Dew Drop – April 21, 2016 (#2235)

Top Links

• Building a more accessible web platform (Bogdan Brinza & Rossen Atanassov)
• Getting Started with F# on Linux and Mac OS X (Pierre-Luc Maheu)
• .NET Rocks! – Supersonic Aircraft Geek Out (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Adding Cortana and Bluetooth to a UWP app for Phillips Hue (Joshua Partlow, Alexander Koren & Lauren Hughes)

 

Web Development

• Implementing A Publish And Subscribe (Pub/Sub) Service In Angular 2 Beta 14 (Ben Nadel)
• Run Gulp Task from Visual Studio Code (David Hayden)
• How to use a WebRTC PeerConnection in a Twilio Video Conversation (Sam Agnew)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Exploiting the ConcurrentDictionary in Asynchronous Applications (Peter Vogel)
• New Tools To Build Desktop Applications in Visual Studio 2016 (Mahesh Chand)
• Edit and Continue Part 2 – Roslyn (Josh Varty)
• CodeRush for Roslyn 1.0.11 is now available (Rory Becker)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Improve Your Code Review Game with NDepend (Erik Dietrich)
• Why Developers Are Poor Testers and What Can Be Done About It (Joel Montvelisky)
• Pull request build policies for high quality code (Matthew Mitrik)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Deprecation of BIND_LISTENER with Android Wear APIs (Wayne Piekarski)
• Build beautifully for Android Wear’s Round Screen using API 23’s -round identifier (Hoi Lam)
• Developing Holographic Apps with Unity 3D and Microsoft HoloLens (Abhijit Jana)
• 30 Days of Zumo.v2 (Azure Mobile Apps): Day 10 – Middleware (Adrian Hall)
• #Coding4Fun – What’s There App, source code and #VisionAPI description (Bruno Capuano)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• What The Tech 304: Podcasts in Google Play Music (Paul Thurrott)
• 208 JSJ MS Office with Jeremy Thake (Charles Max Wood & AJ O’Neal)
• AAWP Insight #178: more Redstone, TeamViewer, and 950 vs P9 (Rafe Blandford)
• The Joy of Coding – Episode 54 (Air Mozilla)
• SQL Data Partners Podcast Episode 40: Squeezing Data With Compression (Carlos L. Chacon)
• Developer on Fire Episode 123 | James Coplien – Concern for the Human Being (Dave Rael)
• Level Up – Episode 15: GDC 2016 – Unity (David Voyles)
• AFH 032: How to Improve Your Agile Conference Submissions [PODCAST] (Ryan Ripley)
• 019 jsAir – Internet of Things with JavaScript with Kristina Durivage, Kassandra Perch, and Andy Carle (Kent C. Dodds)
• The Married Gamers Episode 387: Totally RADcast (Kelly Brown)
• AI, Mixed Reality, and the New Software Landscape (Rick Barraza)
• Tuesdays with Corey: Azure Container Service GA Announcement | Tuesdays With Corey (RicksterCDN)
• Developer Tea – Refactoring Based on Code Responsibility (Jonathan Cutrell)

 

Community / Events

• Join the Xamarin Evolve 2016 Live Stream (Joseph Hill)
• Machine Learning at Build 2016 (Jennifer Marsman)
• A Complete Guide To The First-Ever Philadelphia Chinese Lantern Festival (Jillian Wilson)
• Philly Nerd Nite: Philadelphia Science Festival Edition: What It Means To Be Human (Nerd Nite Team)
• My first two weeks at Microsoft (Karoline Klever)
• Telerik @ Evolve – Have Stuff. Will Code! (Sam Basu)
• Splunk Named One of the “Best Places to Work” for Ninth Consecutive Year (Tracy Edkins)

 

Database

• SQL Server 2016 Extended Events Detailed Backup Information (Rajendra Gupta)
• RavenDB 3.5 whirl wind tour: Configuring once is best done after testing twice (Oren Eini)

 

PowerShell

• Keeping it simple – Line breaks in PowerShell (Jacob Moran)
• AWS DSC Toolkit (Katie Keim)

 

Miscellaneous

• What Has Microsoft Done For You Lately? (Cody Lindley)
• Announcing Windows 10 Mobile Insider Preview Build 14327 (Gabe Aul)

 

More Link Collections

• Windows App Developer Links – 2016-04-21 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2016-04-21 (Dan Rigby)
• The Morning Brew #2077 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #1673 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Geek Reading April 20, 2016 #1088 (Robert Diana)
• Developer News – What’s IN with the Infragistics Community? (4/4-4/17) (Dara Monasch)
• Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for Apr 20th, 2016 (Dmitry Lyalin)

 

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