Dew Drop – November 12, 2015 (#2131)

Top Links

• Personal Effectiveness Toolbox (JD Meier)
• The Crowdsourcing of Software Quality (Scott Hanselman)
• Back to the Future with a Tag Helper (Jeff Fritz)
• Visual Studio Code and Web Development | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green)

 

Web Development

• ASP.NET 5 Dependency Injection with Autofac (David Hayden)
• Var For Life – Why Let And Const Don’t Interest Me In JavaScript (Ben Nadel)
• Leverage browser cache in MVC using an action filter (Wesley Bakker)
• My ASP.NET 5 Mind Map (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
• The Difference Between Responsive and Adaptive Design (Geoff Graham)
• Getting Started with Azure Resource Manager (Graham Smith)
• Mads Mad Web Extension Pack (Greg Duncan)
• Testing in ES6 with Mocha and Babel 6 (James K. Nelson)
• Aurelia Binding Behaviors (Jeremy Danyow)
• Animating an SVG Menu Icon with Segment (Luis Manuel)
• Can BPG replace JPG? (Marc Schenker)
• Azure VM Scale Sets public preview (Mark Russinovich)
• Advanced Image Editing in the Browser (Raymond Camden)

 

XAML

• FreshMvvm n=3: Navigation in FreshMvvm (Michael Ridland)
• Combining Two Apps into One at Box with the Universal Windows Platform (Windows Apps Team)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Using Visual Studio Online’s new build system to achieve a Continuous Delivery pipeline Presentation (Kevin Logan)
• Seeding a Many to Many With Entity Framework and C# Dynamic (Peter Kellner)
• Explicitly switch to the UI thread in an async method (Thomas Levesque)
• Working with Transactions in Entity Framework 6 (Jalpesh Vadgama)
• Using Roslyn for Runtime Code Generation in Marten (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Aggregate Queries in Seq Part 4: Planning (Nicholas Blumhardt)
• New, Improved, and Faster Database Engine (Gabriel Ha)
• Database First Fluent Models with a Single Click (Ivailo Ivanov)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Refactoring Code into Data (Martin Fowler)
• Motivation and Drive in Agile Teams and How Testing Changed When Moving from Waterfall to Agile and DevOps and Rebuild or Refactor? (Ben Linders)
• Refactoring is a Development Technique, Not a Project (Erik Dietrich)
• Saga vs. Process Manager (Kirill Chilingarashvili)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• 52 Weeks of Xamarin: Week 14 – Thrice (part 2) (Jesse Liberty)
• Testing your app for Android for Work (Rich Hyndman)
• Visual Studio Code for Mac developers: Tools for Apache Cordova (Sergiy Baydachnyy)
• Developer tips for success with Player Analytics and Google Play games services (Lily Sheringham)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• 185 JSJ PouchDB with Nolan Lawson (Charles Max Wood, AJ O’Neal, Jamison Dance & Aimee Knight)
• AAWP Insight #160: Lumia 950, Continuum, and more (Rafe Blandford)
• 40 ngAir – Surprise Episode (Kent C. Dodds)
• SQL Server Radio Show 34 – Do You Have a Backup? (Matan Yungman & Guy Glantser)
• Mark Russinovich Talks Azure Scale Sets (RicksterCDN)
• Azure Search Enhancements | Data Exposed (Scott Klein)
• Office Dev Show – Episode 19 – Form.io | Office Dev Show (Sonya Koptyev)
• Azure Podcast Episode 102 – In-Memory OLTP & Real-Time Analytics in Azure SQL (Sujit D’Mello)

 

Community / Events

• Meet the award recipients of the first Microsoft HoloLens academic research grants (Tiina Jaatinen)
• Geek of the Week: James Olstein and Illustrated Science (Tushar Nene)

 

Database

• Understand how SQL Server works to write better T-SQL queries (Susantha Bathige)
• Customize the SQL Server Reporting Services 2016 Parameter Pane (Koen Verbeeck)
• SQL SERVER – What is T-SQL Window Function Framing? – Notes from the Field #102 (Pinal Dave)
• Is SQL a good place for business logic? (Vladimir Khorikov)

 

Miscellaneous

• It’s never too late to learn how to code (DevToolsGuy)

 

More Link Collections

• Geek Reading November 11, 2015 (Robert Diana)
• Double Shot #1583 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Morning Brew #1967 (Chris Alcock)
• Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for Nov 10th, 2015 (Dmitry Lyalin)

 

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