Dew Drop – February 10, 2015 (#1951)

Top Links

• .NET Rocks! – C# 6 is Close with Bill Wagner (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Automatic code formatter released to GitHub (Immo Landwerth)
• Hardware Hacking and Creative Culture (Andrew McWilliams)
• 5 Tips to be an Indispensable PM (Deepali Tendulkar)

 

Web Development

• $route redirectTo Does Not Break The Back Button In AngularJS (Ben Nadel)
• Angular and Gulp (John Papa)
• Creating a Lab on Windows Azure (Inderjeet Singh Jaggi)
• SSO with OAuth2: Angular JS and Spring Security Part V (Pieter Humphrey)
• ASP.NET MVC 5.2.3, Web Pages 3.2.3 and Web API 5.2.3 Release (Yishai G.)
• Why Single Page Application Views Should be Hydrated on the Client, Not the Server (Chris Love)
• Human readable and editable config files with YAML (Robert Muehsig)
• Inline SVG with Grunticon Fallback and Five Easy Ways to Be a Better Web Professional (Chris Coyier)
• How to use friendly URLs in Web Forms (Paul Sheriff)
• Back to Basics: UTC and TimeZones in .NET Web Apps (Rick Strahl)
• Creating Iterables In ECMAScript 6 (K. Scott Allen)
• CoffeeScript 1.9 is Available, Introduces Generators Support (Sergio De Simone)
• Deploying Azure Cloud Service using Release Management (Roopesh Nair)

 

XAML

• MUI is now on GitHub (Koen Zwikstra)
• Circle Packing Algorithm in C# / XAML and Loading a Local CSV File in Windows (Phone) (Matthias Shapiro)
• Localizing a Windows Phone 8 Application (Vivek Maskara)
• Adding a Background Task to the Windows Platform Applications (Nick Randolph)
• Microsoft’s Windows AppStudio Ebook (Sara Silva)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• The Output window while debugging with Visual Studio (Angelos Petropoulos)
• Ensuring Intellisense for Bower Packages in Visual Studio 2013 (Dave Paquette)
• Building DPI Aware Visual Studio Extensions (Greg Duncan)
• Visual Studio Online is definitely more than text editor online! (Frank Boucher)
• Fill a String with Characters (Peter Vogel)
• Challenge: How many memory leaks can you find? (Rainer Stropek)
• Using thread pool cleanup groups to clean up many things at once (Raymond Chen)
• Hone your tech skills at the Microsoft Virtual Academy (nishtha)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The New Agile–Picking A Winner (Gil Zilberfeld)
• Book Review: The Lean Enterprise (Patrick Kua)
• Beginning Test-Driven Development in Python (David Sale)
• Talk To Your Support Team (Jesse Taber)
• Affinity releases a free (for now) Photoshop killer (Marc Schenker)
• Agility in Large Teams (Ritika Nanwani)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Q&A: Xamarin’s Jonathan Pryor on Android 5 Lollipop (Wallace McClure)
• Swift 1.2 and Xcode 6.3 beta (Swift Team)
•  Android: Unit Testing Apps with Couchbase, Robolectric and Dagger (Ben Wilcock)
• Kendo UI Mobile Guidance (Cody Lindley)
• IoT with Windows on Devices (Michael Crump)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 158 #OTP (Richard Hay)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Jeff Bridges #3 (Chris Hardwick)
• MS Dev Show – Raygun with John-Daniel Trask (ason Young & Carl Schweitzer)
• Ping 235: Wireless Phone Charger, Risk for Xbox, and the Next Chapter of Office | Ping! (RicksterCDN & Joey Snow)
• Software Engineering Radio Episode 219: Apache Kafka with Jun Rao (SE-Radio Team)

 

Community / Events

• Y Combinator and Microsoft: Inspiring Ideas Through Partnership (Steve Guggenheimer)
• Splunk named one of Fast Company’s 10 Most Innovative Companies in Big Data for 2015 (Steve Sommer)

 

Database

• Common Issues After Upgrading to SSRS 2014 Video (Scott Murray)
• Book Review – Murach’s Oracle SQL and PL/SQL for Developers (Anand Narayanaswamy)
• Inside RavenDB 3.0–Chapter 9 is out (Oren Eini)
• Book Review: SQL Server 2014 Backup and Recovery (Ian Stirk)
• The Importance of Caching (Michael K. Campbell)

 

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft hints that Windows 10 for phone may come this week along with new demo video (Daniel Rubino)
• The Amazon Echo Is More Than a Bluetooth Speaker — It’s a Bedtime Buddy (Joe Brown)
• Windows 10 reportedly hitting RTM in June, in time for back-to-school sales and Bing Rewards members can now get two free years of 100GB OneDrive cloud storage (John Callaham)
• ‘Which’ Versus ‘That’ (Mignon Fogarty)
• How does a Small Basic program run? (Nonki Takahashi)
•  Podcasting 101 (Greg Duncan)

 

More Link Collections

•  Geek Reading February 9, 2015 (Robert Diana)
• Double Shot #1472 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2015-02-10 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2015-02-10 (Dan Rigby)
• The Morning Brew #1796 (Chris Alcock)
• Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for February 9th, 2015 (Dmitry Lyalin)
• Daily News Digest 2/9/2015 (Silverlight Show)

 

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