Dew Drop – October 5, 2015 (#2104)

Top Links

• Introducing ASP.NET WebHooks Receivers – WebHooks made easy. (Scott Hanselman)
• The State of JavaScript on Android in 2015 is… poor (Jeff Atwood)
• Azure Cloud Tour – Philly (Shahed C)
• Essential C# 6 Features You Need to Know! (Michael Crump)

 

Web Development

• ESLint: The Next-Generation JavaScript Linter (Nicholas C. Zakas)
• Working with ReactJS in WebStorm: Coding Assistance (Ekaterina Prigara)
• jQuery Fever: Custom Dropdown (Hiren Sharma)
• Visual Studio Code for Mac developers: How to install (Sergiy Baydachnyy)
• Introduction to Rendr (Ashish Trivedi)
• Concatenating Typed Arrays and Enumerability in ECMAScript 6 (Axel Rauschmayer)
• Improving Grunt Performance (Colin Eberhardt)
• The Genius of Template Strings in ES6 (Chris Heilmann)
• Rapid Application development using MEAN Stack (Nikhil Ahuja)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Mastering Responsive Web Design – $19.99 (Save 50%) Use code DEAL (O’Reilly Media)

 

XAML

• Xamarin Forms Maps on Windows Phone 8.1 (Peter Freeman Foot)
• How to get the Battery information in your Universal Windows Apps (Abhijit Jana)
• Getting the list of Wifi hotspots and Connecting with them in your Universal Windows Apps (Arun Kumar)
• A New Publication Model for Universal Windows Apps (Jonathan Allen)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Null-Conditional Operators – Day 2 – Visual Studio 2015 (Josh Eastburn)
• Finding The Second Lowest Item In A List Using C# and F# (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
• As part of the Visual Studio 2015 release there have been enhancements to the in… (Kris Lankford)
• Announcing Visual Studio Debug Engine Extensibility Samples (Patrick Nelson)
• C# Interview Question #1 – Different Types of Constructors in C# (Pravinkumar Dabade)
• Automating Azure Resource Group deployment using a Service Principal in Visual Studio Online: Build/Release Management (Roopesh Nair)
• Auto Property Initializers – Day 4 – Visual Studio 2015 (Steve Smith)
• Entity Framework Pitfalls: DbConfiguration Classes Are Automatically Loaded (Ricardo Peres)
• Particle Photon Oscilloscope (Bary Nusz)
• Improving Message Throughput in Akka.NET with Routers (Jason Roberts)
• Hunting And Analyzing High CPU Usage In .NET Application (Juan Pablo Scida)
• LLILUM roadmap and latest additions (Lorenzo Tessiore)
• Can your Application Analytics APIs do this? (Sebastian Holst)
• nameof – Day 3 – VS 2015 Series (Tillman Dickson)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Kanban for Game Development (Anna Majowska)
• TDD: How Can I Write A Test If The Code Is Not There? (Gil Zilberfeld)
• The Fundamentals of Agile: An Interview with Jeff Payne (Josiah Renaudin)
• Unit Test parallel execution of static classes or ServiceLocator (Michael Sync)
• New Office Visio Stencil (MS Downloads)
• Subversion Merge Limitations That Are Not In Perforce (Paul Hammant)
• Problem solved! Git-LFS and VSO (Matteo Emili)
• What are you waiting for??? (Dror Helper)
• 6 Tips for Documenting RESTful APIs (Tori Wieldt)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• 10 Must-Have Android Tools for Developers (Shane Conder & Lauren Darcey)
• Working with Files and the File System in Android Apps (Vipul Patel)
• An Introduction to On-Demand Resources on iOS and tvOS (Davis Allie)
• Free Back-to-School Xamarin University Lectures (Rob Gibbens)
• Windows 10 IoT Core Starter Kit and Win 10 IoT News (Greg Duncan)
• Check API Availability with Swift 2 (Peter Witham)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Technology & Friends Episode 386: Michael Blumenthal on Tools to Teach Kids to Code (David Giard)
• Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 173 #OTP (Richard Hay)
• Building a Mobile App API using MongoDB and Node.js (Session Recording) (Brian Rinaldi)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Paul Bettany (Chris Hardwick)
• MS Dev Show – Live Tiles and Notifications with Matt Hindinger and Andrew Bares (Jason Young & Carl Schweitzer)
• The Changelog 176: CodeNewbie and Community with Saron Yitbarek (Adam Stacoviak & Jerod Santo)
• Developer on Fire Episode 042 | /\ndy Hunt – Pragmatic and Awesome (Dave Rael)
• TWC9: The New TWC9, Same as the Old TWC9, Welcome to the v2! | This Week On Channel 9 (Greg Duncan, Vladimir Kolesnikov, Mark DeFalco, Golnaz, Kaitlin McKinnon & Nikola Metulev)
• Episode 188: IoT Hub with Elio Damaggio and Olivier Bloch | Microsoft Azure Cloud Cover Show (Haishi Bai, Mat Velloso & Chris Risner)
• SE-Radio Episode 239: Andrew Clay Shafer on Modern Platform-as-a-Service (SE-Radio Team)

 

Community / Events

• Inside Microsoft’s lab of the future (Microsoft Devices Team)
• Working at Microsoft: Recruiters share their best tips for job seekers (Tracy Ith)

 

Database

• Integration Services Logging Levels in SQL Server 2016 (Koen Verbeeck)
• Interview Question of the Week #039 – What is Included Column Index in SQL Server 2005 and Onwards? and SQL SERVER – Creating a Database Administrator Group Using User-Defined Server Roles (Pinal Dave)
• Power BI Desktop Web Queries to Screen Scrape Data from Websites (Scott Murray)

 

PowerShell

• How to use WMF 4 with Azure DSC Extension in Azure Resource Manager (ARM) (Travis Plunk)

 

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Garage Mouse without Borders (MS Downloads)
• Did you notice Amazon’s $50 Fire tablet only comes with a 90-day warranty? (Adrian Diaconescu)
• Leaked image confirms removable 3,340mAh battery in the Lumia 950 XL (Rich Edmonds)

 

More Link Collections

• Geek Reading October 2, 2015 (Robert Diana)
• Double Shot #1560 and Double Shot #1561 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Friday Five: In the Cloud (MVP Award Program)
• Reading Notes #204 (Frank Boucher)
• Office 365 News Roundup (Office 365 Team)
• The Morning Brew #1939 (Chris Alcock)
• Last Week on Channel 9: September 28th – October 4th, 2015 (Greg Duncan)
• Reading List (Bruce Lawson)
• GameDev News – Week Ending October 2, 2015 (Brian Peek)
• Weekly Xamarin Newsletter Issue #60 (Adam J. Wolf)
• Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for Oct 2nd, 2015 (Dmitry Lyalin)
• F# Weekly #40, 2015 (Sergey Tihon)
• Weekly C# Digest Issue #70 (Jakub Chodounsky)

 

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