Dew Drop – March 30, 2015 (#1983)

Top Links

• OzCode v2.0 Beta is out! (OzCode Team)
• Visual Studio Upcoming Features Timeline (Megan Yount)
• Most Prolific Bloggers on .Net (Phillip Trelford)
• A Preview of WinJS 4.0 (Windows Apps Team)

 

Web Development

• ConventionTests, Part 2: Creating Custom Conventions in ASP.NET (Jason Roberts)
• Testing Asynchronous Code With AngularJS and Jasmine (Jaco Pretorius)
• Learning Angular Quickly (Aaron Marisi)
• Inline Debugging for PHP in PhpStorm 9 EAP (Mikhail Vink)
• Routing and State (The AngularJS Discussions) (Peter Kellner)
• Working with AngularJS Views and Directives – (Project Tracking Website Part IV) (Pravinkumar Dabade)
• Kendo UI for the ASP.NET MVC Developer (Sam Basu)
• Create a jQuery Plugin to display a Running Counter (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Updated ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit (Pranav Rastogi)
• Free video tutorial: JavaScript command query separation (Wes Higbee)
• A Dev and Test Adventure on #Azure (Alexandre Brisebois)
• Today, we want to share some best practices on simple OpenGL Shading Language (G… (Shanee Nishry)
• es6-generators (Axel Rauschmayer)
• Web Application Development in Fsharp Using ASP.NET MVC (Tamizh Vendan)
• Four Steps to Building Your First Web App with Azure App Service (Paul Ballard)
• Introducing Brackets Health Report (Peter Flynn)
• Azure Active Directory Part 6: Schema Extensions (Rick Rainey)
• The Rise of TypeScript? (TJ VanToll)

 

XAML

• Part four: The control Maps on Windows Phone 8 (Carmelo La Monica)
• Windows Phone 8 Succinctly: Integrating With the Hardware (Matteo Pagani)
• Windows 10 Preview (10041): App Lifecycle in a Desktop/Tablet World (Mike Taulty)
• WPF Resources (Richard Carr)
• Using Windows 10’s Extended Execution (Morten Nielsen)
• Windows 10 Preview Jumpstart Summaries (4-6) and Windows 10 Preview Jumpstart Summaries (7-9) (Matthias Shapiro)
• Universal Applications: be ready for Windows 10 (part 3) (Sergiy Baydachnyy)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Upcoming F# book and event deals (Tomas Petricek)
• Download all your NuGet Package Licenses (Phil Haack)
• Check in your NuGet packages (Anders Poulsen)
• Five Use Cases for Visual Studio 2013 Community (Andrei Marukovich)
• C#/.NET Little Wonders: String Interpolation in C# 6 (James Michael Hare)
• Checked errors in F# (Jef Claes)
• Ever want to create bugs from email? (Brian Harry)
• TypeC – A Simple .NET Dependency Injection / IoC Container (Hanu K.)
• Named Delegates Compared to Anonymous Delegates (Jeremy Clark)
• XML Transformation: Xslt vs .NET (Leonid Ganeline)
• Visual C++ Tools for Windows 10 Technical Preview (Raman Sharma)
• Switching on a tuple: Sneaky trick (Raymond Chen)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Article: Making Agile Deliver Good Software and Managing the Expectations from Agile (Ben Linders)
• Why ‘Doing’ and ‘Done’ in the Kanban board? (Matteo Emili)
• Measuring the Business Value in Agile Projects (Savita Pahuja)
• 100% Code Coverage Possible? (Dave M. Bush)
• 7 Habits of Highly Motivated People (JD Meier)
• Master the Essentials of UI Test Automation Series: Chapter Six (Jim Holmes)
• Why Managers Ask for Estimates and What They Need to Know (Johanna Rothman)
• Code Coverage Metrics in Regulated Industries (Kerry Meade)
• Orchestrating multi node Windows tests in Test-Kitchen Beta! (Matt Wrock)
• Step-by-step guide to bootstrapping your new product development – Part 9, Iteration (Matthew Adams)
• Operationalizing Strategy with a Systems Perspective (Michael Robillard)
• The shape of software architecture (Rachel Roumeliotis)
• Entities move data from tables to knowledge (Andy Oram)
• I’m a recovering solutionist (Wes Higbee)
• Continuous Delivery with Broken Builds and a Clean Conscience (Lucas Medina)
• Why People Don’t See What Designers Expect (Kathryn Whitenton)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Exploring Xamarin.Forms controls in our new Global Sales Dashboard (Martin Trela)
• Prism for Xamarin.Forms – A Preview (Dara Monasch)
• Using the JobScheduler API on Android Lollipop (Paul Trebilcox-Ruiz)
• Unity 5 and Kinect 2 Integration (James Ashley)
• Microsoft Band Ultraviolet Sensor (Bary Nusz)
• Two Raspberry PI LED Examples (Greg Duncan)
• Developing for Microsoft Band Tutorial part 1 (Iris Classon)
• Contest: What’s Beggin’ for a Beacon? (Jayme Singleton)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• MNR 550: Gareth Coker – Ori and the Blind Forest (Larry Hyrb)
• Office 365 Developer Podcast: Episode 039 on the API Sandbox (Jeremy Thake)
• Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 160 #OTP (Richard Hay)
• Hanselminutes – March Is For Makers: Electronics and Electricity 101 with Andrew J. Dupree (Scott Hanselman)
• Foreign Keys in SQL Server (video) (Kendra Little)
• The Changelog 149: React.js, React Native, Flux, Relay, and GraphQL with Facebook (Adam Stacoviak & Jerod Santo)
• 035 AiA The Current State of Angular with Brad Green, Igor Minar, and Miško Hevery (John Papa)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Kal Penn (Chris Hardwick)
• The Windows Developer Show Episode 177 – “Windows Unni-versal Apps” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
• MS Dev Show – Cross Platform Voice and Women in Tech with Lori LaLonde (Jason Young & Carl Schweitzer)
• Get Up And Code 084: Roller Sports with Dara and Chris (Douglas Coleman)
• TWC9: Windows 10 Launch Date, Win10 Dev Tools, Azure Apps, API Tools, IoT and more… | This Week On Channel 9 (Greg Duncan & Jeremy Foster)
• Episode 171: Hive Queries with Nino Bice | Microsoft Azure Cloud Cover Show (Haishi Bai & Chris Risner)
• RiYL Episode 099: Dick Gregory, The Black Lips, Annie Koyama and Farel Dalrymple (Bonus) (Brian Heater)
• CppCast – Exploring CLion with Anastasia Kazakova (Rob Irving)
• StarTalk Radio – Cosmic Queries: Bill Nye Edition (Bill Nye)
• Azure Podcast – Azure Technical Certifications (Sujit D’Mello)
• GeekWire Radio: A parents’ guide to video games for kids and families (Todd Bishop)

 

Community / Events

• Why Am I So Excited About AngularU? (Peter Kellner)
• Introducing the Angular U Conference (Dan Wahlin)
• Missing at SXSW 2015: Conversations Between Engineers and Designers (Mason Foster)
• Microsoft MVPs in the .NET Know (Vicky)
• Last night, GitHub was hit with massive denial-of-service attack from China (Russell Brandom)

 

Database

• Creating a multi-option parameter report for SQL Server Reporting Services (Ghanesh Prasad)
• Analyst: SQL Server Not Enough in Modern Data World (David Ramel)
• Deleting Historical Data from a Large Highly Concurrent SQL Server Database Table (Daniel Farina)
• Tabular Data Packages and a BIML challenge (Jamie Thomson)
• Upgrading to SQL Server 2014: Frequently Asked Questions (Kendra Little)
• Monitoring the SSAS Connector in the Power BI Preview (Melissa Coates)
• SQL SERVER – Find the Growth Size for All files in All Databases and SQL SERVER – System procedures to know SQL Server Version and SQL SERVER – Using MaxTransferSize parameter with SQL Server Backups and Interview Question of the Week #013 – Stored Procedure and Its Advantages – How to Create Stored Procedure (Pinal Dave)
• Backup to azure (Simon Sabin)
• Redefining power distribution using big data (Ben Lorica)

 

SharePoint

• Key skills and topics for today’s SharePoint/Office 365 developer (Chris O’Brien)

 

PowerShell

• Adding custom confirmation to commands (Lee Holmes)
• Wiring Up Posh Git Using GitHub for Windows Installation (Bobby Johnson)

 

Miscellaneous

• Next Windows 10 for phones build will expand to a massive number of devices (Dan Thorp-Lancaster)
• Small Basic 1.1 is here! (Ed Price)
• How to handle the dreaded cover letter (Stacy Warden)

 

More Link Collections

• Geek Reading March 26, 2015 and Geek Reading March 27, 2015 (Robert Diana)
• Double Shot #1494 and Double Shot #1495 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Reading Notes #179 (Frank Boucher)
• Collective #161 (Mary Lou)
• The Morning Brew #1829 and The Morning Brew #1830 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 3/27/2015 (Silverlight Show)
• Last Week on Channel 9: March 23rd – March 29th, 2015 (Greg Duncan)
• Weekly Programming Digest #100 (Jakub Chodounský)
• Friday Links #348 (Mike Ward)
• Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for March 26th, 2015 and Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for March 27th, 2015 (Dmitry Lyalin)

 

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