Dew Drop – December 9, 2014 (#1911)

Top Links

• Android Studio 1.0 (Jamal Eason)
• Introducing Microsoft Imagine for Student Developers of All Ages (Steve Guggenheimer)
• .NET Rocks! – Hexagonal Architectures in .NET with Ian Cooper (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Text To Speech Plugin for Xamarin and Windows (James Montemagno)

 

Web Development

• Building your first Node.js module (Jonathan Fielding)
• SignalR + RX Streaming Data Demo App (Sacha Barber)
• Algolia Real Time Search With Parse (Scott Smith)
• Processing JSON Responses Server Side Instead of XML (Andrew Connell)
• es6-proxies (Axel Rauschmayer)
• The next UX challenge on the web: gaining offline trust (Chris Heilmann)
• RESTful API Design With NodeJS & Restify (Hüseyin Babal)
• Status roadmap update: srcset, element, and date inputs in development (Jacob Rossi)
• Inspiration for Dialog Effects (Mary Lou)
• Space Invaders Game Written in TypeScript (Shawn Lawsure)

 

XAML

• Adding contacts in a Universal Store App (Windows Store and Windows Phone) (Iris Classon)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Fluent asynchronous API 4: Nope, Q won’t work (Bertrand Le Roy)
• Composing Christmas with F# (Tomas Petricek)
• What’s New in C# 6.0 Inside Visual Studio 2015 Preview (Michael Crump)
• TIP: Don’t Touch! Well okay go ahead…Touch Support in Visual Studio 2015 (Susan Ibach)
• Find the last Sunday of each Month (Phillip Trelford)
• “.NET Core is the future”, but who’s future is that? (Frans Bouma)
• Add the same Projects often? You’ll want this extension… (Greg Duncan)
• Updates to the “IfBracesAnalyzer” Code Fix Method (Jeremy Clark)
• Dramatically Improve Entity Framework Performance with Bulk Operations (Jonathan Allen)
• Creating double-precision integer multiplication with a quad-precision result from single-precision multiplication with a double-precision result (Raymond Chen)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Prototyping an Organization to Improve the Way of Working (Ben Linders)
• Installing msysGit – Git for Windows (Esteban Garcia)
• Why software bugs exist and how you can help (Jeff Yates)
• Crop and Straighten in Photoshop (Julieanne Kost)
• From the MVPs: Working as a network – Yammer as a Distribution Group (Kim Spilker)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Data Algorithms – $29.99 (Save 50%) Use code DEAL (O’Reilly Media)
• How UX & Ethnography mix. (Scott Barnes)
• Use does not imply worth (Wes McClure)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Review: iOS Development with Xamarin Cookbook (Ian Elliot)
• The Verified Cordova Plugins Marketplace Wants YOU (Rob Lauer)
• Intel® XDK Application Development with Dolby Audio API (Leila Chucri)
• Office 365 Client APIs for Hybrid Mobile Apps (Suresh Jayabalan)
• Comparison of Modern C++ and Apple’s Swift Programming Language Syntax (Michael Kennedy)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• The Married Gamers Episode 351: Podcast Deployed (Chris Brown)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Wil Wheaton Returns (Chris Hardwick)
• Defrag Tools #118 – PerfView Part 6 | Defrag Tools (Andrew Richards, Vance Morrison & Chad Beeder)
• Entreprogrammers Episode 42 (Derick Bailey, Josh Earl & John Sonmez)

 

Community / Events

• Article: Q&A with Janet Gregory and Lisa Crispin about More Agile Testing (Ben Linders)
• Live Webinars: What’s New in ReSharper 9 (Dec 11); What’s New in dotTrace 6 (Dec 16) (Daria Dovzhikova)

 

Database

• SQL SERVER – List the Name of the Months Between Date Ranges (Pinal Dave)

 

SharePoint

• Developing a Mobile SharePoint Solution with Infragistics – Part I: Extensibility (DevToolsGuy)
• SharePoint: Customization Evolution (Sagar P)

 

PowerShell

• #PSTip Editing remote file in PowerShell ISE (Ravikanth C)

 

Miscellaneous

• here.com reinvented with a new look and cool features (Jere Suikkila)
• Comparison of Syntax-Highlighter-Plugins for Windows Live Writer (Marko Apfel)
• Cord-Cutting with the Xbox One (Corey Roth)
• Small Basic: Revision Control – Featured Article (Nonki Takahashi)

 

More Link Collections

• Double Shot #1442 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Geek Reading December 8, 2014 (Robert Diana)
• The Morning Brew #1754 (Chris Alcock)
• The Daily Six Pack: December 09, 2014 (Dirk Strauss)

 

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