Dew Drop – October 26, 2015 (#2119)

Top Links

• Choosing a Front-End Framework: Angular vs. Ember vs. React (Zach Kuhn)
• Learn Roslyn Now: Part 15 The SymbolVisitor (Josh Varty)
• An open letter about the terms “F#” and “Visual F#” (Don Syme)
• How to Use Modernizr Responsibly (Jérémy Heleine)

 

Web Development

• ASP.NET MVC 6 View Injection using Inject and ASP.NET 5 Middleware Pipeline and Startup Class (David Hayden)
• Leverage CSS user-select For A Better User Experience (UX) (Ben Nadel)
• Altitude of a Triangle With d3.js (Paul Cowan)
• rollup.js – the next-generation JavaScript module bundler (Rich Harris)
• Angular 2 in Plain JS (Dave Ceddia)
• Test-Driven Development in AngularJS (Daniel Stern)
• The Top 10 Lessons Learned from Enterprise JavaScript Development (Jeremy Likness)
• 6 Rules for Awesome Data Visualizations with Kendo UI (John Bristowe)
• Spreadsheet and New Skin for Telerik ASP.NET AJAX in Q1 2016 (Rumen Jekov)
• Diving Into ASP.NET 5 Beta 8? Don’t forget the web tools! (Julie Lerman)
• Visual Studio Code for Mac developers: Visual Studio Online and Git (Sergiy Baydachnyy)
• Why Won’t My Razor Code Compile!?! (Peter Vogel)
• What’s New in Ember 2.0? (Lamin Sanneh)
• property-traversal-order-es6 (Axel Rauschmayer)
• Building Web Sites that Work Everywhere (Doris Chen)
• Automatically Recover from Connectivity Failure in Go (Paul Mooney)

 

XAML

• Windows 10, UWP, Modern Resource Technology and Device Families–Simplest Example and Windows 10, the UWP, Sphero 2 and Raspberry PI 2–Further Continued (Mike Taulty)
• Usage of Clipboard in Universal Windows apps (Andrei Marukovich)
• I don’t need to know about your errors (Matt Lacey)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• #MSBAND – How to connect to a Band and access sensor information in a #Windows10 app using Visual Studio 2015 (Bruno Capuano)
• Visual Studio 2015, Command Prompt & Powershell ExecutionPolicy (Julie Lerman)
• Memory Diagnostics – Day 23 – Visual Studio 2015 (Kevin Babcock)
• Regular Expression Lookahead and Lookbehind (Richard Carr)
• Elastic Object Implementation in .NET (Ricardo Peres)
• XML deserialize to abstract class, interface or base class (Robert Muehsig)
• Entity Framework 6 Multiple Result Sets with Stored Procedures (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
• Running a .NET app against a Postgres database in Docker (Kyle Baley)
• Using Lazy and ConcurrentDictionary to ensure a thread-safe, run-once, lazy-loaded collection (Mike Larah)
• Large Win32 Heap Allocations Go Directly to VirtualAlloc (Sasha Goldshtein)
• .NET Native; what’s it mean for obfuscation and Dotfuscator in particular (Sebastian Holst)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Measuring in Agile Teams (Ben Linders)
• The Speed of TDD (Gil Zilberfeld)
• What is your superpower? (Ben Scheirman)
• Product or Project Focused (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• The Five Knows of Programming (Rob Miles)
• Article: Developing Test Automation Scripts and Automation Frameworks (Sasha Reminnyi)
• What is API Developer Experience and Why It Matters (Sergio De Simone)
• Windows 10 UWP app templates for Adobe Photoshop (Windows Apps Team)
• Team Foundation Plugin for IntelliJ IDEA (David Staheli)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Getting Notifications from Android Wearables (Chunyen Liu)
• Azure Mobile Apps: Writing a Fast Custom DomainManager, Part 2 (Adam Anderson)
• Windows IoT Core : Inter-Application Communication using App Services (Carey Payette)
• Protocol-Oriented Programming in Swift 2 (Davis Allie)
• There an Arduino in your VS Code… (Greg Duncan)
• Virtual currency: Sources and Sinks (Damien Mabin)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Thimbleweed Park Podcast #27 (Ron Gilbert)
• #AskDanWindows Episode 12 – Is Microsoft developing their own version of Android? (Daniel Rubino)
• Intro to ASP.NET 5 and Deep Dive ASP.NET (Scott Hunter & Scott Hanselman)
• Just Add Wendy – Digging into Ethics with Bob Martin (Wendy Closson)
• MS Dev Show – Mentoring and Programming Bootcamps with Sarah Dutkiewicz (Jason Young & Carl Schweitzer)
• The Nerdist Podcast – David Goyer (Chris Hardwick)
• Developer on Fire Episode 050 | Cory House – Out of His Shell and Episode 051 | Wendy Closson – Whole Person (Dave Rael)
• TWC9: Levitating a DeLorean, Connect(); dates announced, MSDN Mag Win10’s and more… | This Week On Channel 9 (Greg Duncan, Vladimir Kolesnikov & Mark DeFalco)
• Episode 190: Elastic Azure SQL Databases with Torsten Grabs | Microsoft Azure Cloud Cover Show (Haishi Bai, Chris Risner & mustafakasap)
• Coffee with a Googler: Bullet Time with the Cloud Spin Team (Laurence Moroney)
• Get Up And Code 113: Become the Top Cat (Robert Navarro)
• StarTalk Radio – Extended Classic: Madame Saturn – A Conversation with Carolyn Porco (Part 2) (Neil deGrasse Tyson)
• NativeScript Under the Hood (Ed Charbeneau)

 

Community / Events

• Join Microsoft Live Event: #JavaScript for Experienced Developers (Kunal Chowdhury)
• A Brief History of Women and Technology (Darren West)
• Sneak peek: Microsoft’s first flagship store poised to open October 26 in New York City (Mary Jo Foley)
• Developer Virtual Event–Connect Nov 18-19, 2015 (Benjamin Xue)
• Xbox Live’s Eric ‘e’ Neustadter announces departure from Microsoft (Joseph Keller)

 

Database

• Getting Started with Test Driven Design in SQL Server (Sebastian Meine)
• SQL Server Reporting Services General Best Practices (Ghanesh Prasad)
• SQL SERVER – Simple Way to Find Existence of Column in a Table and Interview Question of the Week #042 – How Does SPACE Function Works in SQL Server? and SQL SERVER – Taking Backup Without Consuming Disk Space (Pinal Dave)
• Announcing sp_BlitzCache v2.5.0 (Jeremiah Peschka)
• Things You Need To Know about Nolock (Matan Yungman)

 

PowerShell

• DSC Resource Kit updates are here! (Karol Kaczmarek)

 

Miscellaneous

• Small Basic 1.2 – Release Notes (Ed Price)
• Halo 5: Guardians review (Sam Byford)

 

More Link Collections

• Geek Reading October 23, 2015 (Robert Diana)
• Collective #191 (Pedro Botelho)
• Double Shot #1571 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Launch your weekend with the Friday Fives! (MVP Award Program)
• The Morning Brew #1954 (Chris Alcock)
• Last Week on Channel 9: October 19th – October 25th, 2015 (Greg Duncan)
• GameDev News–Week Ending October 23, 2015 (Dan Rigby)
• Weekly Xamarin Newsletter Issue #63 (Adam J. Wolf)
• Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for Oct 23rd, 2015 (Dmitry Lyalin)
• Weekly C# Digest Issue #73 (Jakub Chodounsky)
• Anniversary edition of F# Weekly #43, 2015 – Three years together (Sergey Tihon)
• IoT, Mobility, Azure, UWP and Devices – The Daily Developers Links – #5 (Abhijit Jana)

 

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