Dew Drop – August 18, 2015 (#2071)

Top Links

• Free Xamarin Subscriptions for Windows Phone Developers (Joseph Hill)
• Eve Version 0 (Chris Granger)
• Develop a sweet spot for Marshmallow: Official Android 6.0 SDK & Final M Preview (Jamal Eason)
• .NET Analyzer Package Round-up (Greg Duncan)

 

Web Development

• Creating AngularJS-Inspired “Directive” Components In ReactJS (Ben Nadel)
• CSS Selectors Inside Selectors: Discover :matches(), :not() and :nth-child() (Benjamin Poulain)
• Building A Circular Navigation with CSS Clip Paths (Sara Soueidan)
• Converting ES6 Maps to and from JSON (Axel Rauschmayer)
• Netflix Releases Falcor Developer Preview (Chris Saint-Amant)
• Windows 10 virtual machines now available on Microsoft Edge Dev (Antón Molleda)
• Binding to file inputs with Aurelia (Jeremy Danyow)

 

XAML

• New Windows Microsoft advertising SDK with support for Video interstitials (Bernardo Zamora)
• Tailored views or one more way to create Universal interfaces (part 2) (Sergiy Baydachnyy)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Using Application Insights right from the Visual Studio 2015 (Abhijit Jana)
• C#6: Null-conditional operators (Jeff Yates)
• Simplifying Your Object Model with Value Objects (Peter Vogel)
• Dependency call stack and application insights SDK labs (Beckylin Orooji)
• Challenge #8 Better Solution (Bnaya Eshet)
• SonicFileFinder 3.0 released (Jens Schaller)
• Shadow Properties in Entity Framework 7 (Jonathan Allen)
• A Neat Stack Corruption, or Reverse P/Invoke Structure Packing with Output Parameters (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Folder Management Extension and our “Ninja Geek” (Willy-P. Schaub)
• Intel just open sourced Stephen Hawking’s speech system and it’s a .NET 4.5 WinForms app that you can try for yourself (Mansib Rahman)
• rxcpp – moderncpp events as observables (Kirk Shoop)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Test Automation in the Agile World (Sanjay Zalavadia)
• Article: What is success for a scrum master? (Vasco Duarte)
• Why you might struggle with Progressive Elaboration (Andrew Fuqua)
• A beginner’s guide to Indigo Studio and What is www.IndigoDesigned.com (DevToolsGuy)
• The Story with Story Points (Gil Zilberfeld)
• How to Use Continuous Planning (Johanna Rothman)
• You Have to Master the Rules Before You Can Break the Rules (John Sonmez)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• New Facebook SDK with Updates to Help You Prepare for iOS 9 (Chris Pan)
• Accessing Azure AD information from .Net Azure Mobile Services and the Xamarin Client (Kevin Ford)
• Day 17: Fragments in Xamarin.Android (Venkata Koppaka)
• Fast Track Your Native App Development Project (Telerik)
• An Introduction to Quartz 2D (James Tyner)
• Exploring OwnCloud Desktop and Mobile Applications (Jeff Reifman)
• Here are the Reasons I Deleted your Mobile App (Michael Crump)
• Why the Windows 10 Universal Windows Platform Bridges are a GREAT thing! (Matt Lacey)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Automating Deployment with Matt Wrock (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Simple Programmer Podcast 043: Realization From Experiences (Still In Amsterdam) – Simple Programmer European Tour 2015 (John Sonmez)
• Hello World Podcast Episode 54: Jeff Handley (Shawn Wildermuth)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Robert Rodriguez (Chris Hardwick)
• Entreprogrammers Episode 78 Sideways Periscope (Josh Earl, John Sonmez, Derick Bailey & Charles Max Wood)
• DefragTools #137: Debugging Kernel Mode Crashes and Hangs | Defrag Tools (Andrew Richards & Chad Beeder)
• 27 ngAir – Performance, Testing, and Everything in-between (Kent C. Dodds)
• Subscribe is Back With A Trillion Messages (Clemens Vasters)
• SE-Radio Episode 235: Ben Hindman on Apache Mesos (SE-Radio Team)

 

Community / Events

• Getting creative: Designer finds the right fit at Skype (Natalie Jayne Rideout)
• Announcing the SplunkTrust Community MVP Program! (Rachel Perkins)
• Developers Making a Difference Through .NET (Vicky)

 

Database

• SQL SERVER – How to Migrate Existing Database to Contained Databases (Pinal Dave)
• Obtaining a List of SQL Server Databases (Richard Carr)
• Monitoring Hadoop (Ian Stirk)

 

SharePoint

• Angular.js Routes with SharePoint (Uma Narayanan)
• ebook deal of the week: Microsoft SharePoint 2013 Administration Inside Out (Kim Spilker)

 

Miscellaneous

• I used to doubt Microsoft. Then I installed Windows 10. (Vivek Wadhwa)
• Rumored specs of the Surface Phone (Gareth Myles)

 

More Link Collections

• Geek Reading August 17, 2015 (Robert Diana)
• Double Shot #1540 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Useful Links for Windows 10 and Universal Windows Platform Apps (Stephen Naughton)
• The Daily Six Pack: August 18, 2015 (Dirk Strauss)
• Developer News – What’s IN with the Infragistics Community? (8/10-8/16) (Dara Monasch)
• The Morning Brew #1927 (Chris Alcock)
• 4 Blogs to Make You a Better Developer (Justin Chmura)

 

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