Dew Drop – March 10, 2016 (#2205)

I blame lack of sleep for originally putting August in the title of this post. Sorry! – Alvin

Top Links

• Web Extension Pack for Visual Studio 2015 (Mads Kristensen)
• R Tools for Visual Studio released as public preview (Athima Chansanchai)
• Experimental .NET Core Debugging in VS Code (Andrew B. Hall)
• Announcing Tools for Apache Cordova Update 7 (Michael Braude)

 

Web Development

• Moving Shapes on the Canvas Using the Keyboard (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• Maybe we could tone down the JavaScript (Chris Coyier)
• Remote debugging of PHP Web Apps (Doug Mahugh)
• How to Look Up and Verify Phone Numbers in Google Spreadsheets with JavaScript (Greg Baugues)
• Notes from the ASP.NET Community Standup – March 8, 2016 (Jeffrey T. Fritz)
• 10 jQuery YouTube Plugins (Learning JQuery)
• ASP.NET Core Provides Modularity with Middleware Components (Pierre-Luc Maheu)
• Node v5.8.0 (Stable) (Jeremiah Senkpiel)
• Building a Website with Node and a Bunch of Other Stuff, Part 1 (Shawn Rakowski)
• 6 ways to go from Markdown to Azure Web App (Frank Boucher)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Advantages of a shared architecture: the TFS/VSTS example (Matteo Emili)
• March 2016 evaluation Windows developer virtual machines (Clint Rutkas)
• String comparisons against program output is not usually the best solution (Raymond Chen)
• Humanizer is alive and well and it’s v2! (Greg Duncan)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Structurizr for .NET (Simon Brown)
• Agile Anarchy – Mobbing (Sebastien Lambla)
• Agile Economics: Gambling Issues (Gil Zilberfeld)
• Agile Transformation – Keys to Success (Steve McConnell)
• Visual Studio Team Services – Testing Tools Roadmap (Anand Kamat)
• Visual Studio Team Services Manual Testing Tips: Charts, Iterations and Runs (Charles Sterling)
• Review As If You Own the Code (Michael Sorens)
• How We Build Code at Netflix (Mike McGarr)
• What’s new in TestComplete 11.3 (Noel Rice)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Xamarin iOS Table Views and MVVM Light (Richard Woollcott)
• How To Display a Camera In Your iOS Apps (Pierce Boggan)
• First Preview of Android N: Developer APIs & Tools (Dave Burke)
• Transitioning Mobile Apps from Application Insights to HockeyApp (Thomas Dohmke)
• Getting Started With Ionic: Introduction (Jeremy Wilken)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Marten on PostGres with Jeremy Miller (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• More TDD Videos (Jeremy Clark)
• 013 jsAir – Live at Fluent Conf (Kent C. Dodds)
• CodeChat 057 – INSTEON for Home Automation | CodeChat (Nick Landry & Jeremy Foster)
• What The Tech 298: Windows 10 Redstone 2 Delayed (Paul Thurrott)
• Scale a Web App Using Azure Scale Out | Web Hack Wednesday (Martin Beeby & Martin Kearn)

 

Community / Events

• What You’re Missing If You’re Not At Build (Michael Domingo)

 

Database

• Extracting ShowPlan XML from SQL Server Extended Events (Aaron Bertrand)
• Validating a Windows Cluster Prior to Installing SQL Server 2014 (Manvendra Singh)
• SQL SERVER – The NOLOCK Question – Notes from the Field #117 (Pinal Dave)
• Awesome series on SQL Server clustered column store (operational analytics) (Simon Sabin)
• Marten Gets Serious with v0.8 (Jeremy D. Miller)

 

PowerShell

• Automate Out of Date SQL Server Statistics with PowerShell (Tim Smith)

 

More Link Collections

• Xamarin App Developer Links – 2016-03-10 and Windows App Developer Links – 2016-03-10 (Dan Rigby)
• The Morning Brew #2049 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #1655 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Geek Reading March 9, 2016 #1059 (Robert Diana)
• Developer News – What’s IN with the Infragistics Community? (2/22-3/6) (Dara Monasch)
• Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for Mar 9th, 2016 (Dmitry Lyalin)

 

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