Dew Drop – February 12, 2015 (#1953)

Top Links

• .NET Rocks! – Making a Thousand Podcasts with Carl and Richard (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• An Introduction to Xamarin.Forms and SQLite (Derek Jensen)
• Microsoft Research makes Touch Develop open source (Susan Ibach)
• iOS Tip: Change Status Bar Icon & Text Colors (James Montemagno)

 

Web Development

• iBooks-like Layout with Light CSS/JS and BrowserSync 2.0 (Chris Coyier)
• Overriding filters in ASP.NET MVC 6 (Filip W)
• Starting an OWIN ASP.NET server on Raspberry PI 2 automatically at boot up (Joost van Schaik)
• Improve performance by optimizing queries for ASP.NET Identity and other Membership Providers (Pranav Rastogi)
• Improving Your Site with a Font Loader (Aurelio De Rosa)
• The CertEnroll Certificate Generator (Eric Lawrence)
• Overriding Docker DNS servers (Mark Rendle)
• Subtle Click Feedback Effects (Manoela Ilic)
• Kinect 4 Windows V2 – in the browser (Pete D.)
• Odata Consistency (Richard Jones)
• Debugging Map Reduce in MongoDB (K. Scott Allen)

 

XAML

• XAML Inheritance in Xamarin (Jesse Liberty)
•  WPF Brushes – Solid Colour (Richard Carr)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Excerpts from the RavenDB Performance team report: Facets of information, Part I (Oren Eini)
• String Interning: Effective Memory Management with dotMemory (Alexey Totin)
• To Use Repositories Or NOT (Sacha Barber)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

•  Being Agile Is About The Journey… (Dave M. Bush)
• Managing Your Skills Portfolio (Peter Vogel)
• Behavior-Driven Development in Python (David Sale)
• Understanding and Testing: Implicit Local Queries (Duane Forrester)
• YAGNI – Reaping the Benefits (Jeremy Clark)
• Designing for delight (Mary Treseler)
• Software engineers must continuously learn and integrate (Rachel Roumeliotis)
• SmartBear Collaborator 9.0 Adds API for Multiple Product Integrations (ProgrammableWeb PR)
• What’s an Agile Retrospective and Why Would You Do It? (Ben Linders)
• Keep Your Code Clean..And Your Environment Too! (Yahya Poonawala)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Behaviors in Xamarin.Forms (Nish Anil)
• Building Robust Cordova Apps with AppBuilder and Grunt (TJ VanToll)
•  .NET Gadgeteer Deployment 101 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• The Guardian — Understanding and engaging mobile users (Leticia Lago)
• Backend Services February Release: Push Improvements and NativeScript SDK (Hristo Borisov)
• Complex Synchronization Wrapper and Integration Synchronization Wrapper and Restructuring Application Services (Nick Randolph)
• Create better ads for your apps (Matt Lacey)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• 146 JSJ React with Christopher Chedeau and Jordan Walke (Joe Eames, Charles Max Wood, AJ O’Neal, Jamison Dance & Dave Smith)
• The Changelog 141: Full-time at The Changelog with Adam Stacoviak (Adam Stacoviak & Jerod Santo)
• The Web Ahead 95: The New Web Ahead Website with Jen Simmons (Jen Simmons)
• Assessing the Top 5 Cloud Security Threats with Mark Russinovich | The Garage Series for Office 365 (Jeremy Chapman)
• CodeChat 022 – Adam Benzion (Maker Communities) (Jeremy Foster)
• RiYL Episode 092: Scott McCloud (Brian Heater)
• Azure Podcast Episode 64 – Gaming in Azure (Sujit D’Mello)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Jemaine Clement and Taika Waititi (Chris Hardwick)

 

Community / Events

•  Free Webinar: SharePoint & Sitefinity, the Perfect Match (Jennifer Staretorp)
• The Microsoft Virtual Academy’s Know It – Prove It Challenge (Richard Hay)
• Wintellect Announces Live Virtual Training (Paul Ballard)
• First rule of Code Club: Do talk about Code Club (Rob Miles)

 

Database

• Execute a SQL Server Reporting Services report from Integration Services Package (Ghanesh Prasad)
• Using TOKEN and TOKENCOUNT in SQL Server Integration Services (Koen Verbeeck)
• The Most Underrated Features of SQL Server 2014 — Part 2 (Jonathan Rozenblit)
• SQL SERVER – The Basics of the Execute Package Task – Notes from the Field #067 (Pinal Dave)

 

Miscellaneous

• 8 essential Microsoft business apps for Android phones (Ed Bott)
• Office 365: Microsoft’s commitments when you subscribe (Adam Fraser)
• git commit -a -m “Splunking Github Blog” (David Greenwood)
• Parallels now supports running Windows 10 inside OS X (Derek Kessler)
• Adobe Creative Cloud for enterprise now supports Single Sign-On (Karl Gibson)
• Office Online gets even better in 2015 (Office Team)
• Microsoft acquires Sunrise, creator of an innovative calendar app for mobile devices (Rajesh Jha)

 

More Link Collections

•  Geek Reading February 11, 2015 (Robert Diana)
• Double Shot #1473 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Daily News Digest 2/11/2015 and Daily News Digest 2/12/2015 (Silverlight Show)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2015-02-12 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2015-02-12 (Dan Rigby)
• The Morning Brew #1798 (Chris Alcock)
• My weekly newsletter is out (David Voyles)
• Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for February 11th, 2015 (Dmitry Lyalin)

 

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