Dew Drop – March 28, 2016 (#2217)

Top Links

• Announcing the release of the Visual Studio Team Services extension for Visual Studio Code (Jeff Young)
• Microsoft Build 2016: What to expect (Mary Jo Foley)
• TED2016: It’s a phenomenal time to be human (Alex Kipman)
• Coding from the classroom to the Space Station (Steve Guggenheimer)

 

Web Development

• Putting DEBUG Comments In Your SQL Statements Makes Debugging Performance Problems Easier and Using ngModel With The OnPush Change Detection Strategy In Angular 2 Beta 11 (Ben Nadel)
• React.js Meditation Timer (David Hayden)
• CSS Grid and CSS Regions (Rachel Andrew)
• Going from Data to UI in React (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• How to Create a Custom Action Filter in ASP.NET MVC and How to Implement the Repository Pattern in ASP.NET MVC Application (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Calculating the date of Easter for a particular year (Julian M. Bucknall)
• Using MongoDB with Web API and ASP.NET Core (Mahesh Sabnis)
• A OData 4 / AngularJs / TypeScript Sample Application (Michael Washington)
• Planning and creating Azure Search indexes (Gunnar Peipman)
• promise-rejections-vs-exceptions (Axel Rauschmayer)
• Custom domains, SSL and Azure (Sangeet Agarwal)
• Docker for Windows Beta announced (Scott Hanselman)

 

XAML

• Windows 10, UWP–The ‘Automatic Photo Booth’ Hands On Lab (Mike Taulty)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Checking if Types are Compatible (Richard Carr)
• .NET Developer Tips and Tricks (Vicky)
• Versioning conundrum for Noda Time – help requested (Jon Skeet)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• You Suck at TDD #7 – Improvements Phase 2 (Eric Gunnerson)
• Two topics best avoided in retrospectives (Patrick Kua)
• Implement Rollback with Release Management for TFS 2015 (Shashank Bansal)
• Our first steps of embracing DevOps when building Visual Studio Team Services Extensions (Willy-P. Schaub)
• Singleton and Singleton Implementation: Swift and Singleton Implementation: Javascript and Catalog (Ted Neward)
• What’s in a Title? (David Corrales)
• What is Infrastructure as Code? (Chris Pietschmann)
• Team or Psuedo Team? (Dave Diehl)
• Is it Difficult for an Introvert to be a Mob Programmer? (Savita Pahuja)
• Designing for Apple Watch: Designing a Glance in Sketch (Sven Lenaerts)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• GMImagePicker ported to Xamarin.iOS (Roy Cornelissen)
• Getting Ready For Xamarin Development (S.Ravi Kumar)
• Five Projects That Get Me Excited About IoT (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
• Registering OAuth clients for Google Sign-In (Isabella Chen)
• Smart bulbs or how to be lazier (part 4): IoT Hub (Sergiy Baydachnyy)
• Windows 10 IoT, Raspberry Pi and your next Halloween Project (Greg Duncan)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• MS Dev Show – Mesosphere, Docker, & Containers with Aaron Williams and Bruno Terkaly (Jason Young & Carl Schweitzer)
• AFH 030: Product Backlog Management with Tim Ottinger and Mark Davidson [PODCAST] (Ryan Ripley)
• 59 ngAir – Angular 2 testing using Protractor 2C Karma and more with Julie Ralph (Angular Air)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Jack Dorsey, Ev Williams and Biz Stone (Chris Hardwick)
• The Changelog 198: Haskell Programming with Chris Allen and Julie Moronuki (Adam Stacoviak & Jerod Santo)
• YouTube channel for Team Services sprint videos (Brian Harry)
• Rocket 63: That’s Actually Not a Terrible Point (Christina Warren, Brianna Wu & Simone De Rochefort)
• CodeNewbie Ep. 81 – Social Justice Warrior (Coraline Ada Ehmke) (CodeNewbie Team)
• Webinar Recording: Accelerate Mobile Success with a Mobile Center of Excellence (Courtney Witmer)
• Developer on Fire Episode 117 | Maaret Pyhajarvi – Enabling Voices (Dave Rael)
• StarTalk Radio – StarTalk Live! from SF Sketchfest 2016 (Part 1) (Neil deGrasse Tyson)
• The Amp Hour #293 – An Interview with Timothy Lamb (Chris Gammell & David L. Jones)

 

Community / Events

• Announcing the 2016 Android Experiments I/O Challenge! (Roman Nurik & Richard The)
• Build 2016 Preview: Looking Forward By Looking Back (Paul Thurrott)
• It’s a Girl’s Game Too! (Joe Hall)
• Eat Sleep Build (Ed Charbeneau)

 

Database

• SQL Azure Geo Replication Configuration and Testing (K. Brian Kelley)
• SQL Server Permissions Granted to All Users By Default (Rajendra Gupta)
• MySQL – How to Drop Table If Exists in Database? and What is a Self Join? Explain with Example – Interview Question of the Week #064 (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Server 2016 offers new features in SQL Client Tools, including monthly updates (Susanna Ray)

 

PowerShell

• Using PowerShell to set Extended Events Sessions to AutoStart (Rob Sewell)
• My Thoughts – How to Improve the Community Developed PowerShell Modules (Ryan Yates)

 

Miscellaneous

• Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 14295 for PC and Mobile (Gabe Aul)
• Introducing Office 365 Connectors (Office 365 Team)

 

More Link Collections

• Windows App Developer Links – 2016-03-28 (Dan Rigby)
• Double Shot #1664 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Collective #212 (Pedro Botelho)
• Welcome to #FridayFive! (MVP Award Program)
• Reading Notes #225 (Frank Boucher)
• Last Week on Channel 9: March 21st – March 27th, 2016 (Greg Duncan)
• GameDev News – Week Ending March 25, 2016 (Brian Peek)
• Weekly Xamarin Newsletter Issue #85 (Adam J. Wolf)
• Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for Mar 25th, 2016 (Dmitry Lyalin)
• Weekly C# Digest Issue #95 (Jakub Chodounsky)
• F# Weekly #13, 2016 (Sergey Tihon)
• Links of the Week 3-27-16 (Chris Love)

 

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