Dew Drop – November 10, 2015 (#2129)

Top Links

• ASP.NET + Spa | ASP.NET Fall Sessions (Steve Sanderson)
• Team Foundation Server 2015 Management Pack is available (Brian Harry)
• Bootstrapping a Business Around Open Source (Hongli Lai)
• Using Async-Await With Mutable Structs (Yuval Itzchakov)

 

Web Development

• Using ASP.NET 5 Tag Helpers and the Bing Translator API (Ricardo Peres)
• How to work with Enums in ASP.NET MVC (Dhananjay Kumar)
• PostCSS Deep Dive: Create Your Own Plugin (Kezz Bracey)
• Getting Started With Docker – DZone Refcardz (Christopher M. Judd)
• A Fresh Coat Of REST Paint On A SOAP Stack (Darrel Miller)
• What Are WebSockets? A Brief Introduction (Daniel Stern)
• Using ES6 and ES7 in the Browser, with Babel 6 and Webpack (James K. Nelson)
• What is a WebView? (Jen Looper)
• Interactive Room Display (Manoela Ilic)
• Capture the Cloud with Azure (Shahed C)

 

XAML

• MvvmLight Navigation Extension (Daniel Hindrikes)
• FreshMvvm n=2 – IOC and Constructor Injection (Michael Ridland)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Some of my favorite Visual Studio extensions (David Voyles)
• ReSharper 10 critical issues and fix schedule (Jura Gorohovsky)
• Throwing Exceptions and Keeping the Stack Trace (Ricardo Peres)
• Cheating your way to VS 2015 Shortcut Cheatsheats (Greg Duncan)
• Painless .NET Windows Service Creation with Topshelf (Jason Roberts)
• Reference Types, Value Types, and Equality (Jeremy Clark)
• Optimizing for Performance in Marten (Jeremy D. Miller)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Do I Really Have to Unit Test This Method? (Nick Chamberlain)
• Role of Testers in Agile Teams (Ben Linders)
• The Collaboration of Unit Testing (Joe DeMeyer)
• Keeping UX simple with anticipatory design (Richard Howe)
• Be careful with negative feedback too (Wes Higbee)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• iOS 9: An Introduction to Multitasking on iPad (Davis Allie)
• Getting Started with Handoff in iOS (Krystin Stutesman)
• Project Templates and More in the latest UI for iOS (Nikolay Diyanov)
• Microsoft Azure IoT Suite – Connecting Your Things to the Cloud (Sam George)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Building Visual Studio Code with Sean McBreen (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 177 #OTP (Richard Hay)
• Developer on Fire Episode 057 | Ward Cunningham – Exceeding Expectations with Joy, Curiosity, and Discovery (Dave Rael)
• Tidbits of Code and Node 05 – Power Emmet (Jeremy Foster)
• Talk Python to Me #33 OpenStack: Cloud computing built on Python (Michael Kennedy)
• Windows 10 Mobile’s features shown off in new Microsoft video (John Callaham)

 

Community / Events

• Women in Tech Profile: Ada Lovelace (Jennifer Wright)
• An Evening With Tor Books & Dark Circle Comics @ Doylestown Bookshop, This Friday! (Eric Smith)
• Thanks for a great MVP Global Summit! (MVP Award Program)

 

Database

• Some Tricky Situations When Working with SQL Server NULLs (Sergey Gigoyan)
• SQL SERVER – Understanding SQL Server Setup Support Rules for Cluster Nodes (Pinal Dave)
• Book Review – Mastering Apache Spark (Ian Stirk)
• Get your Application Insights data in Power BI – Faster than ever (Abhijit Jana)

 

PowerShell

• ebook deal of the week: Windows PowerShell Step by Step (Kim Spilker)

 

Miscellaneous

• How to get a job when you’re a self-taught developer (Callie Johnson)
• Microsoft to launch its Lumia 950 flagship on November 20th (Tom Warren)

 

More Link Collections

• Geek Reading November 9, 2015 and Geek Reading November 10, 2015 (Robert Diana)
• Reading Notes #208 (Frank Boucher)
• Double Shot #1581 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Last Week on Channel 9: November 2nd – November 8th, 2015 (Greg Duncan)
• The Morning Brew #1965 (Chris Alcock)
• Reading List (Bruce Lawson)
• Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for Nov 9th, 2015 (Dmitry Lyalin)

 

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