Dew Drop – January 20, 2015 (#1936)

Top Links

• Introducing the Xamarin WatchKit Preview (Miguel de Icaza)
• New handy Visual Studio extensions – part 2 (Mads Kristensen)
• Technical Leadership for Agile Teams (Ben Linders)
• What to expect (and what you won’t see) at this week’s Windows 10 launch (Ed Bott)

 

Web Development

• Creating Your Own Widgets Using Various WordPress APIs: Introduction (Bonang Salemane)
• A Journey Through Client-Side Testing with JavaScript (Krasimir Tsonev)
• Using ASP.NET MVC TempData and Session to pass values across Requests (Mahesh Sabnis)
• Even More Essential Plugins for WordPress Theme Development (Patrick Mwachugu)
• Visual Studio 2015 Preview + ASP.NET 5 (Pete D.)
• 20 Burning Questions for ASP.NET Developers (Sam Basu)
• Speed up WebAPI on Microsoft Azure (Ugo Lattanzi)
• When To Use ‘use strict’ (Lee Brandt)
• Front end and back end (Peter-Paul Koch)
• CSS You Can Get Excited About in 2015 (Rachel Andrew)
• Everything You Need to Have a Rocking Node IDE on Windows for Free (Rami Sayar)

 

XAML

• Microsoft RMS SDK 4.1 for Windows Phone (MS Downloads)
• Working With Local Databases on Windows Phone 8 (Vivek Maskara)
• Using Google Spreadsheets as a Data Source in Your Windows Store App (Kiril Stanoev)
• Windows (Phone) app analytics (Matt Lacey)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Interview: Andrea Magnorsky on F#, Property Based Testing With FsCheck (Andrea Magnorsky)
• Debugging Small Basic Apps in Visual Studio (Phillip Trelford)
• Markdown in Visual Studio Online (Allen Clark)
• .NET Shell Extensions – Shell Icon Handlers (Dave Kerr)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• “Open on GitHub” (Greg Duncan)
• Burning Down The House–Agile Remix (Gil Zilberfeld)
• Quick Pull Requests (Coby Chapple)
• Pair Programming Lessons from Improv (George Dinwiddie)
• Organization-approved applications (Jason Rudolph)
• Discovering Your Leadership Posted (Johanna Rothman)
• Create Pull Requests with GitHub for Mac (Josh Abernathy)
• Article: Building Hybrid Teams (Michi Tyson)
• Striking parallels between mathematics and software engineering (Alice Zheng)
• 4 essential layout trends for 2015 (Patrick McNeil)
• Eliminate Dependencies with the Wrapper Pattern (Scott DePouw)
• How to unset a proxy for a specific git repository or remote (Simone Chiaretta)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Adding Azure Active Directory Authentication to Android Xamarin.Forms Project (Nick Randolph)
• Exploring the Internet of Things (IoT) with Lync (& Skype for Business) and .Net Gadgeteer (Matthew Proctor)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Identity Server with Dominick Baier and Brock Allen (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Rainn Wilson Returns (Chris Hardwick)
• Defrag Tools #124 – DebugDiag Part 4 | Defrag Tools (Andrew Richards & Chad Beeder)
• Webinar Recording: Migrating Apps to the Unified API and 64-Bit (Courtney Witmer)
• Ping 232: USB 3.1, Xbox Wins an Emmy, Rudy Huyn | Ping! (Mark DeFalco & RicksterCDN)
• Entreprogrammers Episode 48.1 (Derick Bailey, Josh Earl & John Sonmez)

 

Community / Events

• Hello – a formal introduction to SuperSite’s Richard Hay (Richard Hay)
• Heal the World – Make it a better place: Imagine Cup Announced! (Adarsha Datta)
• .NET Developers Making Great Products (Vicky)
• Let’s Talk About TelerikNEXT (Burke Holland)

 

Database

• Importing Mainframe Data including Packed Numbers with SQL Server Integration Services (Daniel Farina)
• Configure SQL Server Alerts and Notifications for AlwaysOn Availability Groups (Carla Abanes)
• How to Use SQL Server’s Dedicated Admin Connection (DAC) – Video (Kendra Little)
• SQL SERVER – How DBAs Have to be Proactive in Identifying and Fixing Problems Before They Happen (Pinal Dave)
• Continuous Database Delivery (Wes Higbee)
• Getting the SQL for HQL and Criteria Queries (Ricardo Peres)
• Inspecting your Entity Framework SQL (Josh Eastburn)

 

PowerShell

• Announcing DSC resources to deploy Hyper-V converged virtual network (Ravikanth C.)

 

Miscellaneous

• I sold my MacBook Pro and bought a Chromebook (Joe Wilcox)
• Cracking The Coding Interview: 12 Things You Need To Know (John Sonmez)

 

More Link Collections

• Double Shot #1461 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Geek Reading January 19, 2015 (Robert Diana)
• Daily News Digest 1/19/2015 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #1781 (Chris Alcock)
• Weekly Programming Digest #90 (Jakub Chodounský)
• Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for January 20th, 2015 (Dmitry Lyalin)

 

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