Dew Drop – January 26, 2015 (#1940)

Top Links

• Building C#/ASP.NET Apps on a Mac With vNext (Jeremy Morgan)
• A new library to display animated GIFs in XAML apps (Thomas Levesque)
• Creating a Task Application for iOS using Swift (Michael Crump)
• Separating Concerns in Methods (Jeremy Clark)

 

Web Development

• Providing State-Transformation Triggers Using $location In AngularJS and $route Must Be Injected In Order To Enable The $routeChangeSuccess Event In AngularJS (Ben Nadel)
• Adding Azure Active Directory Configuration Code and Assemblies into an AngularJS/ASP.NET MVC Application and Adding Azure Active Directory and OWIN Code into an AngularJS/ASP.NET MVC Application to Handle User Authentication (Dan Wahlin)
• Kendo ObservableObject subclasses: prototype vs init (Adam Anderson)
• Cache Busting via Gulp.js (Cory House)
• Declare that function! But, how? (Julian M. Bucknall)
• Using Grunt.js to Merge and Minify JavaScript files in an ASP.NET MVC Application (Mahesh Sabnis)
• Fun with ASP.NET 5, Linux & Docker (Mark Rendle)
• JavaScript and the living ECMAScript Standard (Andrea Giammarchi)
• ASP.NET Identity 2.1 implementation for MySQL (Radenko Zec)
• Node.js and TypeScript Modules: Internal, External… Shake it All About (Steve Wilkes)
• DOM: element constructors and DOM: custom elements (Anne van Kesteren)
• Automatic deployment of multiple repositories to Azure (Bertrand Le Roy)
• Respond to different formats in Rails controller (Jakub Chodounský)
• es6-destructuring (Axel Rauschmayer)
• The ultimate guide to SVG (Ezequiel Bruni)
• Symbols in ES6 (K. Scott Allen)
• AngularJS’ Internals In Depth (Nicolas Bevacqua)
• The danger of the ‘Just Use WebKit’ mindset and Microsoft’s Project Spartan and speculating Internet Explorer’s future (Aaron Powell)

 

XAML

• Xamarin.Forms, Windows Phone, Azure Active Directory and iOS (Nick Randolph)
• WinRT Background Task Processes (Peter Freeman Foot)
• WPF Shapes – Path – Polyline Segments (Richard Carr)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• TPL Dataflow by Example code samples for LINQPad (Howard van Rooijen)
• Object Oriented, Test Driven Design in C# and Java (Paul Mooney)
• Internet of Things: What about C# there? (Sergiy Baydachnyy)
• Visual Studio Time Saver–the layout you want when you want it (Susan Ibach)
• New and improved diff lists (Koen Zwikstra)
• Entity Framework Pitfalls: Mapping Discriminator Columns (Ricardo Peres)
• Simplifying Events in .NET (John L. Vidal)
• .NET API Review Part 2 (Jonathan Allen)
• Why Analytics? (Merav Davidson)
• Helper functions to make shell bind contexts slightly more manageable (Raymond Chen)
• Implementing std::tuple From The Ground Up – Part 3: Constructing Tuples (Sasha Goldshtein)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Design Patterns: The Decorator Pattern and Design Patterns: The Strategy Pattern and Design Patterns: The Simple Factory Pattern (Avinash Zala)
• Using the “Worse is Better” Concept with Agile and Lean and Feedback Cycles in Scrum and The State of Testing in 2015 (Ben Linders)
• Attention is the Currency of Leadership (Charlie Kindel)
• Don’t Share Code Between Microservices (Jan Stenberg)
• Integrating NCover Pre-Instrumentation Into Your Build Process (Kerry Meade)
• The Beauty (And The Beast) Of Code Generators (Lee Brandt)
• Most Important Tip To Be Productive At Work (Mahesh Chand)
• The Star Wars Death Star – from a Tester’s Perspective (Michael Mak)
• 5 Top Tools That Every Scrum Master Should Know About (Luis Gonçalves)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Xamarin build server is too old? (Corrado Cavalli)
• Redefining Everything with the Swift REPL (Swift Team)
• Swift from Scratch: Closures (Bart Jacobs)
• Now Available in Dev Center: Windows Download Badges in More Languages (Bernardo Zamora)
• Debugging Azure Active Directory Authentication with Azure Mobile Service .NET Backend When Running Locally (Nick Randolph)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Technology & Friends Episode 351: Jeff Fritz on ASP.NET 5 (David Giard)
• MNR 533: The Audio track from our G+ Hangout on Xbox on Windows 10 and HoloLens (Larry Hyrb)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Jason Lee and Sam Trammell (Chris Hardwick)
• MS Dev Show – DevOps with Steven Murawski (Jason Young & Carl Schweitzer)
• The Changelog 138: Rocket, App Container Spec, and CoreOS with Alex Polvi (Adam Stacoviak & Jerod Santo)
• Get Up And Code 75: A Pirate’s Life For Daryl (Douglas Coleman)
• TWC9: Windows 10: The Next Chapter Episode | This Week On Channel 9 (Greg Duncan, Vladimir Kolesnikov & Nikola Metulev)
• Episode 166: Azure Data Factory with Anand Subbaraj | Microsoft Azure Cloud Cover Show (Haishi Bai & Chris Risner)
• StarTalk Radio – StarTalk Live! Water World (Part 1) (Neil deGrasse Tyson)
• Video: A Better Way to Reindex (Jen McCown)

 

Community / Events

• Xamarin MVPs Expand with More Awesome! (Joseph Hill)
• A Formal SuperSite Intro from Me, Jason Snell (Jason Snell)
• 15 habits of an ineffective networker: What not to do at your next event (Mónica Guzmán)
• IT Pros: Trade Your Tech Support Stories for a Surface Pro 3 (Azure Team)

 

Database

• Common Issues After Upgrading to SSRS 2014 and the BIDS Helper Tool (Scott Murray)
• Introduction to Mainframe Data Storage for SSIS Developers (Daniel Farina)
• SQL SERVER – How to Bind Resource Governor for InMemory Enabled Databases? and Interview Question of the Week #004 – List All Columns and Their Data Type for a View (Pinal Dave)

 

SharePoint

• Install and Configure SQL Server Reporting Services 2012 SP1 and 2014 in SharePoint Integrated Mode Part 1 (Edwin Sarmiento)

 

PowerShell

• Get Total Line Counts for all SQL Server Source Objects Using PowerShell (Jeffrey Yao)
• The Wonderful World of PowerShell Filtering and Globbing (Lee Holmes)
• Get SSH public key fingerprint with PowerShell (Mike Koerner)
• Using DSC to deploy Hyper-V converged virtual network – Assigning IP addresses to VM Adapters (Final Part) (Ravikanth C)

 

Miscellaneous

• Xbox on Windows TP2 Release – Feature Summary (Xbox Wire)
• Microsoft rolls out Windows 10 January preview for desktops (Mary Jo Foley)
• Hiring for VS Online and Team Foundation Server (Brian Harry)
• Here’s how to enable the Spartan Edge rendering engine for IE11 in Windows 10 (Daniel Rubino)
• Small Basic on Mac (Nonki Takahashi)
• Could Microsoft’s HoloLens Be The Real Deal? (Paul Tassi)

 

More Link Collections

• Reading Notes #170 (Frank Boucher)
• Collective #152 (Pedro Botelho)
• Geek Reading January 23, 2015 (Robert Diana)
• Daily News Digest 1/26/2015 (Silverlight Show)
• Last Week on Channel 9: January 19th – January 25th, 2015 (Greg Duncan)
• Reading List (Bruce Lawson)
• The Morning Brew #1785 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2015-01-23 and Windows App Developer Links – 2015-01-26 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2015-01-23 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2015-01-26 (Dan Rigby)
• Friday Links #339 (Mike Ward)
• Weekly Programming Digest #91 (Jakub Chodounský)
• Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for January 23rd, 2015 and Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for January 26th, 2015 (Dmitry Lyalin)

 

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