Dew Drop – August 24, 2015 (#2075)

Top Links

• The future of Unity (Christopher Bennage)
• .Net Native, the code platform behind Universal Windows Apps, explained (Kip Kniskern)
• Windows 10 IoT Core controlling a Raspberry Pi 2 Robot (Scott Hanselman)
• SSW TV – Scott Allen on the History of Visual Studio (SSW Team)

 

Web Development

• Slick CSS Animations Without JavaScript (Chris Love)
• JavaScript Cookbook (2nd Ed) (Ian Elliot)
• Is “Isomorphic JavaScript” a good term? (Axel Rauschmayer)
• 12 tips to increase the performance of ASP.NET application drastically – Part 2 (Brij Bhushan Mishra)
• Object.observe in JavaScript, and how I found it to be useful (David Voyles)
• Validate a Form using jQuery and Bootstrap Validator (Irvin Dominin)
• HTML 5 Offline Applications (Pravinkumar Dabade)
• Running Mocha Tests with Visual Studio Code (Andrew Connell)
• Making HTTP Requests in JavaScript (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• Collecting docker logs and stats with Splunk (Denis Gladkikh)
• Go Web Programming: Defending against XSS attacks (Sau Sheong Chang)
• Dropbox Releases API Explorer to Test API Calls (Eric Carter)
• Proper testing of AngularJS Applications with ES6 Modules (Tomas Trajan)
• ES6 In Depth: Modules (Jason Orendorff)

 

XAML

• XAML tools in Visual Studio 2015 (Sergiy Baydachnyy)
• Cloud Load Test Support in mstest.exe command line and XAML Builds (Shiva Shankar)
• Using promotional codes for your apps: a walkthrough and suggested uses (Bernardo Zamora)
• How to Convert a Bing Maps Directions URL to a Bing Maps Routing API URL (Jon Gallant)
• Windows 10 maps part 4 – color scheme and options (Joost van Schaik)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Usage of into and let keyword in Query Expression C# (Ashish Kumar)
• The Best C# and Data Batch Update Approach (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
• Publishing Visual Studio Online extensions within the preview (Willy-P. Schaub)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Creating A Unit Testing Strategy – Part 5 (Gil Zilberfeld)
• Announcing DaSpec — awesome executable specifications in Markdown (Gojko Adzic)
• Having Fun for a Living (J.D. Meier)
• Article: Conversation Patterns for Software Professionals – Part 4 (Michał Bartyzel)
• ASP .NET 5 & Unit Testing (Shahed C)
• 7 more questions asked by noob designers (Cameron Chapman)
• [Release] FontAwesome in myBalsamiq, Drag+Drop of Symbols, and more! (Giacomo “Peldi” Guilizzoni)
• SmartBear Updates Service Virtualization and Performance Testing Tools (ProgrammableWeb PR)
• Tools for a More Inclusive Workplace (Steven Sinofsky)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• 52 Weeks of Xamarin: Week 3- Events in Xamarin.Forms (Jesse Liberty)
• Windows 10, IoT Core on Raspberry PI 2–Using an Internet Shared Connection (Mike Taulty)
• Raspberry Pi 2 + .NET Gadgeteer + Windows 10 = FEZ Cream (Greg Duncan)
• Amazon Echo now supports SmartThings, lets you control Samsung’s smart lights (James Risley)
• Building your first end-to-end Cross Platform app (Shashank Bisen)
• Introducing the New Alexa Lighting API (Rohan Mutagi)
• 31 Days of Xamarin Android Day 21: RecyclerView and Day 22: ScrollView and WebView and Day 23: TabLayout (Venkata Koppaka)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Simple Programmer Podcast 045: How NOT to Email Famous People (John Sonmez)
• Thimbleweed Park Podcast #18 (Ron Gilbert)
• Herding Code 208: Chris Klug on SOLID principles and migrating from Silverlight to Angular and TypeScript (Jon Galloway, K. Scott Allen, Scott Koon & Kevin Dente)
• WinBeta Podcast 29: Windows 10 build 10525, hardware launch rumors and more (Sean Michael)
• MS Dev Show – Intro to Node.js with Sarah Sexton (Jason Young & Carl Schweitzer)
• WOxPod 016 – Me, Myself and I – WaterOx Consulting (Chris Bell)
• My Life for the Code Episode 8: The Developer on Fire with Dave Rael (Shawn Rakowski)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Connie Britton Returns and The Nerdist Podcast – Owen Wilson (Chris Hardwick)
• The Changelog 170: BoltDB, InfluxDB and more with Ben Johnson (Adam Stacoviak & Jerod Santo)
• Developer on Fire Podcast – Mark Seemann – Abstract Value (Dave Rael)
• TWC9: New Windows 10 Build, Quantum Computers, Razer RealSense, AzureCon and more… | This Week On Channel 9 (Greg Duncan, Vladimir Kolesnikov & Petri Wilhelmsen)
• Episode 183: Azure WebJobs Update with Pranav Rastogi | Microsoft Azure Cloud Cover Show (Haishi Bai & Chris Risner)
• CodeChat 035 – Node Chakra | CodeChat (Jeremy Foster)
• Get Up And Code 105: CrossFit with Adrian Rosebrock (John Sonmez)
• Cloud Foundry on Azure (RicksterCDN)
• RiYL Episode 123: (Bonus) Roderick on Politics (Brian Heater)
• SE-Radio Episode 236: Rebecca Parsons on Evolutionary Architecture (SE-Radio Team)
• StarTalk Live! Climate Change (Neil de Grasse Tyson)

 

Community / Events

• SQL Authority News – 100 Million and Onwards (Pinal Dave)

 

Database

• Validate Numeric or Non-Numeric Data in SQL Server Integration Services without the Script Task (Ghanesh Prasad)
• SQL Server INNER JOIN on NULL Columns (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Interview Question of the Week #033 – How to Invalid Procedure Cache of SQL Server? and SQL SERVER – Fix @@ServerName Property Value When Incorrect (Pinal Dave)
• PostgreSQL Document API Part 2: Full Text Search and Bulk Save (Rob Conery)

 

PowerShell

• Azure DSC Extension v2.3 released (PowerShell Team)
• Scripting Games 2015 event 2 (Emin Atac)

 

Miscellaneous

• What Objects are Missing in Small Basic? and Small Basic includes Exponential Notation!!! (Ed Price)

 

More Link Collections

• Geek Reading August 21, 2015 (Robert Diana)
• Daily Links 24 Aug 2015 (Jax)
• Last Week on Channel 9: August 17th – August 23rd, 2015 (Greg Duncan)
• The Morning Brew #1931 (Chris Alcock)
• Reading List (Bruce Lawson)
• Weekly Xamarin Newsletter Issue #54 (Adam J. Wolf)
• Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for August 21th, 2015 (Dmitry Lyalin)

 

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