Dew Drop – March 20, 2015 (#1978)

Top Links

• Prism grows up (Christopher Bennage)
• Exciting Xamarin Announcements from dotnetConf (James Montemagno)
• Customize external web tools in Visual Studio 2015 (Mads Kristensen)
• Introduction to ASP.NET 5 | dotnetConf 2015 (Scott Hanselman & Scott Hunter)

Web Development

• ngRoute Exposes The Original Route Definition Through Prototypal Inheritance In AngularJS (Ben Nadel)
• Writing And Using C Code From Go (Karl Seguin)
• WebStorm 10 beta, 141.224: improved Grunt integration and fixes (Ekaterina Prigara)
• Web APIs vs RPC (Ryan Reilly)
• Using classic ADO.NET in ASP.NET 5 (Radenko Zec)
• Writing a DecentCMS content part (Bertrand Le Roy)
• Amazingly Useful Chrome Developer Tips: #1 Inspecting dynamically created DOM elements (Alice Waddicor)
• Improving interoperability with DOM L3 XPath (Thomas Moore)
• Allocation Failure and Remediation (Lichun Li)
• A smart move: Smarterer shares its API with businesses and users for free (Lindsay Lauck)
• 7 skills every web designer must master (Marc Schenker)
• Python Cheat Sheet (Michael Kennedy)
• Azure Cloud Service : Inter role communications (Sacha Barber)

XAML

• Windows Phone 8 Succinctly: Data Access—Network (Matteo Pagani)
• Binding to Enum in Universal apps with localization (Marco Minerva)
• More insight into Windows 10 opportunity for developers (Windows Apps Team)

Miscellaneous .NET

• C#/.NET Little Wonders: Auto-property initialization in C# 6 (James Michael Hare)
• Configuring for a Setup Project (Peter Vogel)
• Using PVS to Find Bugs in .NET Core (Jonathan Allen)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Article: Refactoring Coderetreats: In Search of Simple Design (David Parsons)
• Meetings, Meetings, and More Meetings (Isaac Hogue)
• Code Coverage In The Medical Device Software Industry (Kerry Meade)
• Badass: Making users awesome – Kathy Sierra: Book Review (Mark Needham)
• Step-by-step guide to bootstrapping your new product development – Part 7, Business model design (Matthew Adams)
• Bitbucket Launches Snippets for Teams (Steffen Opel)
• Your methodology is irrelevant (Wes Higbee)

Other Mobile Platforms

• Take your apps on the road with Android Auto (Wayne Piekarski)
• Hello Places API for Android and iOS! (Jen Kovnats Harrington)
• Visual Studio 2013: Fixing NuGet package install error in Xamarin Android projects (Corrado Cavalli)
• Dynamically Adjust Google Maps Zoom with Xamarin.iOS (Jim Wilson)
• Develop an iOS Application with Node.js and Cordova (Krzysztof Trzeciak)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Hanselminutes – March Is For Makers: Learning Robots with Dr. Ayanna Howard of Zyrobotics (Scott Hanselman)
• Office 365 Developer Podcast: Episode 038 on SharePoint Server 2016 with Bill Baer (Jeremy Thake)
• 034 AiA LIVE! from ng-conf 2015 (John Papa)
• App Biz Dev Episode 26: Dr. Neil on App Development Success (Ben Riga & Alan Mendelevich)
• The Amp Hour #241 – An Interview With Chuck Peddle – Charismatic Chipmaking Coryphaeus (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
• CppCast – Cmake, Git and Functional Programming with David Sankel (Rob Irving)

Community / Events

• The Fairmount Food Crawl Challenges Attendees to Eat A Whole Pig At 14 Neighborhood Eateries, Saturday, March 21 (Amy Gordon)
• Managing Your User Group: Sponsor Relationships (Kevin Griffin)

Database

• How to Grant Permissions to run SQL Server Profiler for a non System Admin User (Manvendra Singh)
• SQL SERVER – Add Node in Cluster – Rule “Node and cluster edition match” failed (Pinal Dave)
• Getting BLOBS out of the Database (Jeremiah Peschka)

PowerShell

• New additions to the Azure VM PowerShell DSC Extension (Kundana Palagiri)

Miscellaneous

• Bill Gates Tells Re/code Why We Should Worry About Disease Epidemics, Artificial Intelligence (Ina Fried)

More Link Collections

• Geek Reading March 19, 2015 (Robert Diana)
• Office 365—monthly Dev Digest for March (Jeremy Thake)
• The Morning Brew #1824 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2015-03-20 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2015-03-20 (Dan Rigby)
• Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for March 19th, 2015 (Dmitry Lyalin)

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