Dew Drop – February 26, 2015 (#1963)

Top Links

• Displaying Microsoft band heart rate via Raspberry PI2 using Mono, C# , OWIN and a Windows Phone (Joost van Schaik)
• Ever Wonder What Happened to Your Azure Website Connection String? (Max McCarty)
• Understanding .NET 2015 (Beth Massi)
• A Look at ASP.NET 5: Part 1 – Getting Started (Shawn Wildermuth)

 

Web Development

• Be Careful With Compound Conditions In AngularJS (And JavaScript In General) (Ben Nadel)
• Introduction to the React JavaScript Framework (Aurelio De Rosa)
• Getting Started with CSS Preprocessors (Less and Sass) (Christina Truong)
• Setting the value of a datetime-local input with JavaScript (Dave Ward)
• Using AngularJS for Data Visualizations (Nick Moreton)
• Creating a Web App From Scratch Using AngularJS and Firebase: Part 4 (Jay)
• 10 Responsive jQuery UI Snippets (Learning JQuery)
• Evolving ASP.NET Apps–Revealing Sensitive Data (Simon Timms)
• Kendo UI Q1 2015 Beta Available NOW (Stefan Rahnev)
• Another Reason to Like Azure Web Sites – Free Analytics (G. Andrew Duthie)
• The DecentCMS and Orchard content type systems compared (Bertrand Le Roy)
• Google Starts Publically Shaming Slow Web Sites (Chris Love)
• Understanding the Office 365 API’s Discovery Service (Andrew Connell)
• Iterables and iterators in ECMAScript 6 (Axel Rauschmayer)
• Showing The Record Count in a Sencha ExtJS Grid Made Simple (Peter Kellner)
• Inspiration for Button Styles and Effects (Mary Lou)

 

XAML

• Introducing Dynamic Fonts with Office2013 and VisualStudio2013 themes in RadControls for WPF and Silverlight (Evgenia Milcheva)
• Adding Application Insights to a Windows 8.1 Universal App (Joshua Weber)
• Helper class to easily display local toast notifications (Windows Universal app) (Marco Siccardi)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• The LINQ Join Method: Deciphering the Parameters (Jeremy Clark)
• VS2013 Setup Project and Triggers/Rowcount And NHibernate (Sacha Barber)
• Identity Updates for Web Developers in Visual Studio 2015 CTP6 (Vittorio Bertocci)
• Leveraging Views in Entity Framework (Peter Vogel)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• How to get the most out of Given-When-Then (Gojko Adzic)
• The One Immutable Law of Adopting Agile and Cultural Judo – How to Change Culture Without Changing Culture (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Excuses For Not Testing (Dave M. Bush)
• Attain Code Management Nirvana via Test-Driven Development, Part 1 (Eric Vogel)
• Architecting interactive environments (Mary Treseler)
• ASP.NET Engineering guidelines (Eilon Lipton)
• Article: Employing Enterprise Architecture for Applications Assurance (Walter Houser)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• How To Keep Your Android App Size Down (James Montemagno)
• Triggers in Xamarin.Forms (Nish Anil)
• Android Permissions Explained (Rob Lauer)
• IoT? Sensors? Devices? What’s in what? “Understanding Internet of Things (IoT) Device Choices” Whitepaper (Greg Duncan)
• Xamarin Android – Improving GridView Recycling Performance (John Wilson)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Building IoT Devices with Suz Hinton (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Historical Debugging with IntelliTrace in Visual Studio 2015 | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green)
• 148 JSJ i.cx and EveryBit.js with Matt Asher and Dann Toliver (Charles Max Wood, Jamison Dance & Tim Caswell)
• Microsoft shares its vision of the future with thinner displays and cool gadgets (Rich Edmonds)
• Defrag: Viewing SMART, WIFI Network Connections, Wok, UEFI, Disk Cleanup and more…. | The Defrag Show (Greg Duncan & Larry Larsen)
• RiYL Episode 094: Vijay Iyer (Brian Heater)
• Azure Podcast Episode 66 – Gatekeeper Pattern for IaaS (Sujit D’Mello)

 

Community / Events

• Connect(“Live”); – Debugging and Cloud Diagnostics Visual Studio Team Q&A (Dmitry Lyalin)
• March 2015: Upcoming Girl Develop It Classes [Roundup] (Ben Novack)
• Spring Forward Festival Celebrates Women in the Digital Industry (Charles Humble)
• Calling all developers! Survey on container adoption in the enterprise (Gigaom)
• Julie Larson-Green honored with Women of Vision Leadership Award (Jake Siegel)

 

Database

• 7 pro tips for database administrators (Fahd Mirza)
• Are “bad” statistics the reason my query is slow? (Jes Schultz Borland)
• Overview of Using Analysis Services Data in the new Power BI Preview (Melissa Coates)
• Limit the exposure of sensitive data in Azure SQL Database using Dynamic Data Masking (Ron Matchoro)
• Tree structure query with PostgreSQL (Rob Conery)

 

PowerShell

• Working with PowerShell DSC for Linux, part 3 (Bartek Bielawski)
• Create and pre-configure Azure virtual machines the easy way with PowerShell (Joe Davies)

 

Miscellaneous

• Small Basic V-Next – Fixing Bugs (Ed Price)
• Pebble Time Smartwatch – What It Does And Does Not Do (Imran Hussain)
• The Hack Language Gets an Official Specification (Sergio De Simone)
• Microsoft Research Expands Microsoft Band Productivity Functionality (MS Research)
• Microsoft Garage incubator delivers new Windows Phone, Android productivity apps (Mary Jo Foley)

 

More Link Collections

•  Geek Reading February 25, 2015 (Robert Diana)
• The Morning Brew #1808 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #1480 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2015-02-26 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2015-02-26 (Dan Rigby)
• Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for February 25th, 2015 (Dmitry Lyalin)

 

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