Dew Drop – October 2, 2015 (#2103)

Top Links

• Announcing Tools for Apache Cordova (aka TACO) v1.0.0 (Subhag Oak)
• Microsoft Azure camp, hosted by Scott Guthrie in Philadelphia, Oct 13 (Dave Voyles)
• Small Basic 1.2 Released with Kinect Support and Bug Fixes (Michael Scherotter)
• The Roslyn Academy Community (Roslyn Academy)

 

Web Development

• Image Diffing in CSS and CSS Stacking Contexts (Chris Coyier)
• PostCSS Quickstart Guide: Gulp Setup (Kezz Bracey)
• Augmenting Types in Javascript (Abhi Jain)
• JavaScript Promises and Error Handling (K. Scott Allen)
• Visual Studio Code for Mac developers: How to install (Sergiy Baydachnyy)
• Image Load And Error Events Bubble Up In ReactJS (Ben Nadel)
• ES6: methods versus callbacks and Concatenating Typed Arrays (Axel Rauschmayer)
• The Genius of Template Strings in ES6 (Chris Heilmann)
• Find and install your favorite developer tools (Kyle Daigle)
• Side Effects vs. Promises (Kevin Dangoor)
• Some Great Ways to Use Web Note in Microsoft Edge (The Windows Team)

 

XAML

• Developing for the Windows 10 Universal Windows Platform (Rod Trent)
• Adding polish to improve the look and feel of your app (10×10) (Clint Rutkas)
• A New Publication Model for Universal Windows Apps (Jonathan Allen)
• Windows 10 Development: Custom StateTriggers (Josh Morales)
• The stylus is mightier than the sword – Inking in your UWP (Shen Chauhan)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Code Completion Improvements in ReSharper 9 (Dmitri Nesteruk)
• Application Insights retiring on VSO Portal & blogging on Azure Blogs (Rahul Bagaria)
• One Man’s Garbage – Hashcodes (Sarah Dutkiewicz)
• LLBLGen Pro – Runtime Library Source Browser (Frans Bouma)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Kanban for Game Development (Anna Majowska)
• Agile Team Traits (Debby Murphy)
• Unit Test parallel execution of static classes or ServiceLocator (Michael Sync)
• Does Your Development Team Have a Skilled Product Owner? (Magenic Team)
• New Office Visio Stencil (MS Downloads)
• GitHub supports Universal 2nd Factor authentication (Ben Toews)
• Office Delve adds Praise, Favorites and enhances content creation (Mark Kashman)
• Announcing Git-LFS on all VSO Git repos (Saeed Noursalehi)
• Git Large File Storage v1.0 (Rick Olson)
• The new Visio is here—work visually (Stella Lin)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Working with Files and the File System in Android Apps (Vipul Patel)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Episode 065 on the Office Extensibility team with Tristan Davis—Office 365 Developer Podcast (Jeremy Thake & Richard DiZerega)
• Hanselminutes – Creativity, Code, Community, and Connected Objects with Dawn C. Hayes (Scott Hanselman)
• Building a Mobile App API using MongoDB and Node.js (Session Recording) (Brian Rinaldi)
• 061 AiA ng-book with Ari Lerner (John Papa)
• New Trailer and Details Revealed for Minecraft: Story Mode – Ep. 1: The Order of the Stone (Xbox Wire)
• NSScreencast #189 – Swift 2 Functions and Extensions (Ben Scheirman)
• Developer on Fire Episode 042 | /\ndy Hunt – Pragmatic and Awesome (Dave Rael)
• Cross Platform Development with Jay Schmelzer | The DEVintersection Countdown Show (Golnaz Alibeigi)
• Detecting and Responding to Battery Status in UWP apps | Inside Windows Platform (Larry Lieberman & Shen Chauhan)
• Tuesdays with Corey: The Mark Russinovich episode – for real | Tuesdays With Corey (RicksterCDN)
• Rocket 38: Red Carpet Ready (Simone De Rochefort, Christina Warren & Brianna Wu)
• The Amp Hour #269 – Be Tidy (Chris Gammell & David L. Jones)

 

Community / Events

• Windows Insider Program marks first anniversary (Richard Hay)
• Upcoming Silicon Valley Code Camp 2015 (Doris Chen)
• Explore GitHub Universe (Kelsey Schimmelman)
• Welcome Nearly 1,000 New and Renewed MVPs! (MVP Award Program)
• More Azure Announcements from AzureCon (Paul Ballard)

 

Database

• Integration Services Logging Levels in SQL Server 2016 (Koen Verbeeck)
• SQL SERVER – Three Simple Guidelines for System Maintenance – Notes from the Field #098 (Pinal Dave)
• Does Creating an Indexed View Require Exclusive Locks on an Underlying Table? (Kendra Little)

 

PowerShell

• PowerShell DSC FAQ: Sorting Out Certificates (Michael Greene)
• Azure DSC Extension v2.7 released and How to use WMF 4 with Azure DSC Extension in Azure Cloud Service Manager (ASM) (Travis Plunk)

 

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Ties OneNote to Sway with Preview Add-in (Rod Trent)
• Microsoft to add ‘likes’ and ‘mentions’ to Outlook (Mary Jo Foley)
• Microsoft Garage Mouse without Borders (MS Downloads)
• Developer Quotes: Edition 1 (Dara Monasch)
• Save your DNS and your SANITY when using VPN on a Mac (Glenn Block)
• New Xbox Experience interface rated fastest among next-gen consoles (Kareem Anderson)
• Your top 10 questions about Office 2016 answered (Kirk Koenigsbauer)

 

More Link Collections

• Geek Reading October 1, 2015 (Robert Diana)
• The Morning Brew #1938 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2015-10-02 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2015-10-02 (Dan Rigby)
• Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for Oct 1st, 2015 (Dmitry Lyalin)
• Double Shot #1560 (Mike Gunderloy)

 

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