Dew Drop – September 10, 2015 (#2087)

Top Links

• NativeScript for .NET Developers (Sam Basu)
• Get your Xamarin Android eBook here! (Kris Lankford)
• Review: Dremel 3D Printer and initial impressions of the HP Sprout (Scott Hanselman)
• We’re on the road to self-driving business applications (Steve Guggenheimer)

 

Web Development

• Data Structures With JavaScript: Stack and Queue (Cho S. Kim)
• Sample project: Use Famo.us + Angular to create a mobile application (Dave Voyles)
• Node.js 4 is Stable: Merges io.js and Node (Mitch Pronschinske)
• ASP.NET 5 Identity and REST APIs (Shawn Wildermuth)
• shouldComponentUpdate() Will Short-Circuit An Entire Subtree Of Components In ReactJS and setState(), shouldComponentUpdate(), And render() Timing In ReactJS (Ben Nadel)
• function-names-es6 (Axel Rauschmayer)
• Easier feeds for GitHub Pages (Ben Balter)
• An Introduction to Ruby’s JSON Library (José Mota)
• Splunk Light as a Cloud Service: Get Splunk for Less Than a Cup of Coffee (Marc Itzkowitz)
• Developer Tips for Sublime Productivity (Erik Dietrich)
• Go 1.6 will Make its Garbage Collector Faster (Sergio De Simone)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Update for Visual Studio 2015 RTM (KB3092422) (MS Downloads)
• Visual Studio 2015 now Supports COBOL and you Can Make Desktop and Web Apps with It (Mansib Rahman)
• Reading the TFS update logs (Matteo Emili)
• Partial Application in C# (Mike Hadlow)
• Distributed Concurrent Actor Models with Akka.NET (Jason Roberts)
• End of Summer Fun with FunSharp (Greg Duncan)
• Raymond’s Windows Universal Samples API concordance (Raymond Chen)
• In the age of the web: Typed functional-first programming revisited (Tomas Petricek)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Nexus Guide for Scrum is Published (Ben Linders)
• Is your team getting the most out of user stories? (Gojko Adzic)
• Various Types of Kanban Boards (Savita Pahuja)
• The useless text book algorithms (Oren Eini)
• Recursion, Not Recursion (Rob Conery)
• Code Reuse Using Interfaces and Shared Projects (Jeff Ferguson)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• #VS2015 – Some lessons learned working with #Android and #WindowsPhone Virtual Machines for development (Bruno Capuano)
• iOS 9 GM update available for developers (Imran)
• 52 Weeks of Xamarin: Week 5 – Diving in the deep end (Jesse Liberty)
• #Video Deal/Day: Native Web Apps for Android – $49.99 (Save 50%) Use code DEAL (O’Reilly Media, Inc.)
• 3 Metrics Every Mobile App Should Track (Eigil Rosager Poulsen)
• How to design for mobile UX (Marc Schenker)
• Play Games Loot Drop for Developers (Ben Frenkel)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Simple Programmer Podcast 052: A National Park in Iceland – Simple Programmer European Tour 2015 (John Sonmez)
• .NET Rocks! – Developing on Unity with Brice Fernandes (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• 31 ngAir – Angular Fundamentals (Angular Air)
• App Development with Cortana | Visual Studio Toolbox (Nick Landry & Robert Green)
• 176 RR RethinkDB with Slava Akhmechet (Charles Max Wood, Dave Smith & Aimee Knight)
• Developer on Fire Podcast – Ted Neward – Presence and Values (Dave Rael)
• New Video: Cancellation Basics with Task and Await (Jeremy Clark)
• Partially Derivative Episode 35: The Data of Journalism (Jonathon Morgan, Vidya Spandana & Chris Albon)
• Office Dev Show – Episode 10 – File Handlers and Smartsheet | Office Dev Show (Sonya Koptyev)
• The Amp Hour #266 – An Interview with Ronald Sousa of Hash Define Electronics (Chris Gammell & David L. Jones)

 

Community / Events

• Live Webinar: Go Mobile with Xamarin and Azure (Steven Yi)

 

Database

• Querying SQL Server Data with Power BI Desktop (Scott Murray)
• SQL Server Trigger After Update for a Specific Value (Dallas Snider)

 

SharePoint

• Developers: SharePoint isn’t a Platform, SharePoint is a Service: Part Two and Using Azure Application Insights with Single Page Apps (Andrew Connell)

 

Miscellaneous

• Sunsetting the XBLIG program for the Xbox 360 (David Voyles)
• An update on Windows 10 Insider Mobile Preview builds (Gabe Aul)

 

More Link Collections

• Geek Reading September 9, 2015 (Robert Diana)
• Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for September 9th, 2015 (Dmitry Lyalin)
• Double Shot #1550 and Double Shot #1551 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2015-09-10 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2015-09-10 (Dan Rigby)

 

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