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Dew Drop – January 28, 2016 (#2176)

Top Links

Visual Studio Walkthrough for iOS Developers (Windows Apps Team)
No, Estimates Are Not Evil (J. B. Rainsberger)
Getting Started with Selenium Testing in a Continuous Integration Pipeline with Visual Studio (Charles Sterling)
Seven Swift Snares & How to Avoid Them (David Ungar)

Web Development

Inline Images in ASP.NET MVC Core (Ricardo Peres)
Introducing React (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
New option in JSLint for multiple var declarations (Julian M. Bucknall)
What to Expect in 2016 for Kendo UI with Angular 2 and More (Stefan Rahnev)
Exploiting TypeScript Arrays (Peter Vogel)
Improved commenting with Markdown (Aaron Shekey)
Azure Media Player update with a 33% size reduction (Amit Rajput)
Automatically Evaluating Compressibility (Eric Lawrence)

XAML

Crash debugging Windows 10 Mobile UWP apps (Stephen Roughley)

Miscellaneous .NET

Options for displaying modal dialogs in Visual Studio extensions (Utkarsh Shigihalli)
Fastest code is the one not run: Part I – The cost of escaping strings (Oren Eini)
Continuous Delivery with TFS / VSTS – A Lap Around the Contoso University Sample Application (Graham Smith)
Branch and pull requests improvements for Visual Studio (Jeremy Epling)
Release 1.0 of Suave, a Web Server and Development Library for F# (Pierre-Luc Maheu)
How to skip the confirmation dialog before deleting all breakpoints? (Abhijit Jana)
Morning Dew Deal – Reactive Applications with Akka.NET – Discount Code (Me)
VS Team Services Update – Jan 25th (Brian Harry)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Managing different categories of toggles (Martin Fowler)
What does it mean to be an Agile tester? (DevToolsGuy)
Trello’s Evernote Integration: Perfect For Writers With Workflows (Lauren Moon)
Microservices: It’s Not Just for Netflix and Unicorns (Brian Whipple)
Calculating the ROI of NDepend (Erik Dietrich)
Service discovery (Gabriel Schenker)
Four Tips for Pair Writing (Johanna Rothman)
Application Insights announces availability of Release Annotations (Mike Gresley)
Powerful Integration Testing (Patrick Lioi)
Adding Performance/load test to Azure Web and Mobile App Continuous Deployment (Ranganath G.)

Other Mobile Platforms

iOS 9: An Introduction to the Contacts Framework (Davis Allie)
Instrumenting iOS Apps, What could go wrong? (Noel Rice)
Where to Place Your Accordion Menu Icons (Anthony)
Be a 3D Hero with UrhoSharp (Greg Duncan)
Updates to Node.js SDK for Azure Mobile Apps (MS Openness Team)
Simplifying Events with Commanding (David Britch)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

Thimbleweed Park Podcast #38 (Ron Gilbert)
.NET Rocks! – Understanding R with Barbara Fusinska (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
Office Dev Show – Episode 21 – Getting Started with Native iOS Development | Office Dev Show (Sonya Koptyev & Richard diZerega)
196 JSJ Tabris.js with Jochen Krause and Ian Bull (Charles Max Wood, AJ O’Neal, Jamison Dance, Dave Smith & Aimee Knight)
007 jsAir – Chakra, Microsoft’s Open Source JavaScript Engine with Ed Maurer, Gaurav Seth, and Steve Lucco (Kent C. Dodds)
The Joy of Coding – Episode 42 (Air Mozilla)
Defrag: Endoscope USB Camera, The Final [HoloLens] Vote, Adblock Pi and more… | The Defrag Show (Larry Larsen)
SQL Server Radio Show 40 – Just Another Show (Matan Yungman & Guy Glantser)

Community / Events

Geek of the Week: YA Author & Poet Cordelia Jensen (Samantha Paradise)
A Tribute to VMware Workstation, Fusion, and Hosted UI (Christian Hammond)

Database

Tabular vs Multidimensional models for SQL Server Analysis Services (Daniel Calbimonte)
SQL Server Agent is an application server. (Brent Ozar)
SQL SERVER – Fixing Annoying Network Binding Order Error – Notes from the Field #112 (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 14251 (Gabe Aul)

More Link Collections

Geek Reading January 27, 2016 (Robert Diana)
The Morning Brew #2019 (Chris Alcock)
Top News from October-December 2015, Part 2 (Kraig Brockschmidt)
The Daily Six Pack: January 28, 2016 (Dirk Strauss)
Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for Jan 27th, 2016 (Dmitry Lyalin)

The Geek Shelf

The Wheel of Time Companion: The People, Places and History of the Bestselling Series (9780765314611): Robert Jordan, Harriet McDougal, Alan Romanczuk, Maria Simons: Books

ISBN: 0765314614
ISBN-13: 9780765314611

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Morning Dew Deal – Reactive Applications with Akka.NET – Discount Code

Manning Publications has a new MEAP (Manning Early Access Preview) title, Reactive Applications with Akka.NET.

Reactive Applications with Akka.NET begins with an overview of reactive and a sample application written in the reactive style. You’ll learn concepts of the actor model and what these mean in a real-world reactive context. This hands-on book builds on fundamental concepts to teach you how to create reliable and resilient applications. You’ll also learn useful Akka.NET features for building real-world applications. By the end of the book, you’ll be able to look at a problem domain and understand how to create applications which are able to withstand the demands of a modern day application.

From now thru February 3, 2016, Morning Dew readers can get 40% off all formats of this title by using discount code rakkanet at checkout.

Cheers!

Alvin

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Dew Drop – October 27, 2015 (#2120)

Top Links

Visual Studio Code 0.9.2 (or, how many squares do you see?) (Chris Dias)
Nulls Break Polymorphism and TDD with Visual Studio 2015 – Day 26 – Visual Studio 2015 (Steve Smith)
.NET Rocks! – F# 4.0 with Lincoln Atkinson (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
New Xbox One Experience launching on November 12 (Dan Thorp-Lancaster)

Web Development

6 Node.js Modules You Should Be Using (Jeff Cogswell)
Using PostCSS Together with Sass, Stylus, or LESS (Kezz Bracey)
What’s new in Angular 2 (Sophie Belle)
Implementing Strategy Pattern and Callbacks in TypeScript (Peter Vogel)
Adding support for Canvas in ChakraBridge (David Catuhe)
ES6 Overview in 350 Bullet Points (Robin Rendle)

XAML

#MSBAND – List, add and delete Tiles using an #Windows10 app and Visual Studio 2015 (Bruno Capuano)
#UWP Tips: C# code to change #Windows 10 Start Screen image (Kunal Chowdhury)

Miscellaneous .NET

Unknown File Type? Visual Studio Suggestion Extension… (Greg Duncan)
Simple JSON API Calls In C# In 10 Minutes (Matthias Shapiro)
Visual Studio Time Saver– Setting and creating themes (Susan Ibach)
Correlation Id Scope (Ricardo Peres)
Using Predicates in Akka.NET Receive Actors (Jason Roberts)
Simple Service implementation with CSLA .NET (Rockford Lhotka)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Null Object Pattern (DevIQ)
Generic UI Testing with Coded UI – Day 27 – Visual Studio 2015 (Kris Lankford)
Sketch 3.4 is released (Benjie Moss)
You Can’t Build An MVP (Gil Zilberfeld)
Site of the Living Dead: Defending against Zombie Data (Lanette Creamer)
#Ebook Deal/Day: Algorithms in a Nutshell – $25.49 (Save 50%) Use code DEAL (O’Reilly Media)
Why following software design best practices decreases code complexity (Vladimir Khorikov)

Other Mobile Platforms

iOS 9: An Introduction to 3D Touch (Davis Allie)
New in Android Samples: Authenticating to remote servers using the Fingerprint API (Takeshi Hagikura & Yuichi Araki)
How to Create Custom Project Templates in Xcode 7 (Sophia Lazarova)
New Microsoft Project Oxford Features including Open Source SDKs (Paul Ballard)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 176 #OTP (Richard Hay)
WinBeta Podcast 38: Windows 10 Redstone, Threshold 2 and Halo 5 (Sean Michael)
Scrum Master Toolbox – Two Anti-Patterns That Destroy Teams | Dennis Wagner (Vasco Duarte)
EntreProgrammers Episode 88 “Now I Got A Leaf Blower…” (Josh Earl, John Sonmez, Derick Bailey & Charles Max Wood)
Talk Python to Me #31 Machine Learning with Python and scikit-learn (Michael Kennedy)

Community / Events

Magic, Mischief, and Day of the Dead: The Mütter Museum Celebrating Halloween All Week Long (Eric Smith)
Ready, Set, Summit! (MVP Award Program)
.NET Teachers (Vicky)

Database

Microsoft SQL Server Data-Tier Application Framework (October 2015 Preview) (MS Downloads)
SQL Server Reporting Services 2016 Subscription Enhancements (Scott Murray)
SQL Server replication between different schemas (Rajendra Gupta)
SQL SERVER – Script level upgrade for database ‘master’ failed – CREATE SCHEMA failed due to previous errors (Pinal Dave)
Apache Flume 2nd Ed (Ian Stirk)
ebook deal of the week: The Definitive Guide to DAX (Kim Spilker)
Things You Need To Know about Nolock (Matan Yungman)
Couchbase 4.0 Supports Multi-dimensional Scaling, Geospatial Indexes and New Query Language N1QL (Srini Penchikala)

PowerShell

Azure DSC Extension – Versions 1.0-2.3 no longer available (PowerShell Team)

Miscellaneous

OneNote Class Notebook and Office Mix announce new LMS integration features (OneNote Team)
Surface Book and Surface Pro 4 go on sale today (Panos Panay)
Halo 5: Guardians review (Sam Byford)

More Link Collections

Geek Reading October 26, 2015 (Robert Diana)
Double Shot #1572 and Double Shot #1573 (Mike Gunderloy)
Reading Notes #207 (Frank Boucher)
The Morning Brew #1955 (Chris Alcock)
Windows App Developer Links – 2015-10-27 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2015-10-27 (Dan Rigby)
Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for Oct 26th, 2015 (Dmitry Lyalin)

The Geek Shelf

AmazonBasics Portable Power Bank – 10,000 mAh: Cell Phones & Accessories

ASIN: B00LRK8JDC

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