Dew Drop – June 2, 2015 (#2026)

Top Links

• Xamarin: Implementing and Using Data Binding in Xamarin (Laurent Bugnion)
• Tools for Apache Cordova – Samples and Docs (Ali Satter)
• ASP.NET: Create Your Own Visual Studio Templates with SideWaffle (Sayed Hashimi & Tyler Hughes)
• Windows Live Writer Tricks (Ricardo Peres)

 

Web Development

• MVC 6 Anchor Tag Helper (Dave Paquette)
• Simplifying Routing in AngularJS (Dhananjay Kumar)
• WebStorm 11 Roadmap Discussion (Ekaterina Prigara)
• Learning Redis – Part 5: Redis via Node.js and Python (Rami Sayar)
• Deploy ASP.NET 5 Apps to Docker on Azure (Tony Sneed)
• Tools To Notify You When Dependencies Update (Chris Coyier)
• Understanding Official Repos on Docker Hub (Mario Ponticello)
• Web Development: Building Responsive Web Sites with Bootstrap (Keith Pijanowski)
• SitePoint Smackdown: Atom vs Brackets vs Light Table vs Sublime Text (Craig Buckler) – Need to add VS Code to that Smackdown.
• How to Talk about Security Testing without Scaring People (Sylvia Killinen)
• So, you want to build a cloud service? (Tom Hollander)
• It’s time for A grade SSL on Azure websites (Troy Hunt)

 

XAML

• 5 Steps to an Ideal Windows 10 App Development Environment (Michael Crump)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• LINQ: Deferred Execution (Jeff Yates)
• C# Futures: Immutable Classes (Jonathan Allen)
• For a Few Dollars More (Phillip Trelford)
• Merge Headache — Don’t Re-Purposes a class, create a new one (Derik Whittaker)
• Programming a Programming Computer Game – .Net Run Time Type Creator (Daniel Slater)
• How can I make the touch keyboard appear automatically when focus enters an edit control in my program? (Raymond Chen)
• Writing code on whiteboards is hard (Eric Lippert)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Extracting software architecture from code (Simon Brown)
• Where Does an Agile Transformation Start? Everywhere. (Joel Bancroft-Connors)
• Cutting Edge: CQRS for the Common Application (Dino Esposito)
• Interview: The Importance of Technical Practices in Agile. (Tim Ottinger)
• Insights – Get to know your fakes part 6- Static Constructors (Alex)
• “Rolling Rocks Downhill” Impressions (Gil Zilberfeld)
• On Leadership. And Diversity of Character. (Mark Suster)
• Test Run: Firefly Algorithm Optimization (James McCaffrey)
• 5 Smart Ways To Motivate Remote Employees (Dave Nevogt)
• #Video Deal/Day: Engineering Practices for Continuous Delivery – $59.99 (Save 50%) Use code DEAL (O’Reilly Media)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Automating User Interface Testing on Android (Ashraff Hathibelagal)
• Introducing new Android training programs with Udacity (Peter Lubbers)
• Raspberry PI 2 and analog input (Sergiy Baydachnyy)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Actor Models on Orleans with Barry Briggs (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Herding Code 204: Sara J. Chipps and George Stocker on Jewelbots (Jon Galloway, Scott Koon, K. Scott Allen & Kevin Dente)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Mike Judge (Chris Hardwick)
• Unifying the Construction Supply Chain with Hyphen Solutions, Windows 8.1 and Office 365 (Baldwin Ng)
• Entreprogrammers Episode 67 Get Off My Lawn (Derick Bailey, Josh Earl, John Sonmez & Charles Max Wood)
• Ping 244: More Cortana, Lara Croft, world’s first 3D fabric printer | Ping! (Greg Duncan, Mark DeFalco & RicksterCDN)

 

Community / Events

• Google I/O 2015 Recap For Android Developers (James Montemagno)
• The Simple Programmer European Tour Begins (John Sonmez)
• Philly Nerd Nite No. 49 Delivers Fungus and Animal Grossology Among Us (Wayne Stainrook)

 

Database

• Set Select All as Default for Multi-Value Report Parameters in SQL Server Reporting Services (Ghanesh Prasad)
• Persisting SQL Server Index-Usage Statistics with MERGE (Marios Philippopoulos)
• How to Set Up Standard Edition AlwaysOn Availability Groups in SQL Server 2016 (Brent Ozar)
• SQL SERVER – Errors and Limitations of Working with SPARSE Columns in SQL Server (Pinal Dave)
• Data Points: An Overview of Microsoft Azure DocumentDB (Julie Lerman)
• Using SelectColumns() To Alias Columns In DAX (Chris Webb)

 

SharePoint

• SharePlus and Launchpads – Customize SharePoint Data on the Move (Mobile Man)

 

PowerShell

• PowerShell – How to display multicolor messages (Waclaw Chrabaszcz)

 

Miscellaneous

• Two ‘revolutionary’ HP Windows 10 devices will be revealed on June 3 at Computex (John Callaham)
• Windows 10: The Feedback app will remain in RTM (Zac Bowden)

 

More Link Collections

• Geek Reading June 1, 2015 (Robert Diana)
• Reading Notes #187 (Frank Boucher)
• The Morning Brew #1872 (Chris Alcock)
• The Daily Six Pack: June 2, 2015 (Dirk Strauss)
• Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for June 1st, 2015 (Dmitry Lyalin)
• Developer News – What’s IN with the Infragistics Community? (5/25-5/31) (Dara Monasch)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2015-06-02 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2015-06-02 (Dan Rigby)

 

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