Dew Drop – September 24, 2015 (#2097)

Top Links

• Microsoft Azure camp, hosted by Scott Guthrie in Philadelphia, Oct 13 (David Voyles)
• .NET Rocks! – Quantum Computing Geek Out (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• PerfView Tutorial | Channel 9 (Vance Morrison)
• Better Density and Lower Prices for Azure’s SQL Elastic Database Pools (Scott Guthrie)

 

Web Development

• jQuery Basics: Is Element Hidden or Visible? (Chris Pietschmann)
• Kendo DataSource: Why Isn’t cancelChanges() Working? (Adam Anderson)
• Validating User Input on a Form in Angular JS and How to work with the Ignite UI Chart in an AngularJS application and How to Enable CORS in the ASP.NET Web API (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Writing Custom Commands for DNX with ASP.NET 5.0 (James Chambers)
• PostCSS Deep Dive: What You Need to Know (Kezz Bracey)
• Creating a Minimally Sized Docker Image (Bob Nadler)
• SVG `use` with External Reference, Take 2 (Chris Coyier)
• Speeding up Application Development with Bootstrap (Lijana Saniukaite)

 

XAML

• Windows 10 Development: UI Automation with Blend and VisualStateManager (Josh Morales)
• A Windows 10 UWP app to receive temperature data from a Raspberry PI2 and control a fan using the Azure Service Bus (Joost van Schaik)
• We’ve Come a Long Way Baby – WriteableBitmapEx now on GitHub (Rene Schulte)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Enabling source code debugging for your NuGet packages with GitLink (Oren Novotny)
• Quick Tip: Add Developer Command Prompt Here (Paul Ballard)
• CS-Script for Notepad++ (C# intellisense and code execution) – Release v1.0.45.0 (CodePlex)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• 5 Ways Testers Can Mitigate Practical Risks in an Agile Team (Nishi Grover)
• A developers introduction to 3D animation and Blender (Jenny Cheng)
• Do you really hear your customer (Andrew Siemer)
• Article: Infrastructure Code Reviews (Chris Burroughs)
• Bringing Objectivity to Clean Code (Erik Dietrich)
• Scale is a Dish Best Served Eventually Consistent (Ryan Svihla)
• SonarQube Integration Plans (Stuart Kent)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Getting Started With Google Maps for Android: Basics (Paul Trebilcox-Ruiz)
• Unity & Visual Studio Code for Linux (Mickey MacDonald)
• What’s new with Splunk MINT? (Bill Emmett)
• Using Application Insights to Improve Mobile Beta Testing (Matt Lacey)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Simple Programmer Podcast 058: Statue of Liberty (John Sonmez)
• Webucator – C# Online and Onsite Training Classes With Microsoft Certified Instructors (Dirk Strauss)
• 178 JSJ Tech Education and The Business of Running Front End Masters with Marc Grabanski (Joe Eames, Charles Max Wood, Jamison Dance & Aimee Knight)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Rob Lowe and The Nerdist Podcast – Morena Baccarin (Chris Hardwick)
• The Married Gamers Episode 376: Puppy Love (Chris Brown)
• Office Dev Show – Episode 12 – Office UI Fabric (Sonya Koptyev)
• SE-Radio Episode 237: Software Engineering Radio: Go Behind the Scenes and Meet the Team (SE-Radio Team)

 

Community / Events

• Live Webinar: Navigating iOS 9 and Android M for the Enterprise (Steven Yi)
• Notes From Splunk .conf 2015 Day Two (Andi Mann)
• What is an AzureCon View Party? (Frank Boucher)
• Pearson Student Coding Contest Seeks to Encourage Students to Code (Wendell Santos)

 

Database

• SQL Server 2016 Query Store Example (Svetlana Golovko)
• Automatic Updates for SQL Server Management Studio (Daniel Farina)
• SQL SERVER – Finding If Date is LastDay of the Month (Pinal Dave)
• Calculated Tables In Power BI (Chris Webb)
• Database Mirroring Isn’t Going Anywhere (Matan Yungman)

 

PowerShell

• Detect and rename invalid VIEWs in a SQL Server database using PowerShell (Johan Bijnens)

 

Miscellaneous

• Go paperless with OneNote 2016 (MS Downloads)
• How to Make a Check Box – Small Basic Featured Article (Ed Price)
• Samsung’s SSD sets sick speed standard (James Vincent)
• Baseball legend Yogi Berra, known for his ‘Yogi-isms,’ dies at 90 (The Associated Press)
• VW Fiasco Puts Ethics In Engineering Under the Spotlight, CEO Steps Down (Timothy)

 

More Link Collections

• Geek Reading September 23, 2015 (Robert Diana)
• Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for September 23rd, 2015 (Dmitry Lyalin)

 

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