Dew Drop – January 22, 2015 (#1938)

Top Links

• .NET Rocks! – Water Power Geek Out (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• This is Windows 10 for phones (Tom Warren)
• Rollup: Microsoft HoloLens, Surface Hub, Windows 10, Xbox One game streaming and more. (Scott Hanselman)
• Windows 10’s new features get demoed by Joe Belfiore in detailed video (John Callaham)

 

Web Development

• Watching A Collection Of Expressions Using Scope.$watchGroup() In AngularJS (Ben Nadel)
• Why we can’t do real responsive images with CSS or JavaScript (Bruce Lawson)
• Official Responsive Images Plugin for WordPress (Chris Coyier)
• Getting started with Unit Testing JavaScript using QUnit and 11 things about JavaScript functions .NET developers must know: Part 1 (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Migrating from ASP.NET Web API to MVC 6 – exploring Web API Compatibility Shim (Filip W)
• Real-time Communication in AngularJS with ($Q)orlate (Jeremy Likness)
• Render MVC View as String (Saad Khan)
• Evolving ASP.NET Apps–Password Hashing (Simon Timms)
• Microsoft Spartan – What do We Know Right Now? (Chris Love)
• Azure Data Services: Blobbing did you say.. What is that? (Part 3) (Adarsha Datta)
• An Introduction to Adaptive Design (Jordan Morgan)
• Some Ideas for Checkout Effects (Mary Lou)
• Building a Better Web: The Future of Web Development (Mobile Man)
• TypeScript Developer Survey (Ryan Cavanaugh)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• New VS2015 Preview Highlights Enhanced Diagnostic Tools (Jeff Martin)
• Should all .NET Collections Implement all .NET Collection Interfaces? (Jonathan Allen)
• NetMQ : Documentation is there….Phew (Sacha Barber)
• Windows 10 for developers (Andreas Hammar)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Application Security for Agile Projects (Shirish Padalkar)
• Agile project management futures… (Aaron Bjork)
• Scaling Agile with the Disciplined Agile Delivery Framework (Ben Linders)
• We Need Planning; Do We Need Estimation? (Johanna Rothman)
• Do you need an expert in Visual Studio ALM, TFS, or Scrum? (Martin Hinshelwood)
• You Aren’t Doing Scrum If… (Dave M. Bush)
• Thank You For That Pull Request, However (Rob Conery)
• 5 Tips for Contributing to Microsoft Open Source Projects (Terrence Dorsey)
• 21 collaboration tools to streamline your teamwork (Cameron Chapman)
• Introducing Source Browser (Josh Varty)
• How to write the perfect pull request (Keavy McMinn)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Using Google Spreadsheets as Data Source in Your Android App (Kiril Stanoev)
• Authenticate Xamarin Mobile Apps Using Azure Active Directory (Mayur Tendulkar)
• Active Directory Authentication with iOS with Xamarin.Forms (Nick Randolph)
• Create Android apps with Java in Visual Studio? and Create Android apps with Java in Visual Studio – my logic (Matt Lacey)
• Telerik UI for Windows Universal: Customizing the RadRating Control (Josh Morales)
• beakn v0.4.1 – DIY Lync Status Light with a Spark Core, Onboard LED, Ping Pong Ball and a Cardboard Box (Jon Gallant)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Special Edition – Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 156 #OTP (Richard Hay)
• Phil Spencer Unveils New Experiences for Xbox One and Windows 10 Gamers (Xbox Wire)
• 143 JSJ Teaching Programming and Computer Science with Pamela Fox (Joe Eames, Charles Max Wood, AJ O’Neal, Jamison Dance & Dave Smith)
• The Amp Hour #233 – Glass and Gongkai GSM – Unzymotic Ursidae Upbuilding (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
• Defrag: Nexus 6 Videos on Media Player, Troubleshooting Slow Booting, Finding Drive Serial Numbers and more | The Defrag Show (Greg Duncan & Larry Larsen)
• Xbox on Windows 10 Presentation (Larry Hryb)

 

Community / Events

• Top 10 Conferences for iOS Developers to Attend in 2015 (Michael Crump)
• Looking ahead, Looking back (Bill Wagner)

 

Database

• Plotting data on a secondary axis in SQL Server Reporting Services (Koen Verbeeck)
• Using the SQL Server Default Trace to Audit Events (Percy Reyes)
• Microsoft BI and SQL Server Courses For 2015 (Chris Webb)
• SQL SERVER – The DBA goes to MARS – Maintenance, Architecture, Research and Support – Notes from the Field #063 (Pinal Dave)
• Urgent AlwaysOn Availability Groups Bug (Brent Ozar)
• How to Query Extended Events Target XML (Jes Schultz Borland)
• The Data Loading Performance Presentation (Matan Yungman)

 

PowerShell

• Using DSC to deploy Hyper-V converged virtual network – Creating a converged virtual switch (Part 2) (Ravikanth C)

 

Miscellaneous

• Windows 10 for smartphones shown off for the first time on a Lumia 1520 and Microsoft Surface Hub is a new 84-inch 4K Windows 10 device and Microsoft HoloLens is the company’s new holographic computer that goes on your head (John Callaham)
• Microsoft unveils new, Universal version of Outlook for phones, tablets, and PCs and Microsoft debuts Project Spartan, a new web browser for Windows 10 and New Windows 10 preview build goes out to Insiders next week, Phone preview in February (Joseph Keller)
• All modern Windows Phones can get Windows 10, flagship ‘later this summer’ (Daniel Rubino)

 

More Link Collections

• Geek Reading January 21, 2015 (Robert Diana)
• The Morning Brew #1783 (Chris Alcock)

 

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