Dew Drop – July 8, 2015 (#2049)

Top Links

• VS Refactoring Essentials (formerly) NR6Pack – Free analyzers and refactoring for Visual Studio 2015 (Scott Hanselman)
• .NET Micro Framework 4.4 Beta is here! (Lorenzo Tessiore)
• Team Foundation Server 2015 RC2 available (Brian Harry)
• Azure Mobile Service deployment with Team City part 1. Team City Installation (Ruslan Albu)

 

Web Development

• Meet the World’s First Mobile HTML Editor (Marin Bratanov)
• Generating GDI+ Images for ASP.NET MVC Views (Ricardo Peres)
• 22 ngAir – Angular Data and 21 ngAir – Accessibility with Angular (angularair)
• Asm.js and WebGL for Unity and Unreal Engine (David Voyles)
• Revving up JavaScript performance with TurboFan (Google Chrome Blog)
• Debugging Improvements in PhpStorm 9 (Mikhail Vink)
• Google Brings Material Design to CSS, HTML, and JavaScript (Sergio De Simone)
• Coinbase API v2 Now Generally Available (Eric Carter)
• Sample chapter: Microsoft Public Cloud Services: What the Cloud Can Do for Your Business (Kim Spilker)
• Publish responsive websites to the Windows Store with Project Westminster (Kiril Seksenov)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Test-Driven Python Development – $19.99 (Save 50%) Use code DEAL (O’Reilly Media)
• App.Config Transforms Outside Of Web Project (Sacha Barber)
• The Dolby Audio and Microsoft Edge Experience (Si Robertson)

 

XAML

• Charming Storage Update (Peter Freeman Foot)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• New Book: C# Succinctly (Joe Mayo)
• Card colors and personal access tokens – Jul 7 (Aaron Bjork)
• Upgrading NServiceBus – A painful experience (Gabriel Schenker)
• Little Puzzlers–The Majority Element (James Michael Hare)
• The Counted: Initial Analysis Using FSharp and R (Jamie Dixon)
• AutoMapper dev builds moved to MyGet (Jimmy Bogard)
• Team Foundation Server 2015 Delayed, and It’s A Good Thing (Paul Ballard)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Fourth installment of Refactoring Loops to Collection Pipelines (Martin Fowler)
• Agile in Non-Software Development Teams (David Starr)
• Three Tips for Product Owners (Johanna Rothman)
• [Release] Non-Image Assets! (Peldi Guilizzoni)
• 4 habits of highly successful IT companies (Rob Marsh)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• 5 Days to a Beautiful Xamarin.Forms User Interface – Fonts (Adam J. Wolf)
• Audio Recording using MediaRecorder using Xamarin in Visual Studio (Arun Kumar)
• Announcing the release of Cordova plugin for Azure Mobile Engagement (Piyush Joshi)
• Xamarin Test Cloud to Support Appium Framework (Steven Yi)
• Adding a Bindable Map with the Map Behavior (Jonathan Yates)
• A Comprehensive Guide to Creating a Xamarin.Forms App with MvvmCross (Part 3 of 5) (Brent Edwards)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Developing ASP.NET on Linux with Mark Rendle (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Gone Mobile 27: Automated App Testing with Niels Frydenholm (Greg Shackles & Jon Dick)
• AAWP Insight #145: BBC apps, Build 10149 (Rafe Blandford)
• Microsoft Cloud Show Episode 085 | Azure and Office 365 News Plus Interview with Jerry Pierre (Andrew Connell & Chris Johnson)
• Getting Ready for Win 10 with Mark Minasi (Richard Campbell)
• Eat Sleep Code – Season 1, Episode 1 (Ed Charbeneau)
• ICTV029: Introducing Pablo | Imagine Cup TV (Golnaz & Pablo)
• CodeChat 030 – Everett Carney on Being a Tech Startup Developer | CodeChat (Jeremy Foster)
• Talk Python to Me #15 Python at Spotify, PSF, and PyLadies (Michael Kennedy)
• RiYL Episode 115: Lisa Wilde (Brian Heater)
• SSW TV – What’s on the horizon of the Internet of Things (IoT) – SSW TV Interview with Stuart Corner (SSW Team)
• ASP.NET Community Standup – July 7, 2015 (Jeffrey T. Fritz)

 

Community / Events

• Meet The First Kendo UI Certified Developers (Burke Holland)
• The Future of Girls (Bill Gates)
• Meet Your Advisory Council – Bill Wagner (Beth Massi)
• The Philadelphia Zoo’s Annual Summer Ale Festival Returns Saturday, July 25 With After-Hours, Adults-Only Good Times (Amy Gordon)
• Less Than 2 Weeks to Worldwide Partner Conference (Steve Guggenheimer)

 

Database

• Securing SQL Server with SQL Secure (Greg Robidoux)
• Three Easy Tweaks to Tune Up Your SQL Server (Doug Lane)
• SQL Server 2016: Identify Regressions with Query Store (Jonathan Allen)
• What is new in RavenDB 3.5–Intro (Oren Eini)
• Order Query Results with Azure DocumentDB (Aravind Ramachandran)

 

PowerShell

• Validate PowerShell DSC Node Status (Michael Greene)
• Registration is Now Open to Publish on PowerShell Gallery (PowerShell Team)

 

Miscellaneous

• Firefox for Windows 10 is coming ‘soon’ but details remain scarce (John Callaham)
• 4 Reasons Microsoft Corporation Won’t Kill Windows Phone (Leo Sun)
• Windows 10 Insiders can now install the Office 2016 Preview (Richard Devine)

 

More Link Collections

• Geek Reading July 7, 2015 (Robert Diana)
• The Morning Brew #1898 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2015-07-08 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2015-07-08 (Dan Rigby)
• Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for July 7th, 2015 (Dmitry Lyalin)

 

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