Dew Drop – July 14, 2015 (#2053)

Top Links

• Beautiful Material Design with the Android Support Design Library (James Montemagno)
• Visual Studio Online Update – July 7 and TFS 2015 Compatibility and Update on Team Foundation Server RC2 (Brian Harry)
• Crash analysis in the unified Dev Center (Bernardo Zamora)
• JSHint – A Formal Commitment to New Language Features (JSHint Team)

 

Web Development

• Rendering Large Datasets With AngularJS And ReactJS (Ben Nadel)
• TDD for ASP.NET MVC, Part 5: Client-Side JavaScript (Eric Vogel)
• How to create an Azure-based real time Chat Application using Firebase and jQuery (Dhananjay Kumar)
• OWIN – Not with ASP.NET MVC 6 (Marcin Kawalerowicz)
• Many ways to relate Orchard things, part 6: enumerations (Bertrand Le Roy)
• Hey Azure, how’s my Blob Storage doing? (Elton Stoneman)
• Announcing JetStream 1.1 (Filip Pizlo)
• The Front-End Developer’s Dilemma (Geoff Graham)
• ebook deal of the week: Microsoft Public Cloud Services: Setting up your business in the cloud (Kim Spilker)
• How I got XSS’d by my ad network (Troy Hunt)
• Thundercats – RxJS Meets isomorphic Flux with a little bit of Relay thrown in for good measure (Berkeley Martinez)
• Exploring ES2016 Decorators (Addy Osmani)
• Merge Arrays with JavaScript (David Walsh)
• Announcing Cortana Analytics Suite and New Partner Investments at WPC 2015 (Takeshi Numoto)

 

XAML

• FullScreenModeTrigger for Universal Windows Platform (Marco Minerva)
• Microsoft Health API – UWP Sample (Pete D.)
• Tailored views or one more way to create Universal interfaces (Sergiy Baydachnyy)
• Creating a Windows Universal App from your existing Web Sites using Visual Studio 2015 (Arun Kumar)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Open Source .NET with AppVeyor NuGet Feeds (Cameron Taggart)
• Distributed Caching using Redis Server with .NET/C# Client (Sem Shekhovtsov)
• Seq 2.2: Memory Efficiency, One-click Auto-refresh, Filter History (Nicholas Blumhardt)
• Generating different types of timestamps from quite a long way away (Raymond Chen)
• Inferno – .NET crypto done right (Stan Drapkin)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Using OpenCover and ReportGenerator to get Unit Testing Code Coverage Metrics in .NET (Allen Conway)
• Talking with Tech Leads (Simon Brown)
• The Difference Between Those Who Succeed and Those Who Fail (J.D. Meier)
• Bugzilla 5.0 Released (Kay Ewbank)
• Event Sourcing applied – the Repository (Gabriel Schenker)
• Code Coverage – You’re Doing it Wrong – Part 1 (James Bender)
• Microservices, or “How to spread the love” (Kyle Baley)
• How to configure SCVMM-based Lab Management for selected Team Projects (Matteo Emili)
• Overcoming Cognitive Friction to Engineer Better Software (Nilanjan Bhattacharya)
• Git for IT Professionals: Getting Started (Ravikanth C)
• Stop, think, research, debug (Scott Hanselman)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Xinions – Xamarin.Forms style minions that do the dirty work for you. (Adam J. Wolf)
• Create a Bluetooth Scanner With Android’s Bluetooth API (Matthew Kim)
• Introduction to the Instagram API (Jeff Reifman)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – DevOps in a Windows World with Jon Arild Tørresdal (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Yet Another Podcast Show 138 – Jon Galloway (Jesse Liberty)
• Entreprogrammers Episode 73 “You Get What You Are…” (John Sonmez, Josh Earl, Derick Bailey & Charles Max Wood)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Live from SDCC with Sir Ben Kingsley and Peter Capaldi and The Nerdist Podcast – Leo Laporte (Chris Hardwick)
• Defrag Tools: #133 – App Paths | Defrag Tools (Andrew Richards & Chad Beeder)
• StreetHawk Mobile Engagement Podcast – Deeplinks, deferred deeplinks & app schemas (David Jones)
• TWC9: Windows 10 SDK for 10166, VS Code 0.5.0, Westminster, HoloLens and more | This Week On Channel 9 (Greg Duncan & Nikola Metulev)
• SQL Server Radio Show 25 – Oh Sh*t, I’m on the Prod Server (Matan Yungman)
• Talk Python to Me #16 Python at Netflix (Michael Kennedy)
• Hallway Conversations Episode 049 – Exploring Reactive Extensions (Rx) with Jim Wooley (Phil Japikse, Stephen Bohlen, Lee Brandt & James Bender)

 

Community / Events

• Windows 10 Launch: Celebrating with our Fans and Announcing #UpgradeYourWorld (Yusuf Mehdi)

 

Database

• Thoughts on Power Query and SSIS (Koen Verbeeck)
• Power BI Desktop As A Client Tool For SSAS Tabular (Chris Webb)
• SQL Server Compact ADO.NET data access performance – part 3: SELECTs (Erik EJ)
• SQL SERVER – Querying Performance Counters from SQL Server (Pinal Dave)
• What is new in RavenDB 3.5: My thread pool is smarter (Oren Eini)
• The truth about MapReduce performance on SSDs (Yanpei Chen)

 

SharePoint

• SharePoint Pitfalls: Publishing Pages in Document Libraries Other Than Pages (Ricardo Peres)
• SharePoint – Controlling Your Master Page Content using a SharePoint List (David Simmons)

 

Miscellaneous

• Developer Conferences on a Shoestring (Phillip Trelford)
• Microsoft suspends Windows Insider builds as it preps for Windows 10 launch (Dan Thorp-Lancaster)
• The earliest you can receive a PC with Windows 10 pre-installed is July 30 and Microsoft’s Windows head: New premium Lumia Windows 10 phones are coming “soon” (John Callaham)
• Programmers and Politics (John Sonmez)

 

More Link Collections

• Geek Reading July 13, 2015 (Robert Diana)
• Collective #176 (Pedro Botelho)
• The Morning Brew #1902 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2015-07-14 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2015-07-14 (Dan Rigby)
• Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for July 13th, 2015 (Dmitry Lyalin)
• List of this week’s most interesting stories (David Voyles)
• Best Programming Learning Resources for Kids (Scott Ge)

 

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