Dew Drop – December 23, 2014 (#1921)

Top Links

• Using Github repositories for presentation samples (Bill Wagner)
• EF6.1.2 RTM Available (Rowan Miller)
• Extending Xamarin.Forms with Control Plugins (James Montemagno)
• The New Agile–Why Is Agile So Popular? (Gil Zilberfeld)

 

Web Development

• Another update for the Hudson Community (Brian Benz)
• Pulp 2.5 Released Including Docker Repository Management (Carlos Sanchez)
• Getting Started with Gulp (Jeff Lembeck)

 

XAML

• Using XAML Menus in WPF (Mahesh Chand)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Bug Fix Update to JetBrains .NET Tools is Available (Daria Dovzhikova)
• The sideways stack trace (Bertrand Le Roy)
• Working with System.Runtime.Caching.MemoryCache (Adam Anderson)
• IntelliTrace Standalone Collector and Application Pools running under Active Directory accounts (Angelos Petropoulos)
• Related entities in Entity Framework Code First approach (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Apps for Office: Mail Apps Part 3 – Compose Mode (Josh Morales)
• Setting, clearing, and testing a single bit in an SSE register (Raymond Chen)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The four species of Agile (Dror Helper)
• Visual Studio Test Settings selection problems (Kevin Logan)
• What is Mindmapping? Learn Today (Chance Brown)
• Resolve to Track Issues more Efficiently Next Year | Guest Blog by Axosoft (Marissa K.)
• Share and Collaborate with Your Team Using Office 365 (Rayda D.)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Refactoring for Software Design Smells – $34.98 (Save 50%) Use code DEAL (O’Reilly Media)
• Software components as a toy (Peter van Ooijen)
• Direct Responsibility (Wes Higbee)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Android RecyclerView – Simple List (Per-Erik Bergman)
• Animating Your Mobile UI with Famo.us and Telerik AppBuilder (Jen Looper)
• From full microsoft stack to cross platform development (Matt Wrock)
• “House Ads” vs AdDuplex (Matt Lacey)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Docker on Windows with Ben Hall (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• GoingNative 33: C++ Refactoring in Visual Studio 2015 | C9::GoingNative (Gabriel Ha)
• Entreprogrammers Episode 44 (Derick Bailey, Josh Earl & John Sonmez)
• RiYL Episode 085: Francoise Mouly (Brian Heater)

 

Community / Events

• The Microsoft Small Basic Guru Award Winners (November 2014) (Ed Price)

 

Database

• SQL Server Min Max Column Normalization for Data Mining (Dallas Snider)
• Formatting Durations in SSAS: Caveat (Koen Verbeeck)
• SQL Server 2014 DML Triggers: Tips & Tricks from the Field (Sergio Govoni)
• SQL SERVER – Story of Temporary Objects (Pinal Dave)
• Iterative index tryouts in RavenDB (Oren Eini)
• Auto backup and restore PostgreSQL (Jakub Chodounský)
• Viewing Error Messages For All Rows In Power Query (Chris Webb)
• Read Committed Snapshot Isolation: Writers Block Writers (RCSI) (Kendra Little)
• Client tooling updates for Azure SQL Database (Sanjay Nagamangalam)

 

PowerShell

• Take your PowerShell to the next level with advanced functions (Adam Bertram)
• Holiday present from PowerShell Magazine – DSC resource module to install and configure Azure Recovery Services Agent (Ravikanth C)

 

Miscellaneous

• Emaroo 2.1.0 Released (Roland Weigelt)
• Exploring Cloud Enabled Solutions on the Azure Platform (Mike Rossi)

 

More Link Collections

• Geek Reading December 22, 2014 (Robert Diana)
• The Morning Brew #1764 (Chris Alcock)
• Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for December 22nd, 2014 (Dmitry Lyalin)

 

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