Dew Drop – April 9, 2015 (#1990)

Top Links

• Free ebook: Creating Mobile Apps with Xamarin.Forms, Preview Edition 2 (Kim Spilker)
• Herding Code 203: Rob Eisenberg on Aurelia (Jon Galloway, Scott Koon, K. Scott Allen & Kevin Dente)
• Aurelia Update with Decorators, IE9 and More (Rob Eisenberg)
• Meet ReSharper 9.1, ReSharper C++ 1.0, dotTrace 6.1 and more ReSharper Ultimate product updates (Daria Dovzhikova)
• Cloud Enable a WPF LOB App Part 2a | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green)
• Microsoft BUILD Announces #BuildTour (MVP Award Program)

 

Web Development

• Your First Angular Project in Visual Studio (Aaron Marisi)
• LoadScroll : jQuery plug-in for Dynamically loading Images and Motion Blur Effect with SVG & jQuery (jQuery Rain)
• Overview of JavaScript Frameworks in 2015 (DevToolsGuy)
• Node.js Tools for Visual Studio Hits the Big 1.0 (Jonathan Allen)
• The Ultimate AngularJS Cheat Sheet – Part 1 (Ravi Kiran)
• Integrating Gulp and Bower with Visual Studio Online Hosted Builds (Dave Paquette)
• Configure Grunt in Visual Studio 2015 (Steve Smith)
• Azure Mobile Services and APIs – RESTful and Custom (Adarsha Datta)
• Deploying ECMAScript 6 (Axel Rauschmayer)
• Docker Tutorial 4 – More Run With a Couple of Extra Goodies (John Willis)
• Introducing Azure Resource Explorer for the Azure Resource Management APIs (Scott Hanselman)

 

XAML

• WPF Layout: Border (Mahesh Chand)
• Windows Development Is Becoming Viable (Brandon Stecklein)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• 9 Cool Extensions for Keeping Visual Studio Projects on Track (Terrence Dorsey)
• Layer Validation in Visual Studio architecture modeling tools may result in excessive size of user’s temporary folder (Jean-Marc Prieur)
• How to schedule a TFS Integration Platform session (Matteo Emili)
• Implementing type inference (Jon Harrop)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The Role of the PMO in an Agile Organization (Savita Pahuja)
• Master the Essentials of UI Test Automation Series: Chapter Seven (Antonia Bozhkova)
• Experiences from Doing Remote Pairing (Ben Linders)
• Are your meetings worth attending? (DevToolsGuy)
• Consistent or not that’s the question (Gabriel Schenker)
• Building enterprise apps with Indigo Studio (Gradient Girl)
• Balsamiq Mockups – [Release] More little improvements (Peldi Guilizzoni)
• Article: Lean Documentation (Tomas Björkholm)
• Git for the TFVC User – Workflow Investigations Part 1: Making Changes (Willy-P. Schaub)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• New course: Take Android app performance to the next level (Reto Meier)
• Connect a Mobile App and a Spark Core – An International IoT Day Project (Jen Looper)
• Six Great Tools for Better App Quality (Karl Krukow)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Failure Driven Development with Dustin Thostenson (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• The Windows Developer Show Episode 178 – “Nugety Center” (Travis Lowdermilk & Ryan Lowdermilk)
• 154 JSJ Raygun.io Error Reporting and Workflow with John-Daniel Trask (Joe Eames, Charles Max Wood, AJ O’Neal, Jamison Dance & Dave Smith)
• Talk Python to Me Podcast Episode #2: Python and MongoDB (Michael Kennedy)
• RiYL Episode 101: Jesse Malin (Brian Heater)

 

Community / Events

• FalafelCON is Back! (Jennifer Staretorp)
• Splunk supporting the .NET Fringe conference (Glenn Block)

 

Database

• Oracle PL/SQL by Example, 5th Ed (Kay Ewbank)
• How Do I Know My Query Will Be Fast In Production? (Jeremiah Peschka)
• DocumentDB General Availability and What’s New! | Data Exposed (Scott Klein)

 

PowerShell

• Interview Questions for Hiring PowerShell Database Developers (Tim Smith)
• PowerShell Tools for Visual Studio – What’s new? (Adam Driscoll)
• User Account Control and Admin Approval Mode – The impact on PowerShell (Jaap Brasser)

 

Miscellaneous

• Windows 10 Technical Preview Hotfixes… (Dan Usher)
• Defeating Imposter Syndrome (Tom Kenny)

 

More Link Collections

• Geek Reading April 8, 2015 (Robert Diana)
• The Morning Brew #1836 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 4/9/2015 (Silverlight Show)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2015-04-09 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2015-04-09 (Dan Rigby)

 

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