Dew Drop – January 2, 2015 (#1925)

Top Links

• Creating Developer Opportunity with Windows Store in 2015 (Todd Brix)
• AutoMapper 3.3 feature: parameterized projections (Jimmy Bogard)
• ContentPresenter for Xamarin.Forms and DataTemplateSelector for Xamarin.Forms (Oren Novotny)
• Software Gardening: Harvesting (Continuous Delivery Techniques) (Craig Berntson)

 

Web Development

• JavaScript: A Look Back Before a Look Forward (Don Kiely)
• Using jQuery Instead Of jqLite In AngularJS and Creating jqLite Plugins In AngularJS (Ben Nadel)
• jQuery Takes over the Pointer Events Polyfill from Google (Abel Avram)
• Forcing MVC Model State to invalid for Unit Tests (Derik Whittaker)
• Developing on Pantheon with PhpStorm (Maarten Balliauw)
• Stop Kendo Template Capitalization Mishaps in Visual Studio 2015 Copy/Paste (Rachel Hagerman)
• Adding Filter Hooks to Your WordPress Theme Framework and Creating Child Themes for Your WordPress Theme Framework (Rachel McCollin)
• Gulp Your TypeScript in ASP.NET 5 (Shayne Boyer)
• Hardware Accelerated CSS: The Nice vs The Naughty (Ariya Hidayat)
• Additions on a Bootstrap Panel (Paul Sheriff)
• Running grunt tasks when deploying ASPNet5 apps to Azure (Aaron Powell)
• Create a Twitter Widget with the Latest Twitter API (Agbonghama Collins)
• New Lodge Course Finished: Everything You Need To Know About SVG (Chris Coyier)
• Static Class Members in ES6 (Ravi Kiran)
• Speeding up HTTPS with session resumption (Nick Sullivan)

 

XAML

• WPF Validation – Using IDataErrorInfo (K K Srinivasan)
• Using XAML RepeatButton in WPF and Using XAML RichTextBox in WPF (Mahesh Chand)
• How to Use Cimbalino Windows Phone Toolkit Media Library – FMRadioService and How to Use Cimbalino Windows Phone Toolkit Device Info – DeviceExtendedPropertiesService and How to Use Cimbalino Windows Phone Toolkit Media Library – MediaLibraryService (Sara Silva)
• WPF Shapes – Polyline (Richard Carr)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Less Defects with F# Units of Measure (Jonathan Wood)
• C# basics: why we override Equals method and C-Sharp Basics: What is Checked and Unchecked operations (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Getting Used to Git in Visual Studio: Branches (Jeremy Clark)
• Kinect for Windows V2 SDK: Playing with Faces (Mike Taulty)
• SpecFlow Strategy (Dave M. Bush)
• Entity Framework Pitfalls: Non Public Entity Sets Setter and Entity Developer Review, Part 4 (Ricardo Peres)
• Apps for Office: Publishing and Distribution (Josh Morales)
• A Lap Around the Kinect for Windows V2 SDK (Pete D.)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• 10 Reasons Why You Won’t Achieve Your Goals (J.D. Meier)
• Scrum – My New Year’s Resolution (Michael Burns)
• Naming Things is Hard: Method-Naming Patterns and Finding a Balance: Code ‘Complexity’ (Steve Wilkes)
• Problem Solving for Software Engineers (Giovanni Scerra)
• Writing Bug Reports that won’t bug you…(or the dev that picks it up) (Greg Duncan)
• Article: We Need No Less Than Pervasive Leadership (Jean Richardson)
• The QA Department Mindset (Rob Galanakis)
• Why Remote Engineering Is So Difficult!?#@% (Steven Sinofsky)
• Handoff erodes trust (Wes Higbee)
• Deliberate Practice for Programmers? (John Sonmez)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• App and User Settings in Xamarin.Forms Apps (Chris Sells)
• Styling Views on Android (Sachit Wadhawan)
• Connect the IoT Dot’s with help from ConnectTheDots.io (Connect your tiny IoT devices to Azure…) (Greg Duncan)
• Mobile First, Cloud First and How it Applies to Line of Business Software and Field Engineer Sample for Azure Mobile Services (Nick Randolph)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Typewriters on Tablets using Xamarin with Jon Peppers and .NET Rocks! – State of DevOps in .NET at NDC London (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Computer Vision Explained with PyImageSearch’s Adrian Rosebrock (Scott Hanselman)
• 140 JSJ Using Art to Get and Keep People Interested in Programming with Jenn Schiffer (Joe Eames, Charles Max Wood, AJ O’Neal & Jamison Dance)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Ho-Ho-Hostful (Chris Hardwick)
• Hello World Podcast Episode 48: Dave Ward (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Adventures in Angular 023 – Back& with Itay Herskovits and Relly Rivlan (John Papa)
• The Married Gamers Episode 353: Drink Up! (Chris Brown)
• The Amp Hour #230 – Prepping For Hoverboards – Gallionic GitHub Gabble (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
• Nerds At Play 076: Technical Difficulties, the Sequel (Melisa Snyder)
• RiYL Episode 086: Cory Doctorow (Brian Heater)

 

Community / Events

• Microsoft web camps across the US in January (David Voyles)
• Systems Thinking about WIT (Jessica Kerr)
• Dev of the Week: Erich Styger (John Walter)
• Thanks for an Incredible 2014! MVA 2.6 Million Customers Strong! (Michael Aldridge)
• New and Renewed MVPs Announced – Happy New Year! (MVP Award Program)

 

Database

• Add a linear trendline to a graph in SQL Server Reporting Services (Koen Verbeeck)
• SQL Server Internals: In-Memory OLTP (Ian Stirk)
• Show 13 – SQL Server Monitoring (Matan Yungman)
• SQL SERVER – Fix – Missing “Mirroring” and “Transaction Log Shipping” option in the Database Properties (Pinal Dave)
• Data Subscriptions in RavenDB and Side by side indexes in RavenDB (Oren Eini)
• Bidirectional Relationships And Many-To-Many In The Power BI Designer (Chris Webb)

 

SharePoint

• Creating SharePoint Word Documents with AngularJS using LightSwitch (Michael Washington)

 

PowerShell

• Drop and Re-Create All Foreign Key Constraints in a SQL Server database using PowerShell (Johan Bijnens)
• Securely allocating GUIDs in PowerShell Desired State Configuration Pull Mode (Lee Holmes)

 

Miscellaneous

• Joe Belfiore: More news on Office for Windows Phone is coming before Feb. 19 (John Callaham)
• Microsoft Band possibly back in stock Saturday at Microsoft’s retail stores (Dan Thorp-Lancaster)

 

More Link Collections

• Geek Reading December 31, 2014 (Robert Diana)
• Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for 2014! (Dmitry Lyalin)
• Double Shot #1452 and Double Shot #1453 (Mike Gunderloy)
• A Look Back at 2014: Round-up of Codrops Resources (Mary Lou)
• Coding4Fun 2014 Round-Up (Greg Duncan)
• The Morning Brew #1767 and The Morning Brew #1768 (Chris Alcock)
• December 2014 Links (Kevin Logan)
• Top 10 Most Popular .NET Tips of the Year – From Daily .NET Tips (Abhijit Jana)
• Scrumptious Links from the Interwebs (Michael Burns)
• Top 3 UX Articles of 2014 (Anthony)

 

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