Dew Drop – May 29, 2015 (#2024)

Top Links

• Setting up Github with Visual Studio Code on OSX (Michael Crump)
• New Free eBook: LINQ Succinctly (Jason Roberts)
• Testing in Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment Workflows (Gopinath C H)
• SQL Server to add JSON Support (Jonathan Allen)

 

Web Development

• AngularJS Will Parse JSON Payloads In Non-2xx HTTP Responses (Ben Nadel)
• Raspberry Pi node.js Web Server w/ PM2 (Greg Arroyo)
• The End of Global CSS (Chris Coyier)
• Using Node.js, Express and MongoDB (MEAN stack) in an ASP.NET MVC application (Mahesh Sabnis)
• Introducing jQuery-goTop (Scott Dorman)
• Pay Attention to “angular.merge” in 1.4 on Date Properties (Shaun Xu)
• Cannot assign to read only property ‘warnings’ of true (Chris Love)
• Postman API Development Platform Eases API Construction (Eric Carter)
• Polymer 1.0 Released! (Taylor Savage)
• Python: Look ahead multiple elements in an iterator/generator (Mark Needham)
• Image Tilt Effect (Manoela Ilic)
• Applied DevOps and the potential of Docker (Brian Anderson)
• Certification – MCSD: Azure Solutions Architect (MS Learning)

 

XAML

• ViewModel Locator in WPF (Bruno Leonardo Michels)
• WPF Control Templates – Template Bindings (Richard Carr)
• TwoWay binding trap on Windows Store apps (Miha Markic)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• How to manage Content in NuGet Packages? (Rick Strahl)
• Using Data Annotations to Validate Models in .NET (Bruno Leonardo Michels)
• Entity Framework Cascading Deletes; Set it from the database. (William Wegerson)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Agile Ecosystem, It Starts With Why (Andrew Graves)
• “Economics of Testing” – New Article on Test Huddle (Gil Zilberfeld)
• Beware of “Never” and “Always” (Jeremy Clark)
• The Power Of Persistence (John Sonmez)
• Elephant in the Room – Technical Debt (Matt Davey)
• Totally stressed out? Sync to Paper (Scott Hanselman)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Xamarin.Forms Device.Idiom (Adam J. Wolf)
• Android M Preview Means New Tools for Developers (Eric Zeman)
• Add Google to your iOS Apps with CocoaPods (Jonathan Beri)
• Evernote Releases v2.0 of Android SDK at Google I/O (Mark Boyd)
• Android M Developer Preview & Tools (Jamal Eason)
• Announcing new Google Cast APIs (Nathan Camarillo & David Allison)
• Introducing the Google Identity Platform (Adam Dawes)
• Application Insights: Easy DevOps On-ramp for App Builders (Charles Sterling)
• A Closer Look at Google Play services 7.5 (Ian Lake)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Simple Programmer Podcast 006: Harold Almon Took Charge of His Software Development Career (John Sonmez)
• Office 365 Developer Podcast: Episode 047 on the Dev Program (Jeremy Thake)
• Hanselminutes – Getting Started with SVG with Sara Soueidan and Azure PowerShell 101 – Managing Azure Storage from the Command-Line (Scott Hanselman)
• 044 AiA Visual Studio Code with Erich Gamma and Chris Dias (John Papa)
• The Nerdist Podcast – The Out-of-Towners (Chris Hardwick)
• SQL Unplugged Live Episode 6 | SQL Unplugged (Scott Klein)

 

Community / Events

• Geek of the Week: Actor and Director, Aleksandra Svetlichnaya (Dan)
• ANZ Coders 2015 – The week long, free developer conference you can attend in your pyjamas! (ANZ Coders) – Last day today!

 

Database

• SQL Server 2016 Live Query Statistics (Enrico van de Laar)
• Installing SQL Server 2016 CTP2 – UI Changes (Anup SivaDas)
• Microsoft® SQL Server® 2016 CTP2 Master Data Services Add-in For Microsoft® Excel® (MS Downloads)
• Remove Question Mark and Show Correct Total Number of Pages in SSRS Report (Dallas Snider)
• How to Clone a SQL Server Login, Part 2 of 3 (K. Brian Kelley)
• SQL SERVER – Using 20 Logical Processors Based on SQL Server Licensing (Pinal Dave)
• Creating a SQL 2016 CTP2 Virtual Machine in Azure (Devin Knight)

 

PowerShell

• Windows Management Framework 4.0 (MS Downloads)
• Azure PowerShell: Azure Virtual Network for the Command Line Junkie – Part 4.1 (Adarsha Datta)

 

Miscellaneous

• Windows 10 reportedly hitting RTM in July (Harish Jonnalagadda)

 

More Link Collections

• Geek Reading May 28, 2015 (Robert Diana)
• The Morning Brew #1870 (Chris Alcock)
• The Daily Six Pack: May 29, 2015 (Dirk Strauss)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2015-05-29 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2015-05-29 (Dan Rigby)
• Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for May 28th, 2015 (Dmitry Lyalin)

 

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