Dew Drop – March 26, 2015 (#1982)

Top Links

• Node.js Tools 1.0 for Visual Studio (Sara Itani)
• First Look at the Prism for Xamarin.Forms Preview (Brian Lagunas)
• Community Day Kickoff Keynote, with Scott Hanselman & Miguel Icaza (Miguel de Icaza, Scott Hanselman & James Montemagno)
• Troubleshooting connectivity issues to Splunk’s API from the SDK (Glenn Block)

 

Web Development

• Asking The User To Confirm Location Or Route Changes In AngularJS (Ben Nadel)
• The Splunk SDK for JavaScript gets support for Node.js v0.12 and io.js! (Shakeel Mohamed)
• Improve user experience when using Turbolinks (Jakub Chodounský)
• Bandwidth Quota changes to the Free offer of Azure App Service (Apurva Joshi)
• Getting Started with Media Services Connector (Ashish Chawla)
• The future of responsive web design (Benjie Moss)
• Docker Tutorial 2 – Docker Run Command Basics (John Willis)
• Ask A Dev: What makes HTTP2 so exciting? (Mashable Video)
• Add Storage to Your Apps with Office 365 (Mayur Tendulkar)
• Dart officially as Yet Another Transpiled Language (Andrea Giammarchi)
• Draft Node.js Foundation Technical Governance Documents (Mike Dolan & Scott Nicholas)
• Announcing Media APIs for Azure App Service (Vishal Sood)
• 7 Deadly Web Design Sins You Should Be Aware Of (Keval Padia)

 

XAML

• XAML Spy March 2015 Update (Koen Zwikstra)
• WPF Layout: Grid (Mahesh Chand)
• Enabling and tracking location in Windows Apps (Shawn Kendrot)
• Windows 10 Preview Jumpstart Summaries (1-3) (Matthias Shapiro)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Rx Challenge #4 (Bnaya Eshet)
• Syncfusion Essential Studio – Community Licence (Isaac Haynes)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Retreaded: CodeAsDocumentation (Martin Fowler)
• Agile Results Refresher (JD Meier)
• Using Siesta to Get Efficient TDD for your Ext JS Apps (Mats Bryntse)
• 100% Code Coverage Possible? (Dave M. Bush)
• Why Managers Ask for Estimates and What They Need to Know (Johanna Rothman)
• Step-by-step guide to bootstrapping your new product development – Part 8, Validation (Matthew Adams)
• Operationalizing Strategy with a Systems Perspective (Michael Robillard)
• A Little Risk Goes A Long Way (Tim Wise)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Developing audio apps for Android Auto (Joshua Gordon)
• Xamarin join forces to launch new enterprise App standards group (DevToolsGuy)
• Introducing an updated Graph API and improved Facebook SDKs for iOS and Android (Harshdeep Singh)
• Create Space Invaders with Swift and Sprite Kit: Introducing Sprite Kit (James Tyner)
• Testing of hybrid mobile applications (Thomas Hansson)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Stack Exchange Podcast #63 – The Plumber’s Up To 67 Coins (Abby T. Miller)
• .NET Rocks! – Accelerating Agile with Dan North (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Radio TFS – Because we Kanban (Martin Woodward & Greg Duncan)
• 152 JSJ GraphQL and Relay with Nick Schrock and Joe Savona (Charles Max Wood, AJ O’Neal & Jamison Dance)
• The Nerdist Podcast – The Amazing Randi (Chris Hardwick)
• The Amp Hour #242 – Can’t We All Just Get Arduino? – Tardiloquent Trademark Tirade (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
• Chef Provisioning to Azure Demo | Edge (David Tesar)
• Clean Code Presentation Recorded Live at Nebraska.Code() (Jeremy Clark)

 

Community / Events

• Succinctly Series E-book Author Q&A with Chris Rose (Jennifer W.)
• US MVP Open Days – March 27-28, 2015 (MVP Award Program)
• Data Exposed goes to SQLBits! (Scott Klein)
• Imagine Cup: It is the Home Stretch! (Rami Sayar)
• Mapping Seattle’s incubators, accelerators and co-working spaces (Taylor Soper)

 

Database

• Creating a multi-option parameter report for SQL Server Reporting Services (Ghanesh Prasad)
• Why You Shouldn’t Upgrade SQL Server (Brent Ozar)
• Analysing SQLBlog using Power Query (Jamie Thomson)
• Upgrading to SQL Server 2014: Frequently Asked Questions (Kendra Little)
• SQL SERVER – Mistake to Avoid: Duplicate and Overlapping Indexes – Notes from the Field #073 (Pinal Dave)
• Azure DocumentDB Overview (Adam Anderson)

 

PowerShell

• Windows Assessment and Deployment Kit (Windows ADK) Preview (Emin)

 

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Small Basic 1.1 (MS Downloads)
• Azure VM OS drive limit has octupled! (Guy Bowerman)
• New troubleshooting Remote Desktop connections topic (Joe Davies)
• Quick tour of Office 2016 for Mac Preview (Office Team)

 

More Link Collections

• Geek Reading March 26, 2015 (Robert Diana)
• The Morning Brew #1828 (Chris Alcock)
• Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for March 25th, 2015 (Dmitry Lyalin)

 

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