Dew Drop – February 17, 2015 (#1956)

Top Links

• End-to-End Testing with Aurelia and Protractor (Rob Eisenberg)
•  NuGet Package of the Week: A different take on ASP.NET MVC Forms with ChameleonForms (Scott Hanselman)
• Create a Modern UI with UI for WPF (Michael Crump)
• The Joel Test For Programmers (The Simple Programmer Test) (John Sonmez)

 

Web Development

• Deferring Route Configuration Using Decorators And Route Resolution In AngularJS (Ben Nadel)
• Domain Routing and resolving current tenant with ASP.NET MVC 6 / ASP.NET 5 (Maarten Balliauw)
• ASP.NET Web Api: Understanding OWIN/Katana Authentication/Authorization Part I: Concepts (John Atten)
• 5 Reasons to Use jQuery (Learning JQuery)
• 3 cool CSS3 image hover effects (Samuel Norton)
• 10 Awesome Gulp Plugins Working with AngularJS and Bower (Shaun Xu)
• Redirect from http to https yes or no? (Ugo Lattanzi)
• HTTP Strict Transport Security comes to Internet Explorer (Mike Bell & David Walp)
• Channel 9 Implements The Azure Machine Learning Recommendations API (Karsten Januszewski)
• Microsoft Azure: The first cloud computing platform to conform to ISO/IEC 27018, the only international set of privacy controls in the cloud (Lori Woehler)
• Generators in ECMAScript 6 (K. Scott Allen)
• How to Create (Animated) Text Fills (yoksel)

 

XAML

• How to easily check the pressed keyboard button with a converted event using MVVM (Windows Universal) (Marco Siccardi)
•  WPF Brushes – Linear Gradient (Richard Carr)
• Synchronizing in a Background Task (Nick Randolph)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• GitFlow for Visual Studio (Greg Duncan)
• Visual Studio Time Saver–How can YOU request features in Visual Studio? (Susan Ibach)
• LRN Quick Tips – Working with nameof (Josh Varty)
• Reading the word under the cursor via UI Automation (Raymond Chen)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• How Agile Can Learn from Behavioral Economics (Ben Linders)
• There are No New Ideas in Design (J.D. Meier)
• More TDD Practice: Finishing Up the Library (Jeremy Clark)
• Agile Misconceptions: There Is One Right Approach (Johanna Rothman)
• Unit Test, System Test, Red Test, Green Test (Gil Zilberfeld)
• How to Unleash Innovation in the Enterprise (Barry O’Reilly)
• Technical Excellence and Professional Process (David Starr)
• How I Use Git On Windows – Setup and Tooling (Jesse Taber)
• Bad Design Assures Bad Results (Matt Davey)
• Value Centered Design (Wes Higbee)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Android Developers Now Can Test WebView before It Is Released (Abel Avram)
• Test-Driven iOS Development with Specta and Expecta (Cory Foy)
• MS Open Tech Tools plugin for IntelliJ and Android Studio updated with integrated Virtual Machine management (Doug Mahugh)
•  How NativeScript Works (TJ VanToll)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Building a Lean Enterprise with Jez Humble (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
•  Ping 236: Preview of Windows 10 for phones, Skype 5.2 for Android, and Bing predicts…the future. | Ping! (Mark DeFalco & RicksterCDN)
• Gone Mobile Episode 23: Continuous Delivery for iOS Apps with Felix Krause (Greg Shackles & Jon Dick)
• The Married Gamers Episode 359: OFR Post-PAX South Roundtable (Chris Brown)
• Dime Casts.NET Episode #218: Setting up A Web Development Environment On OSX – Part 1 (Dave Schinkel)
• What Problems can Extended Events Solve? (Video) (Jes Schultz Borland)

 

Community / Events

•  ScottGu Azure event in London on March 2nd (Scott Guthrie)
• Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Doug Owens (Willy-P. Schaub)
• Free Course: Practical Performance Tips to Make Your HTML/JavaScript Faster (Doris Chen)
• Register for the Worldwide Partner Conference and nominate the next Partner of the Year (Athima Chansanchai)

 

Database

• Running SQL Server Databases in the Amazon Cloud: Q & A (Sadequl Hussain)
• Using Visual Studio configurations in SQL Server Integration Services projects (Koen Verbeeck)
• “NoSQL Injection” – What 40000 Unsecured MongoDB Databases Mean for our Industry (Lukas Eder)
• SQL SERVER – Quiz with DATEADD Function (Pinal Dave)

 

SharePoint

• SharePoint Power Searching Using ContentClass (Mike Smith)

 

Miscellaneous

• A No Obligation, Totally Free Learning From Packt Publishing! (Arthur Zubarev)
• I was wrong about the smartwatch being a dumb idea (Joe Wilcox)
• Windows 10 Observations (Rockford Lhotka)

 

More Link Collections

•  Reading Notes #173 (Frank Boucher)
• Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for February 16th, 2015 (Dmitry Lyalin)
• Geek Reading February 16, 2015 (Robert Diana)
• The Morning Brew #1801 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2015-02-17 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2015-02-17 (Dan Rigby)

 

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