Dew Drop – June 9, 2015 (#2031)

Top Links

• What’s New in Prism for Xamarin.Forms 5.7.0-Pre1 Release (Brian Lagunas)
• NuGet 3.0 RC 2 Released (Jeffrey T. Fritz)
• WinJS 4.0 Is Compatible with AngularJS, React, Bootstrap and Knockout (Abel Avram)
• Using Visual Studio Online to Build a GitHub Hosted JavaScript Project with NPM, Bower, and Grunt (for Free) (Jeremy Likness)

 

Web Development

• Against CSS in JS and Adders and logic gates in pure CSS (Chris Coyier)
• Action filters, service filters and type filters in ASP.NET 5 and MVC 6 (Filip W)
• The Ultimate list of CSS3 Resources, Tutorials, Tips and More and CSS3 Succinctly (Isaac Haynes)
• ebook deal of the week: Node.js for .NET Developers (Kim Spilker)
• Style Different Categories in Your WordPress Site Differently Using CSS (Rachel McCollin)
• Bundling, minification and client-side compilation (Mads Kristensen)
• Array Future, JSONFormData (Alex R. Young)
• Microsoft Edge tips and tricks shown in new video, responsive images support revealed (John Callaham)
• Run Azure CLI as a Docker Container: Avoid installation and setup (Khalid Mouss)
• Amazon Announces AWS SDK for Go Developer Preview (Patricio Robles)
• Now you can monitor “Have I been pwned?” performance on Azure in real time (Troy Hunt)
• Easy AngularJS Forms with angular-formly (Ryan Chenkie)
• 7 Essential JavaScript Functions (David Walsh)
• JavaScript Code Smells (Elijah Manor)
• Secure Node Apps Against OWASP Top 10 – Injection (Scott K. Smith)

 

XAML

• Developers: FFmpeg open-source support now available for Windows and Windows Phone apps (Athima Chansanchai)
• How to build Universal Windows applications for EZ-B controller without coding at all (Sergiy Baydachnyy)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Heat Margin Visual Studio Extension – Taking the Green/Yellow to the next level (Greg Duncan)
• LINQ: Understanding Your Query Chain (Jeff Yates)
• LEADTOOLS Recognition Imaging SDK: Create Imaging Apps Easily (Dirk Strauss)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Extracting software architecture from code (Simon Brown)
• How to write your very first Unit Test in Visual Studio using MSTest Framework easily ? (Abhijit Jana)
• Introducing CQRS and Event Sourcing with a Demo Application (Jan Stenberg)
• Unit Testing: Setup Methods or Not? (Jeremy Clark)
• Design Patterns Simplified: The Bridge Pattern (John Sonmez)
• Development environments, configuration management and deployment (Rachel Andrew)
• The Importance of Invisible Design (Megan Louw)
• How to undo (almost) anything with Git (Joshua Wehner)
• Visionary Leadership: How To Be a Visionary Leader (Or at Least Look Like One) (JD Meier)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Xamarin.Forms Nuggets – A Sweet and Sour Blog Series (Adam J. Wolf)
• How to Use Kotlin in Your Android Projects (Ashraff Hathibelagal)
• At WWDC Apple Unifies iOS, Mac, Watch OS Dev Programs (Doron Katz)
• Apple iOS 9 Adds 5 Key APIs For Developers (Eric Zeman)
• Put Some Cyanogen in Your Xamarin Apps (Jon Dick)
• Swift 2.0 (Swift Team)
• Apple to Open Source Swift Language (Alex Blewitt)
• DZone Refcardz: Mobile Web Application Testing (G. Ryan Spain)
• Better Apps & Faster Release Cycles Part I (Karl Krukow)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Building Web Apps using TypeScript with Steve Ognibene (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Indie Dev Podcast Ep. 21 – Michael Gnade, Indie Game Stand (David Voyles)
• Simple Programmer Podcast 013: I Know I’ll Never Be Happy Unless I Do Something For Myself (John Sonmez)
• Scrum Master Toolbox – Agile is not about processes or recipes | Ben Linders (Vasco Duarte)
• F# and MBrace with Lena Dzenisenka | .NET Fringe 2015 (Seth Juarez & Alena Dzenisenka)
• Windows Developer Show OT 003 – “Gaming, Mobile Workstations, Laptop Bags” (Travis Lowdermilk & Ryan Lowdermilk)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Shane West (Chris Hardwick)
• Entreprogrammers Episode 68 “Get Maid Service…” (Derick Bailey, Josh Earl, John Sonmez & Charles Max Wood)
• Debunking Azure Myths: Azure doesn’t scale out to large and complex workloads (RicksterCDN)
• 51 – Redacted Depricated Null | Patch And Switch (RicksterCDN & Joey Snow)

 

Community / Events

• DVLUP Challenges – Now With Reward Points (Sue Gee)

 

Database

• Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Integration Services Feature Pack for Azure (MS Downloads)
• Using the Transaction History in SQL Server Master Data Services (Koen Verbeeck)
• My initial experience with Rust (Eric Sink)
• Query Store: A flight data recorder for your database (Borko Novakovic)

 

SharePoint

• SharePoint Publishing Content Line Spacing (Greg Galipeau)

 

PowerShell

• #PSTip Use Shell.Application to determine which folder is open in File Explorer (Jaap Brasser)

 

Miscellaneous

• Windows 10 Deprecated Features with Alternatives (Rod Trent)
• Automate All the Things: An AutoHotKey Primer for Developers (Terrence Dorsey)
• What does your audience need? (Rachel Andrew)
• See a 1932 Infographic on the History of Evolution (Caitlin Schneider)
• Interviewing candidates (Eric Lippert)
• Is a Steven Spielberg Halo TV show still in development? (Kip Kniskern)
• 6 ways to motivate your employees (Pluralsight)

 

More Link Collections

• Geek Reading June 8, 2015 (Robert Diana)
• The Morning Brew #1877 (Chris Alcock)
• Developer News – What’s IN with the Infragistics Community? (6/1-6/7) (Dara Monasch)
• The Daily Six Pack: June 9, 2015 (Dirk Strauss)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2015-06-09 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2015-06-09 (Dan Rigby)
• Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for June 8th, 2015 (Dmitry Lyalin)
• My weekly newsletter for HTML5, Startups, VC, and game dev (David Voyles)

 

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