Dew Drop – January 13, 2015 (#1932)

Top Links

• Xamarin.iOS Unified API with 64-bit Support (Miguel de Icaza)
• Microsoft & GitHub: Free tools for student developers (Steve Guggenheimer)
• C# 7 feature request #1… extension attributes (Jon Skeet)
• Visual Studio Tools for Apache Cordova and the remote mac agent (Alex Moskwa)

 

Web Development

• jQuery Lighter : jQuery plugin for Zoomable Images (jQuery Rain)
• Strategies for Keeping CSS Specificity Low and Abusing CSS3’s nth-child selector to invent new ones (Chris Coyier)
• ASP.NET: Understanding OWIN, Katana, and the Middleware Pipeline (John Atten)
• <main> HTML5 Tag not working in Internet Explorer 9/10/11 (Rick Strahl)
• Evolving ASP.NET Applications–SQL Injection (Simon Timms)
• ASP.NET 5 and AngularJS Part 1, Configuring Grunt, Uglify, and AngularJS and ASP.NET 5 and AngularJS Part 2, Using the MVC 6 Web API (Stephen Walther)
• What Developers are Saying About: AngularJS Line of Business Applications (Deborah Kurata)
• Top Weather APIs: an In-depth Comparison (Janet Wagner)
• DockerCon EU: Introducing Docker Swarm (Victor Vieux)

 

XAML

• Announcing the Mojio Windows Phone Developer App Contest (Emilio Salvador Prieto)
• Sample Windows 8.1 App – Uploading Images to Cloud Using Azure Mobile Services (Zhiming Xue)
• Adding Azure Active Directory Authentication to Azure Mobile Service (Nick Randolph)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Bulk Fixes and Refactorings in ReSharper 9 (Dmitri Nesteruk)
• Nuget bug I ran into with solution level packages and dependencies (Gregor Suttie)
• List of All New Features in C# 6.0: Part 2 (Nitin Pandit)
• “F# Deep Dives” is out (Johann Deneux)
• NuGet Package of the Week: Polly wanna fluently express transient exception handling policies in .NET? (Scott Hanselman)
• Getting started with Roslyn – Part 1 (Leom Burke)
• Give your instrumentation some love in 2015! (Nicholas Blumhardt)
• Implementing std::tuple From The Ground Up – Part 1: Introduction and Basic Structure (Sasha Goldshtein)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Why isn’t the architecture in the code? (Simon Brown)
• Five Tips To Be A Better Consultant (Julio Farah)
• Using Setup and Cleanup Script in Cloud Load Test (Bhavesh Bhati)
• Architecture, Technology and the Lava Layer Anti-Pattern (Jan Stenberg)
• Git Stash – Saving Stuff for Later (Jeremy Clark)
• Generic variance in DI containers (Jimmy Bogard)
• Why Cisco Moved To An API Architecture (Martin W. Brennan)
• The CHAOS Report and #NoEstimates (Gil Zilberfeld)
• Your Job Is Not To Write Code (Ted Neward)
• Immutable Objects Are Not Dumb (Yegor Bugayenko)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• #Ebook Deal/Day: High Performance Android Apps – $19.49 (Save 50%) Use code DEAL (O’Reilly Media)
• Xamarin 3.9 is Stable: Update Now (Oren Novotny)
• Being a Successful App Developer – Part 1 – Defining Success (Atley Hunter)
• The Internet of Things has four big data problems (Alistair Croll)
• Communicating with EventHub using Neuron ESB and Arduino (Tanmoy Sarkar)
• Mobile Deep Linking for Web and Hybrid Apps (Tim Severien)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Statistical Genomics using F# with Evelina Gabasova (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Gone Mobile Episode 21: Learning iOS with Reinder de Vries (Greg Shackles & Jon Dick)
• AAWP Insight #123: Lumia 535, Yezz Billy 5S (Rafe Blandford)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Gillian Anderson (Chris Hardwick)
• Defrag Tools #123 – DebugDiag Part 3 | Defrag Tools (Andrew Richards & Chad Beeder)
• The Married Gamers Episode 355: Cut the Cord (Chris Brown)
• 3D Builder Tutorial Part 3: Object Mode and Settings (Gavin Gear)
• Ping 231: Nokia 215, Water from p**p, SmartBelt, Compute Stick, SlingTV | Ping! (Mark DeFalco & RicksterCDN)
• OTN Architect to Architect Podcast – Microservices Roundtable – Part 1 and Microservices Roundtable – Part 2 and Microservices Roundtable – Part 3 and Microservices Roundtable – Part 4 (Oracle Tech Network)

 

Community / Events

• CodeMash 2015 recap (Bill Wagner)
• In Response to a Letter from a Beginning Programmer (Aaron Stannard)
• Nominate a Speaker for ‘TEDxPhiladelphia 2015: …And Justice for All’ (Bianca)
• Developer Rudy Huyn brings apps to the people (Emily Alhadeff)
• Thoughts from CodeMash 2015 (Jeremy D. Miller)

 

Database

• SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) Repeating Headers On Pages (Scott Murray)
• “SQL Server Compact & SQLite Toolbox” related news (Erik EJ)
• SQL SERVER – Visibility into the Overall Health of Your SQL Server Environment – You Can’t Fix What You Can’t See (Pinal Dave)
• RavenDB–Indexing performance timeline (Oren Eini)

 

SharePoint

• Using Workflows or Long-Running Business Logic in SharePoint Client-Side Solutions (Andrew Connell)
• Office 365 Service Communications API (MS Downloads)

 

PowerShell

• Uninstalling MSI Files with Powershell and WMI (Alex Hildyard)

 

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft, Windows 10 for Phone and what is coming next week (Daniel Rubino)

 

More Link Collections

• Geek Reading January 12, 2015 (Robert Diana)
• Double Shot #1459 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Developer News – What’s IN with the Infragistics Community? (1/5-1/11) (Dara Monasch)
• Daily News Digest 1/13/2015 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #1776 (Chris Alcock)
• Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for January 12th, 2015 (Dmitry Lyalin)
• My weekly newsletter is out – HTML5, Game Dev, Startups (David Voyles)

 

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