Dew Drop – August 29, 2016 (#2317)

Top Links

• .NET API Catalog – Search and Browse .NET APIs (.NET Team)
• What is Serverless Computing? Exploring Azure Functions (Scott Hanselman)
• Serverless architectures: game-changer or a recycled fad? (Gojko Adzic)
• Using Prism modularization in Xamarin.Forms (Davide Zordan)

 

Web Development

• Escaping From Relative Paths in Node.js With DI (Adam Anderson)
• What are Closures in JavaScript? (Dhananjay Kumar)
• ASP.NET Core 1.0 on Cloud 9 and TypeScript for C# Developers (Frank La Vigne)
• Initial Port Of Restful Routing To ASP.NET Core (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
• Quick Tip: Use jQuery to Clone Objects (Learning jQuery)
• Token-Based authentication in Node.js (Mahesh Sabnis)
• Coding Smart Home Skill Adapter Directives Using Node.js (Michael Palermo)
• 8 Handy jQuery Code Snippets For Handling Images (Megan Rafferty)
• Watching Out For Your API Keys & Tokens On Open Internet (Kin Lane)
• Ensure that a Virtual Machine in Azure is stopped (Toni Pohl)
• Containers – An Index (Gabriel Schenker)
• Data is the Hard Part Working with Microservices (Jan Stenberg)
• Using WebP Images (Jeremy Wagner)
• Build A Time-Based One-Time Password Manager With Ionic 2 (Nic Raboy)
• Protecting your embedded content with subresource integrity (SRI) (Troy Hunt)
• Amazon Introduces API Gateway Usage Plans (Kent Weare)
• The 5 Types Of React Application State (James K. Nelson)

 

XAML

• Interop between XAML and the Visual Layer (Michael Crump)
• How To Add Azure Mobile App To An UWP App (Romil Bheda)
• Using the InkToolbar with Custom Dry Ink in Windows Anniversary Edition (Synergist)

Miscellaneous .NET

• TypeShape: Practical Generic Programming in F# and Wire – Writing one of the fastest .NET serializers (Sergey Tihon)
• Going Interactive with C# (Tom Fischer)
• The Case Of The Immutable Map and Object Who Forgot To Override HashCode (Yuval Itzchakov)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• CQRS Application Building Blocks (Kirill Chilingarashvili)
• What Exactly is the Agile Mindset? (Susan McIntosh)
• Voron’s internals: MVCC – All the moving parts and Voron internals: Cleaning up scratch buffers (Oren Eini)
• Why Being A Meaner Boss Will Help Your Company–And Make Your Employees Happy (Denis Wilson)
• Story Splitting Techniques in a Nutshell (David Bernstein)
• Bring Your Own Device: Management Solutions for the Mobile Worker (Kyle Elliott)
• Should you work remotely? (Piotr Gankiewicz)
• Getting to Production Faster – With More Confidence (Craig Ferril)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Controlling the NativeScript TimePicker Rendering Style on Android (Carey Payette)
• Android From Scratch: Hardware Sensors (Paul Trebilcox-Ruiz)
• Microsoft IoT Grove Kit for Raspberry Pi (Chris Pietschmann)
• Building Retroids with GameMaker: Studio – Part 1 (Jon Pulsipher)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• MS Dev Show – UWP on Xbox One with Daren May & Jerry Nixon (Jason Young & Carl Schweitzer)
• Cross-Cutting Concerns Podcast 012 – Sophie Wilson on Acorn, ARM, BASIC (Matthew D. Groves)
• Windows Central Podcast 12: Elite onesies (Derek Kessler)
• Android Central 303: 7.0 ways to enjoy Nougat (Daniel Bader)
• Scrum Master Toolbox – The many misunderstandings of the Scrum Master role | Nirmaljeet Malhotra (Vasco Duarte)
• The Changelog 217: Sourcegraph the ‘Google for Code’ with Beyang Liu (Adam Stacoviak & Jerod Santo)
• GeekWire Radio: Uber tests flat rates, Microsoft’s Xbox Onesie, and inside the tech talent wars (Clare McGrane)
• CodeNewbie Ep. 103 – Algorithms (Carina C. Zona) (CodeNewbie Team)
• Eat, Sleep, Code – Into the Next Dimension with Big Data (Ed Charbeneau)
• Merge Conflict 8: Navigating the SyntaxTree Forest (Frank Krueger & James Montemagno)
• TWC9: App Dev on Xbox, Reality, Virtually, Hackathon!, HoloLens secret sauce and more… | This Week On Channel 9 (Greg Duncan & Vlad Kolesnikov)
• Episode 210: Service Fabric Series (1 of 3) – Introduction | Microsoft Azure Cloud Cover Show (Haishi Bai & Chris Risner)
• Talk Python to Me #73 – Machine learning at the new Microsoft (Michael Kennedy)
• Developer Tea – Tips for Students (Jonathan Cutrell)

 

Community / Events

• More Xamarin Dev Days! (Jayme Singleton)
• Microsoft Emerging Tech Virtual Summit (Sept 13th) (MSFT Business)

 

Database

• Use Sqoop to Load Data from a SQL Server Table to a Hadoop Distributed File System (Dallas Snider)
• SQL Server 2016 Management Studio Enhancements (Rajendra Gupta)
• How to Get Started with SQL Server 2016? – Interview Question of the Week #085 and SQL SERVER – GetRegKeyAccessMask : Could Not Get Registry Access Mask For Registry Key – SQL Server Cluster (Pinal Dave)
• Don’t be affraid of RCSI (Richard Garside)
• Couchbase Server on Windows 10 Anniversary Update (Matthew Groves)

 

Miscellaneous

• Wolfe Kickstarter aims to bring external GPUs to MacBook Pro lineup (Rida Imran)
• Microsoft teases Surface Book 2 on Instagram (Tom Warren)

 

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #2166 (Chris Alcock)
• It’s that time again—happy #FridayFive! (MVP Award Program)
• Collective #241 (Pedro Botelho)
• Last Week on Channel 9: August 22nd – August 28th, 2016 (Greg Duncan)
• 8/27/16 Love My Echo Weekly Summary (April Hamilton)
• Reading List (Bruce Lawson)
• Azure Weekly: August 29, 2016 (Chris Pietschmann)
• GameDev News – Week Ending August 26, 2016 (Brian Peek)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2016-08-29 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2016-08-29 (Dan Rigby)
• Weekly C# Digest Issue #117 (Jakub Chodounsky)
• F# Weekly #35, 2016 (Sergey Tihon)

 

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