading Notes #205 (Frank Boucher)
• Geek Reading October 12, 2015 (Robert Diana)
• Double Shot #1563 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2015-10-13 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2015-10-13 (Dan Rigby)
• The Morning Brew #1944 and The Morning Brew #1945 (Chris Alcock)
• Links of the Week 10-11-15 (Chris Love)

 

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