Dew Drop – April 16, 2015 (#1994)

Top Links

• Quick news: Save 45% on all ebooks (Kim Spilker)
• Conference Season Spring 2015 – DotNetFringe, AngleBrackets, BUILD and more! (Scott Hanselman)
• The AngularJS and TypeScript Cheat Sheet (Jeremy Likness)
• Developing Cross-platform 2D Games in C# and CocosSharp | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green)

 

Web Development

• Using Chrome DevTools to Debug JavaScript in Any Browser with Ghostlab 2 (Chris Coyier)
• Angular and React Teams Collaborate (David Iffland)
• Supercharge your PHP productivity on Azure! (Nir Mashkowski)
• Working with AngularJS Routing – (Project Tracking Website Part VI) (Pravinkumar Dabade)
• Evolving ASP.NET Apps–Database Access (Simon Timms)
• Announcing Azure Media Player (Amit Rajput)
• Docker Tutorial 5 – Basic Networking (John Willis)
• Free ebook: Microsoft Azure Essentials: Azure Machine Learning (Kim Spilker)
• Grid Item Animation Layout (Mary Lou)
• #Video Deal/Day: Securing Cloud Services – $24.98 (Save 50%) Use code DEAL (O’Reilly Media)
• Discover the future of web design (WebdesignerDepot Staff)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Lesser-Known NHibernate Features: Custom Loggers (Ricardo Peres)
• SpecFlow Extensions for Azure Storage Emulator (Howard van Rooijen)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Making your API behave like the big boys (Andrew Siemer)
• A New Era of Ignite UI Help Documentation (Craig Shoemaker)
• In UX, Less Isn’t Always More (Ed Charbeneau)
• Users Don’t Fail; Designers Do (Jeremy Clark)
• How do you apply changes to your codebase? When should we merge the JoeBranch? (Peter Gfader)
• Git for the TFVC User – Workflow Investigations Part 4: Converting a TFVC repository (Willy-P. Schaub)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Xamarin Guide 1: Create a Xamarin Forms project (Sara Silva)
• Great Free Resource to Learn Game Development (Greg Duncan)
• Create Space Invaders with Swift and Sprite Kit: Finishing Gameplay (James Tyner)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Working on Your Personal Brand with Eileen Fisher (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• AAWP Insight #135: Microsoft Lumia 640 XL (Rafe Blandford)
• The Amp Hour #245 – An interview with Akiba from Freaklabs – Dimissory Diagraphical Debt (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
• The Mobile Tech Addicts Show 234 : It’s Superfly! (Gareth Myles)
• Defrag: Windows 10 on UEFI, 32 vs 64 Windows for Tablets, Auto hide taskbars and more… | The Defrag Show (Greg Duncan & Larry Larsen)
• Azure Podcast Episode 73 – Partner Spotlight – Cloud Point (Sujit D’Mello)
• Delivering custom Office experiences with Azure RemoteApp | The Garage Series for Office 365 (Jeremy Chapman)
• SQL Unplugged Live Episode 4 | SQL Unplugged (Scott Klein)

 

Community / Events

• You can now spend your evenings watching other people code (Brian Collins)
• Code Hunt: The Final Challenge! (Kevin Maginn)
• Get ready for Philly Tech Week! (Amanda Lange)

 

Database

• Assign Colors in SQL Server Management Studio Query Windows Based on Environment (Manvendra Singh)
• SQL Server Reporting Services Video Embedding .NET Code for Report Formatting and Error Handling (Scott Murray)
• “Breaking” News: Don’t Install SQL Server 2014 SP1 (Brent Ozar)
• Moving Databases Made Easy – SQL Server on a File Share (Jeremiah Peschka)
• SQL SERVER – Walking the Table Hierarchy in Microsoft SQL Server Database – Notes from the Field #076 (Pinal Dave)
• Up Your Application with Stored Procedure and Temporary Tables (Peter Vogel)
• Azure SQL Database: Built-in Backups vs Import/Export (PehKeong Teh)

 

SharePoint

• Dynamically Add CSS and JavaScript to Brand SharePoint (Greg Galipeau)

 

PowerShell

• Deleting Files Older than X Hours with PowerShell (Andy Galbraith)
• PSTip: Change a drive letter using Win32_Volume class (Jaap Brasser)

 

Miscellaneous

• 10 Tips everyone should know after installing Windows 10 Technical Preview (Mauro Huculak)

 

More Link Collections

• Geek Reading April 15, 2015 (Robert Diana)
• The Morning Brew #1841 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2015-04-16 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2015-04-16 (Dan Rigby)
• Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for April 15th, 2015 (Dmitry Lyalin)

 

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