Dew Drop – November 16, 2015 (#2133)

Top Links

• What’s New for You in Windows 10 (The Windows Team)
• Microsoft unveils new Minecraft coding tutorial for students (Rich Edmonds)
• Microsoft Fails to Deliver Tool For Bringing Android Apps to Windows (Ina Fried)
• TWC9: Windows 10 Fall Update, New Xbox Experience, Distributed Machine Learning Toolkit and more… | This Week On Channel 9 (Greg Duncan, Vladimir Kolesnikov & Nikola Metulev)

 

Web Development

• Spying on James Bond with Node.js (Brian Rinaldi)
• Localized routes with ASP.NET 5 and MVC 6 (Filip W.)
• Getting Started With RethinkDB and ASP.NET 5 (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
• Glimpse Part 1 – Easy Debugging ASP.NET MVC Application (Rakhi Shrivastava)
• Serving URLs with File Extensions in an ASP.NET MVC Application (Rick Strahl)
• Understanding Routing Precedence in ASP.NET MVC and Web API (Rion Williams)
• The Best of Both Worlds – Angular 2 / ASP.NET 5 SPA Template (Shayne Boyer)
• TypeScript + ASP.NET Web API + AngularJS Bootcamp – Week 1 (Stephen Walther)
• OAuth in a JavaScript UWP app (Timmy Kokke)
• Improved Ajax Techniques for WordPress: Object-Oriented Programming (Tom McFarlin)
• Visual Studio Code for Mac developers: Yeoman (Sergiy Baydachnyy)
• What’s Next for Telerik Platform and Web Projects (Vesna Stojanovska)
• Getting Started with Docker Toolbox and Compose (Aanand Prasad)
• What’s in ECMAScript 2016 (ES7)? (Axel Rauschmayer)
• A beginner’s guide to WebGL (David Voyles)
• Teaching Gulp ES6, with Babel 6 (James K. Nelson)

 

XAML

• PIR Sensor with a Photon, Particle Cloud, and a UWA (Bary Nusz)
• Get your Windows 10 Developer eBook here! (Kris Lankford)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Null-Conditional Operator in C# 6 (David Hayden)
• Regular Expression Conditional Matching (Richard Carr)
• Pimping BASIC with lower casing & JSON literals (Phillip Trelford)
• Muddling Thru – The 15 ways of doing concurrency in .NET (Shaun Luttin)
• Microsoft Open Sources Its Machine Learning Toolkit (Timothy)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Article: Q&A on The Agile Mind-Set (Ben Linders)
• Article: The Right Way to Scale Agile: Scaling Value Delivery over Process (Suzie Prince)
• The User Experience (UX) Of Pagination (Ben Nadel)
• The Obsession With Commitment Matching Velocity (Stefan Wolpers)
• Support for Team Foundation Server 2015 in SonarQube TFVC SCM Plugin (Harysh Menon)
• Writing a Code Coverage Checkin Policy (Jakob Ehn)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• 52 Weeks of Xamarin: Week 15 – Creating an iOS Application Part 1 (Jesse Liberty)
• Cross-Platform Apps/Games with Azure (Shahed C)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Thimbleweed Park Podcast #30 (Ron Gilbert)
• Agile For Humans 022: The Product Owner Role with Mark Davidson [PODCAST] and Agile For Humans 021: Agility with Allen Holub (Ryan Ripley)
• WinBeta Podcast 41: Windows 10 November Update (TH2), NXOE, and more (Sean Michael)
• SSW TV – Building ‘Real-World’ Apps with Xamarin.Forms | Michael Ridland and Xamarin Hack Day Sydney (Sophie Belle)
• The Changelog 182: Metabase and Open Source Business Intelligence with Sameer Al-Sakran and Tom Robinson (Adam Stacoviak & Jerod Santo)
• Startup Success Podcast 3.9: Content Marketing for Startups (Bob Walsh)
• Developer on Fire Episode 059 | Tim Ottinger – Otter Raised by Wolves and Developer on Fire Episode 060 | Sara Chipps – Getting Girls Involved (Dave Rael)
• Microsoft Mechanics – An introduction to Designer and Morph in PowerPoint (Christopher Maloney)
• SE-Radio Episode 242: Dave Thomas on Innovating Legacy Systems (Sven Johann)
• StarTalk Radio – Exploring Science and Comedy with Larry Wilmore (Neil deGrasse Tyson)
• The Static Void Podcast – Distributed Source Control and Social Coding with Git (Jess Chadwick, Chris Gomez & Todd Snyder)

 

Community / Events

• Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Edward Fry (Willy-P. Schaub)
• Why ThoughtWorks Changed my Life (Miguel Rueda)
• Microsoft’s Developer Chief Somasegar: The exit interview (Mary Jo Foley)
• Need women to speak at conferences (Rockford Lhotka)

 

Database

• Identify SQL Server Query Plans with Scans on Nonclustered Hash Indexes (Robert L. Davis)
• First Look At SSAS 2016 MDX On DirectQuery (Chris Webb)
• SQL SERVER – Installation failed with error – Wait on the Database Engine recovery handle failed and MySQL – Get Latest Identity Value by Inserts and Interview Question of the Week #045 – How to Do Case Sensitive Search? (Pinal Dave)

 

PowerShell

• Using Azure PowerShell 1.0 to Deploy an ARM Template (Alexandre Brisebois)
• Detecting Obfuscated PowerShell (Lee Holmes)

 

Miscellaneous

• Understanding Windows 10 Updates for Enterprise Customers (Benjamin Xue)
• Zune is dead (Mark Wilson)
• Small Basic – Controls and Challenges (Nonki Takahashi)

 

More Link Collections

• Geek Reading November 13, 2015 (Robert Diana)
• The Morning Brew #1969 (Chris Alcock)
• Collective #194 (Pedro Botelho)
• Double Shot #1585 (Mike Gunderloy)
• And now, your Friday Fives! (MVP Award Program)
• Reading Notes #209 (Frank Boucher)
• Office 365 news roundup (Office 365 Team)
• Last Week on Channel 9: November 9th – November 15th, 2015 (Greg Duncan)
• GameDev News – Week Ending November 13, 2015 (Brian Peek)
• Weekly Xamarin Newsletter Issue #66 (Adam J. Wolf)
• Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for Nov 13th, 2015 (Dmitry Lyalin)
• Weekly C# Digest Issue #76 (Jakub Chodounsky)
• F# Weekly #46, 2015 (Sergey Tihon)
• Links of the Week 11-15-15 (Chris Love)
• This Week in Mobile (Nov. 13) (James Sugrue)

 

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