Dew Drop – June 1, 2015 (#2025)

Top Links

• Windows 10 is launching July 29 (Harish Jonnalagadda)
• Clean C# eBook Published (Jason Roberts)
• Creating a Knockout-Style Variable in C# (Chris Eargle)
• Presentation: C# 6 – The Future Is (nearly) Here! (Jon Skeet)

 

Web Development

• The Past, Present & Future of Node.js and io.js (Andrew Connell)
• ASP.NET Formatted String Control (Ricardo Peres)
• Windows 10 uses Chakra to Provide JavaScript For All Applications (Jeff Martin)
• Using AngularJS in your ASP.NET MVC Projects – Part 3 (Mark Kendall)
• Improved Structure View in PhpStorm 9 (Rustam Vishnyakov)
• Automatically Compile Your TypeScript Files with Visual Studio Code on OSX (Michael Crump)
• Why to avoid fat controllers (Gunnar Peipman)
• TypeScript Futures (Peter Vogel)
• The jsblocks Framework (Alex R. Young)
• Messing with MessageChannel (David Humphrey)
• DZone Refcardz: REST: Foundations of RESTful Architecture (G. Ryan Spain)
• GitHub Repository Redirects to Go Live in API v3 (Romin Irani)
• Azure Utilities You Should Have In Your Toolbox (Tim Murphy)
• Angular 1.4.0 – jaracimrman-existence (Pete Bacon Darwin)
• ES6 In Depth: Rest parameters and defaults (Benjamin Peterson)
• Rocket.Chat – Have your own Slack like online chat, built with Meteor. (Diego Sampaio, Gabriel Engel, Marcelo Schmidt, Rafael Caferati & Rodrigo Nascimento)

 

XAML

• Using compiled bindings (x:Bind) with #mvvmlight (Laurent Bugnion)
• WPF Control Templates – Displaying Content (Richard Carr)
• EZ-Robot controller and Universal Windows Platform (Sergiy Baydachnyy)
• I don’t get UWP on IOT (Matt Lacey)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• C# on EdX – A Programmer’s Review (Nikos Vaggalis)
• Create and Update bug by email in TFS 2015 using Bug2Mail Service (Tarun Arora)
• VSO Status Inspector – A walk through on creating a Visual Studio extension to track VSO Status (Utkarsh Shigihalli)
• Announcing Octopus Deploy integration for Visual Studio Online (Charles Sterling)
• Using SecureString in C# For Sensitive Information (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
• Extending Visual Studio 2015 (Heather Brown)
• Using Reflection to Get Enum Description and Value and Deserializing Interface Properties With Json.NET (Bruno Leonardo Michels)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Don’t Be a Magnet for Unpleasant Experiences (J.D. Meier)
• Everyone can be a leader (Patrick Kua)
• How to Facilitate an Agile Retrospective Using “Rory Story Cubes” (Savita Pahuja)
• How Many Stories Per Sprint? Rules of Thumb (Andrew Fuqua)
• Testing in Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment Workflows (Gopinath C H)
• Embracing Parallelism in Your Applications (Jerry Makare)
• Elephant in the Room – Technical Debt (Matt Davey)
• Article: Why We Fail to Change: Understanding Practices, Principles, and Values Is a Solution (Pawel Brodzinski)
• My Thoughts On #NoEstimates (Robin Osborne)
• The Holy Trinity of Product Development (Stephen Forte)
• Developer Productivity without tools (Steven Barnett)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Xamarin Studio: Obliterate Output Paths (bin/obj) (James Montemagno)
• Android Studio 1.3 Does C/C++ and More Material Design (Abel Avram)
• Xamarin.Forms Future Survey (Adam J Wolf)
• iOS Fundamentals: UIAlertView and UIAlertController (Bart Jacobs)
• Get the Summer Going with Xamarin Events in June (Jayme Singleton)
• Android Vulnerability Lets Attackers Modify App Behavior (Patricio Robles)
• Android Plugin Application (Raffaele Garofalo)
• Android Design Support Library (Ian Lake)
• Grow your app installs with App Invites from Google (Ranjith Jayaram)
• Updated Scratch Ticket Code (Mike Bluestein)
• Raspberry PI 2 and analog input (Sergiy Baydachnyy)
• My onboarding experience at Khan Academy (Kevin Dangoor)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Thimbleweed Park Podcast #8 (Ron Gilbert)
• Technology & Friends Episode 368: Kris Wagner on Hot Parties in Azure (David Giard)
• Simple Programmer Podcast 007: Is Paying for Developer Bootcamp Worth It? and Get Up And Code 093: All About Running With Thomas Henson (John Sonmez)
• Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 166 #OTP (Richard Hay)
• MS Dev Show – Android Apps on Windows (Project Astoria) with Shabnam Erfani (Jason Young & Carl Schweitzer)
• SSW TV – ASP.NET Identity using vNext | Dev Superpowers Episode 11 (SSW Team)
• Free Course (Video Available): Practical Performance Tips to Make Your HTML/JavaScript Faster (Doris Chen)
• The Changelog 157: Building Bridges with Sarah Allen (Adam Stacoviak & Jerod Santo)
• Windows Design for Developers: Getting the Balance Right | Build 2015 (Albert Shum, Jeff Arnold, Karen Kesler, Jeff Fong & Jonathan Wiedemann)
• The Married Gamers Episode 364: Lost Kinection (Chris Brown)
• TWC9: We’re back…. Windows 10, IoT, Thing Explainer, Ask Anders Anything and more… | This Week On Channel 9 (Greg Duncan & Jeremy Foster)
• Episode 176: Logic Apps with Stephen Siciliano | Microsoft Azure Cloud Cover Show (Haishi Bai & Chris Risner)
• StarTalk Radio – Combating Disease with Jimmy Carter (Neil de Grasse Tyson)
• Azure Podcast Episode 79 – Azure A-Z (Sujit D’Mello)

 

Community / Events

• Interview: Tony Grout and Chris Matts on Skype’s Agile Transformation (Tony Grout & Chris Matts)
• The 8th Annual Regular Expression Day – June 1st, 2015 (Ben Nadel)
• Google I/O and the Death of the Web (John Ptacek)
• Windows 10 Developer Readiness – Powered by MVPs (Sara Silva)

 

Database

• 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)
• Protecting Yourself from SQL Injection in SQL Server – Part 2 (Aaron Bertrand)
• How to Set Up Standard Edition AlwaysOn Availability Groups in SQL Server 2016 (Brent Ozar)
• SQL SERVER – Error Msg 511 using SQL Server Sparse columns and Interview Question of the Week #022 – How to Get Started with Big Data? (Pinal Dave)

 

PowerShell

• PowerShell ISE: Jump to Column Feature (Trevor Sullivan)
• Windows Management Framework 4.0 (MS Downloads)
• How to register a node with a DSC pull server (Narine Mossikyan)
• #PSTip Validate if an Active Directory Organizational Unit exists or not (Ravikanth C)

 

Miscellaneous

• Here’s what’s new, fixed, and broken in Windows 10 build 10130 (Dan Thorp-Lancaster)
• An open source Windows Live Writer coming soon? (Kip Kniskern)

 

More Link Collections

• Geek Reading May 29, 2015 (Robert Diana)
• The Morning Brew #1871 (Chris Alcock)
• Collective #170 (Pedro Botelho)
• Links of the month (May Edition) (Jan Hentschel)
• Coding4Fun May 2015 Round-Up and Last Week on Channel 9: May 25th – May 31st, 2015 (Greg Duncan)
• The Daily Six Pack: June 1, 2015 (Dirk Strauss)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2015-06-01 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2015-06-01 (Dan Rigby)
• .NET Tips and Tricks from Daily .NET Tips : May 2015 Links (Abhijit Jana)
• Weekly Xamarin Newsletter Issue #42 (Adam J. Wolf)
• Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for May 29th, 2015 (Dmitry Lyalin)
• F# Weekly #22, 2015 (Sergey Tihon)

 

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