Dew Drop – December 3, 2015 (#2144)

Top Links

• Scaling Across Platforms and Devices with Microsoft Azure and Visual Studio (Steve Guggenheimer)
• What’s New in CodeRush Classic 15.2 and What’s New in CodeRush for Roslyn (preview) 1.0.7 (Mark Miller)
• .NET Rocks! – The Software Craftsman Calendar 2016 with Steve Smith and Brendan Enrick (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• 3D Game Engine for Android, iOS, and .NET (Miguel de Icaza)

 

Web Development

• When Should You Use A Single Page Application? (Chris Love)
• CSS Preprocessing with Visual Studio (Ed Charbeneau)
• HTML5 Mastery: Encoding (Florian Rappl)
• Improved Code Completion During Debugging in PhpStorm 10 (Gary Hockin)
• DreamSparking a HTML5/JS Game From Start to Finish (Greg Duncan)
• Your First HTML Document in 60 Seconds (Kezz Bracey)
• Building and Shipping Functional CSS (Robin Rendle)
• Overloading TypeScript Functions (Peter Vogel)
• Password Strength `meter` (Pankaj Parashar)
• Announcing Microsoft Azure Backup Server (Shreesh Dubey)

 

XAML

• Using JavaScript frameworks from your C#/UWP application (David Catuhe)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Let’s Build a Metric: Using CQLinq to Reason about Application State (Erik Dietrich)
• The Case of the Old NuGet Dependency Installation (Jeff Fritz)
• Visual Studio 2015 Update 1 Adds C# Scripting and New Language Support (Jeff Martin)
• Working on C# Category in QuizUp (Sean Sexton)
• Adding Haskell Language Support to Visual Studio 2015 Update 1 (Tim Sneath)
• Entity Framework 7: What’s New? (Ricardo Peres)
• Calendar Types (Phillip Trelford)
• Partial Support for Expression SFINAE in VS 2015 Update 1 (Bat-Ulzii Luvsanbat)
• Hidden gotcha in the thread pool sample program on MSDN (Raymond Chen)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Article: How Project Managers can be a Positive Agent for Agile (Ben Linders)
• Google got it wrong. The open-office trend is destroying the workplace. (Lindsey Kaufman)
• Keep Your Code Flowing – an Introduction to Flow States for Programmers (Daragh Byrne)
• How to Do a UX Review (Joe Leech)
• How To Defeat Procrastination (JD Meier)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: User Story Mapping – $14.99 (Save 50%) Use code DEAL (O’Reilly Media)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Xamarin.Forms and large images in android apps (Daniel Hindrikes)
• Announcing general availability of App Service Mobile Apps (Kirill Gavrylyuk)
• IdentityMine Post – Client-side caching matters (Rene Schulte)
• API Updates for Sign-In with Google (Laurence Moroney)
• Setting Up the Development Environment (Bart Jacobs)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Introducing the dotnet CLI (Damian Edwards, Andrew Nurse & David Fowler)
• Razor & Tag Helpers (Damian Edwards & Taylor Mullen)
• Class Libraries (David Fowler & Damien Edwards)
• Yet Another Podcast #143 – James Montemagno on Xamarin 4 (Jesse Liberty)
• Visual Studio Web Tools (Mads Torgersen & Sayed Hashimi)
• Getting Started with Git | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green)
• 188 JSJ JavaScript Code Smells with Elijah Manor (Joe Eames, AJ O’Neal, Jamison Dance, Dave Smith & Aimee Knight)
• The Static Void Podcast – TypeScript: JavaScript Evolved or Devolved? (Jess Chadwick, Chris Gomez & Todd Snyder)
• Creating art assets for games | Dave’s HTML5 and gaming corner (Dave Voyles)
• AAWP Insight #163: Lumia 950 and 950 XL review (Rafe Blandford)
• Developer on Fire Episode 067 | Llewellyn Falco – Must Ship It (Dave Rael)
• A demo tour of updates to Power BI Pro (Microsoft Mechanics)
• Material 23: Matías Duarte: Material Design (Yasmine Evjen, Russell Ivanovic & Andy Ihnatko)
• On a Cloud: Soft Delete & Data Architecture (Jef King)

 

Community / Events

• Live Webinar: Building Native, Cross-Platform Apps with Xamarin 4 (Courtney Witmer)

 

Database

• DocumentDB: JSON-in-JSON-out in NOSQL with familiar SQL–True Story: Part 2 (Adarsha Datta)
• SQL SERVER – Could Not Register Service Principal Name Persists – Notes from the Field #105 (Pinal Dave)
• Power BI Desktop Report and Panel Design (Scott Murray)
• The Text.Format() Function In Power BI/Power Query M (Chris Webb)
• Tracking tempdb growth using Extended Events (Erik Darling)

 

PowerShell

• PowerShell Language Design – Request for Comments (Steve Lee)
• Pester Explained: Should (Ravikanth C)
• Power up your build (Alex)

 

Miscellaneous

• The Way We Searched in 2015 (Bing Team)
• Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer thinks universal app strategy ‘won’t work’ (John Callaham)
• Build 10586.17 may be the next Windows 10 Mobile Insider build (Mayank Parmar)

 

More Link Collections

• Geek Reading December 2, 2015 (Robert Diana)
• Double Shot #1598 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Morning Brew #1982 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2015-12-03 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2015-12-03 (Dan Rigby)
• Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for Dec 1st, 2015 and Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for Dec 2nd, 2015 (Dmitry Lyalin)

 

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